Does your truck have family history?

[ChevyMetal]

I will keep track of everything i do. I might also bug a few of you from time to time for insight. If i cant find it searching. And you cant say i'll find the time. You gotta take the time. Last year i spent every waking hour outside in my backyard on my days off. I plan on starting to do the same thing now. Might put my 80' on the backburner for a while. It's a toy that has no meaning. I was even thinking of selling it but everyone including my father said no. "except the wife" lol. I spent more time with that truck than her last year and i think she knows it will be worse with this one. If theres one thing i'm not affraid of it's work.

[LostMy65]

Great stories here.
Also, keep the 'then & now' pics coming.
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[ChevyMetal]

here if you's get bored

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al6PFJs46YY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4sprlGOXX8&feature...

[blackcloud45]

My great grandpa bought my '66 new. He ordered it with A/C and no chrome. When it arrived and he saw the chrome door handles he complained until they advised him the handles didn't come any other way. He wanted a woods truck

He gave the truck to my grandpa in '76 who then drove it daily until around '86. He sat it up behind the house until giving it to me. I began lusting after the truck when I hit my early teens. People would stop by asking if they could buy it and they'd complain when he said no. "You aren't doing anything with it!", they'd say. To which he'd reply, "It's mine and I'll let it sit there and rot to the ground."

When I reached a point in my life where I was ready to keep a regular job and grow up a little I was in the market for a used, good on gas type truck. Looking through local classifieds for 80's Toyota type trucks I'd always gravitate to the old Chevys. One day my grandpa noticed and asked why I was looking at those old trucks when I clearly needed a dependable, economic vehicle. I advised that I just liked the old ones. He then told me if I kept my job for a year, he'd give me his old truck. A year later, the deal was done. Cancer got him a few years later and I miss him a great deal. He taught me a lot and was a good man. Now that I'm a little better off financially I'm working on getting it back on the road. Hopefully I'll have it done in the next couple of years

[TR65]

I rode in this truck the day it was purchased new by my dad. It has been kept in a garage ever since it was new. He gave it to me a few year ago. It is my daily driver. About 110k original miles. Original except 2005 LS2 drive train, AC, and other modern mechanicals.

TR

[sigshooter]

My Grandpa bought this truck new in 1965, used it on the farm and drove it when he was Sheriff. I have newspaper clippings from when he was Sheriff and hauled off old mattresses from the jail in it. My Aunts learned to drive in this truck. I got it from him around 1987 when I was 16. I worked one summer on his farm in trade for the truck. This photo is from the day I brought it home off the farm.

I even still have old "love notes" to my high school sweetheart ( which is now my wife of 22 years ) talking about the truck and how she can wash it and clean the windows while I get it running..... then we can cruise in it