What were you doing the year your truck was built?

[jlive68]

Wasn't around in 68 came along befor the body stile was discontinued though. Was born in 70.

James

[OldSkool71]

My 71 and I celebrate our birthdays at the same time....

[Lippyp]

I was heading up fior my first birthday, so still wailing and crapping in my pants!

[Tim Christian]

I was two years old but have owned my 67 since I was 14

[RON WOODGEARD]

I was in Vietnam, Shooting Gooks from a Helicopter Door....

[Huck]

I was 27 and trying to figure out why I traded in my 56 T-Bird for a 72 Mustang Mach1. What a piece of %^&. It couldn't get out of it's own way. I had already spent my 11 months, 21 days, 16 hours in a Viet Nam(Jan67-Dec67). No hero here---just worked real hard at not working real hard. Smoked a bit and drank a bit----still do on occasion!(:>)

[Mudder]

You Vietnam guys are my Heros..................I was in Jr High in 67. And to think I am still a Vietnam "era" vet. 72-74.

[WRMZ71]

I have a 72... I wasnt born for another 26 years =P..... Am I missing something here or is he saying he's 6 yrs old?

[Palf70Step]

1970....I was a freshman in high school. My friends dad had a truck almost identical to my 70 and I could care less. I was building a hopped up Rambler American and Corvair Monza Spyder.

Who needs a truck .

I was a bit misguided I guess.

[Bobalouie]

I was the 24th egg in line waiting for the chance to be to be fertilzed.

[JIMs70GMC]

I was the big 1!

[Zumo]

I was a pimple on my Dads a$$ in 68. He was in Vietnam on a boat wrenching Detroits and loading up bodies. But my Grandad had just bought a brand new red 69 Cheyenne LWB.

[TEXAS 68]

68 I was 2 and I don't remember but probally $$hiting myself

[stickshift_or_walk]

I would have been 9-10. That put me doing major wrenching on my banana bike (ever change rims to get the right gear ratio by undoing and re-installing all the spokes)? Traded something, maybe a slot car for the Tyco raceway, for a set of those handlebars with the big loops on the top before they headed back to the rider. Hard to describe, but really set my bike apart.

I had probably learned that waxing my Dad's '68 C10 really made it look better, and might have been changing oil around then, too. Kept getting in big trouble for raiding Dad's tool box. He took care of that one Christmas.

SSOW

[cdowns]

1971??? i was still tryin to make my way home from woodstock!!!

[pickup nut]

In '68 I was heading to Ft. Benning Georgia . Getting ready for an even longer trip ( 173rd Airborne brigade, border ranger,RVN '69-'70) Ended up staying in for 6 years.My old man bought a '68 swb step side in '69 with about 600 miles on it from a bud of his. Then pop bought another car and decided he didn't need a truck.He sold it to a guy he worked with in early '70.This guy has had the truck every since.He always said if he ever got rid of the truck he would let us get it back.I called him about every 5 years asking if he wanted to sell the truck ,But the answer was always no.About 6 months ago I called this time he said " well I guess I will go ahead and give ya'll the truck back" I said "cool man I 'll come on up and we will get together on a price" He replied" No ,I said I was going to give you the truck back come on and get it".Ya'll might remember the post with the black '68 that everybody said it was the only one they had ever seen with factory trim on the cab of a step side.Took me over 30 years but I got this one back.

[Joe67]

I was barely walking yet

[fatfords]

In 72 I was 10, and since it's almost fall, I was getting ready for my first hunting season. Poked lots of holes in the sky with my single shot .410, but the dove, pheasant and quail were very safe!
Dad had his 69 or 70 C10-and I drove on the highway for the first time that year! Gotta love rural Kansas and moving farm equipment from field to field with whatever child was avaialble to drive!

[Canadian694x4]

In Nov. of 1968 my Father was 18 and my Mother was just turning all of 11 and they hadn't even met yet...needless to say I wasn't even a thought yet!

[ryanroo]

my dad had just turned 16 so i was a ways off but my truck was purchased new by my grandfather in late summer of 72 and i am the second owner. i remember my dad saying he was afraid of the newfangled 4x4 and thought he was going to bust the frontend off of it so he wouldn't drive it much at first then a few months later he bought a 67 4x4 k20 that he painted fire engine red.... i really wish he'd have kept it
Ryan

[GMan69]

In '69 I was a sophomore in h.s. Still had my paper route and worked after school at a local grocery. My father retired in December of that year and bought a new VW bug for $1838.00 cash. I learned to drive a 4- speed in that car under his watchful eye. Actually it really would chirp the tires going into 2nd pretty easily. One of my teachers had a '67 CST long bed fleetside and from right then, I knew I had to own one eventually. Best lookin' trucks on the planet.

[69sixpackbee]

freshman in HS

[CPNE]

Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.

- CSNY

I shouted out,
Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me

- Rolling Stones

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;

- Country Joe and the Fish

Great vehicles, horrible period in US History. Was in grade school/ Jr High and watched a lot of nightly news.

[biglou55]

I was 21(truck 71) working as a mechanic for the town i grew up in counting the years until retirement. (eleven years left) I now work for the state as a carpenter

[Yukon Jack]

I was 2 in 1969 so wasn't doing much and as for my 70 K5, I was 3, still not doing much at least that I can remember.