7000 mile roadtrip!

[special70gmc]

thought id post my longest road trip to date in the squarjunk, had to go to new mexico cuz my buddie broke up with his girl and needed a way to get all of his things, guns and whatnot back to new york. headed down south then over on i-20 and cam back on 40 and 70 6600 miles and 23 states, the chevy had no problems and didnt burn a drop of mobile-1!! ot around 20-23 mpg most of the way too! anybody got any road trips in there chevys??

[special70gmc]

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[menace121978]

damn thats alot of miles. your a good friend!! when i was a kid my dad and i would go camping every year up in oregon and sleep in the back for his 3 weeks of vacation. i can remember pulling off the road and actually changing the oil w/ him!lol wouldnt be caught dead doing that sorta thing now. and when we had the original 350 in there she would always oil foul the #8 plug every few hundred miles and we would have to pull over and change that hot @ss plug. those were the days!LOL just another reason i love that truck so much!!

[Cherub]

Nice truck and awsome road trip.

[swb85]

Like a rock!! Excellent roadtrip, you are a stand-up friend indeed. Great looking truck too btw.

[special70gmc]

haha menace we changed the oil and put a set of airshocks in it on the side of the road in albequerque NM its funny you said that. the oly thig i wish i had was more room in the cab and an overdrive trans i have 2:73s and a th350 was about 3100 at 80ish the whole way. as for being a good friend he woulda done the same for me, plus im always down to get outa new york in the winter lol

[66truckin]

wow who picked up the fuel bill? must have been $600-$700 round trip

[special70gmc]

friend did.. yea bout that 700ish

[gchemist]

I've taken mine on three 1000's miles with the ZZ4. I bet it would make cross country without any problems. I think it likes weight. The best milage has been with several hundred pounds of weight. I'm still working on stabalizing engine temps around 194. The L98 Vette heads like heat.

I bet you got a lot of looks!! Some people have never seen such "old" trucks on the road. I get looks everytime I pass someone on the highway.

[ca180]

You're braver than me... I wouldn't even do that in my 05 dd....

[66truckin]

I towed a 79 malibu home one time with a 76 k5 blazer, it was about a 200 mile round trip. talk about stares and tons of thumbs ups.

[special70gmc]

deff got some thumbs up! lots of looks too and even a race, another primered square chevy! we were on 20 in texas and i reved it up next to him he took off so did i , both of us let off about 120-30 idk we were whippin tho so much fun!

[pig rig]

I did a trip to disneyland from the washington last year the day after xmas (07)and we went out to blythe for the last reso show I put a little over 3900 miles on my 88 crew cab dually my fuel bill was right at $1500 it was fun

deff got some thumbs up! lots of looks too and even a race, another primered square chevy! we were on 20 in texas and i reved it up next to him he took off so did i , both of us let off about 120-30 idk we were whippin tho so much fun!

thats the best getting out in nomans land a stuffing your toe's deep in the carpet

[SBTork]

really cool, it sounds like you had a lot of fun. Do you have the stock bench seat? I am shocked that you got 20-23 mpg running 3100 with a th350, thats real good, I wonder how much better it would be with an overdrive. I can't wait until mine is on the road lowered, with a V8, then I can make a few long runs this summer. Good times.

[special70gmc]

yeah stock bench kind hurts after a wile its kinda soft.. i was suprised too its fresh vortec crate with edlbrock intake carb hooker camaro headers magnaflos no cats msd probillit 6albox ect nothing to special but it runs absolutly perfect cant complain