Hunting up old truck

[nlauffer]

Have you found your truck.  I wrote down the vin from above and will get your info if you still need it.

[78 Chevyrado]

I haven't found anything new yet.  I got hurt and my parents cuz went through serious surgery recently so I kina forgot bout the truck and we're helping him get through his ordeal.

Any help you guys can give I'd love to have!

[78 Chevyrado]

guys at advance asked me earlier if I needed any help...  I said I need lots of help, but I can find the parts I need on my own...lol   

[nlauffer]

Haven't found it yet.  I don't know how it has been searched, but it is not coming up.  What state are you in? 

[DnStClr]

Kenny, what about putting a want-add in the Atlanta and Gainsville Craigs List for a 77?

[78 Chevyrado]

I'm in GA, In Barrow county. 

I got pretty sick the last couple a weeks so I haven't done anything else yet.

I'm just now getting back to not normal but muddle-through-it-able...lol



That's a good idea about the craigslist...  I may try that.   I just hope its still a cheap truck and somebody hasn't fixed it all up like mine where I can't afford it.  don't take that the wrong way...  im not saying I hope its been uncared for (tho a lil bit I am)  if its been redone and somebody loves it I'd be content with that, truly.

Me n my mom were talking today about it and we both feel even if its junky, we'd like to have it even if it just sits and rusts away under our oak trees.  some of you would understand that...  my mom misses it as much as me, it was her fav vehicle she's ever had when her and dad had it, just like its mine cuz it was my first.  I never heard one person make fun or if even when it was faded and rusty...  its kind of that magic truck that everybody though was cool as heck no matter its condition. 

[78 Chevyrado]

any ideas how to list the truck statewide, in craigslist, I'd like to not have to put an add under every city it lists, tho I will if I must.

[zieg85]

You have to go to each area and post a wanted ad unfortunately.  Word the title slightly different or it will flag you, been there done that.  Good luck in your search

[Greybeard]

Good luck in your quest! I do know how a favorite can get under your skin and nag at you for years. I've had a few those over the years. My first car was a '68 Chevelle SS 396 with 4 speed and Posi, It was a tire lifter lifter. Won a heck of a lot of free beer with it. I put a full beer under the front left tire about ten inches in front and bet I could drive over it without crushing it. I won that bet about 3/4 of time.

The next favorite was a 74 Monte Carlo with a factory 454 and t400 with facxtory slapstick with 12 bolt and 4.10 gears with posi. With a little smog junk removal a good set of Hooker headers and a recurved distributor it ran high 14's at the track at about 104 mph. It would have done much better a an 1/8 mile but we didn't have one near St Louis at the time.

And my third favorite is why I'm here. My '78 K15 GMC swb. It ended up with a 6" lift, 39" Mickey -T's (Tall Baja Belted), traction control, sm465 trans and a 205. That truck was near unstoppable for what I did with it (Mostly river running or mountain trails after I moved to Colorado from Missouri.

So the truck I have now is supposed to be re-incarnation of that old truck. In reality it will never happen that way. I have the wrong year for one.

So I do hope you can find your ride again. Farmers find their old tractors pretty frequently around here although tractors are not driven all over the country either. 

[78 Chevyrado]

You have to go to each area and post a wanted ad unfortunately.  Word the title slightly different or it will flag you, been there done that.  Good luck in your search

Best I can give what you said without cussing is more than mildy infuriating...

Good luck in your quest! I do know how a favorite can get under your skin and nag at you for years. I've had a few those over the years. My first car was a '68 Chevelle SS 396 with 4 speed and Posi, It was a tire lifter lifter. Won a heck of a lot of free beer with it. I put a full beer under the front left tire about ten inches in front and bet I could drive over it without crushing it. I won that bet about 3/4 of time.

The next favorite was a 74 Monte Carlo with a factory 454 and t400 with facxtory slapstick with 12 bolt and 4.10 gears with posi. With a little smog junk removal a good set of Hooker headers and a recurved distributor it ran high 14's at the track at about 104 mph. It would have done much better a an 1/8 mile but we didn't have one near St Louis at the time.

And my third favorite is why I'm here. My '78 K15 GMC swb. It ended up with a 6" lift, 39" Mickey -T's (Tall Baja Belted), traction control, sm465 trans and a 205. That truck was near unstoppable for what I did with it (Mostly river running or mountain trails after I moved to Colorado from Missouri.

So the truck I have now is supposed to be re-incarnation of that old truck. In reality it will never happen that way. I have the wrong year for one.

So I do hope you can find your ride again. Farmers find their old tractors pretty frequently around here although tractors are not driven all over the country either. 

This is me and this 77 chevy sport when I was 3 years old...
I won't it back.  whatever the condition, unless it's a super high dollar resto...lol


Here's same truck in 1983 in front of my granddad's house.  And I'm the lil 3 year old by it...  This is the same garage my 78 c20 has known always since new.  my 78 c20 was behind the middle door, same garage, period.

[78 Chevyrado]

same garage as the 3 car in the pic when I was 3.   I inherited my granddad's house.  So my 78 c20 is actually still living in the same space it has always lived since new.  that's real dang special...

[78 Chevyrado]

This same spot I dug the truck out of in 2007 is where it lives now...  just there isn't stuff stacked all over it any more...lol



This is a pic from 2012 with my dogs in the back, but the truck is in the same spot is was in the old buried with junk pic above. 

[78 Chevyrado]

If some of you think this is cool, here's my C20 I have now in 1984.


 real close in age to the pics of my old 77...  so when my dads truck had a rollbar n stripes, my 78 had a camper shell and towed a huge airstream all over the continent.  yeas I mean continent instead of country.

[78 Chevyrado]

I think my mother has a bigger bee up her bonnet than me to find this truck...  and she's totally a "if it gets me from A to B" type of person...  but she loves that old white truck as I do for some reason.


Also, knowing she's an a-to-b type of person, the 2 times I seriously though of selling my 78 c20, she tols me she'd beat me if I did...      so I haven't and won't.  I think like me she wants us to have both back.  my 78 and the so far lost old 77.

[Greybeard]

Nice looking 78. My old truck in back is the same color. I also envy you for living outside the rust belt. No such thing as a daily rust free driver up here. If there is, I'll show you a garage dweller. Which is just as bad as a trailer queeny.