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Old 04-25-2010, 11:50 AM   #26
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

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Okay, this is the coolest thing I've seen on this board yet! That must have been one hell of a trip.
Thanks. It was pretty wild. You could actually watch the tires wear.

That truck has been to every state in the US (my friend took the license plate to Hawaii with him).

He still has the truck. It has close to 750,000 miles on it. It's been through a number of engines and transmissions. It has a '67-72 bed on it now.
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Old 04-25-2010, 11:52 AM   #27
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

What a story to tell! Man and I thought driving from Maine to Daytona was a road trip after Highschool....thanks a ton for sharing
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

Very cool man! Thanks for sharing! Great pics!
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Old 04-25-2010, 01:59 PM   #29
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

Wow... What a trip!

Very cool!
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Old 04-25-2010, 02:22 PM   #30
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

Totally thanks for sharing..
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Old 04-25-2010, 02:42 PM   #31
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

That trip looks like alot of fun how long did you stay in alaska any current pics of the truck? Your friends new goal should be 1,000,000 miles
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Old 04-25-2010, 02:58 PM   #32
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Wow! What an experience this would be! Thanks for sharing
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Old 04-25-2010, 03:10 PM   #33
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That trip looks like alot of fun how long did you stay in alaska any current pics of the truck? Your friends new goal should be 1,000,000 miles
3 weeks total - 4 days up, 4 days back, 13 days in AK. We saw as much as we could. It helped that the sun was out most of the time and we were young. . What didn't help is that AK is 1/5 the size of the lower 48 (2.25 times as big as Texas)!

I believe that truck will see a million miles if he has to carry it.
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Old 04-25-2010, 03:15 PM   #34
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

I don't have a picture of that truck now. I'll have to get one. The last one I have is of it pulling home its next bed!

Also here's his family's Grumman 292-powered "motor home":
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Awesome post, thanks for sharing!
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

That was a "real road trip" thanks for sharing.
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very cool....thanks for sharing!!!
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Old 04-25-2010, 08:09 PM   #38
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

Shaky,
Wow----what a trip down memory lane! I drove my 1972 blazer to Alaska the same year ( 1991 ). I worked on an offshore rig in Cook Inlet and stayed in Kenai during my week off. I worked 7 days on and 7 off.
I drove a lot of the same roads you did! I miss Alaska!

ps check out my bumper sticker, it is hard to read and says " I crossed the arctic circle in the land of the midnight sun".

Thanks for the pictures.

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Old 04-26-2010, 05:33 AM   #39
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Wow----what a trip down memory lane! I drove my 1972 blazer to Alaska the same year ( 1991 ). I worked on an offshore rig in Cook Inlet and stayed in Kenai during my week off. I worked 7 days on and 7 off.
I drove a lot of the same roads you did! I miss Alaska!

ps check out my bumper sticker, it is hard to read and says " I crossed the arctic circle in the land of the midnight sun".

Thanks for the pictures.

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That's a nice Blazer - a good rig to have up there. If we had seen that sticker when we were there, we probably would've plastered the truck with 'em. Alaska (in the summertime) was a great place...
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

Sweet pics. Those are a part of history to still have them all this time. Remember, 1991 was a time where there were no digital cameras and we still had film to take to the local store to get developed. Hahahaha!! Also, the shots of the land, animals, etc were so beautiful. Wow!!!!!!!!
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Old 04-27-2010, 03:55 PM   #41
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Sweet pics. Those are a part of history to still have them all this time. Remember, 1991 was a time where there were no digital cameras and we still had film to take to the local store to get developed. Hahahaha!! Also, the shots of the land, animals, etc were so beautiful. Wow!!!!!!!!
Yeah - I had to scan these pics. Good thing, 'cuz I'd hate to wake up one day and find out I lost 'em or that they degraded.
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Pic 1: Here's the owner at the end of the 1991 trip. The 3-on-the-tree linkage was so loose that he was the only one who could make it reliably from 1st to second!

Pic 2: The truck today. Still eating up miles. Still allowed in Canada (we must have offered the Canadians something to look the other way).

Pic 3: Haulin' 'yaks with the updated, modernized 67-72 bed.
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This is what I was driving at the end of college. It went to Utah, Mexico, and Key West a coupla times. But that's another story for another forum...
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

You win the prize for the longest and coolest road trip - even though it happened almost 20 years ago!

Thanks for sharing.
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Way cool......thanks for sharing. Alaska is something everyone should see!
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That is one of the coolest road trips I have ever seen... Awesome!

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alaska is great! didn't anyone tell you that the mosquito was the "Alaska state bird"!
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AWESOME!!!! thanks for sharing the story... and i bet there is alot of the story we didnt get to hear about .....
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We drove 89 hours straight to get to the AK. 95 hours got us above Fairbanks - to where the REAL mosquitoes live.
those were mosquitoes?!?! i thought they were birds?

looked like some whicked roads and alot of fun, hope I can get up there sometime to see it.

I remember taking a trip with my dad from the east coast to the west coast of canada. what a trip that was. took us a day and a half just to get across ontario! I'm so used to driving for hours and hours to get outside of the province that whenever I'm in the US i feel like I'm really getting somewhere because the states are so small and go by so fast

great pictures... and the "funny looking dear" is a moose... incase anyone didn't get that haha...
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any more real pics of the whole thing now? (the 67)
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