Thinking about a crazy cross country trip.

[MrBeast]

So it is done, I sold my blazer.



Tuesday or Wednesday I am going to be picking up my new truck, a 85 Chevy Dually in Houston. It has 136K on the clock, and the motor has a tick. I am picking it up for 1500 bucks.



I am seriously considering flying to Boise Id to buy this truck.



It is a 99 model, has a Vortec 454 and a NV4500, 156K miles on it.

If I do I am going to fly up over new years to get it. It will be a 2775 mile trip, stopping off in my home town in Montana to pick up my 93 Z28 Camaro.





I wont know until tomorrow if I am going to get the truck or not. We will see what happens. If it works out, I am going to stuff the motor in my 85 dually, after I rebuild it of course, and use the 2wd NV4500 out of my 72 dually in the 85, and then take the 4x4 NV4500, hook it to a NP205 and install it in the 72 1 ton after I convert it to a SRW and cut the frame down to a short box. Then once I can track down a dana 60 I will get it installed under the front using DIY4X hangers, and have a couple of damn nice trucks.

Plan B. is I will buy this truck, that is here in Texas...



It has a 12 Valve Cummins, and a NV4500 in it. I could stuff the drive train from it in either my 85 or 72 Dually. I do have all the stuff I would need except for the Axle to convert the 85 to a 4x4.

This is a rendering of what I was going to do if I converted my 72 Dually to a 4x4 and stuffed a Cummins in it.



If I go this route I am building a custom frame for it. But were starting to talk about a lot of time to do that.

Not sure what I am going to do yet, Also if I can find anyone on here near Ontario Or. I was hoping I could get some one to go over and look at the truck for me.