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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => 73-87 Chevy & GMC Trucks => Topic started by: zieg85 on December 23, 2010, 12:18:09 am
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I have had a bunch over the years and have several pictures to share but my 1982 Scottsdale C-10 was my first favorite that really made me fall for these trucks. I was going through photos and I had my son scan some. Before that in Texas was my 1981 3+3 C-20. Next was my beaters a 81 GMC and 79. I thought I would throw in the only brand new vehicle I have ever bought, my 1992 C1500 Silverado.
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Next is the crew cab. It was stolen and recovered minus the custom rims and front seat. Also stolen was the fuel selector valve but it also had a LP conversion which I got rid of right away.
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My beaters both were quite rusty but ran well. One was a 81 3/4 T GMC and the other a 79 1/2T.
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Well to be honest I loved the 68-72 models. My father had a 69 while I was growing up. What got me attracted to the box was my first one, an 84 stepside. I like how the step sides break up the long straight sides and make the truck look much older then it is.
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Here is the only vehicle I have ever bought new, a 1992 C1500 extended cab.
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When I was a kid I saw a brand new 76 chevy shortbox 4X4 roll into my dad's shop straight from the dealership. I was hooked from that day on.
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I was 12 when this body style came out. This is what we rode in all through my high school years and I always have liked that style. Now that I'm older, I still love the body style ( I'm a round headlight guy) and I really enjoy the dependability, the simplicity and the relative ease with which you can work on them. Plus the parts are fairly cheap and plentiful. Also, like some of the guys here have attested to, you can leave one sitting for years and with a hot battery and a little gas you can get it running easily. One of the unique things about these trucks as anyone whose been on this board for any time will see, is that you can do all sorts of things to these trucks to make them fit any need you have or make them look any way you want them to. The best, most versatile trucks ever built in my opinion.
Sorry so long. Next time I will say what I really think. ;)
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Back in the day when I was a wee little tyke my Dad had a gold 73 1/2 ton long bed with a 350, headers and Thrush glass packs hanging underneath, I remember it sounded AWESOME!!!!! It was a 3 on the tree and I thought shifting a truck like that was the coolest thing. He had ET aluminum slots and white letter tires, and a shiny aluminum cap on the bed. Oh it was SWEEEEET and got me hooked on these trucks for life!
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Back in the mid-late 80's I was working for a Ford dealer in a small town in Oregon. I was a lot attendant and we got 2 80's GMC/Chevy trucks in on trade. They were still fairly new at the time and we used them around the lot to do landscaping. We hauled lots of bark dust. I liked the yellow one, it was a K10 long bed. Something about that truck just stuck with me and over 20 years later I still have fond memories of that yellow truck.
I was pissed when GM brought out the 88+ truck, still have not forgiven them and refuse to drive one.
(I worked for a Chevy dealer as a Mechanic in the 90's and still hated them)
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I grew up with a 73 C10 and a 76 K5, and they were cool, but it was the 82 K10 that stole my heart.
http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=18776.msg150319#msg150319
Someday that 73 and 76 will both run again...
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I've had a few over the years myself. 1st one was a '73 with a 454 in it. Gobs of torque! Got rid of it, and had a few others for short periods of time. Then acquired an '86 burb and was hooked. Had to get rid of it eventually, and regretted it ever since. Now I am fresh off of a '71 C10 build project, and just got me an '85 k20 burb, and am ready to have all the things I missed about my old burb, plus a few features it didn't have. I don't see this one going anywhere anytime soon, unless some offers me a ridiculous amount of money for it. I guess everything does have a price after all.
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My father bought a 1975 pickup brand new, my brother got a 79 as his driver.
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I guess everything does have a price after all.
Well that may be for some however if I could be buried in my white 85 C20 that would be my last wishes. I bought this from my cousin after his dad passed and he was settling his estate. I would always spend a couple of weeks down there every summer growing up and fell in love with it when he first got it. Since he special ordered it as a retirement vehicle there was little chance as he said it but he also said you never know. He worked in the St. Louis GM plant where it was built and he took delivery of it right around his retirement. Here is a picture when the paint was still in good shape and before the body started going.
