These were the only years of Chevy and gmc that I personally ever liked. The gmc's were even more visually appealing than the chevy's in stock form. I can't confirm this but Steve Mags probably can, I believe dodge tried to copy the appeal of these trucks when they radically changed their trucks in 72. What do you think Steve?
I had a 67....six cyl...three on the tree. First gear was out of it, so we swapped a top loader 4 spd. Of course had to cut a big arse hole in the cab for the taller tranny....AND...a longer driveshaft. I paid $250 for the truck in the late 70's. Those were the days.
I always liked this body style. BITD I had a puke green ‘69 C20 with the exact same bed cap, but what I really wanted was a C10 step-side with a six banger.
Steve, thank you for just being you. You're just a little older than me and it's getting harder and harder to find guys like you (and me). I really appreciate your videos.
Correct, the VIN gets the win: C for 2WD, E for V8 equipped (S is for six cylinder), 1 is for 1/2 ton (2 is 3/4, 3 is 1 ton, etc.), 4 for pickup and box, 7 for 1967 model year (8 is 1968, 9 is 1969, 0 is 1970, 1 for 1971, 2 for 1972), T for Tarrytown, NY assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Tarrytown, NY plant operated from 1914-1915 until 1996 and prior to 1915, it was a Stanley Steam Car factory. The last vehicles to be made in Tarrytown were the "Dustbuster" vans, and after Tarrytown's closure, production was moved to Doraville, GA. These 1967-1972 trucks were made in various plants such as Atlanta (Lakewood Heights), GA (A), Janesville, WI (J), Flint, MI (F), "Freaky Fremont", CA (Z), Baltimore, MD (B), St. Louis, MO (S), Oshawa, Ontario Canada (1), among other plants. Custom Sport Trucks will have an RPO code "Z84" on the SPID label. No tag, can't brag, and no SPID, wish you did, but possible code 511 Dark Aqua exterior paint. However, "DD" on the tag comes back to a color known as "Strato Blue" in other years, but I don't think that's a paint code on there. Sometimes the paint codes and charts don't always line up as they should.
Hello Google User GP, Steve Magnante here on November 26. I've been on the mend for several weeks but am close to my return to the Junkyard. I'll be shooting more Crawl videos shortly, Thanks for keeping the faith. Steve Magnante
Anyone interested in restoring chevy trucks should get that 67 C10 and then get some parts from the dry west to fix it up to OEM specs. They will not be disappointed and it will make a great project.
Fantastic. I look forward each morning to a junkyard crawl. I had a 72 C20, with that body style, always been my favourite. Those truck caps were very very popular where I live in Ontario, Canada. Because you could have tools and equipment in the back of your truck during the winter, and not have them buried under snow. Lockjaw is ready to ride.
I love when a vehicle has been somewhere long enough for trees to grow up and block the doors. The gold is usually hiding inside them. Nice truck and bike
Someone really cared about this truck for a long time. Changed out the engine to keep it on the road, using Ford wheel covers, to keep it looking good, you can tell someone loved it for a while.
I love those years of Chevy trucks. My best one was a rusted out 70 stepside that everybody thought it was just a junky beater. Sure, a junky beater hiding a 327 Vette engine and a 4 speed manual trans. I miss that truck, we had a lot of fun together.
The junkyard dog and the creepy deer head need to make a showing in the same video Steve!! Try it and see how many of us fans catch it!! Great work as usual by you and super Shane!!
My dad had a 68. We bought a camper and obviously needed a truck to stick it on top of. After just a couple of years though, he sold the truck and the camper to a guy in our neighborhood. He kept in for 15 years or more. I really loved that truck but, I like the so called "Square Body" styling a bit better. I always thought it was kinda funny that the next generation was dubbed the "Square Body" Chevy trucks, especially since the Chevys we remember from the late 80s took squareness to a ludicrous level. You really have a very well trained dog there.
My wife's grandmother gifted us her grandfather's 68 C20 CST with 327 A/C. I'm getting ready to add a 8-lug disk brakes to the front. Awesome walk around Steve and thanks for sharing! 😃👍👍🤙
It is a great deal hope you can fix it up like new and you will have a great tow truck for pulling the best thing for me about old trucks is thay are never going to be worth less money if you put 5 or 6 thousand dollars in a nice old truck it will always get your money back if you buy a new or 5 or so year old truck it will lose money every day no matter what you do
Dad bought a six-month-old '69 CST/10 with a 307 V8 and drove it to work for the next 25 years. I got it from him then and have been driving it in the summer ever since. It now runs a 350 that once resided in a Camaro and is a propane burner to make it affordable to drive. This truck always had a bench seat although my Dad wished it had buckets. Someday my kid will own this truck for sure...
Hi Steve, I like the truck, and I really like the bike, my first bikes were a CB125 and then a CB350-4, in the late 70s they had fallen out of fashion, and were considered a bit old-fashioned and nerdy, hence, used examples sold cheap, which worked just fine for my $2.90 an hour budget working at McDonald's. All of the "cool kids" at that time wanted the super fast Kawasaki KZ 900s and 1000s. It's neat to see that people appreciate the old Hondas again. Now that people know about that bike at Benardston Auto Wrecking, it's probably going to be gone within a week and will hopefully see some new life on the road.
I had a 67 gmc when I was a kid loved that truck. I was hard on it went through the 327 and 2 350s 2 turbo 400s and 2 12 bolt diffs and still loved that truck.
Step dad had a 1967 C10 two-wheel drive, long bed, three speed 283. That three speed linkage would sometimes get bound up so you'd open the hood and straighten it out. He put a similar cap on in the mid '70's except his had the rear door and then the boot to Cab and still had a sliding window as well. About the same time as putting the cap on. He also replaced the 283 with the another 283 that came out of a crate ,wooden crate, he bought from Chevrolet. Then repainted from yellow to a darker green matching the cap and boot. It wasn't fancy like this one. It came without a radio, no armrests and one sun visor.
Hi Steve great vid. These trucks are some great trucks. I've owned a couple Suburbans from this styling cycle that I've wrote about in earlier videos. Lockjaw voiced his opinion in this video. I've done several engine swaps in my time but never have I taken a V8 out and swapped it for a 6. That Honda in the back is definitely worth saving. These bikes are popular with the café racers. Some turn them into "bobbers". Namaste 🙏🏼
@@daynadiggle8169 I say if it came with a six, keep it a six. If it came with a V8, keep it a V8. I was never one for engine swaps. They always look hooptied and cobbled together. I've seen very few that look exactly like they should from the assembly line.
When I was 25 I bought a 1968 C10 stepside long bed with the wooden bed floor and the spare tire on the side we called it Rusty black. It was originally a 327 but then sported a 292 with an automatic. I replaced the wheels with 15 inch wagons with 60 series tires and it could get into third gear before you were through the intersection.
I'm sure someone there knows that bike is back there. That's why it was backed up against a tree. I had a 68 CST 396 truck many years ago. Wish I still had it. Love your show.
In the 70s my older brother had one of them with the stake platform bed for hauling his iron works, it was 3 speed manual on the column. I used to drive it once in a while. It was a simple easy to maintain truck! V8 of course! I always liked those! It also had dually’s. Sad to see that one rotting away! It should be restored! Damn! Even the Honda motorcycle is a collectible piece! Wow!
CST are desirable. This was the precursor to the Cheyenne super. This one deserves to be restored. I would keep it as it is with a long bed but definitely lose the cap.
@@zephead4835 Agreed to keep it as a long box, remember the Long Horn chev trucks, the bed was a few inches longer, and agreed,this one needs to be saved
Thanks Steve. Wow, so much great info and a bike, too. I think I’m in the minority in that I like the long beds. Great for hauling loads of stuff. But then, it really depends on how you want to use it.
