The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

Critter · 03-30-2012, 02:12 AM

THIS IS THE TRUCK THAT STARTED IT ALL FOR ME!

It’s December 1990 and my older brother has just turned 16, I will be 12 the next month. He had saved his money and with a little help from my parents he bought a 72 swb stepside from a shop down the road that specialized in these trucks. We were told it had a 305 HO and trans from a mid 80s Monte Carlo SS (installed at that shop). Overall it looked pretty nice. It had obviously had some body work done to it but a recent red and white paint job looked good from 20ft away. My bother soon gathered a lot of attention driving the truck that was dubbed "Li’l Red" by him and his group of buddies. It was loud, fast, and could usually be seen hauling @ss around at all hours of the night on weekends (my brother snuck out of the house a lot!) Over the next couple years I was right in the middle of things when my bother would work on the truck; exhaust pipes, window tint, stereo install, etc. All the fun stuff that teenage boys do to their trucks was performed in the driveway with a little bother looking on. I was, of course, infatuated with this 72 of my big brothers! It was the first 67-72 I ever sat in, the first one I ever drove, the first one I ever worked on, you name it. Around 1995 my bother traded the 72 to a guy in a neighboring town for a ¾ ton crew cab. By this time I was fully infected by the 67-72 bug and a few months later I bought a 68 step side that I put a lot of work into after I turned 16…but that’s another story for another time.

The new owner never intended to keep the truck, he just took it for trade because he was a friend of a friend and he knew it had some value. He soon sold it to another man in the same town and at that time we lost track of the truck. A few years go by, I sell my 68, leave for college, and all the other stuff that comes along with growing up. In the summers I go back to my hometown to work with my father and sometime around 2000 I happened to run across the truck in the neighboring town where my brother had traded it. A few months go by and I notice the truck moves around in the driveway but that’s about it. I stop and ask the gentleman if he would sell it and of course he wouldn’t. A few more years go by and the truck disappears from the house but not long after I spot it a few miles down the road. This goes on for a few years, the truck would appear and disappear each time looking a little more faded and run down. The last time I saw it was September of 2010…until 2 nights ago when I ran across it on craigslist. First thing yesterday morning I called the owner and set up a time to meet. Today I drove the 90 miles back to the town it has been in since 95 and bought it.

After speaking with the owner I found out that the entire time, over all the years, it had been in his family. The gentleman that I stopped to ask if it was for sale years ago was the father of the current owner. At some point a nephew had owned it then he moved to a different house, etc. This explained all the moving around that it did in that small town. The whole time the family had it they didn’t really do much to the truck. The transmission was rebuilt a few years ago, the blue fender had been put on, but other than this and the fading paint it was largely unchanged from how my brother owned it. The 93 model steering wheel, the mid 80s rally wheels, the sloppy driveway tint job, the dented up front grill, all things my brother did that are still there! The guy I bought it from was about to have it painted so a few things were recently upgraded. He installed a brand new Vintage air system, a new wood bed and replaced pretty much all the suspension components front and back. The bumpers were removed and the truck was sitting at a body shop waiting for paint and body when the owner changed his mind and decided he needed the money more than the truck. If he had followed through with the paint job I would no longer recognize this truck in the community and you wouldn’t be reading this right now.

The truck is rough, no doubt about it. I now realize that the shop back in the day had mixed and matched a few parts and emblems when they were getting it ready to sell, but oh well. The cab needs the usual rust repair but no worse than the majority I see in this part of the country. The green paint showing through the red is because the truck was originally a US Army truck, the spid confirms this. My brother and I didn’t know much about these trucks originality back in the 90s but since then I have absorbed the knowledge of this website and uncovered a lot. There are also the government codes which are interesting to me, never seen those on other trucks before.

