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General Discussion / Re: Chevy Sports and such back in the 80's
« Last post by 78 Chevyrado on Today at 03:49:35 am »Grandad back in the late 60's with his 62 C10. Found this negative and used my scanner and pc to make it a normal pic as best i could.
This actually was my first truck. He gave it to me when I was 12. I started taking it apart, then mom n dad let me take it to our house in the neighborhood and spent a whole summer obsessing over it but it was so far gone there was no saving it. I couldnt do it back then... But its the first truck i ever had that was mine and i took apart every single part of it and learned so much from it. I could pull the front clip off that truck or replace it in 20 mins i got so good at it...lol Ended up scrapping it when I got the 77 when i was 15. Had the bed off it for 20 more years as a trailer...
When we first drug it out of the barn he hooked the chain up to the dumptruck and drug it out. I was steering the old 62. The dumptruck stalled and rolled back toward me and poked a small hole in the hood with its frame. I knew i was dead. I knew i was about to die. then i didnt...
That was scary. made it up the hill tho.
This actually was my first truck. He gave it to me when I was 12. I started taking it apart, then mom n dad let me take it to our house in the neighborhood and spent a whole summer obsessing over it but it was so far gone there was no saving it. I couldnt do it back then... But its the first truck i ever had that was mine and i took apart every single part of it and learned so much from it. I could pull the front clip off that truck or replace it in 20 mins i got so good at it...lol Ended up scrapping it when I got the 77 when i was 15. Had the bed off it for 20 more years as a trailer...
When we first drug it out of the barn he hooked the chain up to the dumptruck and drug it out. I was steering the old 62. The dumptruck stalled and rolled back toward me and poked a small hole in the hood with its frame. I knew i was dead. I knew i was about to die. then i didnt...
That was scary. made it up the hill tho.