I agree, long beds are the way to go. For me if I can't put a motorcycle or 4'x8' sheet of plywood in and be able to close the tailgate it's kinda' pointless as a truck.
I wish I lived closer, I would definitely like to have that truck. I’ve had several 60s Chevy trucks loved them all have been thinking about getting another. Great video, great camera work also glad to see lockjaw still on the job.
My dad bought a 67 C10 brand new!straight 6, 3 on the tree.i learned how to drive standard transmission on that truck! Just thinking of that truck brings back so many great memories!thanks Steve!👍
My dad had a 1968 c10 Chevrolet truck with a factory 307cu V8 with a three on the tree standard shift. He rebuild the motor and put a fireball cam and eldabrock aluminum 4 barrel carburetor holly intake on the engine. It use to shake and rock while sitting at a red light. He kept the exhaust quite. It would smoke the tires off. It was a sleeper.
🤦♂️ oh the pain! Just reminds me of a 72 I was knocking around in , in the 90’s 350 column converted to floor 👍 regretted getting rid of it! 😡 .. LJ! 🐕 ✌️🤙
My grandpa had a truck just like that when I was a kid he used for wood hauling, I remember it getting stuck really easy, maybe it was the hard, bald, tires that were on it.
2WD, standard cab, long bed. I call them "Grandpa Trucks" because usually it's either a work truck or some old guy like me are driving them. Needless to say, I've owned 4 of them in this configuration.
I have a 69 with 68 nose. 6 cylinder dual wheels. I could use a bunt of parts to get mine nice again. Also that Honda to tool around when I’m not on my CBR. Great stuff guys!
Mr. B. Here ! Good afternoon to you Steve & Junkyard Crawl fans ! , tree knock power out over night ! Light duty trucks are great vehicle for those job around the house and small businesses. Manufacturers can not take to the Cleaners, & to many regulations . So the cost to build them is high and low $$$$$$ !
Steve you have covered several 67-72 bowtie trucks. But you have yet to mention the father of these trucks. That award goes to none other than the father of the ‘Hot Wheels’. That’s right Harry Bentley Bradley was the man that restyled the GM pickup for the 67 model year.
I believe the 67-72 body style was referred to as the "Action Series". Great looking trucks! I have a 71 C10 2wd longbed with the 350 and 4-speed SM465 gearbox, as well as power front disc brakes (first year for those, right?) and 5-lug wheels with the 12-bolt truck rearend, 4.10 gears, and the coil springs and "truck arm" rear suspension (they used those same rear trailing arms on NASCAR race cars for a LONG time, didn't they?). I have restored a set of 1980's era 15X8 Chevy Truck Rallyes, and have 31x10.50x15 all-terrains on those, so she looks pretty badass! She's green on green with the deluxe interior. She only has 88k original miles on her. I got her for FREE from a friend of mine about 10 years ago. I worked on this truck when her dad (the original owner) had it. I have done a bunch of work to this truck, going back over 25 years. I even replaced the clutch once in the parking area of the apartment complex I lived in on the San Francisco Peninsula! Fun job that was, LOL! Anyway, she's a great old truck with an old Holley vacuum secondary 4 barrel and an old Edelbrock StreetMaster intake, that stuff was probably installed in the early-mid 70's. These trucks are so solid when they are rust-free, like mine is for the most part. It's amazing how smooth and quiet they drive down the road, almost like a new truck! Thanks, Steve, for yet another great junkyard crawl. Love seeing your stuff, man! Stay safe, brother!
Another great crawl! Still waiting for some 'Junkyard Crawl' merch. A coffee mug for me, at least. If the frame hasn't completely rotted away that's a $5,000 (or more) truck. Ran when parked! No low ballers, I know what I got!
Cool stuff Steve ! In about 87 88 i bought a neighbors Gold 68 longbed 327 turbo 400 373 posi cst pick up... clean original truck only 20 years old at the time.... ive had a handful of trucks snce then but that was oneof the best... i think the gold color was a 50 year anniversary color... corect me if im wrong on that ! I just watched you and utg talk funny car history from about a year ago. I enjoy you and Tony's knowledge on that subject. Thanks for sharing
Me too but sold them in the 1990's when they got real money like 3 thousand dollars ha in the southern states now a CST cab would be a lot more money now
My grandfather had a 68 step side 6 cylinder with four speed. My dad’s cousin bought it from him to haul trash until the body mounts began to rust away from the frame.
Any time you saw a topper like that on a truck back in the day you knew it was a vehicle owned by an old man. I used to cringe every time I saw one because to me, it made what was otherwise a really cool vehicle seem dowdy! Fast forward to today and I’d love to have a short box, regular cab F-150 with a painted-to-match fiberglass topper on it as my daily driver! OMG - does that mean I’m getting OLD……😮
The truck is cool, but that Honda CB is a real find. The whole CB line is coming into favor right now. I'm rebuilding a '75 CB 750 that was my father's bike. Original parts are expensive and hard to find. That 200 looks to be in great condition. A virtual"Barn find"
I've seen an absolutely gorgeous CB 750/4 running around town for the last few summers. I don't know if it's original or restored and, unfortunately, I haven't been able to catch up with the rider to try to ask questions. The chrome and blue paint shine like a new penny though.
When I was 16 I bought a 67 C10 (1977) that was a unique truck in how it was optioned. Well, maybe not unique but.... It had a 283 2bbl 3-tree. Being the dumb kid I was I didn't realize the jewel I possessed. I think that engine was either hi output, had carbon buildup, or advanced timing because you could not stand on the gas without spark knock. 67 was the only year for the small back window. Didn't have the west coast mirrors, did have front/ back chrome bumpers and chrome on the grill. I'm 62 now, shit, that was 45 years ago. Had the steel bed, also.
Hi Steve, good video! Yes, short bed pickup's are more sought after because they normally do bring a higher resale value over long beds because they are "sportier". People are converting old 1/2 ton long bed pickups to short beds at an alarming rate. Short bed pickups, (not extended cab or crew cab) are most commonly referred to as a "sport truck". By the way, Chevrolet dealer truck sales broachers referred to the round inner fender wells as "bathtub fender skirts" to as you said, self rinsing wheel walls. Ford did the same thing, but in the mean time, Ford installed a plastic inner wheel liner in place as a shield, later on. Please say Hi to to your dog "Lockjaw". Please reply. Dave...
Thanks Steve for another fabulous wake up story . I want that bike . I just assume fly our there purchase the bike get it running on camera and ride it back to iowa...
Chevy trying to keep up with the Dodge CSS which was available a few years earlier. That's pretty cool to see this truck with the vintage topper and Honda preserved in the back!!! Very nice!!!
I always loved that body style. I remember a 4X4 store in Sayville, Long Island that had a custom Blazer of that vintage. They had actually welded both doors and made ir into one with a high step in. Rag top and all, beige in color. Beautiful truck. I contacted the “The Truck Shop” in Sayville as they were the ones who had worked on it. However they have new ownership and no one had any recollection or pictures of it. Too bad always wondered what happened to it.
Steve I'm so happy to to see I'm not the only Cliff Claven ( mailman from Cheers) of old cars trucks and motorcycles , more useless information then ppl care to listen to, I can name year and model at a glance.. problem I've had since a young child, keep up the great job Cliff lol
Six cylinder or not it's still cool! In fact, I'd prefer six. I used to have a 75 CB200T in highschool 😁, maybe the GMC looks a tiny bit more stylish with the four headlights. I want that bike........
Each video i learn more little facts about vehicles special features. One would be the inner fender design. Another good video ! One thing i remember about my friends '71 , in 1976 , was that the manual steering would pull or kick back the steering wheel from your hands abruptly when driving over uneven ground.
