March 24 will be 39 years....

[Andy4639]

I bought my 71 C 10 in March of 85. The truck still has all the original sheet metal it came with from the factory and it's never been wrecked. I bought it from the 1st owner with 80,000 miles on it. It now has over 400,000.
Its on it's 4th paint job. It was Olive green & white when I first bought it and now it's Iroc RED/Viper red with Gun Metal grey bottom. I had it swapped over to this combo in 87 the first time I had it painted. The hood is a stock hood that I had louvered. The picture of it in red was a few months ago after having it ceramic coated. The last time it was painted was 2010 so that paint is 14 years old now.
I just finished the driver side and spare wheels freshing them up today and will do the passenger side tomorrow. I cleaned them up good scotch padded them wipped them down and blew them dry good then repainted them. I started with Gun Metal base then silver flake with 3 coats of clear.

Truck has a 6.0 with 4L80E running gear with 1 piece drive shaft, lowered with 3" springs and helper air bags in each coil spring. The Boss wheels are 20" on all 4 corners with 8" wide up front and 10" out back. Has 99 Tahoe bucket seats with 6 way electrtric and heated. Tach, full gauges with GPS speedometer, AC/heat and cruise control with resume.

[Getter-Done]

Very Cool .

I love the Old pictures like this the Best.

[clay68c10]

That's awesome that you've had it that long. I'm not too far behind you. Unlike mine, yours has been operable the whole time. Congrats for that.

[Andy4639]

I finished up the wheels today and started on some other minor stuff. I have pictures as I go. Here is a video and some pictures of the finished wheels. It was 75* here today so I pulled them out of the shop to get some sun.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y_iWj-RsPC0