48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait

[mongocanfly]

that is strange..not a bad idea...everything in writing....glad you didn't get scammed.....

[BlueJeep]

Looks good Doug! Will look forward to hearing your vision for it.

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by mongocanfly

that is strange..not a bad idea...everything in writing....glad you didn't get scammed.....

I don’t think I got scammed. Actually, I bounced the situation off some buddies. Those of us with more years on the odometer were kinda freaked out. Two guys in their 20’s saw no problem with it. One guy had eliminated last minute price chiseling on something he was selling as the agreed price was in writing.

Originally Posted by BlueJeep

Looks good Doug! Will look forward to hearing your vision for it.

Short term is to find the refrigerant leak and fix the front / rear ac, then drive and enjoy. Longer term...we are probably going to swap in an LT, some better wheels then look at it for a slight drop. And paint the light blue upper surfaces. This one doesn’t look right with the patina look.

The reactions I am getting from friends and family about this 90 Burb are interesting. Family is so yawn...Doug brought home another one. Brother totally perplexed, even though he is a bit of a car guy. My car buddies get it. When I graduated high school a tri five chevy was 22 to 24 years old. This one is 28 years old.

And our first new Burb was a 90. We loved it and had been looking for a solid one.

Originally Posted by joedoh

sounds more like an introvert, some people arent cut out for human interaction. I went to lunch with a big group of guys and the guy next to me wouldnt even tell the waitress she had his pepsi while she was standing right behind him saying "come on, who had the pepsi?"

although his reasoning is sound, keep it in writing, dont get stabbed!

Yes, he may be. Wow, that guy was an extreme introvert!

Originally Posted by oldman3

Doug, that was a odd transaction, burb looks great...Jim

Thanks Jim!

Thinking I might have a square body problem....

[smbrouss70]

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

Thinking I might have a square body problem....

It's not a problem if you can admit it. Nice Burb!

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by smbrouss70

It's not a problem if you can admit it. Nice Burb!

Thanks Steven, yes I admit it.

Seat mounting...apparently I really dislike seat mounting as this is what I was doing when I stopped. No problem changing engine and transmission mounts 4 or 5 times...as I did on this build. Yet a seat mount stops me cold.

Now if I could just get Marc to come down and fab up the mounts. He knocked his out in a few hours I think.

Locations are laid out already Marc.

[youngrodder]

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

Thanks Steven, yes I admit it.

Seat mounting...apparently I really dislike seat mounting as this is what I was doing when I stopped. No problem changing engine and transmission mounts 4 or 5 times...as I did on this build. Yet a seat mount stops me cold.

Now if I could just get Marc to come down and fab up the mounts. He knocked his out in a few hours I think.

Locations are laid out already Marc.

Doug

If it makes you feel better I failed to notice when I drilled my holes for the front mounts that they just catch the back edge of my "custom" boxed floor brace. Had I known, I could have moved the brace a 1/4" forward and had no issues. I now have made more work for myself.

Marc

[lower50's]

Nice Burb!! I Had a strange sale in Phoenix AZ when I bought my DD 87' Jimmy. The guy met us in a mall parking lot and didn't want to give his address so we could pick up the truck. He had a loaded Glock hand gun. Then all was good when he found out we where staying in North Scottsdale and lived in Canada. I guess there are no bad people in those places. LOL
Just leave the paint!! It's only original once. Ours has been through 4 Canadian winters still original paint and NO rust.

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by lower50's

Nice Burb!! I Had a strange sale in Phoenix AZ when I bought my DD 87' Jimmy. The guy met us in a mall parking lot and didn't want to give his address so we could pick up the truck. He had a loaded Glock hand gun. Then all was good when he found out we where staying in North Scottsdale and lived in Canada. I guess there are no bad people in those places. LOL
Just leave the paint!! It's only original once. Ours has been through 4 Canadian winters still original paint and NO rust.
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Thanks Lower! Really glad my car buddies get it with the 90 Burb. The carpenters working on my shop stared at it blankly and asked, “What the he** are you going to do with that?”

Wow, that was a weird experience. Of course he came around, good folks from Canada...it is getting more aggravating to buy or sell a vehicle like these due to the fast communication possible today. It was a pita 30 years ago too, just happened at a slower pace.

Nice Jimmy! Going to areas where they don’t salt the roads to find them is amazing when we are use to seeing rust through.

Good point with original paint. My thinking on this one is it is too new to look good with as far gone as the paint is on top. Still a lot of time to think it over before getting to that point.

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by youngrodder

Doug

If it makes you feel better I failed to notice when I drilled my holes for the front mounts that they just catch the back edge of my "custom" boxed floor brace. Had I known, I could have moved the brace a 1/4" forward and had no issues. I now have made more work for myself.

Marc

Well, guess that doesn’t only happen to me. See the location of the front mounts? Yep, right about the edge of one of the boxed floor crossmembers. I just need some relaxed time staring at it to figure out the best solution. Then jump in and do it.

I really don’t like the passenger factory seat mounting and frame. Kinda spindly...