How much $$ do you have into your truck?

[Tropical Snowstorm]

My truck was stolen last summer and I went through the reciepts and in what I could find (which was NOT all of it) I found over $24k in parts and labor. I bought the truck in high school so I had to pay labor on the 3 trannies I ate up behind the 383 stroker motor which was a LOT. I don't regret any money I've spend, but I realized that experience teaches you a lot. I had less than $3,000 tied up in my old 82 Camaro including buying it and it was a solid 12 second car with a nice interior, stereo, and everything but paint.

[OhioDan]

Last time I checked, I had $15,000+. AA lot of work has been done, but still have a lot to do. Here's how it looks right now.

[3qtrtontarrer]

i cant say my wife might find out, lots of free parts thow im a scrounger.

[68Stepbed]

After purchase price, new engine, rebuilt tranny, disc brake changeover, and wheels, I have right at 15 in mine. I still lack to paint it, but for a Driver, I'm still doin better than a new truck.

[67ChevyRedneck]

Paid $1,300 for her in '96. Drove it for 4 years and the only repairs were a new heater core and cleaned the carb/fuel tank. I pirated a free interior out of a 72 Custom 1 Ton truck, Probably spent 30 bucks on a spray can interior job, and $150 on a primer/sealer for the body. Used my dads garage and tools and only had to buy a small amount of bondo and sand paper. In '03 I spent about $400 on a front-end rebuild/disk brake power brakes upgrade. At the same time I bought a rebuilt motor and all the stuff to convert from an I6 3 speed to a v8 700R4. Spent about 1,300 on all that. I'm fixin to spend about 2K on her within the next few months.

[GMan69]

A little over $7000 total, including the purchase price of $1700.

[meathead95]

ive got 8k in the 2wd blazer and about 14-15k in the swb 4x4

[moneyguru]

I purchased mine as an incompleted project/basket case for $2,000 and I
have a total of $3,500 into it so far.

Now I just need to finish putting it together, but just can't find the time!

Here is a pic of it just before I picked it up after it's paint job.

[mac]

Shaved, bagged, drip rails gone, ZZ4, 700R4, '96 bed & cover, interior, new sheetmetal with cowl hood and smoothed firewall, step shavers, LEDs and last but not least PAINT........ I'm at $16k

[shifty]

I'm at ~$6k right now with the LS1 T56 swap. I've sold off a lot of the old parts, so it might be closer to 5k. I plan on walking out with about $8k in the truck when I'm happy driving it around, then splurge on body work when it's all paid down.

[crazy longhorn]

I cant say for sure, stopped counting a looong time ago.....lets just say enough that I feel I should be living in the truck......& if the wifey knew the count , I just might be L

[see ten]

I have around 23K-25K in the K10. That's 14mos in the body shop with major repair or replacement of everything aside from the hood and the roof. An engine rebuild, lift kit, interior, stereo, blah blah. If my wife ever teaches me to use the scanner I will post some pics of what it used to look like (HULL).



I haven't added up the receipts on the C10 in a while but off the top of my head I would say 10.5K-11.5K.



There are always people who tell me "you'll never get your money out of those trucks". Ah hell! If I bought a new truck for 20K in 5yrs when it was paid for what would it be worth? Maybe 10K-8K? It makes me feel like my old trucks aren't such a bad hobby.
Oh by the way, I paid for it all myself. They weren't given to me or inherited. I put these together while working a job that pays $13 an hour. I also did it while making a house payment and other bills. Some people have assumed that I live with my parents to be able to have these trucks. These trucks are like anything else in life, if you want them you will come up with a way to pay for them.
I have all the receipts for both of my trucks in file folders. I keep the folders in a fire proof safe. I have the K10 insured for 20K and the C10 for 14K. Any way it's just money right?

[boraxman]

Im over 10K on mine, but I have a ton of cool new parts and mods. Including new suspension, wheels, disc brakes, posi, etc. etc. etc.

[FRENCHBLUE72]

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of $7000 in my blazer.. Piad 3500 for it got new floors-motor-tranny-lift- wheels- tires wireing kit etc etc it adds up quick and its still a beater.....

[68cajun]

about 5 grand and it is still just a pile of parts.

[ratrod67]

I have about $6500 into my 67 SWB. I'm not even gonna add up the 72 LWB.

[dion]

with the truck price, paint, engine, rear end, interior, body trim, engine upgrades, more interior, little things here and there, more engine upgrades....

I'm sure 10K + over the last five years

[jhwkns]

Around $3500 invested..I've done all of the work myself.. Nine years as a daily driver.. I've put 170k miles on it.. I'm gettin' my moneys worth..

[chickenwing]

This question is kinda like askin a Texan how many head of cattle he has....

[northerngmc]

I stopped adding up reciepts when I hit $30,000.

[chevy71super]

Truck #1 - 71 4X4 - $5,500 + $23,000 = $28,500 (Show)
Truck #2 - 72 4X4 - $7,500 + $500 = $8,000 (Driver)
Truck #3 - 72 4X4 - $1,200 + $500 = $1,700 (Junker)

[junkyarddog1956]

I bought the truck for $1400.00 ( 3rd owner never been painted ) , after puchasing some new cab mounts , rockers , cab corners , door handles , mirrors , and complete weatherstrip kits for windows and all , plus stripping it and painting it overall in PPG BC/CC , I have $5900.00 in it . Still need moulding , interior and engine rebuild ( ouch ) ...... My wife calls it the money pit .... jyd

[RANDY COX]

Well let's see so far about 2000.00 won the bid on ebay about 2 yrs ago for 1350.00.

[GlennBrittain]

I refuse to answer on the grounds that my wife may read the answer.

[mocwon]

$22K and that didn't include the paint work labor that was gratis from a very good friend... looking back it's kinda' stupid that I ever thought I could do it for $7K, as originally planned.....