Your Truck WAY back in the day...

[78 Chevyrado]

Who has pics of your truck before it was yours?  When your dad/whatever owned it?

This is my first vehicle ever  My dads 1977 C10 Chevy Sport. 
When I had it in 1997


Same truck in 1983.  The lil guy in the pic is me with my grandad! 

My Fav of me and the truck!  I can't believe I was ever that small, being 6'2" now...ha!


If I have a Chevy Truck Dream, It'd be to find a 77 shortbed and rebuild it to how that chevy sport was new.  Stripes and all.  Maybe I will one day.



My current truck, My 78 C20
Now


First day I owned it in 2007



On our Iowa Roadtrip in 1986.  I was 6 then.
In front of Pocahontas in Sioux City IA.  I'm the lil guy next to the statue with my sister.  truck n trailer in the background


My Grandmother and Grandfather in Miller Park, Sanborn, IA 1986


Grandmother on the road.  1986


I rode quite a few thousand miles in the back of that truck!

Tybee Island, GA  1981  I was 1 year old...lol  Thats my sister on the hood and grandmother.


On grandad's whyoming hunting trip in 1980.  The truck is at the farmost top-right of the pic with the camper on the bed.




My truck has been to all 50 states, canada and mexico on their road trips.  Grandmother and Grandad took off for 3-4 months with the camper and trailer every year to go see the USA!  My trucks been to more places than I have.  I gotta catch up!  lol


Share what you got fellas!  What gives your truck the sentimental value it has.  It'd take $50k to get my truck from me.  Is it worth that to you?  NO  It is worth that to me?  At least...  It was bought for roadtrips so I pay the extra in gas to take it wherever I go like my latest trip to SC to the USS Yorktown


This OLD Truck is still on the road for the long hauls!  I make sure of it!

[zieg85]

Early pictures are scarce and I only have one scanned in my computer but this one was taken early in its life at the cloud 9 camp resort in the Ozarks.   Currently making her pretty...

[DustyRusty]

I'm the original owner of my truck.  Right now I can't even find any of it when it was new.  Never thought it was terribly important.  I have a few somewhere of it during its life but can't seem to find them.

[78 Chevyrado]

I'm the original owner of my truck.  Right now I can't even find any of it when it was new.  Never thought it was terribly important.  I have a few somewhere of it during its life but can't seem to find them.

My dad had a similar problem with my old 77 Chevy sport.  They took pictures of it, but when family and friends came to visit, mom said she gave them out to those who wanted the pics.  apparently a lot of people liked that truck.

[westsidek20]

Awesome pics!

[Captkaos]

My 1973 in 1997

[78 Chevyrado]

Hardest thing I've ever done Squarebody related, was when I repainted my Current truck, I had to remove the "ROG" on the drivers side door and the "NELL" on the passenger side doors.  The "NELL"  wa so hard to remove.  took me 4 days of procrastinating to do it.  and I wouldn't have let any bodyshop do it for me.




Everything else has been easy in comparison.  Removing my Grandmother's name, who had died 7 years before,  was the one thing that cast a gray cloud on my rebuild.  She wouldn't have cared, but I did... And I still do...

[81_Chevy]

Man i had to dig for these!
this was the truck about a little over a year ago. it had been sitting for about three years on our farm after catching on fire due to one of the transmission cooler lines breaking and shooting fluid all over the engine burning all the electrical.





this is now


 

[78 Chevyrado]

Found another pic of my 78 c20 back in the day.  it's the gray one on the left and our trailer is the one on the drivers side of the truck.  The 74 burban next to ours, was my mom's uncle's truck.  him and my granddad often went on trips together.  That's both of their trucks and airstreams together.


In Wyoming in 1982.