I drove it around a few times and drove it 30 miles to work several times too, before the weather got bad. In this time, I learned what all needed fixed, repaired or just replaced. Some of it I already knew about, but a bunch was the usual surprises of buying an old truck.
Radio loose and had no reception.
Wipers had a mind of there own.
Steering column loose (tilt).
Driver door panel falling apart.
AC inoperational.
HVAC temp was kinda stuck on 3/4 heat and air kinda blew out everywhere.
Driver seat bottom collapsing.
Driver window missing the vertical guides.
Tonneau cover hinge broken.
Bed misaligned and half the bolts gone.
Weird, ugly, textured paint of some kind.
But besides all that stuff, it had a lot going for it. It drove well, it ran great, and it still had ALL of the 454 SS specific parts with the exception of the bodyside mouldings and one of the 1500 emblems.
So in the spring, I went to the Springfield swap meet and went home with a couple of factory black painted fenders. The left one is good, the right one is kinda rough, but it was thrown into the deal and had good stuff I needed like a factory antenna and underhood light.
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At this point I had also removed the tonneau cover. I was tired of having to open it all the time.
Then soon after that, I got a '94 Suburban for parts. Black with a red interior and it had a bunch of the odds and ends I needed that would have otherwise nickel and dimed me.
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