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GSTim said:
OK here we go Part 1:

Bought the Jeep when I was about 14, worked on it so much over the next few summers that I burned out on it before I could drive it. Sat in my grandfathers garage for years, then I sold it to a friend of my brother.

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V8-Powered 1965 Jeep CJ-5 and Stevens M416 Trailer

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My first real car. Bought it for $50, replaced the motor with a low mileage junkyard find and sold it for $650 3 years later. Mine was orange with a black stripe.


Used the money to buy this. Drove this all through college. Thing ate starters like nothing. Wasn't anywhere near as nice as this, but same color scheme and had the working cowl induction hood. Sold it to my brother and he wrecked it. 😡


My mom was looking for a new car and she liked the Dodge Omni. We went to look at them and they had a GLH on the lot, somehow me and my brother convinced her to buy it. When I got a real job after school I needed something more reliable so my Mom sold it to me. Fun car and with a boost bleed off it would at least hang with the junky Camaros and Mustangs of the time.

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V8 in a Vega - classic - cant beleive that one sold for 17K! wood drive!
 
classic! i got a parts car for free during college one of my friends had a 76 in that color. I took the doors off his because my driver door hinges rotted out (known issue) because the doors were like 200lbs each.

one day i came out of class and my frat brothers had taken a rattle can of black paint and color matched the door for me 😛
 
I hate the clearance lights on the roof, but otherwise I love this style of c10.... @Dingo what the hell is a 400 big block? I mean I can see in the pic that it is a BBC, but wasnt it 396 or (.030 over) 402? then 427, 454, etc

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1972 Chevrolet C10 Cheyenne Super Pickup

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400 big block in the trucks is a 402. 1970 first year, 396 bored 030. In the Chevelle, it was still called a 396.
For some reason they had overheating problems as I remember.
And there was a 400 small block used in both cars and trucks. It also had overheating problems.
 
Dingo said:
400 big block in the trucks is a 402. 1970 first year, 396 bored 030. In the Chevelle, it was still called a 396.
For some reason they had overheating problems as I remember.
And there was a 400 small block used in both cars and trucks. It also had overheating problems.
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My '70 Chevelle 402 (396) never had any overheating issues. Eating starters was another thing. 😀
 
UtahJoe said:
I hate the clearance lights on the roof, but otherwise I love this style of c10.... @Dingo what the hell is a 400 big block? I mean I can see in the pic that it is a BBC, but wasnt it 396 or (.030 over) 402? then 427, 454, etc

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1972 Chevrolet C10 Cheyenne Super Pickup

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Love the way those Big Blocks sound!
 
iman29 said:
Me too. Always wanted a 69 Camaro or 69 Chevelle SS 454 growing up. i am like a dog that sees a squirrel when I hear the lumpy bumpy sound of a big block I have to know where its coming from.
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I wanted both of those too! I shopped around using the want ad press (remember that?) Got a few rides in some really fast & scary BB's, but had to settle for a '69 Camaro ss 350. It was a turd compared to the BB.

There was a guy in Scotch Plains on Martine ave, he must have been a car dealer or somthing, always had SS Chevelles and Camaros parked at his house, a different one every week. We would stop and drool!
 
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iman29 said:
Me too. Always wanted a 69 Camaro or 69 Chevelle SS 454 growing up. i am like a dog that sees a squirrel when I hear the lumpy bumpy sound of a big block I have to know where its coming from.
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You had to get them earlier. I bought my '70 SS396 Chevelle for $1250 in 1983. It was really thrashed when I bought it, but it was all original. You could still get Shelby Mustangs for a decent price back then too. I went to look at a '68 GT500 KR that looked pretty good before I bought the Chevelle. The guy wanted $6800, way too rich for my blood at the time. But it had a 428 dual quad in it. I can only imagine what that is worth now. 😡
 
GSTim said:
You had to get them earlier. I bought my '70 SS396 Chevelle for $1250 in 1983. It was really thrashed when I bought it, but it was all original. You could still get Shelby Mustangs for a decent price back then too. I went to look at a '68 GT500 KR that looked pretty good before I bought the Chevelle. The guy wanted $6800, way too rich for my blood at the time. But it had a 428 dual quad in it. I can only imagine what that is worth now. 😡
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From 1981:
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GSTim said:
You had to get them earlier. I bought my '70 SS396 Chevelle for $1250 in 1983. It was really thrashed when I bought it, but it was all original. You could still get Shelby Mustangs for a decent price back then too. I went to look at a '68 GT500 KR that looked pretty good before I bought the Chevelle. The guy wanted $6800, way too rich for my blood at the time. But it had a 428 dual quad in it. I can only imagine what that is worth now. 😡
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I was trying to buy them in '76, most were beat to death and abused. Clean low miles was way out of my price range of $1500, cuz they were 6 yrs old and cost 3k new.
Remember they were just like regular cars back then, who knew.
 
Dingo said:
I was trying to buy them in '76, most were beat to death and abused. Clean low miles was way out of my price range of $1500, cuz they were 6 yrs old and cost 3k new.
Remember they were just like regular cars back then, who knew.
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Yeah, beat and abused has a different meaning now when the '66 GT350 that @Patrick posted went for almost $100K. That thing didn't run and was rusted beyond belief.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-ford-mustang-223/
 
GSTim said:
Yeah, beat and abused has a different meaning now when the '66 GT350 that @Patrick posted went for almost $100K. That thing didn't run and was rusted beyond belief.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-ford-mustang-223
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Not as bad as this one. Crazy

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Ya thats some big money for a car that will need a ton of work...But it looks to be all there and thats pretty important with something like a shelby....Nobody wants a shelby that was rebuild with repo parts. My hagerty guide says 66 gt350s are selling for as high as 275k, so 100k for that blue one seems like the going rate.

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From 1981:
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Man 7850 in 1983 was alot, but ya that would have been one hell of an investment. 150-200k now.
 
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