I know this is extremely long-winded but I am as excited as I can be and have to share with others who understand. I have followed this truck around for 17 years. I can trace my love/obsession with 67-72 trucks back to this exact truck! The course of my life has been changed by this truck! Starting my own business in the auto performance industry can be traced back to this truck!!! Now if I could only track down my old 68…

Here are a few crappy cell phone pics from tonight and a couple from the craigslist ad, obviously more will follow as I can take them in the daylight. If you made it this far, I'm surprised! Thanks for reading.

Critter · 03-30-2012, 02:13 AM

the spid...

**Palf70Step** · 03-30-2012, 06:14 AM

Very cool story and looks like a great reunion and start to another fine truck!

chevy72pu · 03-30-2012, 07:25 AM

Congratulations! I am a sucker for a good story with a happy ending.

Hotrob72 · 03-30-2012, 09:39 AM

Thanks for the whole story, have fun with this.

**chevy_man5** · 03-30-2012, 11:08 AM

What a cool story! Congratulations on getting it back!

You and Lostmy65 should get together and compare notes!! LOL

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=426650

He has a very similar story about his '65.

**bowtie72** · 03-30-2012, 11:17 AM

Well you have your veteran back in your family. Great story. Glad to see the truck made it back where it belongs.

50bomb · 03-30-2012, 11:28 AM

Oh boy that was an awesome story. Thank You for taking the time to share really something I can understand. Wish I could find my dads 65 chevy 10 longbed that he had in the 80's but that aint gonna happen haha. Good stuff again.

Critter · 03-30-2012, 11:48 AM

Thanks guys. The funny thing is the family that owned it for 15+ didn't really have that much involvement with it. It just kinda sat around with them I guess. There was more history in that truck from the 5 years we had it! I spent 30 mins walking around pointing out dings and parts that my brother put on it and the seller was like "Damn, you know more about this truck than I do!"

RenoKeene · 03-30-2012, 11:57 AM

Congrats on the family reunion!

PanelDeland · 03-30-2012, 01:02 PM

Cool story.It's great that it will live again.Not many get the chance...

Critter · 03-30-2012, 03:15 PM

Can anyone comment as to what some of those weird options are on the spid? Most are normal/obvious, but what exactly is "caution form", "service ident plate", "processing option" and some of those? I haven't had a chance to sit down and search through all of them yet.

71meangreenc10 · 03-30-2012, 03:36 PM

Its an old GSA truck like my Burb, there should have been a tag on the outer glove box with a whole bunch of information on it. All those weird options are for the military processing.

Smitty

DorianB · 03-30-2012, 03:45 PM

awesome story and great new beginning!!! keep us up to date and look forward to seeing MOAR PIX!!!

**72 Super** · 03-30-2012, 07:40 PM

Congrats on getting your brothers truck back. Glad it stayed fairly close in the next town. Great story!

Ray

Critter · 03-30-2012, 08:31 PM

Now that the excitement of the initial purchase has started to die down I have begun looking forward. Part of me wants to fix the body and paint it red with white top like it previously was. However, I never really like that scheme to be honest with you. My buddy Jtrux put it well saying "If it had stayed in your family the entire time it probably wouldn't be red and white now anyway." Which is a good point. It will probably end up solid white if I try my hand at painting it myself, if I shell out the money for a professional job it will likely be bright silver. But that is a long way down the road...gotta get the rust fixed and start tracking down parts for a 5 speed swap.

jhwkns · 03-30-2012, 09:14 PM

Nice story.

YBNORML · 03-30-2012, 10:13 PM

Cool story!

dbstepside · 04-01-2012, 12:38 AM

i enjoyed reading the story and wish i had one like it. congratulations and good luck on your project.

