Finally...20 year 1972 K20 restoration complete!

[dave6672]

Guys, I know that many of you know how long a restoration can take, especially when you are doing most of the work yourself and are an amateur like me, not to mention the cost and other factors. But after 20 years I am now driving my K20 once again. Here's a brief story and some pics...…..

I bought this truck right after I got my first real job in September of 1991. It was listed in what was called the Metro Piston which was a local car trader magazine in the Lexington KY area (see pic of the ad which I still have). I bought it from the son of the original owner who had recently passed away. The original owner had used this truck to climb around the mountains of eastern Kentucky visiting some of the oil wells that he operated.

The truck was in pretty good shape when I got it and I used it for a daily driver up the late 1990's at which point it was pretty rusty. First I disassembled the bed, then it sat for a while. I did some more work on it, and then it sat for a while, and so on. But I never lost track of getting it finished and now that I'm back driving it again, it seems exactly like the same truck it was before, which is what I wanted. I just wanted my old friend back.

It will take a few posts to get all of my pics out there. Thanks for listening.

First the original ad, some old pics and the SPID.