High School Trucks!

[Palf70Step]

Originally Posted by 2bits

This was the cleanest truck I ever owned, too bad it was Chevy orange. I couldn't bring myself to touch it, it was so factory.
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I had one of those orange stepsides (454) shortly after getting to my first base in 75. Got it from someone on base when it was 6 months old. I wish I owned a camera back then, but all my money went into gas, beer, and smokes .

[cadillacart]

Same truck, but this is how it looked in Highschool

[Bert W]

This is a great post. I have to find pics of my old 64 Chevy and scan them in. AHH!! truck memories. There was this red head one time...well that's probably for another kind of board. If that truck could talk. Now I really have to find the pics.

[relaxedsierra]

First new truck right out of high school, will never get rid of it. My first ride was a 88 Nissan hardbody

[frontline72]

I got this '72 shortbed in 1984, I graduated in 1985. This pic was taken at school in the parking lot. I have not been without a '71 or a '72 since. Now my boys are drving 67-72 chevy trucks.

[77shortstep]

My first truck in hs 2001-03, 77 step side 350/350. Still have the truck and will never sell it. This pic was from the last day of my senior year. The Monte Carlo is my brothers, my trucks behind it somewhere lol.


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[jocko]

my H.S. sweethearts (or, should I say "headaches" ):

[1quik70]

My high school ride


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[PAWS 72]

Show off. nice truck kelsfine 69

[special-K]

These trucks were new when I was in High School. We didn't have rich kids who's mommy and daddy bought new cars for back then. My girlfriend's dad was a the head brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins and a retired high ranked Naval surgeon. The man was rich,had a huge cabin yacht,home on the water,and vacation home in Martha's Vineyard. He got Nancy an old '62 Volvo,which really suited her. I got myself a '56 VW and hopped it up. Within a year after graduating (73) I bought a '72 short bed off the OK Used Car lot...no pictures.

[bigdog57]

I drove cars in high school. I got my first truck in 1979 (new). Been driving them since. I always wanted to restore a vehicle but thought it would be a car. Turns out that it will be my 70 gmc.

[Red68]

Here is a picture of my truck in highschool (late 80s). Parked it for 10 years then worked it over to the 2nd pic. Will never sell it, too many memories, blood, sweat & tears.

[ryanroo]

the two in the mud are from the fall of 2000 i had just turned 16 and finished the powr-loc install in the front 60. as it turns out i was still self educating and had incorrectly installed the right lockout internals and rendered my now "posi" front useless. it was only a short walk back to the farmstead for a tractor. haha. the truck was like this for maybe a year after the pics then i might have ran twice more in the following 11 years. that little guy next to the back bumper is me in '88. judging from the stalks on the ground it was harvest so i would have been 4. the truck was already 16

sorry about the dopey picture of a picture. my sisters made the collage for my HS graduation and i decided to keep it.



in its current state.



the truck was purchased new by my grandpa and i am the second owner. when he died in 96 my grandma knew i wanted it and gave the truck to me.

i also had an 88 k2500 that i drove most of the time in HS. i dont think i have any pics but it was just a shiny black farm truck that i beat the snot out of

these were my college trucks. i sure wish i had kept them.

this was a 72 k2500 with a 70 body. swapped a nv4500 into it and it was a decent cruiser. i traded it for a 67 camaro... dont have that anymore either



this was a 72 SWB k10. drove it for a couple years in college. sold it when i moved to wyoming. my wife wished we had this one more than i do. this was my DD when we started dating and it did a lot of dougnuts and burnouts that she remembers fondly.

[Mayo]

Here is my high school truck and its still my daily driver. I got it on February of 07, my junior year.



I have done a few things to it over the years and this is pretty much its current state, but I have chrome door handles now

[71blksuper4x4]

My high school truck:

[montefreak]

My name is Kaleb....this is my 67 that my dad and i built...i am a senior in high school now....

[rpatowers]

I purchased my 72 4 x 4 new the summer before my senior year in high school. I still have it and will never sell it. This June will be my 40th anniversery with my truck.

Here's how it looks today:

[cam.man67]

Originally Posted by rpatowers

I purchased my 72 4 x 4 new the summer before my senior year in high school. I still have it and will never sell it. This June will be my 40th anniversery with my truck.

Here's how it looks today:

That, I Love! Awesome that it's been yours the whole time, plus it's a great lookin' truck!

[webfoot]

I don't have any pics but I drove my dad's '73 k20 in HS. He bought it brand new and had it up until 1998 when he got a 1999 silverado which he'll probably drive till he croaks.

I wish I had pics of the one he had before, it was a red and white 71 c20 but it had problems from the get go (dont remember what) and traded it off for the 73.

[71veronica]

this is my hs truck drove it from 2005 to 2008 and until 2010 now it is getting restore and the last pic is the truck i drove to college til i sold it late 2009

[MattPSU]

When I was 17 and in high school, I saved some money from my part time job to buy a truck. I looked at three trucks...a ranger (hated it), a 72 K10 and an 89 S-10. I narrowed it to the K10 and the S10 and my dad approved the S-10 (V8 vs. 4 banger) so that's what I got. Ever since then, however, I knew I'd get a 67-72 someday.

Below are the before, after, and after I sold "Purple 1" pictures. When I sold it in 2002 my wife agreed that someday I could replace it which finally happened last December when I got my 72 SWB C10.

[aggieguy713]

I'll play. First picture was september 2008 i was a sophomore in highschool, The second picture was in late july 2011 after i graduated

[americanmusc1e]

I started working on my truck when I was 15.... drove it all the way through high school and $3.50 a gallon gas.... I'm 21 now and I still drive it on weekends but my little c1500 handles the $3.50 a gallon gas better because it gets 19-20mpg the best I ever got out of the 70 was 12.5mpg at 60mph with a tailwind

it has gone through...

3 motors.... about to change the current setup too

3 different kinds of transmissions... not counting all the broken 700r4s

3 rear-ends..... and actually I'm putting rear end #2 back in soon

it started out a 350/th350/3.08 and for now it's a 383/SM465/3.73


The truck when I was 16


17 year old me proud of my new motor...... a vortec 350 that lasted 6 months due me missing a couple of flat lobes on the cam..


I have soooo many pictures but I don't want to hog this thread