Critter · 04-01-2012, 02:29 AM

Thanks guys. I had a little time today to look over the truck and discovered it doesn't have a th350 trans...it has a th200-4r. Wasn't expecting that! Like I said, when my bother owned this thing we didn't know much of anything about anything. I never really put much stock into the original shop saying it had a "monte carlo ss" drive train but I guess all that time maybe it did. Funny thing is I just talked to my brother and neither of us ever remembered it going into overdrive. It has very high gears (I guess 3.08s, I need to look) so maybe it didn't get into overdrive??? Maybe it wasn't hooked up properly and never went in??? The column shifter linkage only has P-N-R-X-X-X. I don't know what those Xs are exactly, but there are only 3 notches that you can feel when moving the lever. Needless to say I'm pretty confused about all this. I had planned to swap the truck over to a manual 5 speed but now maybe I won't. I'm familiar with 700r4 but not these, time to do some research.

Critter · 04-01-2012, 03:09 AM

Forgot the pic earlier...

**specialtyretail** · 04-02-2012, 11:43 AM

Cool story. Is your brother as excited as you are about getting the truck back? I have an idea, ask your brother what color the truck would have ended up if he had kept it. I know it is yours now but I am sure he would be touched that you still consider it his old truck. Just an idea. Again, great story, does an old heart good to hear them like this.

ChevLoRay · 04-02-2012, 12:14 PM

This looks like the 2nd story I have read on here about a former military truck. What's amazing to me is that they both had V8's and automatics. All I ever drove were 6-cylinder/sticks....except for the '68 El Camino SS396. I was in Viet Nam, and it was the chase vehicle for the U-2 that my squadron (100th SRW) kept at Bien Hoa.

Neat story.

Critter · 04-02-2012, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by specialtyretail

Cool story. Is your brother as excited as you are about getting the truck back? I have an idea, ask your brother what color the truck would have ended up if he had kept it. I know it is yours now but I am sure he would be touched that you still consider it his old truck. Just an idea. Again, great story, does an old heart good to hear them like this.

Yeah well my brother is a smart@ss, he said I HAD to paint it back to red/white so he could go terrorize the neighborhood and cut doughnuts one last time. Then I had his permission to paint it whatever color I wanted.

He is very excited though, we live about 1.5 hours apart so he hasn't seen it yet but we have talked on the phone about it almost every night since I brought it home.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChevLoRay

This looks like the 2nd story I have read on here about a former military truck. What's amazing to me is that they both had V8's and automatics. All I ever drove were 6-cylinder/sticks....except for the '68 El Camino SS396. I was in Viet Nam, and it was the chase vehicle for the U-2 that my squadron (100th SRW) kept at Bien Hoa.

Neat story.

Now that right there is cool!

Critter · 08-20-2012, 02:21 PM

I was digging through a bunch of old cell phone pics on a mini sd card and found this. It was from a sighting of the truck I had back in 2010. At this point I hadn't seen the truck in probably 5 years. This was the first time I had seen it with the blue fender and the faded red paint looked worse than ever! Thought I would share.

