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Tot Roddin'
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Mid-MO
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Awesome truck and pics!
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Here kitty kitty kitty
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Perrysville, IN
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
What a beautiful truck brother!! That is a great way to start out with your new truck. I hope to see more pics on here. Are you gonna leave it stock or ya gonna slam it or other plans?????
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Rosenberg, Texas
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Welcome from Rosenberg! That's a beautiful truck you've got. I bet you enjoyed the trip back from Cali! I moved here from Oregon back in 2007 and took a couple extra days on my way down here to enjoy the country. That was an awesome trip. I bet you had more fun than I did.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Roseburg, Oregon
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Very nice find there. I like the color - different then the norm. My blazer is that color.
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Katy TX
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Very nice truck and a great experience for you and your friend. If you would like a shorter road trip experience, drive her over to Katy TX and have a beverage at my house. I have a couple of hotrods and would like to meet people that share the same passion for trucks!
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Location: Lexington, Ky
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Ekliptix
Thanks for sharing. That's what makes this site so valuable.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Farmville, Va
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Welcome to the forum, thank you ever so much for the tour of the ride home. By the way nice lookin ride!!!!
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Cool Truck
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Bowie,MD
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Beautiful truck and awesome adventure! I'd love to do something like that one day.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Farmville, Va
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Welcome to the Forum and that's a nice lookin rig you got.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Clover,SC
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Super nice truck...and I like the jet stream blue c6
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Cool story and great truck! Did you ever have to use that gas can in the bed?
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Pretty gutsy buying long distance and driving that type of distance on word of mouth as dependable. Glad it worked out for you and didn't leave you with a horror story to tell us. No doubt my luck would have left me stranded 30 miles from civilization and a huge tow or repair in a not so friendly to strangers part of town.
As far as the spray film you tried..I think 3M makes a protective tape they use on the newer vehicles on their rocker panels n lower doors. Should be available at most of your auto paint retailers. Could be an alternative solution.
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
great truck and great story! thats what we like !!
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Olympia, WA
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Beautiful truck!
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Folkston Ga
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Man That's an awesome road Trip. Great truck. Good luck trying to find something to do on it. Looks awesome.
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Houston, Texas
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Wow very nice truck! thought I would look you up since I saw all your pictures from the the C10 meet up hopefully will meet you at the next meet up!
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Great adventure! That's how to bond with a new truck. Great truck too for that matter.
Will look awesome dropped. But please, no 20's.... Get some 17's or 18's with some sidewall. The truck and I thank you! ![]() Look forward to more pics of this truck in the future.
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: simi valley, ca
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
I know it's a year and a half down the road but....
....NICE truck!! I know what it's like on that road and the drive can be great....or boring. Either way you must have fun since you were driving your new truck, which is a beauty. I hope you're enjoying it often. |
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Sacramento,California
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
What a great way to enjoy your truck. I love seeing people drive their trucks rather than treating them like trailer queens. Kudos, and beautiful truck.
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A day late and $1 short...
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northwest FL
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
I dig it!!Drop looks awesome and I'd leave those wheels on there too, it looks sweet just like it is.
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Location: Albuquerque NM
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
good pics, what part of NM did you go thru? looks like lordsberg? some cool looking mountains there huh?
ive done that drive going to houston. lots to see thats for sure
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Location: Franklinton NC
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
That is a beautiful truck. The Vette isn't bad either.
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Re: My First C10 (72' fleetside) - 2,100mi drive home - Photos
Looks awesome.
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