88-98 work trucks

[highperf4x4]

This is what it looked like when I got it. This truck came from the factory with a v6!!










This is what it looks like now.








This is the 355 I built for it. You can see from the headers it's been in the mud a few times.

[highperf4x4]

Workin













One of these days I'll start a thread for it. It's a "slow" project.

[68 50th]

Did some garden work with my 88 this weekend. Did a search and found this old thread on the subject. Maybe there is a newer thread but this is what I found.

[95 S_Trucker]

This thread is an oldie but goodie

Some of mine:

[Palf70Step]

Carlos and I did some yard clearing.

[Rich Gio]

My '88 K3500. It started life as a work/plow truck for a local board of Ed, then continued as a farm truck on my step dad's farm. I just inherited it and it'll continue as a work truck.....but only runs to the lumberyard.

[AwkwardStudmuffin]

Id love to build a static slammed Utility body as a tow rig. oooooo maybe even a dually... aww man gettin butterflies just thinkin about it.

[Dalaigh]

If it's running it's working…




That is what it was bought for…

[special-K]

These days my 88-98 work truck is an SUV.... a Suburban. But I'll call it a truck if I want to, because that's what it is. It's more truck than most pickups out there, No frills, 4L80E, 4.10 ratio, towing mirrors, hydroboost, posi, and my touches lend even further to it's truckiness. It's a shortbed crew cab all enclosed or can be a longbed regular cab real quick. In fact, I can haul 8' lumber on one side and haul one or two (depending on side) passengers. It will haul 12' boards up over the passenger side of front seat. I plan to build a bar against the back of the seat just an inch higher with anchor points for strapping materials down. I've been diggin' on the side door access you don't get with a pickup bedside. I didn't need to buy a way to lock or keep my tools from weather. I just added privacy glass. DOT and other thieves now just see an SUV, not a truckload of tools going down the road or parked somewhere. It has always been a work vehicle. I bought it from Cobb County, GA. It was a Sheriff's Dept K-9 unit used for search and rescue (think bloodhounds). Now it's on undercover work truck assignment

[Cape Codder]

My 98 W/T. It only has to work so I can play

[special-K]

I just found this thread looking for something else. Let's see some more work trucks or trucks working. I have been running/working my '95 K2500 Suburban for coming up on 6 years. It has been a great work vehicle with very few issues. Basically just get in and go.

Pictures hauling block this summer, a couple on my way to Carlisle Trucks, in the woods hauling out firewood, and one by a Victorian preservation project I was on

[Snarl95]

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1547499616

[1971 GMC SHORTY]

My 2000 C3500 Putting in Work

[1971 GMC SHORTY]

Originally Posted by 1971 GMC SHORTY

My 2000 C3500 Putting in Work

hopefully correct

[1971 GMC SHORTY]

My 2000 C3500 Putting in Work

[Palf70Step]

Rotated your original picture 1971 GMC Shorty

[1971 GMC SHORTY]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Rotated your original picture 1971 GMC Shorty

Thanks

[special-K]

Nice truck. Just what I need! I worked out of utility bodies for a long time. You can sure get used to those things. My Suburban is just a junk wagon compared to a truck with side bins. I guess that is the one advantage I do enjoy, you look at it sitting somewhere, or on the road (DOT), and you 'don't' see a work truck full of tools. In all these years I drove trucks that I couldn't just park anywhere and feel safe. That feels better with the old Suburban

[1971 GMC SHORTY]

Originally Posted by special-K

Nice truck. Just what I need! I worked out of utility bodies for a long time. You can sure get used to those things. My Suburban is just a junk wagon compared to a truck with side bins. I guess that is the one advantage I do enjoy, you look at it sitting somewhere, or on the road (DOT), and you 'don't' see a work truck full of tools. In all these years I drove trucks that I couldn't just park anywhere and feel safe. That feels better with the old Suburban

Yesterday Seen a Union Brother Has A Suburban As A Service Truck Has a tool ox behind Seats Pck Rat box with Air Compressor Air Reel hides Good When there Filming,

[special-K]

Originally Posted by 1971 GMC SHORTY

Yesterday Seen a Union Brother Has A Suburban As A Service Truck Has a tool ox behind Seats Pck Rat box with Air Compressor Air Reel hides Good When there Filming,

So I'm not the only one??? I feel much better now . Naw, I am proud of her and my decision to use it for work. I just never wanted to end up being that poor old man trying to scratch up a few bucks doing odd jobs out of an old station wagon. Well, it ain't no Country Squire .

The Suburban never was a passenger vehicle, always used for a vocational purpose. It was a Cobb County Georgia Sherriff's Dept K-9 search and rescue unit. The upholstery is all torn up in the cargo area and there are still four tie-downs for the dog crate that the blood hound rode in. I don't think the second seat was ever used, always laid flat.

Here's a K3500 I wish I could have bought when it was for sale. This owner did that truck right!

[Second Series]

Here's my '91 K1500 pulling the '88 k2500 on trailer home after some body work... I don't think it could move much more of a load. It did o.k. on flat roads and made it up the hill, but was a workout getting turned around on the hill.

[1976gmc20]

So I'm not the only one???

Wrong vintage, but for a while I worked for a builder in Alaska that used a square body K20 Suburban for his work and tool truck. Great place to put all the hand tools and electric tools and extension cords, etc. It was dark yellow like a highway truck or something.

He had a JD350 gas dozer and pulled it on a little tandem axle trailer. The back wheels of the Suburban would come off the ground when he would drive it up on the trailer!

His wife would pack a lunch and thermoses of "Russian Tea" for us.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Second Series

Here's my '91 K1500 pulling the '88 k2500 on trailer home after some body work... I don't think it could move much more of a load. It did o.k. on flat roads and made it up the hill, but was a workout getting turned around on the hill.

I like that Sportside with ladder racks. That '88 aged while on the trailer . Might not be the picture you intended but I sure like seeing that panel.

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

Wrong vintage, but for a while I worked for a builder in Alaska that used a square body K20 Suburban for his work and tool truck. Great place to put all the hand tools and electric tools and extension cords, etc. It was dark yellow like a highway truck or something.

He had a JD350 gas dozer and pulled it on a little tandem axle trailer. The back wheels of the Suburban would come off the ground when he would drive it up on the trailer!

His wife would pack a lunch and thermoses of "Russian Tea" for us.

I never hauled any heavy machinery, but I had a '91 Suburban (diesel) I used to work out of. That one was a former vocational use municipal fleet vehicle as well. It was owned by WSSC which is Washington Sewer & Sanitary Commission, Washington, DC and surrounding suburbs water and sewer entity

[special-K]

I saw this '95 for sale. Thought about it. I'd like to have a 1t dump and the snow plow

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by special-K

I saw this '95 for sale. Thought about it. I'd like to have a 1t dump and the snow plow

Looks like a solid truck that has lots of work-life left. I can't see anything wrong w/a purchase like that.