Junkyard special

[bigdog57]

I went the other day with my brother to the local salvage yard to look fro parts for his Yucon. We ran across a 1981 3/4t truck with a receiver hitch still on it. I've been looking to buy one for some time but didn't want to order one to get it. I wasn't sure that it would fit. So I did some resurch here on the board and came to the conclussion that it should fit my '70 GMC. I went back and got it. The problem I ran into was whoever owned the Chevy welded the hitch to the bumper (which is nothing more than scrap metal). The salvage yard wouldn't just give me the bumper. I worked out a deal with them to sell the bumper back to them for what i gave for it. Any way when I got it home, I took a grinder to the welded seams and separated the bumper from the hitch. I cleanded the hitch up figure out what I had. Turns out that it's a Drawtite class IV hitch part #41001. It only cost me $25 and a little time. I just need to clamp it to the frame, drill a few holes and mount that puppy up.