Raider L
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- Joined
- Sep 1, 2020
- Posts
- 1,892
- Reaction score
- 994
- Location
- Shreveport, LA
- First Name
- William
- Truck Year
- 1974
- Truck Model
- C10
- Engine Size
- 355
Well, I go to the Orthopedic specialist tomorrow to see if I'll ever be able to use my arms again. And if I can't then there won't be any reason to keep my truck anymore because I won't be able to work on it. I'll be looking for some foreign mini-truck with an automatic transmission in it so I won't be shifting gears to get down the road.
I don't know how I got this way but I'm disabled anyway and have been since I came back from Vietnam but didn't know it and worked my butt off until I couldn't anymore back in '92. That's when the doctors started finding all this damage I had and the more they looked the more they found. Then I was determined to be disabled and unable to work anymore. But now it's really gotten bad and I can't do much of anything even the little I was still able to do I can't do that anymore. Maybe the doctors will be able to fix me and that will be good. But then again they may only be able to do so much and I won't be able to do any work on the truck like I once did even as of three or four months ago.
So we'll see what the prognosis is and I'll get back to you all. Otherwise the truck will be for sale in whole or whatever you want in pieces. I figure I want $2850 for it as is. The engine is good, but the trans probably needs to be overhauled. Also, the front end needs to be overhauled but I already have a complete Energy Suspension polyurethane bushing kit for it. You all have seen my engine and the transmission cross member I put in and all the driveshaft universal joints and the slip joint upgrades I've done, plus all the new radiator and cooling upgrades I've done to it, that's all good. The truck has a ton of new parts on it but people don't usually want a long bed as a hot rod truck. Most want a short bed fleet side which mine is not. I'm willing to do whatever you think is fair.
I don' know what a truck like mine is worth especially with all that's been done to it, and all that it needs especially body work. But I'll work out any arrangements you want to do to get it to you. I'm sure not trying to make any money on it I just want it to go to a good home so somebody else can enjoy it.
I don't know how I got this way but I'm disabled anyway and have been since I came back from Vietnam but didn't know it and worked my butt off until I couldn't anymore back in '92. That's when the doctors started finding all this damage I had and the more they looked the more they found. Then I was determined to be disabled and unable to work anymore. But now it's really gotten bad and I can't do much of anything even the little I was still able to do I can't do that anymore. Maybe the doctors will be able to fix me and that will be good. But then again they may only be able to do so much and I won't be able to do any work on the truck like I once did even as of three or four months ago.
So we'll see what the prognosis is and I'll get back to you all. Otherwise the truck will be for sale in whole or whatever you want in pieces. I figure I want $2850 for it as is. The engine is good, but the trans probably needs to be overhauled. Also, the front end needs to be overhauled but I already have a complete Energy Suspension polyurethane bushing kit for it. You all have seen my engine and the transmission cross member I put in and all the driveshaft universal joints and the slip joint upgrades I've done, plus all the new radiator and cooling upgrades I've done to it, that's all good. The truck has a ton of new parts on it but people don't usually want a long bed as a hot rod truck. Most want a short bed fleet side which mine is not. I'm willing to do whatever you think is fair.
I don' know what a truck like mine is worth especially with all that's been done to it, and all that it needs especially body work. But I'll work out any arrangements you want to do to get it to you. I'm sure not trying to make any money on it I just want it to go to a good home so somebody else can enjoy it.
Well ****.....I’m sorry to hear that. 
