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General Site Info => Welcome => Topic started by: roger97338 on February 26, 2011, 04:41:47 AM
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Hello my bow-tie brethren! I'm glad to have found not JUST another Chevy forum, but one geared (pun not intended) toward my favorite body style. Allow me to introduce you to my baby girl; she's a 1975 Chevrolet two-wheel drive long bed that dear old grampa bought brand new. She came with a 250 CID inline 6, a 3 speed, column shifted Saginaw transmission, and silver and white paint. When she was given to me on my 15th birthday (I'm 42 now, and terrible at math, but I've had her for 42 minus 15 years), she also had a less than attractive canopy attached to her.
Since then, I've had her painted the blue and silver that she is today; gave her a 3"/4" lower stance; wheels and tires (oh gawd all the tires I must have been through!); a 350 CID, pre-1987 small block engine (4 bolt mains, of course.); and a TH-400 (a.k.a. "turbo 400") automatic transmission. Some of the custom goodies include the gas cap off of a friend's Mustang that he wrecked; a passenger side mirror that I keep chipping when I back into my almost-too-small garage; the same bench seat that I defiled more than a few high school girls on (when I was in high school, of course. Take it easy Chris Hanson!); and a tonneau cover installed by a guy who eventually became one of the best friends I've ever had. Plus, you know, the coolness of still driving "grampa's truck".
I've had my fair share of cars and trucks come and go. Some of which never ran the whole time I owned them. I've drove this truck in the snow and ice, as well as on the rare 100 plus degree days that Oregon has. One, in particular, I remember especially well: It was 96 degrees, the heater was stuck on, the driver-side window refused to roll down, and I was stuck in downtown Salem because some idiot was trying to off himself by jumping off one of the few bridges out of town...the one I needed to cross to get home. Oh, and one time, one of my girlfriends (now an ex-girlfriend) wanted to drive my Chevy. We'd been together, like, 8 years or so at the time. I figured why not let her try. So, I opened the driver side door for her, then went over to the passenger side and had a seat. I told her to pump the accelerator once, then turn the key. She did. My Chevy started up with it's customary guttural roar, and my girlfriend screamed! I reached over, shut it off, and said "maybe that was enough for today." She never sat behind the wheel of my Chevy again. Nor did she ask to.
Hey, I'm an old guy. I can tell my stories if I want...right?
Anyway, hello everyone! Here's some pictures to look at:
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I almost forgot something! When I had her painted in 86 or 87...or 85....whatever...the guy that did it, Les Baker in Falls City Oregon, wanted to try something out on my cracked OEM dashboard. He wouldn't tell me what, though. I told him to go ahead with what ever it was he wanted to do. A week or maybe two later, he handed me this dashboard. He'd epoxied over the cracks, then tested out if he could paint wood grain or not. He pretty much succeeded, I'd say! Even though the cracks have come back over the years, I'll never part with this dash pad because it's a truly unique, one of a kind part.
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Very nice truck indeed, and being grandpa's just adds to the coolness. Welcome from your neighbor in California.
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Very nice truck and welcome from South Carolina
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Welcome from Washington!
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Great story, welcome to the site from NW Indiana. My 85 C20 is special to me coming from my uncle.
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Welcome to the site from NH. Cool truck and cool stories to go with it.
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Welcome!!
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Welcome from NW Oregon - nice truck
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Great story, welcome to the site from NW Indiana. My 85 C20 is special to me coming from my uncle.
It really does make it special when it comes from family like that, doesn't it?
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Thank you all for the welcomes from across the country!
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Welcome from NW Oregon - nice truck
Thanks! I'm from NW Oregon too, Dallas to be exact.
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Welcome from Illinois. Are those 15 X 10's?
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welcome from maryland
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Welcome from Illinois. Are those 15 X 10's?
Yes, sir. They indeed are. All four of them.
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Nice Truck! Welcome from Arizona
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Nice Truck! Welcome from Arizona
Thanks! Is Arizona one of the lucky states thats dry enough to have old trucks with little to no rust?
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Welcome to the site!
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Wow, another great looking super clean 2 tone staying in the family. Awesome! I love your truck.
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Thanks! Is Arizona one of the lucky states thats dry enough to have old trucks with little to no rust?
Mostly. You see rot occasionally, but thats because most of this state is not from the state. Also up north, Payson, Flagstaff etc is forest area, my 74 has some rot, but nothin compared the the midwest and east coast.
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Welcome! sweet truck