03-30-2012, 02:12 AM	#1
Critter Future TOTM Winner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bulverde, TX Posts: 2,692	The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story THIS IS THE TRUCK THAT STARTED IT ALL FOR ME! It’s December 1990 and my older brother has just turned 16, I will be 12 the next month. He had saved his money and with a little help from my parents he bought a 72 swb stepside from a shop down the road that specialized in these trucks. We were told it had a 305 HO and trans from a mid 80s Monte Carlo SS (installed at that shop). Overall it looked pretty nice. It had obviously had some body work done to it but a recent red and white paint job looked good from 20ft away. My bother soon gathered a lot of attention driving the truck that was dubbed "Li’l Red" by him and his group of buddies. It was loud, fast, and could usually be seen hauling @ss around at all hours of the night on weekends (my brother snuck out of the house a lot!) Over the next couple years I was right in the middle of things when my bother would work on the truck; exhaust pipes, window tint, stereo install, etc. All the fun stuff that teenage boys do to their trucks was performed in the driveway with a little bother looking on. I was, of course, infatuated with this 72 of my big brothers! It was the first 67-72 I ever sat in, the first one I ever drove, the first one I ever worked on, you name it. Around 1995 my bother traded the 72 to a guy in a neighboring town for a ¾ ton crew cab. By this time I was fully infected by the 67-72 bug and a few months later I bought a 68 step side that I put a lot of work into after I turned 16…but that’s another story for another time. The new owner never intended to keep the truck, he just took it for trade because he was a friend of a friend and he knew it had some value. He soon sold it to another man in the same town and at that time we lost track of the truck. A few years go by, I sell my 68, leave for college, and all the other stuff that comes along with growing up. In the summers I go back to my hometown to work with my father and sometime around 2000 I happened to run across the truck in the neighboring town where my brother had traded it. A few months go by and I notice the truck moves around in the driveway but that’s about it. I stop and ask the gentleman if he would sell it and of course he wouldn’t. A few more years go by and the truck disappears from the house but not long after I spot it a few miles down the road. This goes on for a few years, the truck would appear and disappear each time looking a little more faded and run down. The last time I saw it was September of 2010…until 2 nights ago when I ran across it on craigslist. First thing yesterday morning I called the owner and set up a time to meet. Today I drove the 90 miles back to the town it has been in since 95 and bought it. After speaking with the owner I found out that the entire time, over all the years, it had been in his family. The gentleman that I stopped to ask if it was for sale years ago was the father of the current owner. At some point a nephew had owned it then he moved to a different house, etc. This explained all the moving around that it did in that small town. The whole time the family had it they didn’t really do much to the truck. The transmission was rebuilt a few years ago, the blue fender had been put on, but other than this and the fading paint it was largely unchanged from how my brother owned it. The 93 model steering wheel, the mid 80s rally wheels, the sloppy driveway tint job, the dented up front grill, all things my brother did that are still there! The guy I bought it from was about to have it painted so a few things were recently upgraded. He installed a brand new Vintage air system, a new wood bed and replaced pretty much all the suspension components front and back. The bumpers were removed and the truck was sitting at a body shop waiting for paint and body when the owner changed his mind and decided he needed the money more than the truck. If he had followed through with the paint job I would no longer recognize this truck in the community and you wouldn’t be reading this right now. The truck is rough, no doubt about it. I now realize that the shop back in the day had mixed and matched a few parts and emblems when they were getting it ready to sell, but oh well. The cab needs the usual rust repair but no worse than the majority I see in this part of the country. The green paint showing through the red is because the truck was originally a US Army truck, the spid confirms this. My brother and I didn’t know much about these trucks originality back in the 90s but since then I have absorbed the knowledge of this website and uncovered a lot. There are also the government codes which are interesting to me, never seen those on other trucks before. I know this is extremely long-winded but I am as excited as I can be and have to share with others who understand. I have followed this truck around for 17 years. I can trace my love/obsession with 67-72 trucks back to this exact truck! The course of my life has been changed by this truck! Starting my own business in the auto performance industry can be traced back to this truck!!! Now if I could only track down my old 68… Here are a few crappy cell phone pics from tonight and a couple from the craigslist ad, obviously more will follow as I can take them in the daylight. If you made it this far, I'm surprised! Thanks for reading. Attached Images __________________ 72 Chevy CST K5 HIGHLANDER BLAZER Getting a 6.0,NV4500,NP205,14BFF (Currently laying all over the place in little pieces) 72 Chevy swb step-side "LS" 6.0 Here's a build thread of sorts 2002 HD2500 Crew Cab, 8.1L Allison 4x4 Daily Driver Check it out www.lsdyno.com Last edited by Critter; 04-02-2012 at 09:52 PM.