They replaced the broken engine with another one that fit that they could get and was affordable. Farmers liked the 250 big time. That engine could be from a Biscayne or another car. Probably better used condition than a similar V-8... maybe. Cheaper for sure. Especially if it is a bolt in.
I owned a SWB 69 GMC custom version that had an auto, factory v8, factory ac. Drove it from the time I was 16 till just last year. Wish I woulda kept it but somebody thought it was worth more than I did.
One time I asked an old guy how he felt about selling his 2 owner, unrestored, 57 Bel-Air he had owned since 1971, "enough hundred dollar bills will wipe away alot of tears." That was the most cash I ever seen change hands.
When I was at this yard last week Dale told me he was building a 72 4x4 Chevrolet pickup. I’d be willing to bet he know about the motor scooter! BTW I drove 1400 miles from Dallas Texas to pick up the silent Malibu. Nice video Steve!
"Rebuild", not "build". They are only built once by GM and the hobbyist restores and rebuilds them, not builds them. Hobbyists fabricate parts at times, but we do not forge our own pistons, cast our own blocks, etc. We assemble parts from other sources.
@@googleusergp I’m a fabricator myself. I have built tube chassis and have built frame truss and front frame halves, Back halves subframe connectors roll cages I guess I am just used to saying built. But hey, who’s to say he ain’t welding on snow plow mounts and such!
@@neshpro6521 Fabrication is slightly different than building it. Building it means it's engineered (on paper and with the proper analysis), documented, certified, etc. and then manufactured. Fabrication is very rarely done in a repeatable manner like mass production. Hobbyists assemble a vehicle of parts manufactured by other sources.
My father had a 1969 C10. You mentioned the side markers in the beginning of the video. My father's 1969 did have side markers BUT they did no light up. They were just reflectors. My father had the dealer wire them up and install bulbs so that they would actually function.
We had a 67 C10 Custom when I was a kid. It had a 327 automatic and manual steering. I learned to drive in that truck back in 1978 (I was 12). It was awful to steer at slow speed because it turns out that the factory had installed a smaller power steering wheel. We purchased the truck from the original owner and it had always had the the OEM wheel. Dad had driven a friend's truck and immediately noticed that his wheel was larger. So sometimes the factory does make a mistake.
Hey Steve is the bottom of that truck rusted out.? I see the wheel well on the bed above the back tire but that's common. A couple of updates if you don't mind. If bucket seats were standard on the CST especially in the years 67 and 68. Then the majority of them that are survivors of whatever condition but have not been made in the toasters yet, were ordered down. I've only found two out of maybe 200 add bucket seats. I'm talking about CST. 69 I found a few more with buckets. Same thing for 70-72. The CST had special inlays in the bench seat. They also had the vinyl door coverings to match. Now like anything with GM you can order it by any way you wanted it. The truck set a little lower than the standard truck. The aluminum trim down the side as well as a trim up front we're available on the custom model as well. The engine being a V8 probably a 327 since it was a CST. Of course it could always been a 283. But I think the 396 would be the holy Grail. The 400s were common by time of 70 72. I know it puzzles you why anybody put in a 6 cylinder and take out a V8. But the most likely scenario is that they use what they have handy. A 6 cylinder thought of more fuel economy but that's a policy. Put a 283 or a 327 in there with a four barrel and block off the secondary barrels and you can get great gas mileage. Because the front two barrels are smaller normally than a regular two barrel carburetor. But a person with an even tempered foot and a Carter carb could do better at maintaining RPMs thus getting better gas mileage. Put in a gear ratio say at 2:33 or higher geared and back in the day I was getting 25 miles per gallon. I currently have one that I get 22 miles a gallon and it has the all new boring 350 / 350 turbo for 1968 cst. But it's numbers matching dry Texas climate truck CST with around 55,000 mi.. the three on the tree was not uncommon. After all automatic transmission was just another power glide and they had so much trouble with the powerglide. Why would you want to have a truck with an automatic when you can have a dependable manual transmission and get decent gas mileage if it's three speed instead of a four speed. That isn't me talking and there's a lot of fallacies in that. But back in the day that was the thinking. Why ruin a good looking truck by chopping it down and making it a short bed? Drop the suspension and make her long and sleek. That's my opinion. The GMC did not have coil springs on back they still had leaf springs. The CST GMC sister truck has a very nice badge on the front fender between the tire and the door. The red interior is very nice. So much so I almost bought one instead of my CST. I've had other CST before. A lot of this is just somebody's opinion and those somebody's or the old guys I grew up around. Then a little dabble of my opinion as well. I was hoping you would open the passenger door and open the glove box lid and show it. It would give us all the barn with information as you know. I'm a big fan of Brothers trucks as well. I would suggest if anybody was going to cut down one of these trucks to use their guides. I know right now who I can buy a 68 CST for under $3,000 running and drivable. Somebody cut it down wrong it looks good on the bed. But underneath on the frame they cut it in the wrong spot and ruin the truck! It is the only CST in my price range that I've ever passed on. The 327 was replaced with a 305 and that did not help. I can see where they were headed with their modifications on the truck but why do that to a CST. Giving their value when they're running and driving is so much more than the custom or the base truck of the same year. The CST hubcaps were really sharp! A picture of them as an inset on the video would be interesting. The hubcap style was far ahead of its time and even reminisces of Pontiac hubcaps to come. Hey as you may remember these are trucks that I loved since the beginning of time just about. Had my first CST in high school. I would be interested in this one. I'm putting this episode along with a few of the other ones I've got in my saved file. One other thing maybe that's a bootleg CST. Parts from another truck that would maybe wrecked. But the trim does not look like it's there going across the front lip of the hood and then the matching candy cane trim in shape at the front edge of the fenders. That trim was even common on the customs model option. Now that it sounds like I try to rewrite your whole episode, which is never my goal. Just throwing in some of the FYI stuff. But I did want to say he did a great job on presenting a fine machine and the motorcycle is a bonus
Under 3 grand for a CST is a very good deal The company LMC has a good frame peace for properly shorting the factory frame for less than 2 hundred dollars in the southern states these trucks command a lot of money for nice ones
@@gregallen4272 yes and funny thing is this truck looks exactly like one I found a few years ago down Alabama I believe. Cut up the same way. I have a frame from a 68 CST and I've had that frame for a very long time. I could piece it back together. But if you want to buy the truck I'll give you the information. They cut the frame in the wrong place there's no fixing that. They even cut the ladder bar arms you know going back to the rear axle and overlap them and welded them and get together! And 8 in overlap. It is cut behind the cab someplace I forget where. If you cut it in the right place those arms do not need to be touched. And why would you cut a CST especially one from 67 or 68 like this one is!? It was a $10,000 truck before then. I have a few of them but I generally concentrates 67 through 69. You got GMC one ton low slime long enough bed frame that is to make a car haul around it. It has bucket seats and console and it original. I picked up this 70 out of Texas Oklahoma area and these are not csts.. but it's a long bed stepside and they sell good in Texas. Especially when it's got maybe 30,000 original miles and I even got the yardstick and some other original items that came with the truck saying thank you on your new purchase of this 1970 Chevy truck Hellboy that brought as his pale around truck. I tell you up in the northwest I find csts Wyoming Washington State Oregon and so forth 69s and 70s. Found one it was four wheel drive. Now the 67 CST I found number years ago up there was $8,000 it was worth $20,000 down south. That one for little on the 3,000 have been butchered is in the Midwest but to rust on it minimal. If that sounds like something you're seriously interested in let me know I'll give you the information. He even sectioned the front bumper. If it wasn't a CST I probably wouldn't have disagree with it. But the frame on it is lost to scrap iron Man are the part pile. There's one down in Alabama like I said and it may still be floating around for sale. CST cut down but I believe it was cut down right I just did not want it because it had been cut. He was 5,000 willing take 3500. I missed out on CST for about 1500 out of Oklahoma 6 months ago. Literally they were loading it when I called and it only been listed a couple days well worth the money even if it wasn't a CST. Complete hadn't been ran and 20 years. But even in the Midwest stepside I was telling you about with 30,000 miles I take $15,000 for it. They bring good money here too especially when you bring them somewhere else and they don't have the rust. I got a 67 that came out of Oklahoma back in 84 and it's been in the family. It's probably been parked for 30 years in the barn. It's a 67 custom model. I know where there's a another long bed custom model 67 or 8 I don't recall but it's very clean probably about $3,500 and it runs just been sitting for a while. And I know where there's some short bed trucks sitting in the salvage yards. If any of that helps you. I've got a short bed frame for a Chevy box body truck. Thought I might build that one just have to gather some parts for it like the whole body. Anyhow I'm an old car nut mainly a truck enthusiast.