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Re: Lost My 65
After I wrecked it, I bought a gmc with trailing arms for a donor. I put my beautiful cab on the 62 frame. The bumpers hang low now, because some previous owner mounted them upside down. I will be flipping them back to right side up.
Here is the gmc donor: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...78#post4504278 Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: Lost My 65
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The frames are very different. That explains a lot.... She is a cool ride. I found that paint color,(something really close) at the local auto paint store. They call it robin egg blue. I got gun metal grey for my 63 pro-street Your service truck it pretty unique and different... Nice ![]()
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![]() http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=439804 Truth be told, I miss the hell out of that truck. I'm gonna buy my fiance's dad's '65 Chevy from him eventually, so that I can rebuild my childhood, so-to-speak.
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Re: Lost My 65
Just saw this thread for the first time. Awesome story. I wish I could find my brother's old 69 stepside!
-Richard
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Re: Lost My 65
I just noticed, you have a fleet bumper on that dude... I knew something looked different.
What are you going to do with that service truck when it is done? Use it for a parts getter when you build this one? LOL
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Re: Lost My 65
I do believe it's a stepside bumper on the rear - it's just upside down. I think the fleetside bumper is straight side to side. This one has quite a bow to it. I'll get some better pics of it.
The Service Truck will be used for atleast as long as it takes to get this 65 restored. I just don't see the point in selling it when I most likely won't get for it anywhere near what I have into it. I would have to get atleast $2500, and I personally don't think it's worth that. Although, it would be the perfect work truck for someone, in that the whole mechanical portion is a 79 1-ton. Parts for it will be plentiful. Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: Lost My 65
Robert,
I've been out of the loop fer awhile.... I just stumbled across this thread. I spent the last hr reading up on the "recovery saga'.... Well, Mister, ..I can't tell you how happy I am. That's the best story I've heard in a long, long time. The whole dang thing's just wonderful. I'll be in touch with ya. Maybe all us locals need to get together when the weather breaks and toast the return of yer '65 with a couple barley pops. Happy days, Buddy,........... Happy Days......
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Re: Lost My 65
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We surely will all need to get together. Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: Lost My 65
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Probably just the photo. If you have the 60-62 frame, they take a different bumper. Maybe thats it. Who knows? My eyes are over a half century old so it's more than likely me..... ![]() The bumper in the photo just looks long to me.
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Re: Lost My 65
I prefer seeing more fender on stepsides, so eitherway this bumper will not be part of my final project.
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Re: Lost My 65
Yea, you're right.
My bumper is way too long. Here's one I found in the forums. It's a lot shorter. ![]() Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: Lost My 65
Hey! That looks like mine...
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Re: Lost My 65
I found in the Market:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=507755 I agree, mine is way too long. I may try and cut mine down. I just think you need to see a whole lot more rear fender.
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Re: Lost My 65
I keep looking at that photo of yours and it has me leaning toward blue.....
Dang it! That truck just has so much character! If I had any idea how to use photo shop I would change that photo to gun metal gray to see what it would look like. My truck should have that same stance or close to it. Of course my tires are 20+ inches wide out back.
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Re: Lost My 65
I have actually grown fond of the current color.
I was told by member 66-PMD-GMC that it is Robin's Egg Blue. Doing some Googling, I find that many are a blue green, and others are a blue violate/periwinkle. ![]() ![]()
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While I'm trying to get my 66 together so I can get started on my 65, I figured I'd post how I originally acquired this truck.
