KyleV
Newbie
Found my 91 Chevy 2500 Camper Special while driving to a car show about half an hour from home. The couple was selling this and a 92 crew cab GMC, both with a long bed. I was interested in either, preferably the crew cab since we're a family of three and we planning on getting a dog in the near future. We found the trucks for sale on Marketplace and went to check them out the next day.
When we got there, there was a guy already looking at the GMC, so I went to the Chevy and started looking over the truck for things like rust etc. It was in pretty solid shape all in all. The owner gave me a bit of history on it: he was the 2nd or 3rd owner, and he and his wife typically drove it on trips to the dump etc. The guy before him had drove it into a ditch, and so the front driver's side panel had been replaced, as well as work done on the tie rod for that wheel. The wife had also backed into a fire hydrant at a weird angle which had put a sizeable dent in the passenger door. There was also a good amount of paint and clear coat that had chipped or worn away over the years, but I was expecting that.
I popped the hood, and despite its scars on the outside, the 5.7 small block as in GREAT shape and clean, to boot. I asked if I could take it for a spin, and she started right up (coincidentally, the GMC was having trouble turning over, so I was happy that I hadn't spent time looking at it). On the test drive with my father in law, the trucked handled like a dream. There was some clanking from the rear end when shifting to reverse as well as when she shifted into different gears, all in all I was happy.
At $1600, I couldn't pass it up, so she came home with me, just in time for us to remodel our kitchen. We made our first dump run a few weeks later.
When we got there, there was a guy already looking at the GMC, so I went to the Chevy and started looking over the truck for things like rust etc. It was in pretty solid shape all in all. The owner gave me a bit of history on it: he was the 2nd or 3rd owner, and he and his wife typically drove it on trips to the dump etc. The guy before him had drove it into a ditch, and so the front driver's side panel had been replaced, as well as work done on the tie rod for that wheel. The wife had also backed into a fire hydrant at a weird angle which had put a sizeable dent in the passenger door. There was also a good amount of paint and clear coat that had chipped or worn away over the years, but I was expecting that.
I popped the hood, and despite its scars on the outside, the 5.7 small block as in GREAT shape and clean, to boot. I asked if I could take it for a spin, and she started right up (coincidentally, the GMC was having trouble turning over, so I was happy that I hadn't spent time looking at it). On the test drive with my father in law, the trucked handled like a dream. There was some clanking from the rear end when shifting to reverse as well as when she shifted into different gears, all in all I was happy.
At $1600, I couldn't pass it up, so she came home with me, just in time for us to remodel our kitchen. We made our first dump run a few weeks later.
