About this forum

Classic Truck Owners Forum opened in November 2025 for people who keep a 40 year old pickup running and are tired of wading through lifted-truck and new-diesel talk to find one thread about a sticky fuel sending unit or a drum brake that keeps grabbing.

Old trucks here means the 1973 to 1987 Chevrolet and GMC square-bodies, the 1980 to 1996 OBS Fords, the Dodge D-series, and the earlier iron from the 60s and 70s that people still drive. Survivors, patina trucks, frame-off builds and a half-finished project in the corner of a garage all get the same answers.

It is run by Vernon T., who posts as mod_vernon_t. Vernon spent 31 years at a GM dealer in Hutchinson, Kansas, most of it as a line tech and the last stretch in the body shop before he retired, and he has owned the same 1979 K10 since 1994. He splits a two bay pole barn with his nephew doing brakes, patch panels and the occasional carburetor that somebody gave up on. He reads the contact mailbox himself and is slow about it in deer season, when half the trucks in the county are parked at a camp.

What it costs

The server runs about ten dollars a month and the domain was fourteen for the year. Vernon pays both. There is no advertising on any page, no affiliate code in any link, and nobody has paid for a thread or a spot in one. If that ever changes it will say so here first.

House rules

• Year, make, engine and cab in every question. A 1985 C10 with a 305 and a TH350 is a different truck from a 1972 K20 with a 350 and a four speed, and the answer changes with it.
• Say what you paid. Buying reports without the numbers get a note from a mod asking for them, and most people fill them in.
• No selling trucks or parts in threads. There is no classifieds board, on purpose. Linking a public listing to make a point about price is fine.
• If you work for a dealer, a lender, an auction house or a restoration shop, say so in the post where it matters. People posting as owners when they are not get removed.
• Be decent about swaps. The keep-it-original people and the LS-everything people share this board, and neither side is going to convert the other.
• Mods move posts to the right board and leave a note where the post used to sit. Threads get locked rarely, with a reason written in them.
• Accounts are by email request until the spam settles down.

What this is not

Not a dealer, not a broker, not a parts counter, and not the factory assembly manual. When somebody here hands you a torque spec or a brake line size, check it against the book for your own truck before you trust a wheel to it.