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10 minutes ago, MiSledder said:I had a 78 Chevy 4x4 3/4 ton I drove daily for yrs, Plowed snow with it, burnt orange with tan in the middle
ugly as sin color combo, But was loaded for a 78, really miss that truck
Mine was a Wisconsin Electric Power co. truck, had a 6 banger in it when I bought it, the 350 I installed came from a '79 Blazer I bought that had been in a barn fire, it was a 4X4, as time went on I purchased fiberglass doors, fenders, & rocker panels from a place in Union Grove, Wi., sold it around 2003 for $800 with a Western Plow.
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For the history buffs. Some very interesting World War II Facts. Many you would not believe or were even aware of.The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese.
Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe .
More U.S. Servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps.
Polish Catholic midwife Stanisawa Leszczyñska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz Concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland .
In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day.
Americans got 22.
In 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the United States. Only 139 more were made during the entire war.
Four of every five German soldiers killed in the war died on the Eastern Front.
Only 20 percent of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived the war.
In World War II, the youngest serviceman in the United States military was Calvin Graham - age 12. Graham lied about his age when he enlisted in the US Navy. His real age was not discovered until after he was wounded. (Unbelievable)
Only one out of every four men serving on U-boats survived.
The Siege of Stalingrad resulted in more Russian deaths (military and civilian) than the United States and Britain sustained (combined) in all of World War II.
To avoid using the German sounding name 'hamburger' during World War II, Americans used the name 'Liberty Steak.'
Adolf Hitler's nephew, William Hitler, served in the US Navy during World War II!!!
Adolph Hitler and Henry Ford each kept a framed picture of the other on his desk.
During World War II, the largest Japanese spy ring was actually located in Mexico .
The mortality rate for Russian POWs in German camps was 85 percent.
Had it been necessary for a third atom bomb, the city targeted would have been Tokyo .
An Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer, who fought in World War II, Hiroo Onoda never surrendered in 1945. Until 1974, for almost 30 years, he held his position in the Philippines . His former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974.
Total casualties for World War II totaled between 50 - 70 million people, 80 percent of which came from only four countries - Russia, China, Germany and Poland. Over 50 percent of the casualties were civilians, with the majority of those being women and children.
Veterans are people who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check payable to the United States Of America , for an amount up to and including their life. Remember ALL of our Vets…"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ... Abraham Lincoln
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17 minutes ago, MiSledder said:
Nice! Love it, i made a living in the early 90s on 1978-1987 K10 trucks, bought and sold countless trucks, i made probably made at least 50 scottsdales look like Silverados, I had other car dealers I did them for and myself,
Carpet kits were 175 dollars, new seat upholstered for 200, paint the truck, two tone, 2 inch chrome trim used to be made by Spartan Plastics in my town, 80 bucks for a box, striping I made, was good money back then for me
I had a '78 short box with roll bar and jacked up somewhat, 350 with racing hydraulics, C3BX manifold with 850 Holley, Doug Thorley headers.
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4 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:so your the guy blocking traffic going 3 under in the left lane
i can't count how many times i have been stopped in the past 30 years, usually 1-2 times a year used to be more than that. Usually if you treat them with respect they just send you on your way, the 4 speeding tickets I have were written at 20 over and I was faster than that when stopped so i deserved it.
I drive 5 over everywhere using GPS, but seriously the nearest freeway is 50 miles away and it's very rare that we take the freeway, mostly very scenic back roads to everywhere.
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