When The World Was Square

[special-K]

I took this picture of my (former) truck at the local truck stop (now gone w/Costco in it's place) one day years ago. I wanted a picture of it next to this crazy CrewCab rig and ended up with a car carrier full of square bodies in the background. I didn't realize I was taking a historic picture at the time...lol

[special-K]

What the heck. Might as well show this one,too. Just another day at work (installing copper). The red truck was my helper's '87 K20

[KrazyRay]

You won't see that much more...copper has been replaced by pex.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by special-K

I took this picture of my (former) truck at the local truck stop (now gone w/Costco in it's place) one day years ago. I wanted a picture of it next to this crazy CrewCab rig and ended up with a car carrier full of square bodies in the background. I didn't realize I was taking a historic picture at the time...lol

Thanks for posting.

Looks like a load of Blazer/Suburbans which means they had to be coming out of Flint Michigan (the only plant that produced the square body utility models).

Depending on the model year I may have built them.

K

[cam.man67]

Nice shots, Tim! Great lookin' truck you used to have!

[J Knight]

Cool pics!

[bojak]

Originally Posted by special-K

I took this picture of my (former) truck at the local truck stop (now gone w/Costco in it's place) one day years ago. I wanted a picture of it next to this crazy CrewCab rig and ended up with a car carrier full of square bodies in the background. I didn't realize I was taking a historic picture at the time...lol

Tim- what are the details on your truck? I actually found that photo a year or more ago and saved it. Had as a wallpaper on my work computer for a while. I have always loved 4x4 trucks with mild lifts. Looks like it should have looked from the factory. I like the stock but not look.

[black_sheep454]

Man you've had some good looking trucks through the years.

[lilpoindexter]

Originally Posted by KrazyRay

You won't see that much more...copper has been replaced by pex.

Pex is junk...the contractors like it because it's easier to install, but the little clamps can come loose, and then you get to bust up your wall to replace the little clamp.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by KrazyRay

You won't see that much more...copper has been replaced by pex.

I'm old school. Copper all the way!

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Thanks for posting.

Looks like a load of Blazer/Suburbans which means they had to be coming out of Flint Michigan (the only plant that produced the square body utility models).

Depending on the model year I may have built them.

K

Keith,I'm 99.9% sure that was 1990.

Originally Posted by cam.man67

Nice shots, Tim! Great lookin' truck you used to have!

Thanks! That was at the I-70 Truck Stop. I'm itchin' to do another one for my new work truck.

Originally Posted by J Knight

Cool pics!

Thanks! I wish I had taken more pictures through the years. I think I only have one other picture of this one

Originally Posted by bojak

Tim- what are the details on your truck? I actually found that photo a year or more ago and saved it. Had as a wallpaper on my work computer for a while. I have always loved 4x4 trucks with mild lifts. Looks like it should have looked from the factory. I like the stock but not look.

Me too. I call it beefy stock on the 4wds these days. I always called the look hybrid because it's custom with a factory look using (mostly) choice factory parts. The specs were 1984 Silverado Camper Special,6.2 w/Banks Sidewinder,TH400 w/Gear Vendors,4.10,Detroit Locker/Tru-Trac,4" Superlifts in front,spring shop specials in rear,Hecko Hydro shocks,35/12.50-16.5 BFG A/Ts on powder coated 9.75 Kelsey Hayes,originally solid Adobe Gold. The original owner had the sides painted tan (like factory) with Outlaw II wheels & stock tire size. I got it from a used car guy w/body shop who buys trade-ins from a local Chevy dealer. I did a trade work on his house + cash deal,then had him paint it back to solid with new trim.

Originally Posted by black_sheep454

Man you've had some good looking trucks through the years.

Thanks,I appreciate that. I figure you work and spend all your time with your truck,so take pride and enjoy.

Originally Posted by lilpoindexter

Pex is junk...the contractors like it because it's easier to install, but the little clamps can come loose, and then you get to bust up your wall to replace the little clamp.

I haven't heard about that. I've yet to use it. I don't plan on it,but you never know

The pinstripe,tailgate mural,and lettering was western-style. The pinstripe was minimal and kinda hard to describe,but it looked like an old embroidered cowboy shirt. The mural was a desert scene and the lettering looked like this:

[jitteryguy]

I don't think any body is gonna want "Pex" on the porch roof or bay window. but for plumb'n it I've been happy with it so far.

[special-K]

Ok,I looked it up and pex is just pipe. I couldn't fathom it being offered in sheet stock to be used for standing seam roofing. I looked it up and the first drawback listed is it's no good for direct sunlight. I think the confusion comes from someone thinking I was referring to doing plumbing work with copper. On that house I made the standing seam copper roofs on that bay window and three gable aprons...and built all the cornice/exterior trim carpentry.

[KrazyRay]

At first, I thought you were referring to plumbing as I was looking at the cool trucks in the pic instead of the nice copper work above the bay window. Right or wrong, pex has replaced copper around here because of the high copper prices and the fact that thieves steal the copper right after its installed. That being said, I piped my house with type L copper and ran my air compressor piping in the garage all in copper.

