Here is the $200 K20. Yes, that is a tree growing in place of the engine . . .
Martin
Martin
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What's the cheapest you have drove a K5 home for?
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73redblaze
1/2 ton status
iv always wanted to do the wooden block swap. howd she run?Here is the $200 K20. Yes, that is a tree growing in place of the engine . . .
Martin
SilveradoRacer
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Hai ... i baught my baby for about 2000 $ .... but is was in rust free condition :-)
greets tom
greets tom
mudboggink5
1/2 ton status
This is my latest k5, bought it for 700.00. The PO siad it had a blown head gasket. I brought it home tossed a battery in it and started right up, head gasket was fine. It ended up needing a t case. I had a spare laying around. The only rust it had was on the hood and alitle on the tailgate. heres when i first bought it.
1 ton swap
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1 ton swap
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Ends up a truck but started a k-5......nice finds guys, i wish i got mine atleast whole...... i bought a 84 blazer that was real rough it ran and drove but needed also also, when i paid the lady..200.00 i seen the shortbed and i said what do you want for that...free if you take the blazer...so i used the truck and stripped and junked the blazer...i dont have any pics of the first day i got it but heres when it started.... first pic wen i had taken off the shot fenders and inner fenders..31s , 2nd new fenders and started the 6in 35s.., 4th 6in ,3in body and 38 gumbos, 3rd now........8in susp/3 body....39s........some how i mixed up the pics...
Come on guys, don't get sidetracked here. He asked for rigs that "you drove home", not beaters that were non-running or missing drivetrain stuff.
If I were to list everything I bought for cheap or nothing, you would fall asleep reading my post. So I'm only telling about 2 that I got for cheap and free.
'80 K10 LWB, it was my very first 4x4 I ever drove. It was pretty much my high school car until I bought my very first rig my senior year.
Anyways, dad had this truck for around 15 years until he bought his current '97 CC/Dually K30. He just signed the title over to me and said "have at it". I didn't have it long because it was a rusty hulk.
Next best running rig I ever drove home for cheap is an '80 K20 Suburban. I still have it. Got a good strong running 350 with the 400/205 and 10/14 bolts. Brand new tires/rims, too. Body is beyond gone. Gonna strip the body off this one and ponder putting on something older, like maybe a '55-'59 truck. Not sure yet.
Oh yeah, I paid $400 for this one.
If I were to list everything I bought for cheap or nothing, you would fall asleep reading my post. So I'm only telling about 2 that I got for cheap and free.
'80 K10 LWB, it was my very first 4x4 I ever drove. It was pretty much my high school car until I bought my very first rig my senior year.
Anyways, dad had this truck for around 15 years until he bought his current '97 CC/Dually K30. He just signed the title over to me and said "have at it". I didn't have it long because it was a rusty hulk.
Next best running rig I ever drove home for cheap is an '80 K20 Suburban. I still have it. Got a good strong running 350 with the 400/205 and 10/14 bolts. Brand new tires/rims, too. Body is beyond gone. Gonna strip the body off this one and ponder putting on something older, like maybe a '55-'59 truck. Not sure yet.
Oh yeah, I paid $400 for this one.
All right then. Here's the one and only K5 I ever owned (and still own).
Wrecking yard - I think it was $1,600 - $1,700 (salvage fees - brake and lamp inspection, blah blah blah couple hundred bucks later)
1988, couple of dents/scrapes, TBI 350, less than 70,000 miles, 4speed stick, rubber mats and no interior.
Everyone said the motor was shot because the valve stem seals were leaking a little- little puff out the tail pipe in the morning.
Drove it home, passed smog no problems, fixed the valve stem seals later. Motor ran great. Stick shift, 3.08 gears and tiny tires - I was the burn out king and got 14-16 MPG all the time!
Lifted with decent used tires and wheels for less than $100, then took it out a few times, bounced the pickup out of the oil pump, and made a few full throttle decents down really steep sandy hills with no oil pressure...
I really doubt I had 2k in the truck up until that point...
Wrecking yard - I think it was $1,600 - $1,700 (salvage fees - brake and lamp inspection, blah blah blah couple hundred bucks later)
1988, couple of dents/scrapes, TBI 350, less than 70,000 miles, 4speed stick, rubber mats and no interior.
Everyone said the motor was shot because the valve stem seals were leaking a little- little puff out the tail pipe in the morning.
Drove it home, passed smog no problems, fixed the valve stem seals later. Motor ran great. Stick shift, 3.08 gears and tiny tires - I was the burn out king and got 14-16 MPG all the time!
Lifted with decent used tires and wheels for less than $100, then took it out a few times, bounced the pickup out of the oil pump, and made a few full throttle decents down really steep sandy hills with no oil pressure...
I really doubt I had 2k in the truck up until that point...
Here is the $200 K20. Yes, that is a tree growing in place of the engine . . .
Martin
"Greenest" chevy I have ever seen!
Take that hybred Prius! This truck powered by mother nature bitch!
Sqeejo
1/2 ton status
$700
Mine current Blazer (and first) was 700 out the door. It drove home over 150 miles the day i bought it. Still haven't done anything other than change the oil and the battery a year after I bought it.
Here she is now:
Mine current Blazer (and first) was 700 out the door. It drove home over 150 miles the day i bought it. Still haven't done anything other than change the oil and the battery a year after I bought it.
Here she is now:
bigbadchev84
1/2 ton status
Brought it home for $500
here it is now
here it is now
Got my first RUNNING k-series truck for free. 79k10 with 78k on the odo. My friend gave it to me in Poughkeepsie NY, and I drove it to California. 3120 miles in 3 days, talk about a champ. My and my bud split the gas, so I guess it cost me 250ish back in 2003. It had an aluminum camper with crank windows and not a dent on it. This pic is about a year later after wheeling it. I cut the truck up in 05 due to smog and body damage.
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$1800 and a plane ticket to Seattle. It's rust free and immediately drove me from Seattle back to Grand Rapids, MI without giving me any mechanical trouble.
Back in May when Kenny first picked it up for me:
Currently:
Back in May when Kenny first picked it up for me:
Currently:
desertrat67
Hawk Driver
Brought it home for $500
here it is now
I am jealous. That was a great find and then you went and made it look great also!
73redblaze
1/2 ton status
are there not many blazers where you are?? to buy a plane ticket is hardcore!! i would say on any given day there are around 40 within 200 miles of me.
Rust man, RUST.
Ten_Bucks
1/2 ton status
My very first vehicle was a K5 I bought in 1997 from the lady that lived right across the street from me. Cost was $1,000.00. '83 diesel K5 with 304K original miles on it. The lady that I bought it from inherited it from her son who died of cancer in 1997 and the guy was a close friend of mine. He was a mentor of sorts. It was stolen from my uncle's driveway in June 2002 with almost 400K on the clock and it was never recovered.
Scott
Scott
$1200 bucks for the two tone 83
$500 bucks for the other one, most 4x4s on kodiak island normaly go for more i havent figured out why its so cheap
I brought home a 78 K5 maybe 5 years ago for $700. Drove it home with a loose pinion nut. Tightened the pinion nut with a breaker bar when i got home and never had a problem with it. Power washed the inside of it, got in to move it and my foot went thru the floor haha. Then the front seal on the trans let go, and then i locked up the motor a few months later. Good truck though, taught me A LOT about these old chevys.
Best I have done was $700 for a '79 2wd K5. Body was rusty, but the tailgate still opened and the truck ran and drove very nice. Eventually sold it because it had a very bad rear main oil leak. Actually, I didn't really sell it, I traded it even for a nice running and driving '78 Bonneville that didn't leak oil.
