Does your truck have family history?

[LostMy65]

Great stories here.
Also, keep the 'then & now' pics coming.
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[A.T. RockDriller]

Mark...

Thanks from all of us for the lesson on "Site Search 101 "
That will help me quite a bit.

Yves,

Welcome to this, the home of the GM Truck Preservationists....
I look forward to watching what all you do to your truck.
If ya ever can find time...the fella that welcomed you above my post...
LostMy65....has been looking for his long lost '65 for a long time. I believe that he started looking for it shortly after he let it go...
I may need some help here...would someone post Robs link ....as I'm not sure, after the thread merger, just how to locate it...
Anyway, Yves....the thread I am referring to chronicles the "epic" search to find his truck....And it is a great read.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=426650

Well....there it is...
(Thanks Mark)


See ya around these parts.

[ChevyMetal]

I will keep track of everything i do. I might also bug a few of you from time to time for insight. If i cant find it searching. And you cant say i'll find the time. You gotta take the time. Last year i spent every waking hour outside in my backyard on my days off. I plan on starting to do the same thing now. Might put my 80' on the backburner for a while. It's a toy that has no meaning. I was even thinking of selling it but everyone including my father said no. "except the wife" lol. I spent more time with that truck than her last year and i think she knows it will be worse with this one. If theres one thing i'm not affraid of it's work.

[ChevyMetal]

here if you's get bored

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al6PFJs46YY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4sprlGOXX8&feature...

[LostMy65]

Originally Posted by ChrisDollins

My 66 came from my grandpa. He sold cars at the local McFall Chevrolet here in town and this truck was traded in for a new body style. Papa loved the truck and brought it home. They would take it out picking flowers and what not a lot. Mom has a lot of memories riding in it. After he passed the truck pretty much just sat for about 9 years untouched. The original I-6 block was cracked. So, after the engine was rebuilt I decided to have it painted. Had cool patina, but I like em shiny as well as papa did. (which is probably why all the paint was buffed off lol.) Anyhow, here's an old pic of him standing by it, and a new pic from today.



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[blackcloud45]

My great grandpa bought my '66 new. He ordered it with A/C and no chrome. When it arrived and he saw the chrome door handles he complained until they advised him the handles didn't come any other way. He wanted a woods truck

He gave the truck to my grandpa in '76 who then drove it daily until around '86. He sat it up behind the house until giving it to me. I began lusting after the truck when I hit my early teens. People would stop by asking if they could buy it and they'd complain when he said no. "You aren't doing anything with it!", they'd say. To which he'd reply, "It's mine and I'll let it sit there and rot to the ground."

When I reached a point in my life where I was ready to keep a regular job and grow up a little I was in the market for a used, good on gas type truck. Looking through local classifieds for 80's Toyota type trucks I'd always gravitate to the old Chevys. One day my grandpa noticed and asked why I was looking at those old trucks when I clearly needed a dependable, economic vehicle. I advised that I just liked the old ones. He then told me if I kept my job for a year, he'd give me his old truck. A year later, the deal was done. Cancer got him a few years later and I miss him a great deal. He taught me a lot and was a good man. Now that I'm a little better off financially I'm working on getting it back on the road. Hopefully I'll have it done in the next couple of years

[johnlq6975]

I'm starting my wife's grandpas 62 he bought new I'm going to finish it back stock and let her dad take it to car shows he would fix it up but can't afford to