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I knew a gentleman whom had this truck for a while but I felt he was really high on the price of it. One day he called me and we made a deal on it because he needed to get it off his property. He had sold the property and exceeded the time they agreed upon to get the place cleared out. He still has a 71 K20 I'm trying to get as well.

I haven't gotten the title from him yet, but I believe this to be a 1969 Chevy. It was a milk truck with a 292 no power steering, no radio, no nothing. It is the 1.5 ton suspension also. A guy I know said that this truck is super rare. He said these are actually called cowl chassis trucks and only 232 or so were made in 1969. He said roughly 1/4 of those were the 1.5 ton suspension.

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I immediately saw it was missing a glove box door so I started searching one only to find out they never had one. :lol: This thing is severely heavy! My 10k winch with a snatch block wouldn't pull it out of it's resting spot. It didn't help it has 3 flat tires and off the rims on the LH side. I ended up sacrificing a fender on my trailer to get the thing on my trailer and out of his place. The old girl needs some floor repairs but nothing that would kill the truck. I originally bought it to make my wife an ice cream truck but we have since purchased a 72 C10 suburban so I'm pretty sure this is going to go down the road. It has so much potential but I just don't have the space to hoard them all. :mm:

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Cool find! Those cowl models are very rare. 69 was close to the last year - perhaps 70.

It's funny the dash is different for the cowl models.

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May as well keep that one and do a diesel conversion on it too. Whats one more i always say...

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I posted the ad for that in the craigslist finds back on 5-13-20.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...oc#post8738988

Post #8051.

Glad to see you snagged it.

LockDoc

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Congrats Ryan, that's a.pretty cool find!

It looks a.lot like the one I posted on CL finds back in November of 2018. If I remember correctly he wanted 600 for it.

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They are scarce for sure. I ran across an ad for one similar last year I think it was.

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That definitely looks like the same one and same atmosphere where this one was. $600 would have been a good deal. :lol:

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Thank! Yeah, he had it listed on cl for a while.

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I know when I was googling for pics of these, I didn't find hardly any with a 67-72 front.

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Swap meet rig!! Those things are so cool. Rare are the dash pieces and that panel behind the fender. You've got the heavy 30, five and dime lugs. That rear is an HO110, same as medium duties. The option is only identified by listing the 11,000# rear. If it had power brakes the booster would be under the floor with a breather between driver seat and door. I have an A/C, high hump, clearance lamp cab off of one with glovebox door/SPID. In 60-66 these would be a C40. In '67 the C/40 went to the medium duty platform, but the heavy axle option was still offered on the C/30. such a cool truck. I love it and would want it if we weren't so distant from one another

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Very very cool! Hope the K20 works out too

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That is pretty rare I've never seen one in person, they did make em in 1970 according to my Chevrolet truck data book the only other one I've seen on here was an aircraft tanker of some sort

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School buses used the same dash through the 1980's.

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That is a great example of rare vs. desirable. Special-k, that has you written all over it. No offense to anyone intended :c2:

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No offense taken here. A truck like that is mostly desirable to the truly truck enlightened, not the mass majority of shortbed trend followers :ack: :lol: Can't we all just laugh again??? :lol: I remember when I was one of the few who saw the K/20 as top of the food chain. Remember Ryan? I remember being the odd man out when it seemed everyone was swapping the GMCs to Chevy grilles. I remember being all about Custom Camper/20s and knew camper rigs were the best survivors (and not for cutting down to shortbeds). And who remembers my beloved long bed Stepsides being routinely called the "redheaded stepchild"? Y'all are learnin', and you make me very proud :cool:

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That is sweet looking!!! :metal:

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I can see it painted like the one at the Woodstock museum in Bethel Woods .

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That thing is cool and screams to be a BBQ food truck IMO.

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:lol: I do remember that. My friend Ryanroo has a sweet long stepper K20 he built a few years ago and I've almost bought a couple long stepper beds to do one. It's a sickness they say? :mm:

I'd love to keep this thing and build it but momma's burb is priority. :metal: I'll clean it up some and may even see if the old inline 6 will run. I have some tires for it I think so that is a plus.

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Seen this in Saugatuck, Michigan. Owner uses it as advertising for his store. He says it was an old bread truck and it still runs and drives.

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Wow, very cool! That's in awesome condition! A C/10 too. It's crazy it's on a half ton chassis. Thanks for sharing it!

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That's because bread doesn't weigh as much as milk...:)

LockDoc

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True, but have you seen those bread trucks loaded up? :lol: I used to work on rotella bread trucks and they were over loading them all the time. Those were 900 cubic foot utilimaster bodies on freightliner chassis. Crazy.

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Too true! That would have to be a 1T truck with that much liquid in it. Good point.