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1956cameo · 03-15-2009, 07:13 PM

John, I am assuming that the guy with the cameo is one of those people that really really really enjoys owning something that someone else wants and the more interest you express the more he wants to keep it. Just a theory, and hey don't we all fix up these old trucks because we have a little of that in us as well.

Looking at those pics of your burb makes me do a double take everytime. It is like we own the exact same suburban. Thinking about it and you propably should have said you wanted to get back all of the original parts from the burb that they weren't going to put back on. I thought of that when I saw a pic of your seats. You have the original seats (in the deluxe cloth no less) which are hard to come by, and I almost bet they are going to toss them and put in modern seats. That will be a shame too because I know there are dozens of guys on this board that could have used them. Maybe you should see if it isn't too lake although I would assume that it is.

'72 Chevy Suburban · 03-15-2009, 07:19 PM

I hope that they are saving the parts for me, Harlan. I originally asked them to save any parts that they don't plan to use, and hopefully they will do that. One downside is that they have moved locations and you know that is when things get lost or pitched. Maybe I will try to contact them again in order to see if I can snag the seats. I also had a spare 2nd seat in excellent condition that I picked up at a salvage yard that was sitting in the back. Dumb me was thing that that might need any of the spare parts that I was collecting to fix the truck up and I piled everything in the back. Hmmm....

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Originally Posted by 1956cameo

John, I am assuming that the guy with the cameo is one of those people that really really really enjoys owning something that someone else wants and the more interest you express the more he wants to keep it. Just a theory, and hey don't we all fix up these old trucks because we have a little of that in us as well.

Looking at those pics of your burb makes me do a double take everytime. It is like we own the exact same suburban. Thinking about it and you propably should have said you wanted to get back all of the original parts from the burb that they weren't going to put back on. I thought of that when I saw a pic of your seats. You have the original seats (in the deluxe cloth no less) which are hard to come by, and I almost bet they are going to toss them and put in modern seats. That will be a shame too because I know there are dozens of guys on this board that could have used them. Maybe you should see if it isn't too lake although I would assume that it is.

1956cameo · 03-16-2009, 12:02 AM

Thats good that they are suppossed to be keeping the parts for you. Of course with moving and all, like you said things get lost. They also have a tendency when in other peoples posession to get "LOST" as well.

'72 Chevy Suburban · 03-16-2009, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by 1956cameo

Thats good that they are suppossed to be keeping the parts for you. Of course with moving and all, like you said things get lost. They also have a tendency when in other peoples posession to get "LOST" as well.

Exactly... They are a custom shop and most likely look at old stock parts as junk anyway. I figured that they were probably not going to keep the stock interior, so I let them know that late model Suburban Interiors (especially leather!) fit these truck pretty well! I was thinking of the lesser evil of that vs. having something velour stitched up!

72BlckButy · 03-15-2009, 07:13 PM

Next time I'm in OH, I'll go!

'72 Chevy Suburban · 03-15-2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by 72BlckButy

Next time I'm in OH, I'll go!

Sounds good! Look me up...

*Dylan · 04-01-2009, 09:53 PM

That's great! Once you get it back you can do a frame off and redo all the suspension if they don't get to that.

71swb4x4 · 04-01-2009, 09:56 PM

That sounds great. I am sure you are thrilled with the update. It at least shows that your Burb is still on their mind.

OARNGESI · 04-01-2009, 09:58 PM

Hope you get it soon

VA72C10 · 04-01-2009, 10:21 PM

What they said in that link was very promising...sounds like you or the radio station put a bug in their ear and they want a satisfied customer. (Or they read this thread and thought better of their plans....or that's an april fool's joke and it's still being pimped

)

It makes sense to me for them to do a nice restoration on yours with a few subtle mods...you will be happy...they will show the quality of their work, and when you're out there at the shows you're required to attend, you will be sounding their praises, not saying how "clownish" they made your car look

67ChevyRedneck · 04-01-2009, 10:29 PM

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WE HAVE DECIDED TO FORGO A LOT OF THE HARDCORE CUSTOM WORK THAT WE INITIALLY PLANNED FOR THIS BUILD OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE WINNER, WHO REALLY ISNT INTO THE SUPER HARDCORE CUSTOM END OF THINGS

Super Hard Core Custom?

You mean like a DONK?

jayharrell · 04-02-2009, 08:01 AM

Very cool. Glad things are coming together, or apart... well things are getting done.

big_al_71 · 04-02-2009, 08:31 AM

john you are a patient man, better you than me because I would had already had a stroke for sure...

'72 Chevy Suburban · 04-02-2009, 09:32 AM

Thanks guys...

I see the update as a promising tidbit of info to make me believe that they are working on it. Hopefully I will get a higher quality update soon.