[dieseldawg142]

hah!, being a roofer, when i saw the ladders on your truck (whats a plumber need an ext. ladder for anyways?!), the copper on the bay window, & the unfinished gable aprons (we just call 'em eyebrows), i assumed THAT'S what you WERE referring too 'till someone chimed in about pex pipe, so i was not going to comment on the nice job on the bay window- done a few, they can be a pain doing to look good-always fun running a seam threw a compound curve, but you did it well!

[arrover]

I think pex can be used correctly or incorrectly. I used it in a house once and it worked great. BUT, here is a much better use for pex tubing: It makes our truck doors close SOOO much easier!
P.S. Love your truck Special-K and cool historical pictures.

[special-K]

Ray,it's easy to see how you thought that. I figured it out right away. I was thinking roofing (natuarally) and thought there was some new type of replacement for copper on roofs I hadn't heard of I had to look into it before I realized what was going on. They made fake roof slate now out of vinyl...WHAT??
I moved into my house New Years eve '86. When I went to do plumbing I said,"I don't want that PVC crap in my house. I want good old copper". I'm on a well and the water is high in mineral content. Pinhole after pinhole sprung up till the whole house ended up PVC I love that stuff!

Yeah Dieseldawg,if the reflection doesn't give you a headache those compound curves will. If I have any say in it,I prefer to frame my own roof,so at least I don't get thrown any curves. Oops,I made a pun

arrover,I appreciate the compliments and all,but I think you just called me old!
Hah hah. Just kidding. It's all good. I like historic stuff,even if it's me. I have antiques I bought new. And,slick idea!

[winningz]

Awesome truck man

[special-K]

One of my all time favorites. I have had many regrets for selling. I sold it to a friend back home up on the mountain in '92. That truck worked for him another good 10 years,from hauling firewood to double hay wagons,to...whatever. My dad always kept me posted on it.
This thread started off to show that chock full of square bodies picture and seems to be taking on more of a "my good old truck" thread (along with a little Pex and copper roof thrown in) I only have one other picture of that truck and I might as well let it enjoy it's 15 minutes with that picture thrown in,too. color looks different here,doesn't it? The scrap yard used to always mark me down as brown Chevy truck when weighing-in. It ain't no brown truck to my eyes . Different shades of gold in different light for sure. One reason I bought this truck when I saw it was I already had a '70 C/30 with low-profile utility bed that was Medium Gold Poly and it kinda sorta matched. h what the heck,I'll throw up a picture of that one,too,while I'm at it!

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by arrover

I think pex can be used correctly or incorrectly. I used it in a house once and it worked great. BUT, here is a much better use for pex tubing: It makes our truck doors close SOOO much easier!
P.S. Love your truck Special-K and cool historical pictures.

It's even color co-ordinated!



K

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by special-K

When the World Was Square

Every time I see this title I think of the George Harrison song "When We was Fab" -


K

[special-K]

That's a good one to think of. I think of The Way We Were with Robert Redford & Barbara Streisand



(girlfriend talked me into it...I swear!)

[J Knight]

Originally Posted by special-K

That's a good one to think of. I think of The Way We Were with Robert Redford & Barbara Streisand



(girlfriend talked me into it...I swear!)

Nice save, that was very close to a man card violation.

[tucsonjwt]

I have a whole house repipe coming up this year. Out here, most plumbers use PEX from the meter box to near the fixture, then stub copper in and out of the wall, which is probably what I will do. At least then the PEX is in the main runs where it is accessible, unless it is under the slab, like most AZ houses. I had a 1970s era slump block ranch house with all copper pipe - pipe sprung a leak under the slab - repiped next to the main forced air duct in the soffit drop in the hallway with all PEX (10 years ago?) That PEX (WIRSBO) made the water taste like plastic. All copper would be nice but I think it would add another $1500 to my project.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by J Knight

Nice save, that was very close to a man card violation.

Letting your girlfriend talk you into seeing a chick flick qualifies as saving my man card???
Ok,here we go...

1- I was on the cusp of becoming a man when this movie came out,anyway,so hadn't been issued my card yet

2- The term "Chick Flick" had not yet been coined. It was just a movie back then.

3- She was HOT!!

I remember seeing American Graffitti with her when it came out,too. We were sipping tequila* while we watched and when it was over,naturally I did a big burnout leaving the theater and she didn't seem to mind. Does that redeem me?

*Disclaimer: Different times back then. That was before cup holders,so you had to put your beer between your legs. I stopped such activity when awareness changed and no longer condone such behavior

[Gotenntitans]

This is a photograph of a page from my senior yearbook, the 1987 Camden High School Conifer. That's me on the left and my best friend, Ronnie Binns, on the right. That truck could have been an '86, but was probably a new '87 model. I remember it was light powder blue. That dealership is still right there where it was then. I washed cars for them during the summers.

WOW, 26 years ago and I still remember that day. We got out of school to go take that picture and went by the new Burger King on the way back and got fussed at by our Journalism teacher because we were gone the entire class period. GTT