Apparently I left the old duffer outta gear last night.

[K5 Addiction]

Woke up to find it in my hedgerow looking sad. The hood & valence are fixable but I'd say the bumpers done. Anyone have an original bumper they'd like to part with or know who sells the highest quality re-pops?

[lolife99]

Man,... that sucks.

[K5 Addiction]

Yep. Knuckle headed thing to do now I'm paying stupid tax.

[T Smith]

Man damn!

[K5 Addiction]

Originally Posted by T Smith

Man damn!

That was my thought too..... Might have cussed out loud..... Honestly I can't recall. I hung my head in shame for sure.

[K5 Addiction]

I figured out how it happened. I shot a video of the truck running (It's up under "The Old Duffer" in the build threads) yesterday as I had just gotten the new motor in & working & the truck was obviously outta gear then but I had the line Lock on, guess the line lock bled off overnight. sigh

[chevy_mike]

Man that totally sucks!!!! I was just showing my wife your engine as it is the best looking 6 I have seen. I wish the 6 in my Chevy II wagon was that nice.

BTW, this is why e-brakes are mechanical. They don't bleed down. Definitely would look into getting the factory e-brakes working. You definitely would not want this hitting a person or worse.

Hope you can get it fixed up quickly.

[TJ's Chevy]

DARN! DARN! AND DARN AGAIN! LMC sell those bumpers and grills. I have the bumper on my truck, but it cost ya more to chrome it than to buy a new one. Sure am sorry about what happened! Good luck.

[K5 Addiction]

Originally Posted by chevy_mike

Man that totally sucks!!!! I was just showing my wife your engine as it is the best looking 6 I have seen. I wish the 6 in my Chevy II wagon was that nice.

BTW, this is why e-brakes are mechanical. They don't bleed down. Definitely would look into getting the factory e-brakes working. You definitely would not want this hitting a person or worse.

Hope you can get it fixed up quickly.

Thanks man, Yeah The emergency break was great until I switched to four wheel disc, now I need to figure out how to make it work with that set up. Always something.

[K5 Addiction]

Originally Posted by T.J. MCCAULEY

DARN! DARN! AND DARN AGAIN! LMC sell those bumpers and grills. I have the bumper on my truck, but it cost ya more to chrome it than to buy a new one. Sure am sorry about what happened! Good luck.

Yeah I'm looking at the LMC triple chrome ones. Supposedly higher quality. my front was original, woulda liked to just re-chrome it. Don't think it's gonna happen now.

[DPowers]

Where 'bouts in TN are you?

[markeb01]

I can imagine how you felt when you first saw it. I'm so sorry to see it crunched. That bumper could definitely be saved and replated, but not for anywhere near the cost of a new repop. My wife got clobbered in our truck which pulled the passenger end of the front bumper forward over a foot. Back in 1998 it was $50 to straighten it back to its original profile (no plating), and the repair is undetectable.

While I was there I asked about the 1937 DeSoto original bumper they had in about the same condition as yours. They were going to restore it to show quality. Best I remember the cost was going to be about $800 because the repairs were so labor intensive.

[RANDY COX]

Ouch,Ouch,Ouch,I remember my brother was playing in our dads 65 c-10,Listening to the radio,playing with the gears,He came inside afterwards and I'll never forget it,Looked down the field,Yes I did say DOWN the field the truck went with no driver there was a sinkhole at the bottom filled up with junk and dirt,well the truck went around that as is someone was diving it,well it took out 5 fence posts before it came to rest,I thought to myself Daddy is gonna kill you.Well my dad came home from work and you know he was wondering where in the world was my truck,needless to say he wasn't happy about it,so he went to retrieve it but for some reason there was lot's of barbed wire all wrapped up around the axle,can't remember how much damage on front end,but needless to say he wound up getting a new to him 1971 GMC 4x4,well later in our yrs,when my brother got his license he used to drive the ole 71 to school,one morning he was letting the ole truck warm up and guess what happened,the truck started rolling off by it self,this time i was close enough to go after it,so I was running along side the truck,this is dangerous mind you,anywho I got the door opened and just as I jumped in slammed on the brakes it smacked a 68 Impala in the rear quarter my dad had sitting down in the field,Didn't do any damage to the front of truck other than a busted brake line on front where I slammed on the brakes.....I you ever start a truck on a hill and the E-brake is not that great then never leave the truck unattended,or use a SCOTCH,I don't mean drink either....This just brings back memories that I'll never forget...Did I mention that I did the same thing to my 41-1&1/2 ton a few yrs back,anywho that's another story...wasn't trying to take over this posting but it just brung back some old memories..

[K5 Addiction]

Originally Posted by DPowers

Where 'bouts in TN are you?

Nashville. I'll have to check out the truck club site.

[K5 Addiction]

Originally Posted by markeb01

I can imagine how you felt when you first saw it. I'm so sorry to see it crunched. That bumper could definitely be saved and replated, but not for anywhere near the cost of a new repop. My wife got clobbered in our truck which pulled the passenger end of the front bumper forward over a foot. Back in 1998 it was $50 to straighten it back to its original profile (no plating), and the repair is undetectable.

While I was there I asked about the 1937 DeSoto original bumper they had in about the same condition as yours. They were going to restore it to show quality. Best I remember the cost was going to be about $800 because the repairs were so labor intensive.

Yeah I was a bit broken hearted when I saw it. Just glad no one got hurt.