John

rambler · 04-02-2009, 09:55 AM

you are being very patient...

hopefully it will be worth the wait

LOW DOUGH · 04-02-2009, 10:05 AM

we will see

laplander · 06-06-2009, 09:16 PM

Any updates on your "Rocked" 'Burb?

exmonkeypunk · 06-06-2009, 10:30 PM

I have at least a dozen different pictures in my head of what your burb' is gonna end up looking like. After reading that there's a tv and a bar in the back, i'm kinda struck. You know the back windows will be limo tinted with the bar being in it. So, probably some funky lighting for the bar. I'm picturing some kind of weird 2 or 3 toned color design for the interior. I'm praying they fight the urge to put any sort of tribal or weird kustom paint sceme on it, but i don't know. I find myself at work thinking about your ride alot man. We're all anxious with you man.
When it's done and you go to pick it up. Take a dozen cans of flat black with you in case the paint is really lame. That'd tick some people off. Imagine rattle canning their freshly "pimped" burban. haha.

'72 Chevy Suburban · 06-07-2009, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by laplander

Any updates on your "Rocked" 'Burb?

Just a quick blurb from the radio station saying that they are making progress. I was nervous that the shop's website was down for a little while, but I called there and they are open for business...

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Originally Posted by exmonkeypunk

I have at least a dozen different pictures in my head of what your burb' is gonna end up looking like. After reading that there's a tv and a bar in the back, i'm kinda struck. You know the back windows will be limo tinted with the bar being in it. So, probably some funky lighting for the bar. I'm picturing some kind of weird 2 or 3 toned color design for the interior. I'm praying they fight the urge to put any sort of tribal or weird kustom paint sceme on it, but i don't know. I find myself at work thinking about your ride alot man. We're all anxious with you man.
When it's done and you go to pick it up. Take a dozen cans of flat black with you in case the paint is really lame. That'd tick some people off. Imagine rattle canning their freshly "pimped" burban. haha.

LOL! That would be a hoot... It would be flat black before even leaving the premises... After reading the update on their website, I almost wonder if they didn't change directions a bit on the custom stuff. I wonder if they went back and considered my input a little bit more seriously? Here is the link

http://www.streetlethalonline.com/project_72_suburban

You know, it was almost a year ago that we were voting on this thing...

***Liz*** · 06-07-2009, 12:47 PM

I think I would be more annoyed than nervous at this point. Unless they are doing a full concourse resto, Id think the truck should be done by now..

5150 · 06-07-2009, 01:00 PM

I mean nobody's expecting a week long "Overhaulin" but a year is a bit much.

big_al_71 · 06-07-2009, 01:12 PM

once is done I guess that it will have some great work done, but I would rather pay for it and enjoy my vehicle as I do not have the patience to wait and not know what is going on..

heidesign · 06-07-2009, 01:20 PM

I missed this one. What happened, and I assume you won?

I cant even see what the burb looked like to start with.

Bill

exmonkeypunk · 06-07-2009, 01:35 PM

i laughed when i saw their stage 3... that's my stage 1 lol.
But they are a professional shop, so i'm just being picky. I would still very much like to see at least an artists rendition of what they wanted to do to it and what they end up doing to it. I bet if they had their way, the burban would come with xzibit and mad mike in your glove box.
scary thoughts rollin' through my head right now. lol.
A year is quite a long time for a "real" shop to take, but, your patients will be rewarded so greatly in the end i'm sure. If it isn't, at least you know your body work will be all smooth for a respray. lol.

exmonkeypunk · 06-07-2009, 01:36 PM

Had to add this, is their state 1 standing back and looking at it for a year??? lol.

03-15-2009, 07:13 PM	#1
1956cameo Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Angleton, TX Posts: 2,219	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... John, I am assuming that the guy with the cameo is one of those people that really really really enjoys owning something that someone else wants and the more interest you express the more he wants to keep it. Just a theory, and hey don't we all fix up these old trucks because we have a little of that in us as well. Looking at those pics of your burb makes me do a double take everytime. It is like we own the exact same suburban. Thinking about it and you propably should have said you wanted to get back all of the original parts from the burb that they weren't going to put back on. I thought of that when I saw a pic of your seats. You have the original seats (in the deluxe cloth no less) which are hard to come by, and I almost bet they are going to toss them and put in modern seats. That will be a shame too because I know there are dozens of guys on this board that could have used them. Maybe you should see if it isn't too lake although I would assume that it is.

03-16-2009, 12:02 AM	#3
1956cameo Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Angleton, TX Posts: 2,219	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... Thats good that they are suppossed to be keeping the parts for you. Of course with moving and all, like you said things get lost. They also have a tendency when in other peoples posession to get "LOST" as well.

