It probably won’t take a lot of guessing to come up with the vehicle this is on. So maybe you should save it for guessing how many times the owner has been divorced.
Yet another heap I walk by all the time. Matter of fact, it’s in the backyard of my house. It belongs to my roommate’s thrice-divorced brother.
Is it a Bonanza? Hard to tell the year without seeing the front end. Obviously 1973-80 though.
Looks like it’s time for some fix-a-flat, a trip permit, a jump start and a dump run!
Doesn’t look like he is having much luck with trucks either …
There’s another old Chevy about thirty feet from it. Tires are even worse, but it has more potential. Sweet running big block.
Pre 1979, as in 79 and on the gas tank cap was behind a cover.
“1978 Late in the model year, a fuel door was added, leaving no fuel cap exposed on the bedside. This began with models using unleaded fuel. Trim packages offered: same as last year.
Well, late in the model year means nothing since “model year” is not defined where the quote was obtained.
http://www.chuckschevytruckpages.com/models.html
At the yard de la wrecking we often confronted differentiating part interchange problems requiring determining specific day/week/month/etc of build date to determine the proper part or…. we just told the part seeker those famous words, “Bring in your old part and we will match it up.”
Sometimes we had to match up code numbers such as igniters for 70s/80s era Jap-built cars.
Or match up gulp valves or air pumps due to various pulley sizes or the plugs at the ends of alternators.
Some of the toughest matching could be pick-up drive-shaft matching.
Dozens upon dozens and a few more dozen and a hundred more possible drive shafts with variants including tranny and engine type and differential type and is it drum or disc brake. Frame length, bed length, how many frame supports for the shaft and on and on and on to the point some yards would not even bother selling drive shafts let alone pull them and store them for selling later.
“Wanna’ drive shaft? Dealer will be glad to sell you one”
“But….but.. you gotta’ truck just like mine in your yard”
“Won’t fit.. go try a dealer”
Yeah, WE held the power and few, very very few folks got uppity with the true dregs of USA society.
Not many jobs where an employee can pull a knife on an angry customer.
Especially when the angry one was a friend of the owner.
I offered to quit but as I told the boss he HAD threatened to harm me and was headed my way and I believed he meant to back up the threat and I would NOT allow anybody to physically harm me.
Boss said not to worry….. the guy was a dick and used to pushing others around and it was fun to see him turn around and depart not getting his way.
I’m not surprised that the guy put an extra gas tank in it. I had a 1976 Cheyenne short wide box truck, and one of the small irritations with it was that I had to stand bent over to put gas in it because of the low filler location. A lot of gas stations didn’t have good ratchet setups yet. And, because of the 13-15 mpg appetite of the 350 engine I was doing this every couple of hundred miles. Iirc the tank capacity was only about 12 or 13 gallons.
The other Chevy I mentioned above has THREE tanks.
See boys, HOAs aren’t all bad!
(And no, I don’t want one because they’d kick me out as the first order of business.)
Best one I knew of was a truck driver who had enough fuel on board to travel approx 1700 miles in a flatbed Dodge truck, why I am not sure!