welcome. this is a board for exactly one thing, old pickups, and i am keeping it that tight on purpose. the 1973 to 1987 Chevrolet and GMC square-bodies, the 1980 to 1996 OBS Fords, the Dodge D-series, and the 60s and 70s iron people still fire up in January. a truck with lane-keep beeps or an aluminum bed has plenty of homes online, this just is not one of them.
there are three places to post and i tried to let the names do the explaining. Classic truck talk covers the truck standing still: paint and patina, decoding the trim and RPO sticker, glass, seats, and tucking a carbureted truck away for a hard winter. Engines, swaps and restoration is the greasy end: a 5.0 or an LS, a carburetor or a fuel injection kit, discs where the drums used to be, and patch panels. Buying and auctions is where dollars get talked about, and my guess is it ends up the busy one: what a truck ran you, which yard it came off, and what the first month of ownership turned up.
i put this up because my own threads on the big car sites kept sinking. i would ask about a dragging drum or a dead fuel gauge and the question would slide under a hundred posts about trucks that cost six figures. 31 years at a Chevy store, most of it eventually in the body shop, and the same 1979 K10 parked in my barn since 1994, and i wanted a quiet spot where that kind of question gets a straight answer.
the rules fit on a matchbook. lead with the year, the make, the engine and what the cab and bed are, since a shortbed 305 and a longbed 350 four-speed do not earn the same reply. reporting a purchase means putting the dollars in it. selling a truck or a part straight out of a thread is off limits, we run no classifieds and nobody is talking me into one. and if a dealer, a lender, an auction or a shop cuts your check, mention it the first time it matters. past that, act like neighbors, because the stock-is-sacred folks and the swap-it-all folks are about to be exactly that.
to get a login, email me what you drive and the county it sits in while i keep the signup locked against the robots. the fine print lives on the about page if you want it. vernon.