I think my story may be interesting to some. More and more memories are now coming back to me since I got my 65 back. I'm going to go back a ways in time because I think it has a huge bearing on how I appreciate getting my 65 back all the more. I was born in 1965. I was raised in a little farming town - Woodland, Ca. Back in the early 70's the town had a population of around 40,000. If you want to get a feel of what my town, and countryside of Yolo county was like, watch the movie American Graffiti - which was filmed in Modesto - not too far from Woodland. We lived out in the country on 5 acres with 2-3 out buildings. We had Chickens, Pigs, Horses, geese, ducks, dogs, cats, and a Milk Cow. My responsibilities were outside, my sister's were in. In the spring I had to plow and disc the field so to plant oat hay. I had to feed all the animals, and milk the cow, and clean the pens. All of this and I'm only around 11 or 12. I'm sure I was like any other kid and put off my chores and probably had to be gotten after to do them right. Anyway... all this does have a lot to do with my getting my 65 later. One day, riding the bus home from school, around 5th or 6th grade, a friend was telling me he couldn't wait until the weekend when he got his allowance and planned on buying something that coming Saturday with it. I asked him what was an allowance. He said his parents gave him $5 dollars a week for his allowance. I still didn't quite understand what an 'allowance' was, so I asked him what he did to earn the $5. He said nothing, it was his allowance. ![]() I never got paid for doing my chores, but if I wanted a little money for the fair or some other event, my parents would usually give me a few bucks. And if I wanted to buy something like a model airplane or model truck, my dad would give me an extra job; like stacking fence posts, or some other job outside of my regular chores. Funny, I never felt lacking that I wasn't getting an 'allowance' like my friend. This all leads up to my dad buying me this 65 truck. Early in eighth grade, my parents got a divorce. My parents never fought around others. My sister and I never saw them fight, and our whole family said the divorce came as a shock. I went with my mom. My sister with dad. I would spend summers with dad. Eventually, my dad moved to Oregon. I think early 80's. The summer after 11th grade, I went again to stay with my dad. He had a landscape businesses and every morning I was expected to get up and go to work with him. I didn't even think I was supposed to get paid. I just figured that was one's share of being part of the household. My not getting an allowance when I was younger is why I didn't expect to get paid later when I went to work with dad doing landscaping. I just saw it as what was expected of me for having a roof over my head. So I worked all summer with my dad. As it was getting closer to school starting, my dad asked me if I was going to go back down to California, or stay with him for my senior year. I told him I wanted to go back to Calif. He then asked me to sit down. He had a folder that he opened and said he had been figuring some numbers. He said he took the hours I worked times what he figured I was worth, and then subtracted 'Room & Board' and said he figured I had $1200 coming. I was thinking; Wow! But he said he wasn't going to give me the money, but rather, we would go look for a truck for me. ![]() For some reason, I wanted a 67-72 chevy, and he wanted me to get a f*rd somewhere between 54 –1960. I wanted a chevy. After looking at many, many pickups 67-72 chevys, I was starting to wonder if we'd find something before I had to go back to Ca. Then one evening dad saw something in the 'Nickle-Ads' We called the guy and went to see it that same eve. I loved it at first sight. He wanted $1100, and we didn't offer him less. I feel really privileged that my parents didn't give me anything for nothing. I know in generations past, children were expected to share the household load. But I think most parents from the 60's on wanted their children to have the 'good things' that they, when they were kids, didn't have. Today, we have friends that can't even get their kids to mow the lawn unless they pay them. They aren't doing their kids any good.
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Re: Lost My 65
Wow, what great story. A little more background adds even more significance to the decision to buy your truck back. I think growing up learning responsibility instead of a free ride certainly results in a more productive and appreciative adult.
Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Lost My 65
Yep great story.
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Re: Lost My 65
im so happy you shared your story. im sure that truck will be yours till you die.
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Thanks for the sharing that Robert
![]() I was raised the same way......but I had to work for 3 years to get my '63. My Dad paid $275.00 for it in 1975 ![]()
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Re: Lost My 65
I'm glad to see you finally found it. You should become a detective for finding people's old vehicles.
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I search a lot for my answers. It seems many just start a thread asking the same question over and over and over. And now my rant is over. ![]()
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IMO, all a person needs to do is pay attention to back-set on their wheel purchase and clearance won't be an issue. My 66 has a 79 3.42:1 rear diff and stock wheels and no problems at all. And it bolted directly in. BTW- putting the 73 and up front suspension makes the front width wider too. ![]()
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Re: Lost My 65
When I actually get started on my 65, I'll start a thread in the 'projects and builds' forum.
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