Where/How did you find your Truck ?

[aventur1]

From Oregon
Had lots of cow dung flipped up from the tires!
The owner hauled it to me at half way point, I drove it home... to Idaho

[Don Quixote]

I bought mine in February of 1997 from the original owner. When I told him I only had half of the$1500 he wanted, he let it go for $750 and made me promise him I'd take care of it. I was a dumb teenager with no intention of doing anything but running it into the ground. One has to remember these trucks were not popular back then, it was just an old farm truck. One year led to another, then another and 20 years later it is still my daily driver with just shy of 500k miles. She's been a good truck and I've had it more than half my life, I don't know what I'd do without her even though she's a borderline basket case.

[hotsam]

I think most of this story is in my thread in the 4x4 builds section "just a few plans for my 72 swb 4x4" so ill make it short...
When i was younger, maybe 10 or so I worked my dads farm and mostly every joining
neighbors farm. I worked cattle, hay and tobacco for them, and I actually was in and out of (now my) pickup at times!! I always LOVED the truck and had dreams of owning one just like it someday. It was his daily driver. He bought the truck in the very early 80s. He Traded his green and white 66 short fleet bed for it because he needed a 4x4. I inquired about the truck many times through the years with no luck.. He quit driving the truck daily in the late 90s or early 2000 when he bought a new pickup. Again every year or so id stop by and ask about it.. I have had a few of these trucks but this one always had my heart.. Finally about 3 years ago or so I made a deal with him and drove it home.. Now i drive it daily unless the roads have been coated with the nasty chemical that eats a vehicle down to its soul !!! So here i am with the very truck that made me a fan of the swb 4x4 chevy... It will never be for sale unless my family is in need and theres no other alternative... I could have made a fortune on it many times already, but i just say nah its happy where its at

[King951]

Went out one Saturday morning to go check out some Chevy pickups for sale. Was sitting at a gas station waiting for a response on a 74' C10 about 40 miles from home. The owner said he would send me the address when he got home in ~5 min. An hour or so later after receiving no response I figured he changed his mind and pulled up Craigslist on my phone. Saw a listing for a 71' C20 one owner all original for $2,500 local. The listing had no photos but had just been posted about an hour or so earlier so I figured I would go check it out since the 74' decided not to respond. Pretty happy he didn't respond. Ended up being the first one to go look at the truck. Belonged to the seller's father who bought it brand new in 71'. Had been sitting since 08' when he passed away. Offered him $2,000 cash in hand and bought it that morning. Wired up a fuel pump and did some work to the linkages and drove it home the following day. Thought I was gonna spend the next few weekends looking for the rite truck, ended up being the first one I went and saw.

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[Indyspecracer]

I bought my 69 SWB from my best buddy of 43 years a few months ago. We met while our fathers were stationed in Italy. My buddy started the resto a few years back and decided that he didn't want to finish it. We haven't lived in the same state since returning stateside, but have always remained buddies. ,it will be cool to have a truck that both of us have contributed to the restoration.

[71CHEVYSHORTBED402]

I probably mentioned my 71. 1989 on a small car lot. I didn't know what I was getting, nor what I had until tear down.

As for the 72, which has been over a year now, it's nothing I'll admit to. No but seriously, it was a very odd situation, and to this day I don't understand why. To make things more peculiar, a nutty beautiful woman asked to buy it for me. Or maybe it was she bought it, changed her mind and sold it to me?...Either way it was meant to be. So much so the license plate freakishly reads "400". What are the odds considering the last three characters are made up of letters and/or numbers?.....................................Truck was the bomb back in the day. Now it's just a rust bucket I like to drive.

[suburban99]

On my way home from a camping trip to Otter lake, my wife saw the truck and said "there's your truck" (I always wanted a 67-72 K10)...at the time I had a '62 C10 that I swapped in a LS 5.3 4l60e..put the '62 up for sale and then went and bought the '72 K10. Since LS swapped it as well.

[paul blair]

It found me! I worked for my Father for about 15 years and every once in a while I would ask Him when He decided to get rid of the truck I would like to buy it. When He decided to retire He gave me the truck at Christmas...Nice surprise for me...I call it BUD, my Fathers nick name. Not flashy but it is a strong reliable truck that I am able to fix my self.