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-1983 thanks for your response but unfortunately my health is not as good as I would have thought I am as a older person but in north Georgia most of them bring a very good price .when I was able to doing a frame swap wasn't to bad I have done several although 25 years ago with a sort of swing set looking rig that was made of 4 inch pipe about 1/8 inch thick about 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide two come a longs and two 2x 10 x 8 feet long with paint sticks above the doors to keep from damaging the doors padded with carpet you have the right approach using a different frame because the one you describe is bad it sounds very dangerous to drive one of my friends is a paint and body man we shortened several beds if you don't mind loosing the pockets on top of the bed it is a little easier to make a Chevy bed has to be shorter on both sides of the wheel well quite a bit more in the front and not much at all in the back we did it for the two big reasons one it was in stock came with the truck and two is was just as easy to do a little non rust repair and didn't require spending time and money hunting for a very overpriced short bed .in pigeon forge the rod run nothing in the 67 to 72 c 10 trucks were much under 20 grand several were in the mid twenty k range square bodied trucks were slightly more but the 67 to 72 is I a nicer truck with more style didn't see one CST there were a few a/c loaded trucks not for sale or very high price one with high back bucket seats that would have been blazer bucket seats it makes it harder for the average working person to afford without having to build something from nothing but it sure makes it more fun to drive something you build rather than buy
@@gregallen4272 I like your style of thinking with the overgrown swing set and some lumber etc. I straighten cars out back in the day with a chain hoist and come along if you will. And two big trees and a couple of log chains. Also various other ways. I was out in pigeon forge and had a whole lyric couple years ago. Been fun to run across to you and talk with you. Honestly I was going in for a second procedures and they're way behind when I sent that last reply. Just got back and thought I'd reply back again. So yeah the stuff I've collected I'm selling off. Health and other conditions. Unfortunately I'm not in a position where I have to just get rid of it. I'll still buy more but the idea is to sell multiples and buy one if any. I added a little bit more to that comment you might find interesting. One thing I find real fun to do and satisfying. I share with no strings attached what I know where I know they're at. Especially younger guys cuz I want to see the hobby go on. All right guys not in the best of health. Or just for no reason at all whatever it might be. I don't understand the square bodies. The box body I meant to say square body in that amendment to the first reply. I think it's a 83 frame and I got it as a dolly roller for a very nice 70 short bed stepside. Long story behind why they took a great body and truck apart. But at least I ended up with the body. Then I bought a frame and what have you drive away everything but the drive shaft for a 1967 short bed Chevy. We put the two together. And it's a very nice looking truck has somewhere and I appreciative few locals for about $20,000. Well they were thinking $5, 000 and would go 10 or 12,000. One guy offered $15,000 cash in hand. But I'm not into losing money. I bought it because I liked it and I given up on finding a CST that suited me. And of course then I found one. Anyway I like my 67 and 68 clown face trucks! That's what they used to call those Chevys if you were around to remember that. Everybody else wanted 71 and 72 back then. Now it's changed. As far as the box body I've got that short bed frame probably build it and just sell it. Building these things and selling them there's no money in them unless you don't mind working for 50 cents an hour or less. But it's not a better style truck out there than a 67 to 72 Chevy.
Long time viewer I had several 67 to 72 Chevy trucks if that is a real CST it was top of the line most were big blocks my 69 CST was sold very late in 69 but I got it from the original owner he worked at Pontiac in Michigan but had friends who worked for Fisher body so they had something of a inside track it was a bench seat truck originally BLACK interior and body step side 402 3 on the tree he said he put the m 21 in it the first week he bought it rear was 411 positive track he retired in fla the mid 1990's and visited NC in the summer time he brought the truck here to have a second vehicle when he got older and moved back to Florida I bought the truck it was small block then he said the 402 was put in a 72 chevelle it had a 283 power pack when I had it it was a lot of fun to drive it was way faster than a stock 350 but a built 350 or big block would have a few lengths in a quarter not sure what 67 CST brings up north but in the southern states thay bring a few dollars if I was able I would have no problem getting it back on the road but we get older thanks for letting us just you .hunting junk yards was on of my favorite hobbies
Dad had a 68 C-10 very similar to this. It had a 327 and, I believe, a Powerglide transmission with the "light duty", coil spring rear suspension. It also had the optional west coast mirrors.
67 to 72 were the best styled chevy trucks
The original square bodies
These were the only years of Chevy and gmc that I personally ever liked. The gmc's were even more visually appealing than the chevy's in stock form. I can't confirm this but Steve Mags probably can, I believe dodge tried to copy the appeal of these trucks when they radically changed their trucks in 72. What do you think Steve?
I had a 67....six cyl...three on the tree. First gear was out of it, so we swapped a top loader 4 spd. Of course had to cut a big arse hole in the cab for the taller tranny....AND...a longer driveshaft. I paid $250 for the truck in the late 70's. Those were the days.
Meh 60 63 the best !
I always liked this body style. BITD I had a puke green ‘69 C20 with the exact same bed cap, but what I really wanted was a C10 step-side with a six banger.
Steve, thank you for just being you. You're just a little older than me and it's getting harder and harder to find guys like you (and me). I really appreciate your videos.
Hi Josh, Thanks for the kind words! And THANKS for watching and writing. More to come! -Steve Magnante
I'm 60 and I appreciate Steve's unlimited knowledge of the vehicles from my youth!
Correct, the VIN gets the win: C for 2WD, E for V8 equipped (S is for six cylinder), 1 is for 1/2 ton (2 is 3/4, 3 is 1 ton, etc.), 4 for pickup and box, 7 for 1967 model year (8 is 1968, 9 is 1969, 0 is 1970, 1 for 1971, 2 for 1972), T for Tarrytown, NY assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Tarrytown, NY plant operated from 1914-1915 until 1996 and prior to 1915, it was a Stanley Steam Car factory. The last vehicles to be made in Tarrytown were the "Dustbuster" vans, and after Tarrytown's closure, production was moved to Doraville, GA. These 1967-1972 trucks were made in various plants such as Atlanta (Lakewood Heights), GA (A), Janesville, WI (J), Flint, MI (F), "Freaky Fremont", CA (Z), Baltimore, MD (B), St. Louis, MO (S), Oshawa, Ontario Canada (1), among other plants. Custom Sport Trucks will have an RPO code "Z84" on the SPID label.
No tag, can't brag, and no SPID, wish you did, but possible code 511 Dark Aqua exterior paint. However, "DD" on the tag comes back to a color known as "Strato Blue" in other years, but I don't think that's a paint code on there. Sometimes the paint codes and charts don't always line up as they should.
Hello Google User GP, Steve Magnante here on November 26. I've been on the mend for several weeks but am close to my return to the Junkyard. I'll be shooting more Crawl videos shortly, Thanks for keeping the faith. Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante This is fantastic news and I'm sure I speak for many of your followers when we say that we've missed you.
