Greetings everyone,
I'm obviously new to the forum, but not to working on and restoring vehicles. My story is kinda interesting.
About five or six years ago I was attending the Portland Interenational Raceway Swapmeet. My buddies and I have a couple of booths there. This particular year, one if my booth buddies brought a truck to sell for his friend. It was a one owner 1992 1500 4x4., Completely stock. All the receipts and any and everything done to it. It was near perfect, except for the 274k miles on the 4.3 / 5 speed. It ran Great! I didn't think anything about it at the time, but the grill, bumpers, tow hooks and side mirrors were painted black. The truck is white and all decals and stickers had been removed. I figured the PO painted everything black to cover up the chrome for selling purposes.
I bought the truck on the cheap as a farm / work truck. I still drive it to the hardware store and occasionally the dump. I've put 278k on it. I've only recharged the AC.
Fast forward to the present. I got a new to me GMC Sierra. My wife wants me to sell the old beast. So I was looking at prices, options and other stuff to see what it's worth. I figured $1500 bucks or best offer. As I started to look for the same year truck with my options, I was coming up with very limited searches and values. I then stumbled across this website forum. And this post about mouldings and the Sport model pickup.;
https://www.gmt400.com/threads/body-molding.39914/page-3
I was now looking for the fabled "BYP" build designation code on the data sticker in the glovebox. To my disappointment. The data sticker was pretty much just a white, empty sticker. The years of things moving across cleaned every code off. What was I to do? My truck had apparently every option that the Sport model does, but I had no way to confirm if it was a "BYP" build option.
Then I remembered the same data codes are stamped on the firewall. I popped the hood, and this is what I found...
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