03-30-2012, 02:13 AM	#2
Critter Future TOTM Winner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bulverde, TX Posts: 2,692	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story the spid... Attached Images __________________ 72 Chevy CST K5 HIGHLANDER BLAZER Getting a 6.0,NV4500,NP205,14BFF (Currently laying all over the place in little pieces) 72 Chevy swb step-side "LS" 6.0 Here's a build thread of sorts 2002 HD2500 Crew Cab, 8.1L Allison 4x4 Daily Driver Check it out www.lsdyno.com

03-30-2012, 06:14 AM	#3
Palf70Step State of Confusion! Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gulfport, MS USA Posts: 46,611	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Very cool story and looks like a great reunion and start to another fine truck! __________________ Bill 1970 Chevy Custom/10 LWB Fleetside 2010 Toyota Tacoma PreRunner SR5 Double Cab - DD Member of Louisiana Classic Truck Club (LCTC) Bill's Gallery Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God!

03-30-2012, 07:25 AM	#4
chevy72pu Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Sandersville, GA Posts: 298	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Congratulations! I am a sucker for a good story with a happy ending. __________________ How 'Bout them Dawgs! '10 Traverse LTZ 03 Silverado Z71 ext cab 99 Yamaha Grizzly 600 72 C10 350/350 sportside bed. 68 C30 flatbed. 350 4-speed. "I've got a good memory, it's just short!"

03-30-2012, 09:39 AM	#5
Hotrob72 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Bend Oregon Posts: 188	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Thanks for the whole story, have fun with this. __________________ 1971 chevy c10 ECE 4.5/6 dropped 1970 suburban ECE 4/6 Dropped 45K original miles so far 1948 Ford Sedan 1941 Dodge COE 1932 ford roadster the rest are normal drivers

03-30-2012, 11:08 AM	#6
chevy_man5 GMC's n H.D.'s too! Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Nampa, Idaho Posts: 1,583	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story What a cool story! Congratulations on getting it back! You and Lostmy65 should get together and compare notes!! LOL http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=426650 He has a very similar story about his '65. __________________ Jason 1960 GMC 4x4 Babe (the Blue Ox) - Build Thread

03-30-2012, 11:17 AM	#7
bowtie72 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Colorado Posts: 355	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Well you have your veteran back in your family. Great story. Glad to see the truck made it back where it belongs. __________________ 1968 SWB "Little White Truck" 1972 LWB LS 4l80 "Plain Jane!!"

03-30-2012, 11:28 AM	#8
50bomb Registered User Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Hemet,Ca Posts: 1,502	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Oh boy that was an awesome story. Thank You for taking the time to share really something I can understand. Wish I could find my dads 65 chevy 10 longbed that he had in the 80's but that aint gonna happen haha. Good stuff again.

03-30-2012, 11:48 AM	#9
Critter Future TOTM Winner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bulverde, TX Posts: 2,692	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Thanks guys. The funny thing is the family that owned it for 15+ didn't really have that much involvement with it. It just kinda sat around with them I guess. There was more history in that truck from the 5 years we had it! I spent 30 mins walking around pointing out dings and parts that my brother put on it and the seller was like "Damn, you know more about this truck than I do!" __________________ 72 Chevy CST K5 HIGHLANDER BLAZER Getting a 6.0,NV4500,NP205,14BFF (Currently laying all over the place in little pieces) 72 Chevy swb step-side "LS" 6.0 Here's a build thread of sorts 2002 HD2500 Crew Cab, 8.1L Allison 4x4 Daily Driver Check it out www.lsdyno.com

03-30-2012, 11:57 AM	#10
RenoKeene Florida Edition Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Fruitland Park, FL Posts: 4,008	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Congrats on the family reunion! __________________ 70 GMC Short Stepside "Rose"-An American Beauty: Factory 402/TH400, AM/FM, AC, Tilt, Tach, Buckets, Posi, PS, PB, 3-5 Drop, Complete Resto-Rod 67 C-20 Slant Back Wrecker "Mad Max" 67 C-10 Ratrod "Step-N-Wolf" 71 Serro Scotty Sportsman camper "Scotty" 97 LT1 Z28 "The Hornet" Link to more pics of "Rose" http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...p?albumid=1684 Check out my "Cheap Tricks" thread and add to it if you can, lots of good info there. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=489394