Anyone interested in restoring chevy trucks should get that 67 C10 and then get some parts from the dry west to fix it up to OEM specs. They will not be disappointed and it will make a great project.
Fantastic. I look forward each morning to a junkyard crawl. I had a 72 C20, with that body style, always been my favourite. Those truck caps were very very popular where I live in Ontario, Canada. Because you could have tools and equipment in the back of your truck during the winter, and not have them buried under snow. Lockjaw is ready to ride.
In 1976 I got my first motorcycle; it was a CB 200T. Great memories.
Lockjaw startled my dog this morning. Wasn't expecting that. 🤣
My father had C-10, Chevrolet. I still remember hearing the Gasoline slushing around in the Tank behind the bench seat as he drove it down the road.
I love when a vehicle has been somewhere long enough for trees to grow up and block the doors. The gold is usually hiding inside them. Nice truck and bike
Someone really cared about this truck for a long time. Changed out the engine to keep it on the road, using Ford wheel covers, to keep it looking good, you can tell someone loved it for a while.
Whoa, it's got Goodyear Bald Eagles on the front.🤙
I love those years of Chevy trucks. My best one was a rusted out 70 stepside that everybody thought it was just a junky beater. Sure, a junky beater hiding a 327 Vette engine and a 4 speed manual trans. I miss that truck, we had a lot of fun together.
I had no idea that bucket seats were available! So cool! That truck should be saved!
Make an offer , save it and restore it
@@danh2134 I wish! I’m not physically able to do a job like that.
The junkyard dog and the creepy deer head need to make a showing in the same video Steve!! Try it and see how many of us fans catch it!! Great work as usual by you and super Shane!!
My dad had a 68. We bought a camper and obviously needed a truck to stick it on top of.
After just a couple of years though, he sold the truck and the camper to a guy in our neighborhood. He kept in for 15 years or more.
I really loved that truck but, I like the so called "Square Body" styling a bit better.
I always thought it was kinda funny that the next generation was dubbed the "Square Body" Chevy trucks, especially since the Chevys we remember from the late 80s took squareness to a ludicrous level.
You really have a very well trained dog there.
My wife's grandmother gifted us her grandfather's 68 C20 CST with 327 A/C. I'm getting ready to add a 8-lug disk brakes to the front. Awesome walk around Steve and thanks for sharing! 😃👍👍🤙
@Joshp TV wow that’s a kool gift I want to say living here in San Diego those are getting more rare to find. 👍
@@Daniel-fd3wp agreed. You don't see to many around anymore
It is a great deal hope you can fix it up like new and you will have a great tow truck for pulling the best thing for me about old trucks is thay are never going to be worth less money if you put 5 or 6 thousand dollars in a nice old truck it will always get your money back if you buy a new or 5 or so year old truck it will lose money every day no matter what you do
The 250 is a solid engine; exceptionally reliable. Miss mine.😪 R.I.P My 1976 C10.
Dad bought a six-month-old '69 CST/10 with a 307 V8 and drove it to work for the next 25 years. I got it from him then and have been driving it in the summer ever since. It now runs a 350 that once resided in a Camaro and is a propane burner to make it affordable to drive. This truck always had a bench seat although my Dad wished it had buckets. Someday my kid will own this truck for sure...
I remember the best looking one those l saw back when I was young was a 68 CST short step side Red in color black interior with the 396 4 speed.
That's a find.
Hi Steve, I like the truck, and I really like the bike, my first bikes were a CB125 and then a CB350-4, in the late 70s they had fallen out of fashion, and were considered a bit old-fashioned and nerdy, hence, used examples sold cheap, which worked just fine for my $2.90 an hour budget working at McDonald's. All of the "cool kids" at that time wanted the super fast Kawasaki KZ 900s and 1000s. It's neat to see that people appreciate the old Hondas again. Now that people know about that bike at Benardston Auto Wrecking, it's probably going to be gone within a week and will hopefully see some new life on the road.
Unless Steve grabs it first. I think he will.
I had a 67 gmc when I was a kid loved that truck. I was hard on it went through the 327 and 2 350s 2 turbo 400s and 2 12 bolt diffs and still loved that truck.
Love that vintage woodtrim cap and....west coast mirrors. We didn't know how good we had it.
Step dad had a 1967 C10 two-wheel drive, long bed, three speed 283. That three speed linkage would sometimes get bound up so you'd open the hood and straighten it out. He put a similar cap on in the mid '70's except his had the rear door and then the boot to Cab and still had a sliding window as well. About the same time as putting the cap on. He also replaced the 283 with the another 283 that came out of a crate ,wooden crate, he bought from Chevrolet. Then repainted from yellow to a darker green matching the cap and boot. It wasn't fancy like this one. It came without a radio, no armrests and one sun visor.
That little Honda is just the stuff! And you know she's been hiding in there for a while.
Hi Steve great vid. These trucks are some great trucks. I've owned a couple Suburbans from this styling cycle that I've wrote about in earlier videos. Lockjaw voiced his opinion in this video. I've done several engine swaps in my time but never have I taken a V8 out and swapped it for a 6. That Honda in the back is definitely worth saving. These bikes are popular with the café racers. Some turn them into "bobbers". Namaste 🙏🏼
This is true with me . I've always pulled out the six-bang and replaced it with a V-8 like in the Chevy II 's and 66 Chevy van .
@@daynadiggle8169 I say if it came with a six, keep it a six. If it came with a V8, keep it a V8. I was never one for engine swaps. They always look hooptied and cobbled together. I've seen very few that look exactly like they should from the assembly line.
@@googleusergp Hey , G P , I've done quite a few and always tried to make them look factory ...... except for all the chrome !
@@daynadiggle8169 Everyone has their preference and mine is that if it didn't come that way, it doesn't belong there. LOL.
@@googleusergp That's funny , my girlfriend said that on our first date !
When I was 25 I bought a 1968 C10 stepside long bed with the wooden bed floor and the spare tire on the side we called it Rusty black. It was originally a 327 but then sported a 292 with an automatic. I replaced the wheels with 15 inch wagons with 60 series tires and it could get into third gear before you were through the intersection.
Ty. Reminds me of Studebaker pickups from the late forties.
I'm sure someone there knows that bike is back there. That's why it was backed up against a tree. I had a 68 CST 396 truck many years ago. Wish I still had it. Love your show.
I'm thinking it wasn't backed up to the tree, I think the tree cuddled up to the truck over time.
@@xfactorautomotive1496 you could be right.
68 was the first year for the 396 in 1/2 tons I believe. Hard to believe those bucket seats are still there!!
1962 for the new six.
230 and 250 bolt right in where a V8 was.
In the 70s my older brother had one of them with the stake platform bed for hauling his iron works, it was 3 speed manual on the column. I used to drive it once in a while. It was a simple easy to maintain truck! V8 of course! I always liked those! It also had dually’s. Sad to see that one rotting away! It should be restored! Damn! Even the Honda motorcycle is a collectible piece! Wow!
Another great truck video, The CST package was cool with the bucket seat set up with the chrome, Thumbs up
CST are desirable. This was the precursor to the Cheyenne super. This one deserves to be restored. I would keep it as it is with a long bed but definitely lose the cap.
@@zephead4835 Agreed to keep it as a long box, remember the Long Horn chev trucks, the bed was a few inches longer, and agreed,this one needs to be saved
@@jeffclark2725 I think the longhorn was for the slide in camper.
Those bucket seats are called buddy bucket seats highly desireable.
Good morning from Montreal Canada 🇨🇦
Top notch camera work Shane! Good stuff!
Thanks Steve. Wow, so much great info and a bike, too. I think I’m in the minority in that I like the long beds. Great for hauling loads of stuff. But then, it really depends on how you want to use it.