[K5 Addiction]

Originally Posted by RANDY COX

Ouch,Ouch,Ouch,I remember my brother was playing in our dads 65 c-10,Listening to the radio,playing with the gears,He came inside afterwards and I'll never forget it,Looked down the field,Yes I did say DOWN the field the truck went with no driver there was a sinkhole at the bottom filled up with junk and dirt,well the truck went around that as is someone was diving it,well it took out 5 fence posts before it came to rest,I thought to myself Daddy is gonna kill you.Well my dad came home from work and you know he was wondering where in the world was my truck,needless to say he wasn't happy about it,so he went to retrieve it but for some reason there was lot's of barbed wire all wrapped up around the axle,can't remember how much damage on front end,but needless to say he wound up getting a new to him 1971 GMC 4x4,well later in our yrs,when my brother got his license he used to drive the ole 71 to school,one morning he was letting the ole truck warm up and guess what happened,the truck started rolling off by it self,this time i was close enough to go after it,so I was running along side the truck,this is dangerous mind you,anywho I got the door opened and just as I jumped in slammed on the brakes it smacked a 68 Impala in the rear quarter my dad had sitting down in the field,Didn't do any damage to the front of truck other than a busted brake line on front where I slammed on the brakes.....I you ever start a truck on a hill and the E-brake is not that great then never leave the truck unattended,or use a SCOTCH,I don't mean drink either....This just brings back memories that I'll never forget...Did I mention that I did the same thing to my 41-1&1/2 ton a few yrs back,anywho that's another story...wasn't trying to take over this posting but it just brung back some old memories..

Love this story. Makes me feel a little better.

[Bomp]

Glad no one got hurt but dang I sure am sorry about the bent bumper.
I can't feel but partly responsible cause I was asking about a video of the truck and your music in the background.

Before the wifey and I got our house we rented several places with sloped driveways.
When it came time to buy a place I would only look at places with flat driveways. Have never regretted the flat driveway argument.
I do her think she won though,.

[Bazooka]

[K5 Addiction]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Glad no one got hurt but dang I sure am sorry about the bent bumper.
I can't feel but partly responsible cause I was asking about a video of the truck and your music in the background.

Before the wifey and I got our house we rented several places with sloped driveways.
When it came time to buy a place I would only look at places with flat driveways. Have never regretted the flat driveway argument.
I do her think she won though,.

My drive way is relatively flat......key word being relatively. Now my bumper is relatively flat in the middle.

[athan66]

This one has happened more than once to our family.

When I was younger my father had an old Ford van with 3 on the tree and our house was on a hill. This was also back in the days before electric garage door openers. One night he came home from work, put the truck in neutral, applied the E-brake (a fact that is still debated at family gatherings to this day) and was opening the overhead door, when he noticed the headlight beams moving up the garage door and then pointing up in the sky. He turned around and saw the van roll down the driveway, cross the road, and the take a huge divot out of the front lawn across the street. Thankfully it missed their house.

I also had this happen a few years ago with a car that was only a few months old. Parked it the garage and left it in neutral (manual trans) and went inside. A couple of hours later I looked out the window and said "WTF" as the car was in the middle of the driveway resting against my truck. Fortunatley it did not go too far, but the corner of the trunk lid and rear quarter panel of the car hit the corner of the front bumper on the truck ... $2,500 to fix that one. Of course, no damage to the truck. The insurance claim was rather funny. "who was driving the car?" "Ah, that would be no one". Ended up being a comprehensive claim vs a collision claim.

[jcramsey]

Man, I hate to see that! Hats off to ya for being man enough to show your goofup.

[63burban4x4]

With nobody hurt, and the only damage being to your own stuff, and fixable, it sure coulda been worse! Someday you'll look back and laugh....well, maybe at least smile a little!

My most memorable "rolling away" story, involves my son, when he was about 17, having recently learned to drive my Ford F-600 dump truck. He was hauling gravel for a job we were doing, which was about a 5 mile round trip, and about a 1000 ft change in elevation. He made several uneventful round trips, but at some point the truck quit while climbing the hill, loaded. He left the truck, and walked the last 2 miles up the hill to get help. We jumped in my pickup, and went back down to rescue the truck. As we got to the location where he had left it, you guessed it, NO TRUCK! I'll never forget the look of panic on his face (I'm sure MINE too!). We could not see around the curve in the road, but eventually found the truck a 1/4 mile down the road, it had rounded the curve, gone across a lawn, and stopped against a tree, just avoiding the homeowner's classic 1958 Ford parked in the driveway! No damage, fortunately, except a few branches on the tree. The lady of the house had been my son's 1st grade teacher. Although this happened nearly 20 years ago, it's still one of those family stories we look back on and laugh......but it sure could have turned out differently! He never forgets to "chock" the wheels on anything that could roll away, to this day! (me either!)

[TJ's Chevy]

This reminds me. Few years back, I had my truck parked on a slight down hill on my dirt road about 5 acers downs the farm. Of course I left it in neutral and got out and wile I was walking towards the house. Then came the thought somthing was following me. Looked behind me and their it is rolling strait at me! Well, not to fast, do to bumps, but ya gotta admit it felt strange to watch a truck follow you without a driver. No vehicles or trees were near enough for it to bang into thank goodness! Won't tell ya the last time I tried to start it in gear.....

[Rich 5150 69]

Its bad now but in a year you`ll be laughing, get an original and have it chromed, the repops that you see chromed are not worth a crap...I have one, but the cost of chromeing in calif almost makes it impossible..

[DPowers]

Originally Posted by K5 Addiction

Nashville. I'll have to check out the truck club site.

Do you want to replace with chrome- or would painted work?