[Greg58]

I had owned a 1970 K-10 about 30 years ago, and regretted ever selling it, drove a number of Suburbans thru the years. I have always watched for 67-72 GM trucks.
Last year I decided to find a clean one, I looked locally, then expanded my search to the south and southwest. I found my truck on Craigslist in Pueblo Co.
It is a 3 owner GMC Sierra Grande 2500, 133" wb, 402, 4speed. The truck was ordered new by a drag racer to pull his race-car, it spent it's whole life in Southern Colo. It was the original owners baby according to the seller.
I was hesitant to buy a truck sight unseen, but the seller was a mechanic who loved these trucks, he gave me an honest assessment of the condition, sent me many pictures. He seemed to be in no hurry to sell the truck, and I figured out later he was feeling me out as well, because he wanted it to go to a good home! I spent a couple of weeks corresponding back and forth, and made an offer that he accepted. My son and I took a road-trip out to get it last Feb.
I have been very happy with it, and have decided to keep the paint original, warts and all. My plans are to find some steel wheels and hubcaps eventually. The wheels and tires on it are new, but not really my style.
Greg

[dave6672]

I bought my 72 K20 long stepper from the original owner's son back in 1991. His father owned oil wells in the Eastern KY mountains and used this truck to climb around the mountains visiting his wells. I drove it regularly until I decided to restore it in the late 1990's. After almost 20 years I'm getting close, it's in the body shop for its final paint so hopefully I'll soon have a nice new picture for my avatar!

[KQQL IT]

Our 68 found me I believe.

[canuckian]

Had been looking locally for quite a while for either a 72 swb k10 or a 68 swb c10. No luck whatsoever. Went on vacation in South Carolina for a couple of weeks and, strangely enough I couldn't find a suitable candidate there either. Odd because it seemed every time I checked Craigslist before our trip there were always a few trucks worth considering. On our first day back I had a peek on kijiji and low and behold there was a nice 72 SWB K10 stepside. Went down the next day (3+hrs drive), made the deal and as part of the deal, the seller offered to trailer the truck to my house. Saved me the return trip and uhaul rental so I was a happy camper!

[Rufas]

I was fortunate, but in a sad way, I inherited my 1970 GMC LWB from my Dad. He purchased it new in 1970. I'm in the final stages of getting it back on the road. It's taken me almost 20 years to get to this point. Life seems to get in the way of things.

This GMC is totally rust free that spent 23 years in California before following me to Georgia in 1993. It was my daily driver for about 5 year before going into my basement garage in 1998 when I started this project. It's only been out of the garage once and that was to go to the body shop for painting.

Here are a few photos when it got back from the body shop.





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And finally what it looked like when my parents had it sometime around 1974.

[jeffg1010]

Most of this is taken from my build thread. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=522548Which now looks pretty lousy due to the photobucket deal. My build had died off and I only drove it once this summer. I nearly decided to sell it a few weeks back and Sam (who is now 13) had a meltdown. So, it's gonna stick around a while. Ive decided to get it on the road this winter. Cant wait to put some miles on it.

Here is the basics of how it became mine . . .

I bought our Blazer in 2011. In late '11, I had been getting my (then) six year old little boy pumped up about a Blazer project. Ya know, maybe your dad did it to you when you were a kid : "We are gonna build you one of those...blah, blah, blah" (come to think of it, I never got the '57 Chevy I was promised) - OK, so I took him to the Fall Auto Fair at Charlotte Motor Speedway in August 2011 and I wanted him to see a Blazer. (to build the dream!) We had a great time and even found a couple. -but none in our price range! I did run across a board member (bashed) at the Auto Fair who was showing a nice Blazer.

SO, while I was talking to Jerrett (a.k.a.- bashed), I told him I was hoping to get one for a project this Spring. AND, he said he had another 2wd he was going to sell. So I gave him my card and told him to email me some pictures. I was pretty pumped up!

OK, so WEEKS went by and I never heard from him. I didnt have his name, his number. (yep, idiot move on my part) All I had was a photo of his Blazer and he had mentioned to me that he was at the show with the East Coast Cruisers. So, I finally Googled the East Coast Cruisers website and emailed them to tell them I was looking for a member who was at the Auto Fair. The only info I had was his Ochre Yellow Blazer. After a few days, (and apparently a few email forwards) I got contact info.

I called him to follow up and sure enough, he was still looking to sell it.

So... he sent me some pics and ... I had to have it. The only trouble is, I had just started my own business. We were definitely in the red. But when I decide I want something, I will do anything to get it.

He said he wasn't in a hurry to sell it, in fact he wasnt even trying to sell it, so I didn't commit right away. BUT it stayed on my mind.

Fast forward to November 2011, I finally got a little bit of cash saved up and I offered to make a deposit on the Blazer. He agreed. So, on paper my ownership began on Tues, November 8th, 2011. Our deal was he would hold it at his place until I got my tax return and I would pay off the rest. Sounded crazy even to me at the time.