I agree, long beds are the way to go. For me if I can't put a motorcycle or 4'x8' sheet of plywood in and be able to close the tailgate it's kinda' pointless as a truck.
I'll take an 8' bed all day every day! On the other hand, I buy my trucks to actually use them and, apparently you do too.
I wish I lived closer, I would definitely like to have that truck. I’ve had several 60s Chevy trucks loved them all have been thinking about getting another. Great video, great camera work also glad to see lockjaw still on the job.
My dad bought a 67 C10 brand new!straight 6, 3 on the tree.i learned how to drive standard transmission on that truck! Just thinking of that truck brings back so many great memories!thanks Steve!👍
Owned a 1967 C20. 292 I6, 4spd, basic pickup (no A/C). Wooden bed floor, 16" split rim wheels (IIRC). Decent old pickup truck.
My dad had a 1968 c10 Chevrolet truck with a factory 307cu V8 with a three on the tree standard shift. He rebuild the motor and put a fireball cam and eldabrock aluminum 4 barrel carburetor holly intake on the engine. It use to shake and rock while sitting at a red light. He kept the exhaust quite. It would smoke the tires off. It was a sleeper.
🤦♂️ oh the pain! Just reminds me of a 72 I was knocking around in , in the 90’s 350 column converted to floor 👍 regretted getting rid of it! 😡 .. LJ! 🐕 ✌️🤙
My grandpa had a truck just like that when I was a kid he used for wood hauling, I remember it getting stuck really easy, maybe it was the hard, bald, tires that were on it.
2WD, standard cab, long bed. I call them "Grandpa Trucks" because usually it's either a work truck or some old guy like me are driving them. Needless to say, I've owned 4 of them in this configuration.
I have a 69 with 68 nose. 6 cylinder dual wheels. I could use a bunt of parts to get mine nice again. Also that Honda to tool around when I’m not on my CBR. Great stuff guys!
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you soon
Mr. B. Here ! Good afternoon to you Steve & Junkyard Crawl fans ! , tree knock power out over night ! Light duty trucks are great vehicle for those job around the house and small businesses. Manufacturers can not take to the Cleaners, & to many regulations . So the cost to build them is high and low $$$$$$ !
Steve you have covered several 67-72 bowtie trucks. But you have yet to mention the father of these trucks.
That award goes to none other than the father of the ‘Hot Wheels’. That’s right Harry Bentley Bradley was the man that restyled the GM pickup for the 67 model year.
Best series of trucks ever made
I believe the 67-72 body style was referred to as the "Action Series". Great looking trucks! I have a 71 C10 2wd longbed with the 350 and 4-speed SM465 gearbox, as well as power front disc brakes (first year for those, right?) and 5-lug wheels with the 12-bolt truck rearend, 4.10 gears, and the coil springs and "truck arm" rear suspension (they used those same rear trailing arms on NASCAR race cars for a LONG time, didn't they?). I have restored a set of 1980's era 15X8 Chevy Truck Rallyes, and have 31x10.50x15 all-terrains on those, so she looks pretty badass! She's green on green with the deluxe interior. She only has 88k original miles on her. I got her for FREE from a friend of mine about 10 years ago. I worked on this truck when her dad (the original owner) had it. I have done a bunch of work to this truck, going back over 25 years. I even replaced the clutch once in the parking area of the apartment complex I lived in on the San Francisco Peninsula! Fun job that was, LOL! Anyway, she's a great old truck with an old Holley vacuum secondary 4 barrel and an old Edelbrock StreetMaster intake, that stuff was probably installed in the early-mid 70's. These trucks are so solid when they are rust-free, like mine is for the most part. It's amazing how smooth and quiet they drive down the road, almost like a new truck! Thanks, Steve, for yet another great junkyard crawl. Love seeing your stuff, man! Stay safe, brother!
I have always liked the 67 with the small rear window...
Another great crawl! Still waiting for some 'Junkyard Crawl' merch. A coffee mug for me, at least.
If the frame hasn't completely rotted away that's a $5,000 (or more) truck. Ran when parked! No low ballers, I know what I got!
Cool stuff Steve ! In about 87 88 i bought a neighbors Gold 68 longbed 327 turbo 400 373 posi cst pick up... clean original truck only 20 years old at the time.... ive had a handful of trucks snce then but that was oneof the best... i think the gold color was a 50 year anniversary color... corect me if im wrong on that ! I just watched you and utg talk funny car history from about a year ago. I enjoy you and Tony's knowledge on that subject. Thanks for sharing
Me too but sold them in the 1990's when they got real money like 3 thousand dollars ha in the southern states now a CST cab would be a lot more money now
My father has a 67 c10 CST long bed .3 on the tree is my favorite aspect of the truck . 327 with 202 heads with a clay smith cam sounds really good .
That dog is still following you, & making noise, now!
My grandfather had a 68 step side 6 cylinder with four speed. My dad’s cousin bought it from him to haul trash until the body mounts began to rust away from the frame.
My buddy Mike’s 1971 K5 Blazer also had the CST emblems on the doors as the pick up’s.
Any time you saw a topper like that on a truck back in the day you knew it was a vehicle owned by an old man. I used to cringe every time I saw one because to me, it made what was otherwise a really cool vehicle seem dowdy!
Fast forward to today and I’d love to have a short box, regular cab F-150 with a painted-to-match fiberglass topper on it as my daily driver! OMG - does that mean I’m getting OLD……😮
The truck is cool, but that Honda CB is a real find. The whole CB line is coming into favor right now. I'm rebuilding a '75 CB 750 that was my father's bike. Original parts are expensive and hard to find. That 200 looks to be in great condition. A virtual"Barn find"
Been dreaming of the cb 550. I learned on a cb360
A friend had a CB750 in high school back in the eighties, we affectionately called it the "water buffalo ", ha!
I've seen an absolutely gorgeous CB 750/4 running around town for the last few summers. I don't know if it's original or restored and, unfortunately, I haven't been able to catch up with the rider to try to ask questions. The chrome and blue paint shine like a new penny though.
Amazed to see the bucket seat arrangement
Hey Steve , the HESS TRUCKS are here !
67. Had a C20 small window & a short C10 Custom with a Big window.
If that truck's frame is in good shape then it is worth saving.
3:47, I knew that dog was alive the whole time!!!
When I was 16 I bought a 67 C10 (1977) that was a unique truck in how it was optioned. Well, maybe not unique but.... It had a 283 2bbl 3-tree. Being the dumb kid I was I didn't realize the jewel I possessed. I think that engine was either hi output, had carbon buildup, or advanced timing because you could not stand on the gas without spark knock. 67 was the only year for the small back window. Didn't have the west coast mirrors, did have front/ back chrome bumpers and chrome on the grill. I'm 62 now, shit, that was 45 years ago. Had the steel bed, also.
Hi Steve, good video! Yes, short bed pickup's are more sought after because they normally do bring a higher resale value over long beds because they are "sportier". People are converting old 1/2 ton long bed pickups to short beds at an alarming rate. Short bed pickups, (not extended cab or crew cab) are most commonly referred to as a "sport truck". By the way, Chevrolet dealer truck sales broachers referred to the round inner fender wells as "bathtub fender skirts" to as you said, self rinsing wheel walls. Ford did the same thing, but in the mean time, Ford installed a plastic inner wheel liner in place as a shield, later on. Please say Hi to to your dog "Lockjaw". Please reply. Dave...
Thanks Steve for another fabulous wake up story . I want that bike . I just assume fly our there purchase the bike get it running on camera and ride it back to iowa...
Chevy trying to keep up with the Dodge CSS which was available a few years earlier. That's pretty cool to see this truck with the vintage topper and Honda preserved in the back!!! Very nice!!!
Those bucket seats are worth some bucks. If you are in the area, go grab them!
