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i know....i know.....'another pickup??!!??'. hey i don't run that site, i just repost them.
but i have to say that this one is pretty cool, even tho i'm not a red fan.
Nick Dassow didn’t give a whole lot of thought to the rarity of his “basket case” 1968 Chevrolet pickup when he bought it 20 years ago. He was just a teenage car guy looking for something to do.
“I was in tech school and I was always into old cars and trucks. The price was right. They were asking $1200, and I decided it was something I could do. I bit,” chuckles Dassow, a resident of Port Edwards, Wis. “I went out and looked and it and said, ‘Yup, I gotta have that truck!’”
This disassembled Chevy was actually a pretty unusual bird — a four-wheel-drive K10 model built with a step-side box on the short chassis. Only 1706 such examples were built for the 1968 model year — a time when four-wheel-drive light-duty trucks were still a bit of an oddity. By comparison, Chevrolet built more than 46,000 two-wheel-drive versions of both its Step-Side and Fleetside shortbox trucks for ’68. Dassow wasn’t really looking for a scarce collector truck, though. He was just looking for a truck to do teenager things — bang around and get dirty.
“At first I just wanted something to go run through the mud. I wanted to put bucket seats in it and do all this stuff … But I had some friends who said, ‘Well, this is a pretty nice truck, you should keep the bench seats in it and keep it pretty much stock,” recalls Dassow. “So I thought, ‘Well, that’s an idea, too. And that was a little more practical, too, for something I was going to drive. So that’s what I tried to do. I tried to keep it pretty much stock, or at least period correct, with a couple twists on some things.”
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1968-chevrolet-k10-pickup
but i have to say that this one is pretty cool, even tho i'm not a red fan.
Nick Dassow didn’t give a whole lot of thought to the rarity of his “basket case” 1968 Chevrolet pickup when he bought it 20 years ago. He was just a teenage car guy looking for something to do.
“I was in tech school and I was always into old cars and trucks. The price was right. They were asking $1200, and I decided it was something I could do. I bit,” chuckles Dassow, a resident of Port Edwards, Wis. “I went out and looked and it and said, ‘Yup, I gotta have that truck!’”
This disassembled Chevy was actually a pretty unusual bird — a four-wheel-drive K10 model built with a step-side box on the short chassis. Only 1706 such examples were built for the 1968 model year — a time when four-wheel-drive light-duty trucks were still a bit of an oddity. By comparison, Chevrolet built more than 46,000 two-wheel-drive versions of both its Step-Side and Fleetside shortbox trucks for ’68. Dassow wasn’t really looking for a scarce collector truck, though. He was just looking for a truck to do teenager things — bang around and get dirty.
“At first I just wanted something to go run through the mud. I wanted to put bucket seats in it and do all this stuff … But I had some friends who said, ‘Well, this is a pretty nice truck, you should keep the bench seats in it and keep it pretty much stock,” recalls Dassow. “So I thought, ‘Well, that’s an idea, too. And that was a little more practical, too, for something I was going to drive. So that’s what I tried to do. I tried to keep it pretty much stock, or at least period correct, with a couple twists on some things.”
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1968-chevrolet-k10-pickup
