mtnbiker727
Member
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2013
- Posts
- 33
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- Location
- Pennsylvania
- First Name
- Tim
- Truck Year
- 1976
- Truck Model
- C10
- Engine Size
- 350 4BBL
My Truck (and wife) story - and restoration project
I worked for an agency that gave me $100 a year to buy steel toed boots. So in June 2012 (before the fiscal year ended) I went to buy the boots and the girl at the checkout was a young lady my age. She didn't pay much attention to me, but I was trying to be nice.
Pulled out of the parking lot and in the next driveway I saw the truck for sale that I knew I had to have. I pulled in and took some pictures and called the number and left a message. Then I called it back later and got the owner on the phone. He bought it brand new from a local dealer back in '76 and had restored it about 15 years ago. He agreed to let me test drive it, so I went back a couple days later and drove the truck. He said he had some other offers below his asking price. My parents went down a couple days later and drove it, which sold them on the truck. They said there was a young girl there about my age.
After talking it over with my parents, I decided to buy it at his price. Went to pick up the truck and his daughter was there with 20 baby turkeys out in the yard. I also found out she had beef cows and donkeys and goats and chickens. I come from a farm and am the 6th generation to grow up on it, so I naturally was looking for someone like minded. After officially transferring the title, her mom mentioned that I should swing by and take her daughter out for a date. Couple weeks later was the county fair, so I stopped by and asked her to go with me. She agreed to go and we had a good time together.
She told me she never liked the truck and was happy to see it go... turns out she was also the girl that I bought my boots from the day I saw the truck for the first time.
Well folks it's a little over a year and 6 months later, and we've been blissfully married for 6 months now. Oh, and she let me keep the truck!
When her dad restored it he replaced all four fenders, new paint and new seat upholstery, windshield and back window seals, and the motor with a new stock 350.
When I got it I replaced the window seals in each door, had the driver side window put back on track, repainted the inner door panels, had a stainless steel tailgate protector put on so the velcro from the old school custom made vinyl bed cover would line up with the tailgate. Got the white lettering put on and repainted where the chains had beat up the tailgate. All that work was completed and I picked it up the morning of our wedding.
We took the truck on our honeymoon and got a lot of looks as we went down the road.
Enjoy!
I worked for an agency that gave me $100 a year to buy steel toed boots. So in June 2012 (before the fiscal year ended) I went to buy the boots and the girl at the checkout was a young lady my age. She didn't pay much attention to me, but I was trying to be nice.
Pulled out of the parking lot and in the next driveway I saw the truck for sale that I knew I had to have. I pulled in and took some pictures and called the number and left a message. Then I called it back later and got the owner on the phone. He bought it brand new from a local dealer back in '76 and had restored it about 15 years ago. He agreed to let me test drive it, so I went back a couple days later and drove the truck. He said he had some other offers below his asking price. My parents went down a couple days later and drove it, which sold them on the truck. They said there was a young girl there about my age.
After talking it over with my parents, I decided to buy it at his price. Went to pick up the truck and his daughter was there with 20 baby turkeys out in the yard. I also found out she had beef cows and donkeys and goats and chickens. I come from a farm and am the 6th generation to grow up on it, so I naturally was looking for someone like minded. After officially transferring the title, her mom mentioned that I should swing by and take her daughter out for a date. Couple weeks later was the county fair, so I stopped by and asked her to go with me. She agreed to go and we had a good time together.
She told me she never liked the truck and was happy to see it go... turns out she was also the girl that I bought my boots from the day I saw the truck for the first time.
Well folks it's a little over a year and 6 months later, and we've been blissfully married for 6 months now. Oh, and she let me keep the truck!
When her dad restored it he replaced all four fenders, new paint and new seat upholstery, windshield and back window seals, and the motor with a new stock 350.
When I got it I replaced the window seals in each door, had the driver side window put back on track, repainted the inner door panels, had a stainless steel tailgate protector put on so the velcro from the old school custom made vinyl bed cover would line up with the tailgate. Got the white lettering put on and repainted where the chains had beat up the tailgate. All that work was completed and I picked it up the morning of our wedding.
We took the truck on our honeymoon and got a lot of looks as we went down the road.
Enjoy!
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