03-30-2012, 01:02 PM	#11
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03-30-2012, 03:15 PM	#12
Critter Future TOTM Winner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bulverde, TX Posts: 2,692	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Can anyone comment as to what some of those weird options are on the spid? Most are normal/obvious, but what exactly is "caution form", "service ident plate", "processing option" and some of those? I haven't had a chance to sit down and search through all of them yet. __________________ 72 Chevy CST K5 HIGHLANDER BLAZER Getting a 6.0,NV4500,NP205,14BFF (Currently laying all over the place in little pieces) 72 Chevy swb step-side "LS" 6.0 Here's a build thread of sorts 2002 HD2500 Crew Cab, 8.1L Allison 4x4 Daily Driver Check it out www.lsdyno.com

03-30-2012, 03:36 PM	#13
71meangreenc10 Its a Truck Thing...... Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sierra Vista, Arizona Posts: 3,158	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Its an old GSA truck like my Burb, there should have been a tag on the outer glove box with a whole bunch of information on it. All those weird options are for the military processing. Smitty __________________ 71 C10 283/3SPD Full Resto 71 GMC 1500 Sierra Grande http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=518599 70 C10 Suburban Former military GSA truck. 72 Chevy Blazer 4X4, Sloppy Jo, Mountain Climber. Wife says no more trucks. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=707378 72 GMC 1 Ton Motor Home, wife said no more trucks until she saw this one. Gen 3 6.0/4L80E 4.10 http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=761110 68 GMC Suburban was 3/4 ton, now 1/2.Wife shook her head 71 C30 Wrecker 71 C20 Scott-Bilt As weird as it gets..BB Cheyenne AC Truck 68 GMC Long Stepside. They keep following me home 71 C20 Longhorn/Ole Yellor 69 C30 Former Motor Home, Flat Bed time

03-30-2012, 03:45 PM	#14
DorianB Registered User Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Buford, Ga Posts: 205	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story awesome story and great new beginning!!! keep us up to date and look forward to seeing MOAR PIX!!!

03-30-2012, 07:40 PM	#15
72 Super Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hyattsville, Maryland Posts: 3,677	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Congrats on getting your brothers truck back. Glad it stayed fairly close in the next town. Great story! Ray __________________ 72 Cheyenne Super (Purchased new by my parents in August of 71) Black and White



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03-30-2012, 08:31 PM	#16
Critter Future TOTM Winner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bulverde, TX Posts: 2,692	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Now that the excitement of the initial purchase has started to die down I have begun looking forward. Part of me wants to fix the body and paint it red with white top like it previously was. However, I never really like that scheme to be honest with you. My buddy Jtrux put it well saying "If it had stayed in your family the entire time it probably wouldn't be red and white now anyway." Which is a good point. It will probably end up solid white if I try my hand at painting it myself, if I shell out the money for a professional job it will likely be bright silver. But that is a long way down the road...gotta get the rust fixed and start tracking down parts for a 5 speed swap. __________________ 72 Chevy CST K5 HIGHLANDER BLAZER Getting a 6.0,NV4500,NP205,14BFF (Currently laying all over the place in little pieces) 72 Chevy swb step-side "LS" 6.0 Here's a build thread of sorts 2002 HD2500 Crew Cab, 8.1L Allison 4x4 Daily Driver Check it out www.lsdyno.com

03-30-2012, 09:14 PM	#17
jhwkns Registered Cruiser Join Date: May 2002 Location: Las Vegas NV Posts: 2,230	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Nice story. __________________ I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

03-30-2012, 10:13 PM	#18
YBNORML Registered User Join Date: May 2010 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 3,847	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Cool story! __________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- Jason. 68’ GMC shortbox https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=794201 72' 2WD Blazer http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=425385 67' LongBox C-10 http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=691845 InstaGram ybnorml67

04-01-2012, 12:38 AM	#19
dbstepside Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: murray ky Posts: 351	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story i enjoyed reading the story and wish i had one like it. congratulations and good luck on your project.

