Who here is daily driving a 67/72?

[cleanfreak]

Originally Posted by Already Gone

This is timely thread for me. I am thinking f buying this 71 GMC 4 x 2 to use as daily driver. Our Winters can be brutal but they used to be worse 40/50 years ago when all people had were these trucks to drive. If I put 2/300 pounds of ballast in the bed, a block heater and 4 snow tires on it it would probably work for me. Does any one today drive a 67-72 all year around where the Winters are harsh.

I just had a 72 that looked the same shape as that gmc , original paint , little rust , 6 3spd. Did everything to it to make it my "winter c10" , the day I finished it , I realized I just couldn't drive it with the open rust with the crap they put on the roads in Ontario. You might get away with it out there , are they salting or putting calcium out there yet?

[Shortnwide4x4]

Originally Posted by cleanfreak

I just had a 72 that looked the same shape as that gmc , original paint , little rust , 6 3spd. Did everything to it to make it my "winter c10" , the day I finished it , I realized I just couldn't drive it with the open rust with the crap they put on the roads in Ontario. You might get away with it out there , are they salting or putting calcium out there yet?

funny you post this, I'm another Ontario guy who bought a 68 4x4 out of Arizona on ebay to drive year round. Once I got it home and found out the shape it was in I decided there would be no way in h377 that I would drive her in the salt!! especially after her restoration

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Shortnwide4x4

funny you post this, I'm another Ontario guy who bought a 68 4x4 out of Arizona on ebay to drive year round. Once I got it home and found out the shape it was in I decided there would be no way in h377 that I would drive her in the salt!! especially after her restoration

Good. Too many people buy these trucks from where they survived and think they can run them where they got ruined and think they magically won't get ruined now. There is no way to run a truck in the salt and have it not be eaten up by salt. Even if I had a heated garage with wash bay, pulled it in every night, sprayed out/off/under, it would still deteriorate. And who is going to actually do that every day... when it's in the teens, 20s, 30s and as soon as you go a mile it's right back in those places that rust. You can't wash that salt laden road grime out that gathers in the lower voids. All these trucks have surface rust on the back side where there never was paint and it comes alive when it comes to humid climates