ChevyLand ‘The Truck Photo Tour’

[Chevyland]

https://youtu.be/iEEt-sPZQjo

[Ol Blue K20]

RIP Dale, thanks,for what you did to preserve history.

[Bones72Super]

Originally Posted by Chevyland

Now
This guy knows how to find trucks
Once our friendship started
My phone almost blew up
Seems like,Every day we were
Texting deals to each other across the country
Luckily, I live on the’left coast’
Where there are still a lot of survivors
When this one came across the line
He already had it bought
I said
That one has to stay out here
Ok, Eric
“ bring the the guy ‘this’ many c notes”
Go pick it up
Look it over
Keep it if you want
But
“You’ll need to send me ‘this’ many c notes
.
Ok
.
Done

I missed that truck by 25 minutes I had cash in hand and was ready to drive all the way out there to hand it to the guy. The seller had told me he had already made a deal with somebody but wasn't sure if they were going to show up so I asked him if he would tell me the guy's name he was talking to and when he said Ken I knew who it was so I bowed out. It was very tempting to offer more money but I didn't think that would right. That is definitely a killer truck and I wouldn't have loved to own it but after searching for months and months and then having that slip away it was the nail in the coffin for me trying to find a real one(72K20 Cheyenne Super)so now I'm just building my own. I am glad that you got that one Eric, what are your plans for it

[Chevyland]

You just can’t keep them all
So much of the fun is in the hunt
I just dig it
Walking up on a truck for the fist time
Popping the glove box to see the spid
Climbing up, under and around
Trying to find out the story...

I don’t have a lot of pictures of this one

[Chevyland]

I started sorting it out
Fixed the wrong paint scheme
Got rid of lower bed-liner spray
Gathered up original moldings
Never even got them put back on
Before I finished
Ken asked if he could buy it back
Guess, I had too many trucks at the time
Plus
He found it anyway
And it was the right thing to do

[CG]

Was that bed liner spray hard to get off? I heard its a major job if you want get it out of the bed.

[Chevyland]

Simple Man

https://youtu.be/7JQvGL40LCY

[Chevyland]

Not much action today
Just giving
‘StepChild’ some love

[Chevyland]

And listening to a lot of music

https://youtu.be/E5RDEXpc8OY

[Boog]

Well, it ain't!

[Chevyland]

For all the young bucks

https://youtu.be/x9uYu4R2nk8

[Boog]

I'm no young buck but I do like my Clapton. One of my all time favorites since the late 60's.

[Chevyland]

Somewhere along the line
I picked this one up
I’m not sure if I even knew
It wasn’t a stock color combo
Strange to me,
That Chevrolet never did a deluxe two-tone
In medium olive - dark olive
Or
In medium blue - dark blue

[Ptjsk]

Originally Posted by Chevyland

I wish I had pictures of the guy I sold it to
We made a deal..
He was to fly into Oakland from LA
I loaded the truck on my trailer to meet him in the parking lot at the airport
The dude walked up
In a nice slacks, shirt, dress shoes
And
A man purse
He was nervous I was going to screw him
So he wanted to go to DMV to do the transaction
He jumped in and I drove him to Oakland DMV
By the time we got there he was starting to change his mind
And wanted it for less money
Nope
So I said, see you later
I think I drove him to a mall or something
Then he rechanged his mind
I was getting tired of It so I said
Show me the money
Most of it came out of the man purse
Then he started digging into his socks
And some holster thing he Had under his shirt.
All green
We drove back to DMV
Learned about his family
And he was going to frame off the truck
This was before COVID
I’ll never forget it, we waited in line for a while
Got to the counter and were helped by most beautiful black woman
I have ever seen in my life
But she was wearing surgical gloves.
Asked her why, but she wasn’t very nice
And just collected his money
By the time we were done
There was a tow truck outside
I rolled the truck off the trailer
Told man purse man to drive it over to the tow truck
Said he couldn’t
Because he didn’t know how to drive a stick shift
So I did

Never heard from him again

Man purse......and couldn't drive a stick shift.....Holy crap....What's happening to the male species? LOL!

Pat

[jocko]

Originally Posted by Chevyland

Somewhere along the line
I picked this one up
I’m not sure if I even knew
It wasn’t a stock color combo
Strange to me,
That Chevrolet never did a deluxe two-tone
In medium olive - dark olive
Or
In medium blue - dark blue

That looks like one of Pete's old trucks!

[Chevyland]

Funnier story

At some point in my life I had a significant other
That was of German heritage
All her family was over there
We used to visit often
And whenever the cousins would come to America
They would stay with us
One year
It was time for one Of the teenage girls to
‘Come to America’ with her teenage friend
We told them to fly into SFO and rent a car

When they got to the airport, they freaked out
And called us
In broken germinglish
Eric ‘ the only cars they have are automatic’
We only know how to drive standard

To this day I laugh about that conversation

[3757chevy]

When I met my wife she had only driven stick. She grew up with her mother driving VW Bugs and everything at her Family Orchard was stick as well.

[Chevyland]

Originally Posted by jocko

That looks like one of Pete's old trucks!

Wasn’t old when I got done throwing money at it
.
.

[Chevyland]

Not sure I how I found out
Deadheadnm (Pete) owned this truck
But it probably was how we first met
Mechanically it was on the money
I just painted the model

Ended up in Australia

The internet has done that
Many vehicles are no longer here
I guess these trucks have gone

https://youtu.be/sSyYqD9v_wo

Global

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by Chevyland

Somewhere along the line
I picked this one up
I’m not sure if I even knew
It wasn’t a stock color combo
Strange to me,
That Chevrolet never did a deluxe two-tone
In medium olive - dark olive
Or
In medium blue - dark blue

I don't know why they didn't do it . But they should have it looks nice!

[DeadheadNM]

Eric did a great job with that one.

[Chevyland]

Another one that’s long gone

Came from a flipper (which is where a lot of the good ones come from)
They are always looking
So often times they find them before you do

I made a deal over the phone
He even delivered it to me

I’ve had Supers twice in this color combo

In my opinion the ‘patina’
Or
‘Rusty paint’
Depending who you are talking too

Was very nice on this truck

[Chevyland]

[DeadheadNM]

The Seeker by The Who - YouTube

[57taskforce]

Originally Posted by DeadheadNM

Eric did a great job with that one.

I have a sneaky suspicion the door panels from that truck might be living on in my truck... any confirmation there Pete?