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Picked  up  a 1995 chevy silverado with 8 ft plow  with only 23600 miles on it last spring , with rain lately  ive started to restore it. It now has almost 27800 on it but should last many years after body and cab mount repairs are done.  This truck was only used to plow a local campground and  i even get factory window sticker with it. I am 2nd owner. Screenshot_20220519-202512_Photos.thumb.jpg.bb8dad993087e846dfa616170d775cb2.jpgScreenshot_20220519-202524_Photos.thumb.jpg.cf376ff70f95f90ab43e6ae95f355eb1.jpgreceived_363611081339838.thumb.jpg.8ed376892d8e9af78f5a13878533eaaa.jpgAFTER..20220520_171931.thumb.jpg.913ae3f1930614ca444b5354b290f209.jpg20220520_103613.thumb.jpg.6305c995a308876846363cc4477e0832.jpg20220520_105825.thumb.jpg.4a623fe89a04c1a35dfe521a13a8a410.jpg20220519_135344.thumb.jpg.5a5e37b2fcc02c955d1af0f7c8e22689.jpgreceived_698871464565553.thumb.jpeg.8602bc77a34430c9c8912caee9ac00ed.jpeg20220519_135326.thumb.jpg.9210714807fe889288f662e1931859ca.jpg

 

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The first truck I ever bought was a well used 1995 1500 (2wd). It has the old 350 in it. I sold it to my dad when I went to grad school. Outside of putting a transmission in it at 250,000, and a little work on the front end, the truck still makes it’s 2-3 trips a week to town with 325,000 miles on the clock. When I go home I drive it as much as I can. I made a lot of memories in that old truck. 
Congrats on your find, and forgive me waxing nostalgic over it.  

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Good score, 350 or 305?  throttle body fi, is really reliable.  I still have my 88 k2500 and it runs great. I used it as a work truck for years.  I went with a newer Silverado and I'm super happy with the 5.3 but the 5.7 is a great power plant.

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4 minutes ago, Kmartinson said:

Good score, 350 or 305?  throttle body fi, is really reliable.  I still have my 88 k2500 and it runs great. I used it as a work truck for years.  I went with a newer Silverado and I'm super happy with the 5.3 but the 5.7 is a great power plant.

350 , fully loaded  , including  power lumbar support  in bench seat

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11 minutes ago, sbuff said:

Heartbeat of America,  like a rock ....

Idk about like a rock..the old willys i restored was 40 years older and metal was in lot better shape and much thicker.. and simply added gas and battery and drove it home after sitting 30 years.. them straight 6 are hard to beat.

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27 minutes ago, sbuff said:

Bob Seager song like a rock , it was chevys theme in the 90s 

 

Using a song to try and up your image is about the same as making up your own gender..  believe what you see.. 

Yes i remember the ads was always a mopar guy,  but deal was to good for this. 

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I had a 95 short box regular cab half ton 4x4 just like that in silver.  It was a good truck.  The 5.7 liter was a good power plant, but the 6.0 liter’s I have had in my last two 3/4 tons is a bit better.  My 3/4 ton 4x4 is great on a snowplow.   Not sure how that 1/2 ton will hold up on that.  
 

Now that global warming has kicked in full time, and snow in wny is mostly a thing of the past, I prefer the 2wd 3/4 ton extended cab that I am driving now.  

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21 minutes ago, wolc123 said:

I had a 95 short box regular cab half ton 4x4 just like that in silver.  It was a good truck.  The 5.7 liter was a good power plant, but the 6.0 liter’s I have had in my last two 3/4 tons is a bit better.  My 3/4 ton 4x4 is great on a snowplow.   Not sure how that 1/2 ton will hold up on that.  
 

Now that global warming has kicked in full time, and snow in wny is mostly a thing of the past, I prefer the 2wd 3/4 ton extended cab that I am driving now.  

Plan on repainting this black and silver.. 

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40 minutes ago, G-Man said:

Plan on repainting this black and silver.. 

I also had basically the identical truck in a 92 GMC, also silver.  I nearly smoked the tranny on that, towing a trailer loaded with sleds in overdrive,  into the wind, coming home from the Adirondacks.  One of my buddies who was following me said he could see the smoke, over the CB.  It wouldn’t even shift, by the time I pulled into a store in Corfu, and added a couple quarts of tyranny fluid, to nurse it the rest of the way home.  
 

I got a buddy to get it to shift again and swap out the burnt fluid, then traded it in on the 95 Chevy.  That was the only truck I ever traded in.  Most, I have sold then to friends, but I didn’t want to stick someone with that questionable transmission.  

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3 hours ago, Paula said:

What are you going to do with it when you are done, are you keeping it? Do you still have that other truck that you restored?

I sold the willys to a big collector , friends with jay leno and tim allen..  he put another 10 k into it including chroming the entire front end and an over drive.   

Ill keep this one unless someone offers me crazy money again...

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7 hours ago, Paula said:

Do you sleep or ever sit and relax? How do you find the time for all you seem to do?

This is relaxing , so is habitat work..  i dont sleep much anyway.. use to only 5 hours from work.. 

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