- Joined
- Oct 30, 2019
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- 7,324
- Location
- Downingtown, PA
- First Name
- Wayne
- Truck Year
- 1974
- Truck Model
- Jimmy
- Engine Size
- 350
In July of 1974 I took delivery of my '74 Jimmy. Equipped with full time 4 wheel drive, 4 speed top loader and 350 engine. One of the last light duty trucks GM built without a catalytic converter. Back in the day it received a set of Hooker long tube headers, distributor re-curve, and a Holley setup. Engine has to breath.
The truck was built during the steel strike and adding lots of road salt it rusted everywhere in seven years. I replaced it as my daily, with a 1982 shortbed stepside I bought in November of 1981. That gave me a chance to save the Jimmy. I pulled the body and replaced it with a pickup cab and built a flat bed for it. The bed is wider than it is long.
In the summer of 1982 I turbocharged the stepside and lowered it the following summer, 1983, with a 4/6 slam. It was one of the first late model pickup lowriders on the east coast. The story goes on but I'll stop here for now.
The truck was built during the steel strike and adding lots of road salt it rusted everywhere in seven years. I replaced it as my daily, with a 1982 shortbed stepside I bought in November of 1981. That gave me a chance to save the Jimmy. I pulled the body and replaced it with a pickup cab and built a flat bed for it. The bed is wider than it is long.
In the summer of 1982 I turbocharged the stepside and lowered it the following summer, 1983, with a 4/6 slam. It was one of the first late model pickup lowriders on the east coast. The story goes on but I'll stop here for now.
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