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My dad bought a new 74' C-20 in Jan of 74', he still drives it for a farm truck. My first truck was a 78' C-20, that I bought in March of 1980, with 9900 miles on it, I was still 15 at the time. Then I bought a new K 2500 GMC in Sept of 1986, and wish I had kept it. Best trucks ever built !
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I've told this story before but in High School my buddy (RIP) had a 79 stepside
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/Sabaka454/ned.jpg)
Everyone loved his truck and I had always wanted one too... So I got my 1980 C10 400 small block and started wasting all of my money ever since lol
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My Grandpa has had a 77 k10 with a 400 since new, i used to ride with him to go pick up boats all the time when i was younger, then when i started working for him would drive "old gray" as we call it when ever i could. My grandpa on the other side has a 77 C10 (December truck of the month!) those are the trucks that really made me fall in love with the round eyed squares.
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My first vehicle ever. My dads old 77. He also had an old mustang, but before I could even drive I told him i wanted the truck over the mustang any day. Well maybe the mustang now and then....haha but If I had to chose I wanted the truck, so I got it when I was 15.
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t195/wes2880/77%20C10/Front2.jpg)
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As a kid, my uncle (dad's brother) worked in the StLouis assembly plant at Union, and Natural Bridge streets where the 73~87 square bodys were built. Even worked on the truck line. :)
Everyone in our family had a '76, '78 or likewise......Had to keep Uncle Bill employed. ;)
Anyway, I remember going to that plant somewhere around 1977 during an open house. Got to tour the assembly lines, and all.
I guess it was just destiny, because I never knew anything different. To me there was no other kind of truck.
So when in high school I became old enough to buy my first truck, well there was no other option. I bought the '77 Chevy in my sig. At that time it was a K10, with an automatic tranny, chain drive t-case, and a 400 small block. Now it is a K30 with a manual, NP205, and 454. After my rebuild, (thread going on here elsewhere) the only thing left that was part of the truck the day I bought it will be the frame rails, and the cab shell. LOL! Everything else will have been replaced.
When I was 16 you could still buy a square body brand new. Too bad I didn't bite. Oh well, I guess it wasn't meant to be.
One other cool morsel.....
My '77 was built in the StLouis assembly plant. It would be sort of improbable, maybe not impossible, to determine what day exactly my '77 was built. But I do know it was built during a narrow span of time of that day that I was at the StLouis assembly plant's open house. It would be easy to believe that I was there within a couple of months of that day.
Like a gun.....Pry it from my cold dead fingers.....I feel pretty confident that if I live to be 100 years old, I will still own my first truck.......My 1977 Chevy 4x4. :)
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I worked in a shop about 10 years ago and the owner had a '76 stepside lifted with a built motor. One of the technicians I worked with had a lifted "75 stepside with a ZZ4. I missed out when the tech sold his ZZ4 truck and I finally got my '73 K2500 about 6 months ago.
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This is what got me hooked, My 78 shortbed i had...
(http://inlinethumb37.webshots.com/40868/2616161770104707051S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2616161770104707051QgexRs)
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i learned how to drive in my dads 79.it had a 455 pontiac that was plum nasty.also being the first engine me and dad built together.well we got to hurting for money and the truck was sold.a year later he picked up a clean 81 swb with a new engine.we added a cowl induction hood and painted it bahama blue.then new interior and stereo system.well i was told it would be my graduation gift.as of now i graduated in 98 and it was the happiest day of my life and i still have my chevy, all i did was put a nasty lil 350 in it and i lived happily ever after lol
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what got me hooked was my dad had a beater truck an 1975 chevy 1/2 white with zebra stripes running donw the passenger side no matter what happend to that truck it just kept running
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My Uncle had a '75 and my cousin had a '73.
Both trucks were beasts.
I had an '86, about 20 years ago....Always wanted another one...
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I have always loved truck over cars all though I have restores several car.But for me going to the car show and seeing the same old stuff camaros,mustangs,vets and so on I wanted something different???A cool truck so its been trucks since then and people dont like getting beat be a truck lol.They think oh that's just loud exhaust till they mess with you and its haha got beat by a truck.