My driveway recently got GMT 400% cooler

"blacktruck18" (blacktruck14) 01/22/2017 at 18:49 • Filed to: None

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Hello oppo, it’s been a little while. Just wanted to stop in and say hello and share my newest acquisition.

Last month, while I was on Christmas break from school Mrs. blackcar stole my IS350. After driving her S60 for a week or so I asked her if she just wanted to keep the Lexus, sell the Volvo and I would get and old truck (I was thinking about a 73-87 C10 or a 96-98 GMT 4oo). She agreed within about 4 seconds so I started looking around for something for me.

If anyone remembers my last post I on here I posted about the used car lot up the street having the begins of my dream garage.

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Well, the white GMT 400 I posted about was still there, I went and talked to the owner about it and the mileage they had on the window sticker and their website was wrong (191,000) was wrong. Not sure how it happened, but it actually has just under 100,000 miles. We worked out a deal and we traded the Volvo for the truck and now I have a fun little truck again.

It’s a 1997 with a 350 and limited slip, the first day I had it there was an ice storm here, good times were had.

TORQ THRUST ALL THE THINGS

I don’t have too many plans for it, as of right now I am just going to replace the headlights with some that LMC Truck sells that have a better housing, upgrade the master cylinder to one out of a newer GM pickup (almost direct bolt-in) to get rid of the mushy pedal all of these truck suffer from and get a Bluetooth compatible stereo.

So long rally Volvo, it was fun while it lasted.

Also, wall art since that seems to be the theme for today. These are both in my office.

I hope everyone is doing well except Hondabro, I hope he has hemorrhoids.

jkm7680 > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 18:52

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Wow, that is incredibly clean! Nice!

TheHondaBro > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 18:54

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I don’t have hemorrhoids, thank you very much. :D

blacktruck18 > jkm7680 01/22/2017 at 18:55

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Thank you, it’s awesome. I forgot to put it in the post but it’s only had 3 owners the original owner, and an old man and his son.

Urambo Tauro > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 18:55

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That is an amazing looking truck! Nice find!

blacktruck18 > TheHondaBro 01/22/2017 at 18:57

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Dammit. You’really still from Oregon though. HA!!

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 18:57

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That might be the cleanest GMT400 in existence. Jelly!

TheHondaBro > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 18:58

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I spent less than a year in Oregon. I spent 15 years in California though.

blacktruck18 > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 01/22/2017 at 19:01

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Thank you. There are clean ones all over Southern Illinois, I could probably drive around for 20 minutes and spot one.

blacktruck18 > Urambo Tauro 01/22/2017 at 19:01

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Thank you.

jkm7680 > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:01

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Wow, good deal!

blacktruck18 > TheHondaBro 01/22/2017 at 19:02

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Your alternative facts have no basis in reality.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:04

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I searched and searched for one in and around STL over the summer and couldn’t find one for the life of me. I guess all the people with nice ones want to hold on to them.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:06

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Reminds me of the 454SS Chevy Trucks I lusted after in my youth. I could afford one now but finding one in good shape.

bob and john > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:09

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I need that backup plan poster

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:09

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Excellent. You belong in a pickup anyway.

blacktruck18 > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 01/22/2017 at 19:12

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Ya, I think that’s true most of the super nice ones I see around here are being driven by old farmers.

Are you still looking? If I see any for sale I can definitely post them up.

blacktruck18 > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 01/22/2017 at 19:14

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Yes, these trucks were everywhere when I was a youngster, they are just kind of stuck in my memory now.

blacktruck18 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 01/22/2017 at 19:14

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I really do, I just feel better about life when I have a truck.

blacktruck18 > bob and john 01/22/2017 at 19:17

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It’s not actually a poster just an 8 1/2 by 11 printout on nice paper. I can try to get a really good pic of it if you want it. I don’t have a digital form of it. I stole it my boss’ door my last day in the Army.

yamahog > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 01/22/2017 at 19:18

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We just picked up a 454 2500, not quite as clean as this one though!

bob and john > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:18

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found it already...thanks though.

blacktruck18 > bob and john 01/22/2017 at 19:20

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Cool, I should probably do that too just in case something happens to this one.

comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:28

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Apparently, someone is trying to prank you and stuck a soup can in your exhaust.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:29

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Nah, I snagged up a rust free 70k mile S10 instead. Not as big but I didn’t really need a Full-size anyway

Spaceball-Two > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:30

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You magnificent bastard!

blacktruck18 > comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer 01/22/2017 at 19:33

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Ya, it’s kinda dumb. I took the end piece off, to try to make it look better. It was entirely too loud and I put it back on. Someday I’ll switch them out for normal tailpipes.

blacktruck18 > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 01/22/2017 at 19:37

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Oh ya, I remember seeing that when I was lurking one day. It looks super clean, congrats. If you had gotten a regular cab GMT the interior size isn’the that much bigger. It’s wider but not much longer.

blacktruck18 > Spaceball-Two 01/22/2017 at 19:39

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Right back atcha, how’s things?

Spaceball-Two > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 19:42

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Cold and wet. Same ol shit. Great truck!

Monkey B > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 21:18

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gorgeous...plain, simple...perfect truck

blacktruck18 > Monkey B 01/22/2017 at 21:23

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Thank you very much.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 21:49

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Oh that thing is freakin’ SWEET. Nice buy! Color me jelly.

JeepJeremy > blacktruck18 01/22/2017 at 22:03

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Wow! That is a very, very, very sharp truck! Too cool!!

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/22/2017 at 22:08

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Thank you, do you still have your Buick? I haven’t been on here too much lately might have missed it if you sold it.

blacktruck18 > JeepJeremy 01/22/2017 at 22:08

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Thank you.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 00:25

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Which one? Well, either way the answer is no. I sold the Apollo about a year and a half ago. A couple months later I bought a ‘94 Roadmaster wagon. I loved that beast, but it popped a bad patch of rust at the base of the driver’s side B-pillar. I decided to sell it while the car was still solid. I’m regretting that, because my wife doesn’t want me to spend that money on a replacement.

Tristan > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 00:59

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LOVE it! I wish I had this instead of my Suburban, but I love it too... and that whole family hauling thing it does.

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/23/2017 at 08:37

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I forget you owned the Apollo, I was still posting when you sold that. I was asking about the Roadmaster that sucks about the rust. Yes wives, sometimes I see mine looking at the Lincoln and I can see wheels turning in her head, I am not 100% sure what is happening, but I am pretty sure it isn’t good. I am worried that someday I am going to get an “Are you ever going to sell that?”

blacktruck18 > Tristan 01/23/2017 at 08:49

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I just found pics of your Suburban, that is a nice truck.

I hade a 99 Tahoe in that same color, I am firmly convinced that one of those Tahoe’s is the perfect vehicle for me. We don’t have kids so I don’t need all kinds of room, it was small enough to drive every day without going through tons of gas but big enough to do pretty much all of the hauling I needed it to do.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 09:24

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She didn’t make me sell it, nor did she ever ask me about selling it. I hadn’t planed on keeping it forever, but the rust made me decide to move it along sooner than later. I only sold it a few weeks ago, and was planning to buy something else cheap and fun (I was eye-balling a K5 Blazer actually). Now if I had known she had a problem with me replacing it, I would’ve just kept it.

She does have a point. We’ve got two kids and we’re considering having her quit to stay home. If we lose an income, it’s probably not the smartest thing in the world for me to buy a 3rd car just for me, even though I have the cash. Oh, you may have missed this, I bought XJDano’s ‘98 Chevy Metro this fall for $140. I’m going to rallycross that to death this year. I got permission to do that, instead of receiving any gifts for Christmas or my birthday.

Pickup_man > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 09:41

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I’ve never seen a Super Trapp on anything other than an ATV/Dirtbike before, how does it sound?

Awesome looking truck! I’m starting to grow really fond of these.

blacktruck18 > Pickup_man 01/23/2017 at 12:22

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It’s a Southern Illinois hillbilly thing I see it quite a bit. I have seen a bunch of diesel 250o’s/F250's they sound like straight garbage with it.

