Cascadia
Undecided
- Location
- Orem, Utah
Last year right before my daughter was born I owned a 1965 Chevy short bed 2 wheel drive. It was supposed to be a project for my boy and I. Although it did run it still didn't have a floor in the bed, ps, pb, or an auto. It was fun to drive straight but not much more. I will have one again when I have more time and money. I had to sell it to pay hospital bills for my daughter.
My my boy has been begging me for an old Chevy or gmc since we sold it. Every time he sees one he asks if we can get it. I put up an ad on ksl for an 88-98 single cab short bed. A month or so later a guy contacted me saying he had one. I figured it'd just be a beater. He sent me pics of it in his moms garage. Covered in dust and boxes. He finally got all the clutter off and sent some more pics. It looked to be in great shape.
Notonly was it a single cab, 2wd, short bed, but it was also a Fleetside bed which I have rarely seen. They're usually the ugly (to me) step side. On top of that it was green. My boys favorite color. Turns out it is a 1 owner that got parked in the garage in 2006. The guy I bought it from, it was his dad's. He passed in 06 and the mom wouldn't let him sell it. The mom recently passed and he found my ad. It is a 93 with a 4.3, auto, and 137k original miles.
Plans for now are to get some non dry rotted tires. Change all the fluids, plugs, wires, clean the tank out. Then rip out the vinyl floor and get a carpet kit and dynamat it. Will also do a new headliner. It is fine but it was a smoker car so I want to get any remnant of that smell out. And I will also get the seat done. Maybe in leather. The only material in the car is the vinyl floor, tweed seat, and headliner so hopefully the smell goes easy.
Later er down the road I would like to do a 5.3 or 6.0 with a 4l80e, and some suspension mods and just have it be a sleeper.
My my boy has been begging me for an old Chevy or gmc since we sold it. Every time he sees one he asks if we can get it. I put up an ad on ksl for an 88-98 single cab short bed. A month or so later a guy contacted me saying he had one. I figured it'd just be a beater. He sent me pics of it in his moms garage. Covered in dust and boxes. He finally got all the clutter off and sent some more pics. It looked to be in great shape.
Notonly was it a single cab, 2wd, short bed, but it was also a Fleetside bed which I have rarely seen. They're usually the ugly (to me) step side. On top of that it was green. My boys favorite color. Turns out it is a 1 owner that got parked in the garage in 2006. The guy I bought it from, it was his dad's. He passed in 06 and the mom wouldn't let him sell it. The mom recently passed and he found my ad. It is a 93 with a 4.3, auto, and 137k original miles.
Plans for now are to get some non dry rotted tires. Change all the fluids, plugs, wires, clean the tank out. Then rip out the vinyl floor and get a carpet kit and dynamat it. Will also do a new headliner. It is fine but it was a smoker car so I want to get any remnant of that smell out. And I will also get the seat done. Maybe in leather. The only material in the car is the vinyl floor, tweed seat, and headliner so hopefully the smell goes easy.
Later er down the road I would like to do a 5.3 or 6.0 with a 4l80e, and some suspension mods and just have it be a sleeper.
