My story is a love story but not boy meets girl, at least not at the beginning that part comes later, its a story of boy meets truck. when I was around 12 years old I was with my father delivering gravel to some family friends when I saw this truck for the first time. I had always been I truck person and when I laid eyes on this truck it was love at first sight. Now fast forward 5 years I was driving past the owner of the truck's house when I saw it at the end of their driveway with a for-sale sign in it, I knew at that moment I had to stop and ask about it.
At that point in time, I was a 17-year-old kid and the asking price might as well been a million dollars, but thanks to my family I was able to get the truck. the first thing I did was put a 94 k1500 grille in the truck since I always like that grille better then the 91 style This truck and I have been through a lot together I drove it to high school, college, I went on my first date in this truck and several years later married the young lady and on our wedding day I drove the truck which is the second part of the love story.
But as the years went by the old truck started falling into a state of disrepair. For many years life went on and the truck sat in a lean-to and became a catch-all for lumber and car parts. I would often sit in and remember days gone by of my youth until one day I stood back and took a long look at the truck in its sad state and said to myself that I couldn't let this be the end of the truck and I's story. From there I dragged the truck out of the lean-to and started working on it. I tore it down to a bare fame and cab and built it back front that, I por-15 the frame, put new gm bedsides on it new doors and fenders too. I did all the bodywork and paintwork myself. It took 2 years to get it done.
I am 35 years old now and I still look at this truck the same way I did when I was 12, My wife and I still enjoy taking the truck to our local drive-in movie theater where we went on our first day almost 15 years ago. Some people may say its just a truck but to me its so much more, to me its years of memories. The first pictures are when I bought the truck when I was 17, the next is when I pulled it out if the lean-to years later, the next two are when I was working on it and the last is the finished truck.