I'm in the middle of doing a light restore on a 69 right now. Same drivetrain. Looks like that one is cleaner than mine.
I watched the entire video and am still baffled why that pickup is sitting in the sticks? It still looks pretty solid and fixable!
I always loved that body style. I remember a 4X4 store in Sayville, Long Island that had a custom Blazer of that vintage. They had actually welded both doors and made ir into one with a high step in. Rag top and all, beige in color. Beautiful truck. I contacted the “The Truck Shop” in Sayville as they were the ones who had worked on it. However they have new ownership and no one had any recollection or pictures of it. Too bad always wondered what happened to it.
cool truck comes with doggy.
Good morning Steve.
The dog speaks! Interesting truck - aside from the CST package, it's pretty much a utilitarian stripper. Great video as always, see ya tomorrow!
Somebody should buy that truck
Steve I'm so happy to to see I'm not the only Cliff Claven ( mailman from Cheers) of old cars trucks and motorcycles , more useless information then ppl care to listen to, I can name year and model at a glance.. problem I've had since a young child, keep up the great job Cliff lol
Thank you Steve Get well soon
Ex father in law had a truck just like that one, minus the camper. Longbed 327 4spd.
Six cylinder or not it's still cool! In fact, I'd prefer six. I used to have a 75 CB200T in highschool 😁, maybe the GMC looks a tiny bit more stylish with the four headlights. I want that bike........
Years ago I had a white with red interior 67 cst 327 PG with 3.73 posi.
I'd love to have that bike! Cool!
Each video i learn more little facts about vehicles special features. One would be the inner fender design. Another good video ! One thing i remember about my friends '71 , in 1976 , was that the manual steering would pull or kick back the steering wheel from your hands abruptly when driving over uneven ground.
They replaced the broken engine with another one that fit that they could get and was affordable. Farmers liked the 250 big time. That engine could be from a Biscayne or another car. Probably better used condition than a similar V-8... maybe. Cheaper for sure. Especially if it is a bolt in.
I owned a SWB 69 GMC custom version that had an auto, factory v8, factory ac. Drove it from the time I was 16 till just last year. Wish I woulda kept it but somebody thought it was worth more than I did.
One time I asked an old guy how he felt about selling his 2 owner, unrestored, 57 Bel-Air he had owned since 1971, "enough hundred dollar bills will wipe away alot of tears." That was the most cash I ever seen change hands.
@@ryurc3033 Yeah my father bought it in 1985 for $400. I got a hell of a lot more out of it.
Longbeds for the win!
Coffee and a cool truck!
When I was at this yard last week Dale told me he was building a 72 4x4 Chevrolet pickup. I’d be willing to bet he know about the motor scooter! BTW I drove 1400 miles from Dallas Texas to pick up the silent Malibu. Nice video Steve!
"Rebuild", not "build". They are only built once by GM and the hobbyist restores and rebuilds them, not builds them. Hobbyists fabricate parts at times, but we do not forge our own pistons, cast our own blocks, etc. We assemble parts from other sources.
@@googleusergp I’m a fabricator myself. I have built tube chassis and have built frame truss and front frame halves, Back halves subframe connectors roll cages I guess I am just used to saying built. But hey, who’s to say he ain’t welding on snow plow mounts and such!
@@neshpro6521 Fabrication is slightly different than building it. Building it means it's engineered (on paper and with the proper analysis), documented, certified, etc. and then manufactured. Fabrication is very rarely done in a repeatable manner like mass production. Hobbyists assemble a vehicle of parts manufactured by other sources.
Police! Grammar police! He's got a gun 🔫 😳 🤣.
@@kenttalsma7906 when you’re good you’re good!
Shortbed cst..350 4 bolt...tough as nails..my fav.o.rite
My father had a 1969 C10. You mentioned the side markers in the beginning of the video. My father's 1969 did have side markers BUT they did no light up. They were just reflectors. My father had the dealer wire them up and install bulbs so that they would actually function.
We had a 67 C10 Custom when I was a kid. It had a 327 automatic and manual steering. I learned to drive in that truck back in 1978 (I was 12). It was awful to steer at slow speed because it turns out that the factory had installed a smaller power steering wheel. We purchased the truck from the original owner and it had always had the the OEM wheel. Dad had driven a friend's truck and immediately noticed that his wheel was larger. So sometimes the factory does make a mistake.
I had a 67 when I was a kid. Great truck! Sure would like to have it back.
Oh, it had a 283.
Hey Steve is the bottom of that truck rusted out.? I see the wheel well on the bed above the back tire but that's common. A couple of updates if you don't mind. If bucket seats were standard on the CST especially in the years 67 and 68. Then the majority of them that are survivors of whatever condition but have not been made in the toasters yet, were ordered down. I've only found two out of maybe 200 add bucket seats. I'm talking about CST. 69 I found a few more with buckets. Same thing for 70-72. The CST had special inlays in the bench seat. They also had the vinyl door coverings to match. Now like anything with GM you can order it by any way you wanted it. The truck set a little lower than the standard truck. The aluminum trim down the side as well as a trim up front we're available on the custom model as well. The engine being a V8 probably a 327 since it was a CST. Of course it could always been a 283. But I think the 396 would be the holy Grail. The 400s were common by time of 70 72. I know it puzzles you why anybody put in a 6 cylinder and take out a V8. But the most likely scenario is that they use what they have handy. A 6 cylinder thought of more fuel economy but that's a policy. Put a 283 or a 327 in there with a four barrel and block off the secondary barrels and you can get great gas mileage. Because the front two barrels are smaller normally than a regular two barrel carburetor. But a person with an even tempered foot and a Carter carb could do better at maintaining RPMs thus getting better gas mileage. Put in a gear ratio say at 2:33 or higher geared and back in the day I was getting 25 miles per gallon. I currently have one that I get 22 miles a gallon and it has the all new boring 350 / 350 turbo for 1968 cst. But it's numbers matching dry Texas climate truck CST with around 55,000 mi.. the three on the tree was not uncommon. After all automatic transmission was just another power glide and they had so much trouble with the powerglide. Why would you want to have a truck with an automatic when you can have a dependable manual transmission and get decent gas mileage if it's three speed instead of a four speed. That isn't me talking and there's a lot of fallacies in that. But back in the day that was the thinking. Why ruin a good looking truck by chopping it down and making it a short bed? Drop the suspension and make her long and sleek. That's my opinion. The GMC did not have coil springs on back they still had leaf springs. The CST GMC sister truck has a very nice badge on the front fender between the tire and the door. The red interior is very nice. So much so I almost bought one instead of my CST. I've had other CST before. A lot of this is just somebody's opinion and those somebody's or the old guys I grew up around. Then a little dabble of my opinion as well. I was hoping you would open the passenger door and open the glove box lid and show it. It would give us all the barn with information as you know. I'm a big fan of Brothers trucks as well. I would suggest if anybody was going to cut down one of these trucks to use their guides. I know right now who I can buy a 68 CST for under $3,000 running and drivable. Somebody cut it down wrong it looks good on the bed. But underneath on the frame they cut it in the wrong spot and ruin the truck! It is the only CST in my price range that I've ever passed on. The 327 was replaced with a 305 and that did not help. I can see where they were headed with their modifications on the truck but why do that to a CST. Giving their value when they're running and driving is so much more than the custom or the base truck of the same year. The CST hubcaps were really sharp! A picture of them as an inset on the video would be interesting. The hubcap style was far ahead of its time and even reminisces of Pontiac hubcaps to come. Hey as you may remember these are trucks that I loved since the beginning of time just about. Had my first CST in high school. I would be interested in this one. I'm putting this episode along with a few of the other ones I've got in my saved file. One other thing maybe that's a bootleg CST. Parts from another truck that would maybe wrecked. But the trim does not look like it's there going across the front lip of the hood and then the matching candy cane trim in shape at the front edge of the fenders. That trim was even common on the customs model option. Now that it sounds like I try to rewrite your whole episode, which is never my goal. Just throwing in some of the FYI stuff. But I did want to say he did a great job on presenting a fine machine and the motorcycle is a bonus