It doesn’t sound bad, it doesn’t sound particularly good either, I think flowmasters and normal tailpipes would be considerably better. I will probably change it eventually.

You should grow fonder, they are awesome.

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/23/2017 at 12:36

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In that case it makes sense her not wanting to spend the money.

Mrs blacktruck is completely cool with me having toy car/third cars. She is into cars too and has driven all of the cars we have owned, including my slammed C10 with 2 1/2 side exit straight pipes (yes it set off all of the car alarms).

She really likes the Lincoln she just doesn’t like driving it because it’s so big, she has driven it a few times and she just can’t get comfortable with it. That and it is kind of a pain having limited parking space and having to shuffle cars around a couple of times a week.

I think she would be totally cool with if she could drive it too. I think it just takes the fun out if it for her. I have thought a few times about selling it and getting something we could both drive, I really love that car though so.....

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 12:42

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Yeah, she’s not being unreasonable, I just wish she had said something BEFORE I had sold the Roadmaster.

I can understand your wife’s hesitation. I have a special place in my heart for those Lincolns. One of my childhood neighbors had a series of those. He was a handyman, and would buy them cheap and use them as his pickup truck. I love giant old boats in general, but I passed on a beautiful ‘76 Deville before I bought the Roadmaster, because I just don’t want to park the thing. It would barely fit in my garage, and I’d have to get rid of a bunch of tools to even make that happen.

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/23/2017 at 12:58

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Ya, I can see that, I always lay out my full plan to my wife before I do any car stuff so we are in agreement with my schemes.

I wish the Lincoln fit in my garage that would get rid of the shuffling cars around problem. It will fit with literally nothing else in there, unfortunately the garage has all of our furniture we don’t have room for in our current place.

I can’t wait to see the Metro die, it’s going to be glorious.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 14:01

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I need to be better about making that clear and getting a response. In my defense, I did tell her I want to get something else, but I did not see it through to making sure she was ok with that. Live and learn!

The Metro’s exploits will be chronicled here fully, so stay tuned :)

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/23/2017 at 16:07

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The Army forced my wife and I into being a communicators. While I was in the Army I was basically gone every other year plus school, training and other stuff. I was basically gone half of our first 10 years of marriage. Most of our communication was by phone so we got into the habit of talking through everything super thoroughly before doing it.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 16:31

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That makes sense. I imagine a situation like that either makes your marriage very very strong ... or breaks it.

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/23/2017 at 16:53

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Ya, I have quite a few friends that are on their 2nd or 3rd marriage and aren’t even 35.

Luckily my wife is amazing and extremely brave.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 17:27

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Damn, I’m 35 and cannot imagine being on a 3rd marriage already.

That’s awesome you got a good one. I got a good one too :)

It’s weird, we finally made it through the all our friends are getting married phase of life, and now all the sudden we’re in the many of them are getting divorced phase. Two separate couples we’re close to filed within a month of each other.

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/23/2017 at 19:48

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Ya, it’s crazy it’s usually the same pattern, guy joins military at 18 or 19 and marries high school. They leave together move wherever the military sends them where the wife has no support network, she gets tired off being away from her family and friends,they start arguing marriage 1 done.

Guy finds a new girl in the military he goes to or whatever for a year, gets home and then she has to go overseas a couple of months later. So they end up spending 2 months together out of a couple of years. Marriage 2 done.

Then they meet someone new and try for a third time. Usually the third one seems to stick, everyone involved is older and more mature by than.

I have had friends that were getting divorced basically the whole time I was in. It actually made having a good marriage feel kind of weird. Like we were doing something wrong.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 20:17

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Haha, that’s a good kind of wrong :)

So, are you going to change your kinja name to white truck now?

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/23/2017 at 20:33

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I am not sure, I thought about it. I still have the Lexus so I don’t think so. I might just add it to the end of my name.

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 01/23/2017 at 20:36

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Done.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 20:57

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Nice! :)

Tristan > blacktruck18 01/23/2017 at 23:02

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I truthfully don’t need all that room. I only have one 2.5 month old... But Suburbans can be had for about half the price of a Tahoe, plus I love that massive gas tank. The extra wheel base is nice for towing the travel trailer, too.