Re: Re: Truck prices are insane!!!!!

Posted by G-MAN on June 01, 2004 at 16:21:32 from (67.52.48.10):

In Reply to: Re: Truck prices are insane!!!!! posted by Norm in Alabama on June 01, 2004 at 06:29:25:

Norm, you're talking my language. I too have a '72 Chevy. Mine's a 3/4 ton 2wd (C20). She's 34 years old but solid as a rock and drives down the road like a new one - zero play or slop in the front end. It's a plain-jane Custom with heavy-duty coils all around, power-steering and power-brakes - your basic old workhorse. I hauled calves to pasture and pulled my uncle's 30-foot tandem-dual fifth-wheel flatbed with it two weekends ago, and it handle both fine. It has some dents and the normal Chevy/GMC rusted-out rockers, cab corners and mounts, but those replacement pieces are dirt cheap and not too bad to replace if you have some patience and a good MIG welder. Body repair will be commencing in the next few weeks. It's factory black and originally had a 250-6 and TH350 with the Eaton HO52 rear and 4.56s. I bought it nearly a year ago with a reasonably fresh 350 4bbl that had been installed in the six-popper location (the back set of holes). It's still running points and manifolds and never misses a lick, as I keep her tuned up pretty good. The 4.56s were tearing me up for mileage, so last week I installed a Dana 60 with 3.54s out of a 402/TH400 '72 Custom Camper a buddy of mine bought for the body. And yes, the 402 and TH400 are still in his barn with my name on them. The 402 is not going in this truck however, but the TH400 probably will behind a 454 bored and stroked to 496 cid - should be good for around 400-hp and 550 lb-ft of torque or so. In a year or so, I'll probably put a Gear Vendors overdrive in it. A Vintage Air system is also planned along with new paint, carpet, a headliner, spray-in bedliner and a few other goodies. After all that, she'll officially be retired and will be used for cruising, maybe some towing, long road-trips and laying the "smack" down on the ocassional import-driving punk kid that thinks he's lined up next to an old farm truck, lol. I figure I'll have $12,000 or so in it maximum, and will have a classic truck that will outshow, outperform and outclass 99% of the new trucks coming off the line, and for a third the money or less. And it won't be half plastic like the new ones, either.

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