TotalyHucked
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- Location
- Auburn, Georgia
- First Name
- Zach
- Truck Year
- 1985
- Truck Model
- Sierra 1500
- Engine Size
- 5.3
I figured I'd start a thread for this truck since this is basically going to be a full build as well. As most of you know, I sold my '17 Ram earlier this year to get back in an NBS. The Ram was great, it was powerful, comfortable and very capable. But it was also finicky, a maintenance hog being a Daimler (German) designed product and starting to show some rust signs from it's early life up north. I started looking around and knew exactly what I wanted - Chevy or GMC didn't matter, either white or red, CC, Z71, dark interior with buckets/console/steering wheel controls/Bose. Sunroof if I was lucky. There weren't a whole lot to choose from in a reasonable distance and in my price range.
So it's early July when I sell the ram and I managed to find this about an hour from my house. It's been a NE Ga truck all it's life. I'm the 3rd owner, guy I bought it from was in his 70s and had bought it from a friend of his/the original owner. He bought it in 2013 with ~90k on it, I bought it from him with 175k. It was BONE STOCK other than some weird helper springs and an underbed 5th wheel hitch (that almost scared me off but he said he'd had it installed to tow his goofy little 16ft aluminum camper with and showed me pictures, so the truck was never overworked). No piston slap, no lifter tick, nothing. The most silent and smooth LS engine I've ever had the pleasure to drive and also had a fresh trans in it. The interior was super clean, it had clearly been taken care of. This makes my 8th NBS truck and now that I've tried something newer, I don't see myself every being without an NBS again. They're simply the best GM product they ever made, modern enough to be comfortable/capable/have nice amenities but still simple enough to be worked on my the shade tree guy.
The only negative of the truck was that he didn't have a garage, so naturally the Victory Red paint had failed. He'd had it resprayed locally in 2018 and they used a single stage. The truck was badly faded and scratched (he used it as a hunting truck as well) but I could tell it was laid on fairly thick, so I decided to take a chance on it that I could buff it out. The truck drove so nicely, even if I had to paint it in a few years it wouldn't be the end of the world. Everything else in the 12-15k range had way more miles or was far more modded/molested.
2005 Chevy Silverado Z71
Crewcab, 5.7' bed (CCSSB)
LM7 5.3
4L65E
3.42 gears with a G80 out back
Charcoal cloth interior with buckets/console/steering wheel controls/Bose
These 2 pictures are what sold me on going to look at it, especially the interior shot. It still even had the ashtray! I let him keep that ugly ass UGA tag tho
So it's early July when I sell the ram and I managed to find this about an hour from my house. It's been a NE Ga truck all it's life. I'm the 3rd owner, guy I bought it from was in his 70s and had bought it from a friend of his/the original owner. He bought it in 2013 with ~90k on it, I bought it from him with 175k. It was BONE STOCK other than some weird helper springs and an underbed 5th wheel hitch (that almost scared me off but he said he'd had it installed to tow his goofy little 16ft aluminum camper with and showed me pictures, so the truck was never overworked). No piston slap, no lifter tick, nothing. The most silent and smooth LS engine I've ever had the pleasure to drive and also had a fresh trans in it. The interior was super clean, it had clearly been taken care of. This makes my 8th NBS truck and now that I've tried something newer, I don't see myself every being without an NBS again. They're simply the best GM product they ever made, modern enough to be comfortable/capable/have nice amenities but still simple enough to be worked on my the shade tree guy.
The only negative of the truck was that he didn't have a garage, so naturally the Victory Red paint had failed. He'd had it resprayed locally in 2018 and they used a single stage. The truck was badly faded and scratched (he used it as a hunting truck as well) but I could tell it was laid on fairly thick, so I decided to take a chance on it that I could buff it out. The truck drove so nicely, even if I had to paint it in a few years it wouldn't be the end of the world. Everything else in the 12-15k range had way more miles or was far more modded/molested.
2005 Chevy Silverado Z71
Crewcab, 5.7' bed (CCSSB)
LM7 5.3
4L65E
3.42 gears with a G80 out back
Charcoal cloth interior with buckets/console/steering wheel controls/Bose
These 2 pictures are what sold me on going to look at it, especially the interior shot. It still even had the ashtray! I let him keep that ugly ass UGA tag tho
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