72 GMC Sierra Grande K25

[19gmc72]

I started working on my pickup again after a 10+ year hiatus. It’s a 1972 GMC Sierra Grande K25. Original color was 504 medium olive with a white top. I don’t have any pictures of it in it’s original color.

My dad bought the truck from a friend in 1985, six years before I was born. The truck was used heavy. This truck made trips over Mt Hood hauling alfalfa pulling a gooseneck flatbed. It’s hauled more cord wood, cattle and grass hay than most people will ever see in a lifetime. I have fond memories sitting middle bench seat in between my dad and late granddad making firewood runs, moving cows to another property or picking up grass hay from the fields. This was the first truck I drove, pulling a trailer in between rows of hay bales in the field to load on the trailer. I was maybe 9 or 10 years old. In 2009 I decided I was going to restore it for my senior project. Well I was in over my head but made decent progress.

In high school I replaced cab corners, inner and outer rockers and part of the floor. Some mistakes made, I can live with them and it adds a bit of character to a farm truck.