In the meantime, I spent my Christmas holiday parting out a '71 that I talked my dad into buying. I wanted to go ahead and score the top (for a donor-sliding sunroof project) and hatch (mine was shot) and the rear seat (mine is a rear seat delete and yeah... I have 3 kids) In the process, I also kept a box load of small parts because to be honest, I really had no idea what mine needed at the time. At the time, I had only seen it once and had never even driven it. haha!

SO... then we fast forward ahead again. I met up with Jerrett (bashed) again to give him a little more money so he didn't think I evaporated, but I NEEDED that tax money. After the first of the year, I started working on my taxes, and when I received the last of my documents at the end of January, I filed them as quickly as possible... HOWEVER, Uncle Sam wasn't in a hurry. My return was e-filed on 2/2/12 and my return was estimated to be in on 2/19 but at some point I guess I pulled the short straw and my return was picked for "review". I guess our investment to buy the Charlotte franchise division of our company threw up a red flag and that began a chain of tax events that had me pulling my hair out. 2/19 turned into 3/23, then for a few weeks we didn't even have an estimated date. And then finally we got a date in April. When it finally came, they didn't even direct deposit it They sent it via check,(which I think I paid for)

At this point, I should probably give a shout out to board member bashed. He was a real understanding super guy to work with, even when it came to dealing with a broke fool like myself.

So, FINALLY the ball started rolling again. (7 months after our first meeting-ha!) In fact, it moved pretty quickly. I set it up to have it shipped directly to my dads, since he is all pumped up about building Sam having a Blazer. Of course, the truck broke down so the shipping had it's own little issues.. I talked about it in another thread (if you're bored, feel free to indulge yourself) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=520173

So that's how my Blazer finally became mine.

[Old_Gold]

Finally finished reading this one, full of great stories! I thought I would add mine to the list, so here it goes...
About 6 years back I had a 70 C10 that needed a full restoration on almost every component, but it was a fun putting a barn find back on the road. During that time, a friend of mine told me that he has always liked those trucks, especially the GMC look. I was traveling to Rochester quite a bit,and kept passing one that I tried to talk him into buying. Timing was wrong for him, but i kept seeing that truck, until I just had to stop and check it out.
The project truck was sold, and this one came home with me!

[70cst]

This is a very interesting read...

[Knight72]

I had bought a 74 firebird to restore, but ended up being a lot more work than I could handle with my first kid on the way, sub frame was trashed, floor pans gone. My first vehicle was an 88 c1500 and I always had a soft spot for trucks so I started hunting for a old Chevy to drive and restore. I spent some time on Google checking out 50's thru 80's and fell in love with a Kelly Green 72 short stepper on the images column. I hunted Craigslist but couldn't find a decent one in my price range. So after a couple weeks I find a 72 c10 lwb that looked solid, an hour from my parents home. Chatted with the guy and ended up buying her for $1500 with plans to shorten the frame and add a step bed, but the more I have looked at her in the garage, she just seems right with the long bed and I'm loving it more and more. It helps that she still has the original paint. Needs some loving and there isn't anything special about her, but I want to save her from the scrap pile or part outs, and restore her to daily driving. Plans are to por15 the frame, change bushings, drop in the 350 on my stand and a 700r4, change brakes, rewire, and fix my rust issues. She's big and blue and reminds me of Fez's girlfriend from the early seasons of "That 70's show" so I've dubbed her Big Rhonda.

[NoStopN]

The next question is, what is the story with the other C/10 with the cab lights on it?

[Knight72]

Originally Posted by NoStopN

The next question is, what is the story with the other C/10 with the cab lights on it?

The pics are from the original CL ad. He picked Rhonda up on trade first, but found a guy needing cash that sold him the black one in the background. It was a one owner with pretty low miles he got for a deal, so he changed hoods as Rhondas was in better shape and sold her to me to make room for his restore on the black truck. It was a really clean truck, and more valuable than Rhonda. He also had a pretty sweet 50's Chevy Wagon.

[NoStopN]

Cool story.

[desert-rat]

My uncle bought this truck while working for the L.A.P.D. after he retired from the USMC while serving in Veitnam. My uncle told me 6 years ago "Mike, this truck is yours." So here is the truck as it sits today waiting for some more work. Love driving it.

[70cst]

Celina, Tn.
Truck Trader
Aug. 25, 2000

[Old_Gold]

Pretty cool that you still have the ad! several nice trucks to pick from back then, think they're still available? (Lol)

[woodsey]

My truck was given to me by my father when I turned 16 Now I am the second owner.

[Already Gone]

Time for a bump..