77 Chevy Sport and 62 C10, my first trucks back in the 80's and 90's

[78 Chevyrado]

Found some old photos of me when I was 2 n 3...  1982 and 1983 with my dads 77 Chevy Sport truck.  Ended up being my first vehicle.  had no stripes by then but still had the rollbar and aux switch on the dash where the fuel tank selector normally is.

In the first pic the 78 C20 I have now was inside the middle door of the garage.  Just waiting.   

That's the same house I now live in.   

[78 Chevyrado]

1985 Had the chevy sport and other interesting cars back then.  1969 mustang, 1954 Hudson Jet Liner, 1978 Lincoln Versailles.  Had just had gotten rid of the 1964 Impala SS the year before.

We always had interesting cars!

[78 Chevyrado]

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.