Anyone else regret getting rid of their first squarebody?

[sethv]

Not one day goes by when I think about my first square. I sold it back in November and I'm still kicking myself in the ass. Turns out it only needed valve seals to fix the "burns 4 quarts of oil a week" problem I had. And the guy doesn't want to get rid of it again.

It's saddening, knowing all the work I did to it and I'll never enjoy it again. :/

[mikev]

Yes.

That's why I'm looking for another one, and I think I finally found the one I want. It's a CC diesel up in Oregon, about 10 hours from me.

[X Baldwin Motion]

my first square body was an 85 three on the tree, had to sell it and get an automatic in 97 when my daughters started to drive.

need I explain?

[nicksta43]

I miss my 86 GMC but the one that hurt the most was my Dad's 76 GMC stepside. It was brown with awesome three color stripes down the sides. Had a set of Cragar S/S wheels on it. He called her "Honeybell" I LOVED that truck. He said I would get her when I turned sixteen. One of my sister's ex-husbands talked him out of it when I was 15 or so. I was heartbroken, then he put a set of cheap white wagon wheel rims on it and a big old ugly camper in the back. I don't know what happened to Honeybell but my guess is she has returned to the earth.

[hotrodhomi]

I don't miss my first square, but i do miss some of my other squares.

[J Knight]

My 1st square was a 78 GMC swb fleetside, I would have kept it but a lady pulled out in front of me and totalled it. I bought a 74 body and tranfered my interior/motor/trans/bed/rear end. Unfortunatlly I totalled it a year later being stupid and DWI. I do regret it.

[80stepsideguy]

Although my 1st square was a 83 k5 blazer i do miss it. It was a 350 from a 81 z28 and it was originally a diesel. I was working for a chevy dealership in 1993 when i bought it and bought some pieces it was missing when i bought it. It needed a little floor work in the back by the tailgate but i smoked a monte carlo SS with it and laughed my backside all day long after that. I blew up the 700r4 in it and replaced it with a th 350 and i will never forget it as i sold it way to cheap. Crappy thing was i was 20 years old and my insurance was 231.00 a month JUST FOR LIABILITY!!! And it was costing me about 75.00 a week in fuel and that was back in 1994-5.

thanks
pat

[Car'n'Guitars]

I still have my first truck and it is a square, but then again I'm only 17. And my truck needs a lot of work just to get it drivable. Working on getting a parts truck for it.

[allchevy58]

Wish I had my 77' that I bought brand new.



I do have my dad's 76' he bought brand new.

[Car'n'Guitars]

Both are cool trucks.

[kSStamp0182]

i miss mine as well

1987 R10 GMC Sierra, all original with 65,000 miles, with the TBI 350. ran like a champ. the cleanest square ive seen to date.

but they don't fair to well against a hydroplaning semi.

[Hulk Will Smash]

Totalled my '77 C20 crew in 1990. It was a rust bucket but I lived and it gave me a life long love of squares.
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[hick]

I learned to drive on my first sqaure

my grandpa bought it new and it was a farm truck

Brought it into my high school shop to work on it... and bite of WAY more then i could chew... ended up "parting it out"...

I would give any thing to have that truck bad...

Young and stupid...

[MuthaTrucka]

I still got myne had only driven her twice before i pulled her off the road for a body drop etc. 3 years later and getting closer every day to driving her again!!

[old Rusty C10]

I miss most of my old trucks from my 72 to my 86 and 76 chevys heck i miss my 89 f 250.. i dont miss any of the dodges i had tho

[motornut]

I tore up a few for 350 blocks and trannys before
the first one, 78 burb ,hit by a drunk,not written off,not so much
the 87 hit by a drunk,written off, yes
the 88 hit by a drunk,written off, yes

[bigredchevy]

i miss mine tremedisly i had put a m 20 behind a hevely modded sb400 it broke free and spun right round tore the floor and all out of her

[lolife99]

Yep.
I bought a loaded red/red '86 swb new in 1986.
Wish I'd never sold it.

I bought it's "rougher" twin a couple years ago,...

[76Charlie]

Almost sold it for a dodge diesel...*shudders*

[GMC Guy]

nope still have mine, bought it when i was 15, and will probably be wrenching on it for the rest of my life lol

[doubleb's69]

I miss mine. It was a 78 4X4 Scottsdale short box. It was metallic brown with buckskin interior. 400 small block with turbo 400. It wasn't pretty but it ran great and got me everywhere I was going with out and trouble. I tried to buy it back a couple of times but have lost track of it now.

[Keith Seymore]

Yep. Sold it when I became a company car driver.

I bet I didn't have that company car a month or two before they took it away.

I still have square #2, but square #1 was really cool-er.

K

[sethv]

Since I really didn't give my first square's story, here goes.

I came to visit my uncle after he got off work, and one of his buddy's from work stopped over at his house. I saw it and said "Hey that's a pretty sweet truck". My uncle blurted out "It has a 4 speed!". I looked right at Bob (the owner of it at the time) and said "I'll trade ya." (I had a '77 Lincoln Mark V). He said "Are you serious?" I said "Yep". Funny thing is, we never met before and after that we've become pretty good friends since that day.

And it went from there. Ended up getting it 3 weeks later. Had a tube grille on it, swapped it out for a stock '77 - '79 grille, and swapped the stepside bed out for a fleetside bed. I also put a dash pad from a '83 Chevy in it, $20 from the junkyard!! Done a lot of work to it, personalized it. I had a lot of plans for it, like fixing the rocker panels, cab corners, passenger floor, rewire the tail lights (they worked when they wanted to), and a bunch of other plans. I ended up selling it back to Bob because the replacement engine that went in it burned 4-5 quarts of oil a week. Ended up being the valve seals, which makes me want it back so bad because I have a nice set of 305 heads just sitting around I could use.

[nekkidhillbilly]

with a passion

[bigdog57]

My first truck was a '79 stepside.I've wore out several since.Now I have a 1970 Gmc ( 7 months ago) and i bouget a '79 chevy longbed six weeks ago.
Brian