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Title: Got the truck back!!!!
Post by: chevyman350_82 on September 08, 2008, 07:20:11 am
SO im not sure where this is really supost to go but anyways long story short my dad owns a paint and body shop and been doing it for around 20 yrs he restored a 76 gmc swb original 454 had over 12 grand invested took it to car shows won almost best class of all of them well some stuff to the bed and cab started rusting because it just sat in the yard not driven anywhere so he sold it to a young guy he put nothing but speakers in the truck cut a hole in the cab and bed for a blow through box put zebra headliner in it just totally made me sick to see it around town so that guy got tired of it and sold it to one of my class mates and he paid 5,000 dollars for it so I knew I couldnt give him that bc I didnt have much money well luckly I was out the other day and saw it on side of the road in a yard I stopped walked to the door and the lady said 1,500 and its your I smiled went to the house to get the money came back truck was gone I was pissed on way back home the truck passed me so I followed this guy about 45 miles and finally stopped at a gas statin I told him I wanted to buy it told him the story and he said ok so I went home got the trailer and bought the truck its in really bad shape and needs lots of work it got broke into and they stole all the speakers inside got wet and just lots of little things wrong but anyways I got my dads old truck back Im gonna restore it and give it back to him. Sorry for the long story just felt lke telling everyone thanks have a good day!!

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Post by: JJSZABO on September 08, 2008, 08:18:41 am
WOW Great story.  Good luck and post pictures on your progress.  :)
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Post by: VileZambonie on September 08, 2008, 08:22:49 am
Cool! Nice save!
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Post by: Captkaos on September 08, 2008, 12:02:42 pm
Cool Story!
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Post by: Skunksmash on September 08, 2008, 04:01:47 pm
Punctuation marks are your friend. :-\
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Post by: camdenoilchange on September 08, 2008, 05:51:54 pm
great story, i'm glad you saved it. keep us posted!
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Post by: Lt.Del on September 08, 2008, 08:50:08 pm
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Punctuation marks are your friend.

LMAO, I read the story, didn't think much about the punctuation.  Then I read this quote, reread the story and laughed. That's funny.
Title: Re: Got the truck back!!!!
Post by: Skunksmash on September 09, 2008, 01:23:40 am
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Punctuation marks are your friend.

LMAO, I read the story, didn't think much about the punctuation.  Then I read this quote, reread the story and laughed. That's funny.

Heh, im a member on a couple forums where a post like that with no punctuation marks would have gotten all manner of comments like that... lol. So i guess it's just a habit. At least it helps newer people understand that a post like that is hard to read. And when asking for help (which is a big part of what forums are used for) you want people to at least be able to understand you.
Title: Re: Got the truck back!!!!
Post by: chevyman350_82 on September 09, 2008, 08:27:27 am
Yea sorry about that guys...but anyways starting taking the truck apart last night and shes down to the frame, and this weekend the block is getting the machine work hopefully before to long she will be back on the road again. ;D
Title: Re: Got the truck back!!!!
Post by: JJSZABO on September 09, 2008, 11:13:49 am
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Punctuation marks are your friend.

LMAO, I read the story, didn't think much about the punctuation.  Then I read this quote, reread the story and laughed. That's funny.

same here ;D
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Post by: lowbucktruck on September 17, 2008, 07:48:36 pm
Great story, good luck to you getting your dad's show truck back!  ;D
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Post by: team39763 on September 17, 2008, 08:29:54 pm
Good luck with it.  And yeah, post some more pics of it.  I wanna see the inside.
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Post by: DnStClr on September 17, 2008, 11:11:56 pm
Awesome chevyman. I hope it works out well. Did you tell your dad what you're up to? I gotta show this to my boys. :D
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Post by: SUX2BU99 on September 18, 2008, 12:02:11 pm
Great story, that's cool you have the truck your dad built back. And for 1500 it sounds like a good deal too. Are those ChooChoo Customs ground effects on it? How long ago was the truck built by your dad? And in one day you have it down to frame? LOL  You work a whole lot quicker than I do!
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Post by: nucknoel89 on September 18, 2008, 02:44:24 pm
What kind of rims are those?
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Post by: chevyman350_82 on September 19, 2008, 10:20:43 am
What kind of rims are those?

KMC Wheels I dont know the exact name
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Post by: nucknoel89 on September 19, 2008, 05:29:05 pm
What kind of rims are those?

KMC Wheels I dont know the exact name
Are these it?
KMC Condor
(http://www.rimgod.com/images/KMC/condorbig.jpg)
Title: Re: Got the truck back!!!!
Post by: roadrage41 on September 22, 2008, 07:07:19 am
heck i wish my truck was in half that condition.

as far as punctuation goes is used to run an automotive forum, and one of the guys ended every sentence in an exclamation point! no really! he did!

Title: Re: Got the truck back!!!!
Post by: chevyman350_82 on September 22, 2008, 09:54:31 am
What kind of rims are those?

KMC Wheels I dont know the exact name


No they are KMC Stealth.