03-15-2009, 07:13 PM	#5
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04-01-2009, 09:56 PM	#8
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04-01-2009, 10:21 PM	#10
VA72C10 VA72C10 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Midlothian, VA Posts: 25,269	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... What they said in that link was very promising...sounds like you or the radio station put a bug in their ear and they want a satisfied customer. (Or they read this thread and thought better of their plans....or that's an april fool's joke and it's still being pimped ) It makes sense to me for them to do a nice restoration on yours with a few subtle mods...you will be happy...they will show the quality of their work, and when you're out there at the shows you're required to attend, you will be sounding their praises, not saying how "clownish" they made your car look __________________ Looking for a 67-72 swb or blazer project in or around VA.

04-02-2009, 08:01 AM	#12
jayharrell Gettin By on Gettin By Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cedar Creek, Tx Posts: 1,033	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... Very cool. Glad things are coming together, or apart... well things are getting done. __________________ 69 CST10 LWB 455 Buick 00 S10 2.2 Vin5 76 GL1000 Naked 1bl VW carb "Adios to all the concrete; Gonna get me some dirt road back streets"

04-02-2009, 08:31 AM	#13
big_al_71 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: South Florida Posts: 11,375	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... john you are a patient man, better you than me because I would had already had a stroke for sure... __________________ Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please!!!!!. Sylvester's build thread >>>http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ht=big+rebuild

04-02-2009, 09:32 AM	#14
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04-02-2009, 09:55 AM	#15
rambler MOVE OVER Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Warrensburg, MO Posts: 5,470	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... you are being very patient... hopefully it will be worth the wait __________________ No matter where you are..... There you are... Buckaroo Banzi

04-02-2009, 10:05 AM	#16
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06-06-2009, 09:16 PM	#17
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06-06-2009, 10:30 PM	#18
exmonkeypunk Barrito Loco Diablo Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cherry Valley, Illinois Posts: 636	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... I have at least a dozen different pictures in my head of what your burb' is gonna end up looking like. After reading that there's a tv and a bar in the back, i'm kinda struck. You know the back windows will be limo tinted with the bar being in it. So, probably some funky lighting for the bar. I'm picturing some kind of weird 2 or 3 toned color design for the interior. I'm praying they fight the urge to put any sort of tribal or weird kustom paint sceme on it, but i don't know. I find myself at work thinking about your ride alot man. We're all anxious with you man. When it's done and you go to pick it up. Take a dozen cans of flat black with you in case the paint is really lame. That'd tick some people off. Imagine rattle canning their freshly "pimped" burban. haha. Last edited by exmonkeypunk; 06-06-2009 at 10:31 PM.

06-07-2009, 12:47 PM	#20
*Liz* Catchy title goes here.. Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Rockwell, NC Posts: 39,745	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... I think I would be more annoyed than nervous at this point. Unless they are doing a full concourse resto, Id think the truck should be done by now..



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06-07-2009, 01:00 PM	#21
5150 C10 Club Tennessee Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: White House, TN 37188 Posts: 8,281	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... I mean nobody's expecting a week long "Overhaulin" but a year is a bit much. __________________ Bryan www.gmtruckshow.com Project "Andes"-Halen's First Truck Project: Patina Burb for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Romans 13:4

06-07-2009, 01:12 PM	#22
big_al_71 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: South Florida Posts: 11,375	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... once is done I guess that it will have some great work done, but I would rather pay for it and enjoy my vehicle as I do not have the patience to wait and not know what is going on.. __________________ Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please!!!!!. Sylvester's build thread >>>http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ht=big+rebuild

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heidesign Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Kansas city, mo Posts: 134	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... I missed this one. What happened, and I assume you won? I cant even see what the burb looked like to start with. Bill

06-07-2009, 01:35 PM	#24
exmonkeypunk Barrito Loco Diablo Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cherry Valley, Illinois Posts: 636	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... i laughed when i saw their stage 3... that's my stage 1 lol. But they are a professional shop, so i'm just being picky. I would still very much like to see at least an artists rendition of what they wanted to do to it and what they end up doing to it. I bet if they had their way, the burban would come with xzibit and mad mike in your glove box. scary thoughts rollin' through my head right now. lol. A year is quite a long time for a "real" shop to take, but, your patients will be rewarded so greatly in the end i'm sure. If it isn't, at least you know your body work will be all smooth for a respray. lol.

06-07-2009, 01:36 PM	#25
exmonkeypunk Barrito Loco Diablo Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cherry Valley, Illinois Posts: 636	Re: Help me Rock My Ride and possibly win $500 for your truck... Had to add this, is their state 1 standing back and looking at it for a year??? lol.

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