Hello from Kentucky

[davidfite1978]

Greetings from central KY. Don't have a squarebody yet but I'm on the lookout. Somehow convinced my wife to let me get another toy as long as I can get it on the cheap. I've owned several similar trucks and now am finally ready to get a project that I can work on without affecting my daily driver.

I've owned:
82 S10 (sold)
98 GMC C1500 (sold)
93 S10 Blazer (sold)
96 Chevy K1500 (sold)
00 GMC Sonoma (sold)
04 Chevy K1500 (current)
08 Chevy Tahoe (current)

I'm really partial to the OBS trucks, and thought about getting another one of those, but I also like the simplicity of these squarebody trucks. I want something that's easy to fix/maintain/mod, but also something that has a little bit of character in case I ever decide to put $$ into it and do the car show thing. I already try and involve my kids with car repair/maintenance but hoping this project teaches me (and them) a lot of new skills.

I'm open to any year, but if I had my druthers I'd like to find a 78 GMC K10(K15?)/K20(25?) long bed for as cheap as possible without needing a bunch of rust/frame work. I'm talking like 750-1500 is about what I'd like to spend to get started.

 

[74 Shortbed]

Welcome to the site.

 

[Old77]

 

[CSFJ]

Welcome. You may need to add a bit to your budget if you're shooting for a clean example though. The prices on squares have started to climb in the last few years.

 

[Camar068]

Welcome. Where you at in Kentucky? I'm in the London area.

 

[ridenby]

Cool. Seem to be several from Ky.

 

[1973c10]

Welcome

 

[davidfite1978]

Camar068 - I'm right outside Lexington.

CSFJ - I've been watching Facebook and CL for a while and although I haven't seen any of them in person there's actually been quite a few decent looking projects for 1000 - 2000. So while I won't know til I go look, I'm hopeful. Right now there's a K20 with a snow plow for 3000 that I almost pulled the trigger on. That would be handy.

I finally got my bike running again last night so hoping to finish that project up in the next week or two so I can really start going to look at some of these trucks.

 

[1ATony]

Thanks for joining

Tony