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Offline psyguy23

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1974 Chevy K30 - ?
« on: May 08, 2017, 12:06:33 am »
Found a crew cab, short bed, 4x4 being advertised as a 1974 Chevy K30.

From what I am finding there was not a K30/C30 offered by GM/Chevy that was crew cab, 4x4, K30 in a short bed.

What is this person think they are selling? Or am I wrong.

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Re: 1974 Chevy K30 - ?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2017, 12:31:17 am »
Crew cabs were never offered with a short bed. Also that bed is to short to even be a standard size short bed. The truck has had the bed and the frame cut and shortened. So it might be a K30, but it's definitely not a factory crew cab short bed.

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Re: 1974 Chevy K30 - ?
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2017, 12:36:21 am »
Crew cabs were never offered with a short bed. Also that bed is to short to even be a standard size short bed. The truck has had the bed and the frame cut and shortened. So it might be a K30, but it's definitely not a factory crew cab short bed.

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Thank you for that confirmation. That is what I gather as well. My excitement for finding a K30 - it was too exciting to pass up.
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Re: 1974 Chevy K30 - ?
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2017, 06:19:29 pm »
First year for the K30 was 1977.
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Re: 1974 Chevy K30 - ?
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2017, 07:31:29 pm »
That my friends is what a crew cab looks like on a suburban chassis with a bed shortened to fit the frame, you see them from time to time up here in Canada usually when a blazer body rotted off the frame and was replaced with a regular cab but suburban to crew cab works pretty much the same
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Offline vjfelix55

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Re: 1974 Chevy K30 - ?
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2017, 01:02:42 pm »
Thats a suburban chassis. Ive seen it a lot. That may or may not be the suburban front clip, but I doubt it seeing that the bed is a separate piece. It looks like they got a crew cab body and chopped the bed short (really short) to fit it on the burban frame

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