Under 3 grand for a CST is a very good deal The company LMC has a good frame peace for properly shorting the factory frame for less than 2 hundred dollars in the southern states these trucks command a lot of money for nice ones
@@gregallen4272 yes and funny thing is this truck looks exactly like one I found a few years ago down Alabama I believe. Cut up the same way. I have a frame from a 68 CST and I've had that frame for a very long time. I could piece it back together. But if you want to buy the truck I'll give you the information. They cut the frame in the wrong place there's no fixing that. They even cut the ladder bar arms you know going back to the rear axle and overlap them and welded them and get together! And 8 in overlap. It is cut behind the cab someplace I forget where. If you cut it in the right place those arms do not need to be touched. And why would you cut a CST especially one from 67 or 68 like this one is!? It was a $10,000 truck before then. I have a few of them but I generally concentrates 67 through 69. You got GMC one ton low slime long enough bed frame that is to make a car haul around it. It has bucket seats and console and it original. I picked up this 70 out of Texas Oklahoma area and these are not csts.. but it's a long bed stepside and they sell good in Texas. Especially when it's got maybe 30,000 original miles and I even got the yardstick and some other original items that came with the truck saying thank you on your new purchase of this 1970 Chevy truck Hellboy that brought as his pale around truck. I tell you up in the northwest I find csts Wyoming Washington State Oregon and so forth 69s and 70s. Found one it was four wheel drive. Now the 67 CST I found number years ago up there was $8,000 it was worth $20,000 down south. That one for little on the 3,000 have been butchered is in the Midwest but to rust on it minimal. If that sounds like something you're seriously interested in let me know I'll give you the information. He even sectioned the front bumper. If it wasn't a CST I probably wouldn't have disagree with it. But the frame on it is lost to scrap iron Man are the part pile. There's one down in Alabama like I said and it may still be floating around for sale. CST cut down but I believe it was cut down right I just did not want it because it had been cut. He was 5,000 willing take 3500. I missed out on CST for about 1500 out of Oklahoma 6 months ago. Literally they were loading it when I called and it only been listed a couple days well worth the money even if it wasn't a CST. Complete hadn't been ran and 20 years. But even in the Midwest stepside I was telling you about with 30,000 miles I take $15,000 for it. They bring good money here too especially when you bring them somewhere else and they don't have the rust. I got a 67 that came out of Oklahoma back in 84 and it's been in the family. It's probably been parked for 30 years in the barn. It's a 67 custom model. I know where there's a another long bed custom model 67 or 8 I don't recall but it's very clean probably about $3,500 and it runs just been sitting for a while. And I know where there's some short bed trucks sitting in the salvage yards. If any of that helps you. I've got a short bed frame for a Chevy box body truck. Thought I might build that one just have to gather some parts for it like the whole body. Anyhow I'm an old car nut mainly a truck enthusiast.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-1983 thanks for your response but unfortunately my health is not as good as I would have thought I am as a older person but in north Georgia most of them bring a very good price .when I was able to doing a frame swap wasn't to bad I have done several although 25 years ago with a sort of swing set looking rig that was made of 4 inch pipe about 1/8 inch thick about 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide two come a longs and two 2x 10 x 8 feet long with paint sticks above the doors to keep from damaging the doors padded with carpet you have the right approach using a different frame because the one you describe is bad it sounds very dangerous to drive one of my friends is a paint and body man we shortened several beds if you don't mind loosing the pockets on top of the bed it is a little easier to make a Chevy bed has to be shorter on both sides of the wheel well quite a bit more in the front and not much at all in the back we did it for the two big reasons one it was in stock came with the truck and two is was just as easy to do a little non rust repair and didn't require spending time and money hunting for a very overpriced short bed .in pigeon forge the rod run nothing in the 67 to 72 c 10 trucks were much under 20 grand several were in the mid twenty k range square bodied trucks were slightly more but the 67 to 72 is I a nicer truck with more style didn't see one CST there were a few a/c loaded trucks not for sale or very high price one with high back bucket seats that would have been blazer bucket seats it makes it harder for the average working person to afford without having to build something from nothing but it sure makes it more fun to drive something you build rather than buy
@@gregallen4272 I like your style of thinking with the overgrown swing set and some lumber etc. I straighten cars out back in the day with a chain hoist and come along if you will. And two big trees and a couple of log chains. Also various other ways. I was out in pigeon forge and had a whole lyric couple years ago. Been fun to run across to you and talk with you. Honestly I was going in for a second procedures and they're way behind when I sent that last reply. Just got back and thought I'd reply back again. So yeah the stuff I've collected I'm selling off. Health and other conditions. Unfortunately I'm not in a position where I have to just get rid of it. I'll still buy more but the idea is to sell multiples and buy one if any. I added a little bit more to that comment you might find interesting. One thing I find real fun to do and satisfying. I share with no strings attached what I know where I know they're at. Especially younger guys cuz I want to see the hobby go on. All right guys not in the best of health. Or just for no reason at all whatever it might be. I don't understand the square bodies. The box body I meant to say square body in that amendment to the first reply. I think it's a 83 frame and I got it as a dolly roller for a very nice 70 short bed stepside. Long story behind why they took a great body and truck apart. But at least I ended up with the body. Then I bought a frame and what have you drive away everything but the drive shaft for a 1967 short bed Chevy. We put the two together. And it's a very nice looking truck has somewhere and I appreciative few locals for about $20,000. Well they were thinking $5, 000 and would go 10 or 12,000. One guy offered $15,000 cash in hand. But I'm not into losing money. I bought it because I liked it and I given up on finding a CST that suited me. And of course then I found one. Anyway I like my 67 and 68 clown face trucks! That's what they used to call those Chevys if you were around to remember that. Everybody else wanted 71 and 72 back then. Now it's changed. As far as the box body I've got that short bed frame probably build it and just sell it. Building these things and selling them there's no money in them unless you don't mind working for 50 cents an hour or less. But it's not a better style truck out there than a 67 to 72 Chevy.
Long time viewer I had several 67 to 72 Chevy trucks if that is a real CST it was top of the line most were big blocks my 69 CST was sold very late in 69 but I got it from the original owner he worked at Pontiac in Michigan but had friends who worked for Fisher body so they had something of a inside track it was a bench seat truck originally BLACK interior and body step side 402 3 on the tree he said he put the m 21 in it the first week he bought it rear was 411 positive track he retired in fla the mid 1990's and visited NC in the summer time he brought the truck here to have a second vehicle when he got older and moved back to Florida I bought the truck it was small block then he said the 402 was put in a 72 chevelle it had a 283 power pack when I had it it was a lot of fun to drive it was way faster than a stock 350 but a built 350 or big block would have a few lengths in a quarter not sure what 67 CST brings up north but in the southern states thay bring a few dollars if I was able I would have no problem getting it back on the road but we get older thanks for letting us just you .hunting junk yards was on of my favorite hobbies
Thanks again professor Steve!
I think they backed the truck against that tree so no one could fool with that classic bike . Even put a guard dog on the job .
Dad had a 68 C-10 very similar to this. It had a 327 and, I believe, a Powerglide transmission with the "light duty", coil spring rear suspension. It also had the optional west coast mirrors.
Great video very informative and to the point,you sir a walking treasure trove of knowledge 👍
Great content Steve, keep up the good work!
Awesome episode
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My 67 was a gmc c30 first car reg. In my name running driving had 2 murals on hood eddy from maiden
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