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**HOTFUN** · 07-26-2004, 09:55 PM

Matt

Sounds just like my truck I bought in March from Arizona. Mine is a 72 and has all original paint and is a factory 4x4 shortbox Cheyenne in orange and white with black interior. Bed had a camper shell covering it since new and the bed is mint original. It has cold factory air, tilt, tach 350 automatic and posi 3.73 gears and they are all on the glovebox id. I even got the original paper work from the selling dealer from October 71 in Phoinex. I bought it over the phone after the owner gave me the history even before it came out in Hemmings for $9000 plus about $1000 to get it shipped and the grille replaced that was damaged in shipping. Before it got to me the guy called and said his phone hadn't stopped ringing and one guy got my number and offered me $11k. This was my dream of a lifetime so this truck will never leave my side while I am alive. The price I paid was very, very reasonable for an original paint truck without rust in my mind. The very fact that amazes me is just think how many honest true factory loaded 4x4's, even long box trucks are out there sporting their original paint and totally rustfree?
Then factor in that they are only factory survivor originals once and in my 25 years of owning these trucks I had never seen one like this and the condition.
Buy it and preserve it so somebody doesn't rod it.

Mark

07-26-2004, 09:55 PM	#4
HOTFUN Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Posts: 2,150	Matt Sounds just like my truck I bought in March from Arizona. Mine is a 72 and has all original paint and is a factory 4x4 shortbox Cheyenne in orange and white with black interior. Bed had a camper shell covering it since new and the bed is mint original. It has cold factory air, tilt, tach 350 automatic and posi 3.73 gears and they are all on the glovebox id. I even got the original paper work from the selling dealer from October 71 in Phoinex. I bought it over the phone after the owner gave me the history even before it came out in Hemmings for $9000 plus about $1000 to get it shipped and the grille replaced that was damaged in shipping. Before it got to me the guy called and said his phone hadn't stopped ringing and one guy got my number and offered me $11k. This was my dream of a lifetime so this truck will never leave my side while I am alive. The price I paid was very, very reasonable for an original paint truck without rust in my mind. The very fact that amazes me is just think how many honest true factory loaded 4x4's, even long box trucks are out there sporting their original paint and totally rustfree? Then factor in that they are only factory survivor originals once and in my 25 years of owning these trucks I had never seen one like this and the condition. Buy it and preserve it so somebody doesn't rod it. Mark __________________ '66 CST BBW swb fleet 327 fac ac '67 CST 4x4 swb 327 factory #'s V8 stepside project '72 Cheyenne K20 50k original '72 CST Blazer K5 owned 30+yrs '73 Sierra swb 4x4 '74 Cheyenne Super swb w/16k actual '71 & 72 Cheyenne K10 4x4 swb's '70 426 HEMICUDA conv SHAKER 4 sp Dana 60 '60 Impala conv 3rd owner '72 GMC K2500 4x4 '59 Apache CST BBW fleetside swb 283 '73 ElCamino SS LS1 T56 true SS bucket tach '76 ElCamino SS 52k survivor '87 Grand National 41k True 2nd to last built in 1987. '86 K30 454 SRW fleetside CA since new '88 Trans Am GTA 39k bought new 2018 DEMON plum crazy @ 840HP! "Need for speed"