99firehawk
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So i used to have a 83 k5 but I sold it when I moved from detroit to miami. 10'years later I saw a 70 k5 at a local restaunt and i wanted one. Spent a few weeks back and forth thinking about what I would do with a 40 year old truck sitting in my driveway or taking up my small garage. In the end neither common sense nor my wonderful wife talked me out or it. I bid on a few on ebay but nothing panned out and the good ones sold for 18000 or better, just coundnt buy a tuck for that much that was probaly mostly bondo and rust under new paint. Then on day surfing on ck5 I found a member selling a 1972 k5 that he had allready dumped cubic dollars into at what I thought was a fair price. I sent him a check and had the truck shipped to miami. I took it into the shop at work and we all looked it over. My buddy offered to buy it off me for half what I paid so he could save me 15k, he's wrong he could probaly save me 25, I have a bad habit of throwing lots of money into things and then selling at a loss. I don't expect this to be different. The plan changes every 20 minutes or so but I expect it will end up different then most builds here. It's never going to see mud or dirt or trails, and the height may be an issue. I also have pretty high expectations of the finished product based on what i work on all day at work.
Here's some before photos of how it came off the truck. The truck will be gutted next then dropped off at the body shop where all the rust will be cut out and repaired and then the whole truck sprayed in a cool new color.
Here's some before photos of how it came off the truck. The truck will be gutted next then dropped off at the body shop where all the rust will be cut out and repaired and then the whole truck sprayed in a cool new color.
but they beat us
I even have the airbrush paint I bought for it still on the table
but we both knew that would happen. I hope it has a good florida life. 
and we'll see if our situation has changed any by then. He's taking to working life WAY better than school... impressing me really
I'm sure he'd do everything in his power if it came available in the future
I guess there was unseen stuff, always is
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