04-01-2012, 02:29 AM	#20
Critter Future TOTM Winner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bulverde, TX Posts: 2,692	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Thanks guys. I had a little time today to look over the truck and discovered it doesn't have a th350 trans...it has a th200-4r. Wasn't expecting that! Like I said, when my bother owned this thing we didn't know much of anything about anything. I never really put much stock into the original shop saying it had a "monte carlo ss" drive train but I guess all that time maybe it did. Funny thing is I just talked to my brother and neither of us ever remembered it going into overdrive. It has very high gears (I guess 3.08s, I need to look) so maybe it didn't get into overdrive??? Maybe it wasn't hooked up properly and never went in??? The column shifter linkage only has P-N-R-X-X-X. I don't know what those Xs are exactly, but there are only 3 notches that you can feel when moving the lever. Needless to say I'm pretty confused about all this. I had planned to swap the truck over to a manual 5 speed but now maybe I won't. I'm familiar with 700r4 but not these, time to do some research. __________________ 72 Chevy CST K5 HIGHLANDER BLAZER Getting a 6.0,NV4500,NP205,14BFF (Currently laying all over the place in little pieces) 72 Chevy swb step-side "LS" 6.0 Here's a build thread of sorts 2002 HD2500 Crew Cab, 8.1L Allison 4x4 Daily Driver Check it out www.lsdyno.com

04-01-2012, 03:09 AM	#21
Critter Future TOTM Winner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bulverde, TX Posts: 2,692	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Forgot the pic earlier... Attached Images __________________ 72 Chevy CST K5 HIGHLANDER BLAZER Getting a 6.0,NV4500,NP205,14BFF (Currently laying all over the place in little pieces) 72 Chevy swb step-side "LS" 6.0 Here's a build thread of sorts 2002 HD2500 Crew Cab, 8.1L Allison 4x4 Daily Driver Check it out www.lsdyno.com

04-02-2012, 11:43 AM	#22
specialtyretail So,, what else you got??? Join Date: May 2010 Location: Jackson, Mo Posts: 18,637	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story Cool story. Is your brother as excited as you are about getting the truck back? I have an idea, ask your brother what color the truck would have ended up if he had kept it. I know it is yours now but I am sure he would be touched that you still consider it his old truck. Just an idea. Again, great story, does an old heart good to hear them like this.

04-02-2012, 12:14 PM	#23
ChevLoRay Old Skool Club Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Benton, AR "The Heart of Arkansas" Posts: 10,880	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story This looks like the 2nd story I have read on here about a former military truck. What's amazing to me is that they both had V8's and automatics. All I ever drove were 6-cylinder/sticks....except for the '68 El Camino SS396. I was in Viet Nam, and it was the chase vehicle for the U-2 that my squadron (100th SRW) kept at Bien Hoa. Neat story. __________________ Member Nr. 2770 '96 GMC Sportside; 4.3/SLT - Daily driven....constantly needs washed. '69 C-10 SWB; 350/TH400 - in limbo The older I get, the better I was.

08-20-2012, 02:21 PM	#25
Critter Future TOTM Winner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bulverde, TX Posts: 2,692	Re: The return of Li’l Red…a reunion story I was digging through a bunch of old cell phone pics on a mini sd card and found this. It was from a sighting of the truck I had back in 2010. At this point I hadn't seen the truck in probably 5 years. This was the first time I had seen it with the blue fender and the faded red paint looked worse than ever! Thought I would share. Attached Images __________________ 72 Chevy CST K5 HIGHLANDER BLAZER Getting a 6.0,NV4500,NP205,14BFF (Currently laying all over the place in little pieces) 72 Chevy swb step-side "LS" 6.0 Here's a build thread of sorts 2002 HD2500 Crew Cab, 8.1L Allison 4x4 Daily Driver Check it out www.lsdyno.com

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