I was planning on building this suburban:
I bought the 99 k2500HD you see in the pic to go pick up the suburban. Id been planning to drive 600km and tow it another 600km home for many years. So I bit the bullet when a friend gave me a good deal on the 99.
The suburban ended up just being too rough in the end. A little history:
My dads girlfriends brother bought his neighbours estate. He bought it to have the land, and because he liked the fireplace chimney. He tore down the house because it was rough but left the chimney/fireplace standing. He will build another house around it. In 1976 or so the fireplace/chimney was built with very rare northern ontario rock that was brought in from 100km away and the bill for the rock and delivery was $25 000 in 1975 not including the labour to build.
The estate belonged to the local town doctor. He bought the suburban brand new in 1974 off a showroom floor in downtown Toronto, ON. It is called a GMC 2500 "estate". Its fully loaded with harrison A/C, 8 track AM/FM player, tilt, 350/TH400/203(with "hurst" part time conversion) rear end 14bolt full floater with G80, front being dana 44 with fulltime hubs. It also had a dealer installed motorola 2 way radio with external 4" speakers. It was registered until november 1984 and was only used as a winter beater, never summer driven. the original 82 xxx miles were put on in those 10 years of winters only. Around 1984-85 it was parked in the garage, and not moved until 2004 when it needed to be moved to tear down the garage that was falling in over it. It had its oil changed, gas topped up and battery changed and it fired right up and drove to the field where it sat for the next 6 years. My dads brother in law loaded it with a front end loader forklift onto my borrowed trailer and I towedf it home that day 600km in the pouring rain.
Unfortunately after really looking it over it was far too rough to fix. The rear sill plate, tailgate, rear floor crossmembers were all quite rotten, and needed quarters,rockers,drivers front floor,2 fenders,both front doors and alot of the roof was rotten mostly above the glass. Ive determined that it must have been patched up in the early 82-84 summer and perhaps driven 1-2 winters after being "redone". The work was poorly done in timmins, ON. lots of bad brazing patches over metal not cut out, lacquer filler all over the place, lots of red oxide primer and overspray and a poor job matching the airbrushing. The original bodyside mouldings were removed and replaced with blue stick on mouldings that come on a roll.
If this was a virgin untouched body I would have repaired it. I debated what to do, considered replacing the tub, considered building a body similar to urban gorilla hummer replica, looked for a cab from a crew cab. people started wanting parts so I started parting it out. I ended up getting rid of everything and took the body tub and frame for scrap. I am happy though that parting out this thing helped 12 trucks stay on the road which is great because there arent many of these around here.
I bought the 99 k2500HD you see in the pic to go pick up the suburban. Id been planning to drive 600km and tow it another 600km home for many years. So I bit the bullet when a friend gave me a good deal on the 99.
The suburban ended up just being too rough in the end. A little history:
My dads girlfriends brother bought his neighbours estate. He bought it to have the land, and because he liked the fireplace chimney. He tore down the house because it was rough but left the chimney/fireplace standing. He will build another house around it. In 1976 or so the fireplace/chimney was built with very rare northern ontario rock that was brought in from 100km away and the bill for the rock and delivery was $25 000 in 1975 not including the labour to build.
The estate belonged to the local town doctor. He bought the suburban brand new in 1974 off a showroom floor in downtown Toronto, ON. It is called a GMC 2500 "estate". Its fully loaded with harrison A/C, 8 track AM/FM player, tilt, 350/TH400/203(with "hurst" part time conversion) rear end 14bolt full floater with G80, front being dana 44 with fulltime hubs. It also had a dealer installed motorola 2 way radio with external 4" speakers. It was registered until november 1984 and was only used as a winter beater, never summer driven. the original 82 xxx miles were put on in those 10 years of winters only. Around 1984-85 it was parked in the garage, and not moved until 2004 when it needed to be moved to tear down the garage that was falling in over it. It had its oil changed, gas topped up and battery changed and it fired right up and drove to the field where it sat for the next 6 years. My dads brother in law loaded it with a front end loader forklift onto my borrowed trailer and I towedf it home that day 600km in the pouring rain.
Unfortunately after really looking it over it was far too rough to fix. The rear sill plate, tailgate, rear floor crossmembers were all quite rotten, and needed quarters,rockers,drivers front floor,2 fenders,both front doors and alot of the roof was rotten mostly above the glass. Ive determined that it must have been patched up in the early 82-84 summer and perhaps driven 1-2 winters after being "redone". The work was poorly done in timmins, ON. lots of bad brazing patches over metal not cut out, lacquer filler all over the place, lots of red oxide primer and overspray and a poor job matching the airbrushing. The original bodyside mouldings were removed and replaced with blue stick on mouldings that come on a roll.
If this was a virgin untouched body I would have repaired it. I debated what to do, considered replacing the tub, considered building a body similar to urban gorilla hummer replica, looked for a cab from a crew cab. people started wanting parts so I started parting it out. I ended up getting rid of everything and took the body tub and frame for scrap. I am happy though that parting out this thing helped 12 trucks stay on the road which is great because there arent many of these around here.
