Bought the S-10

That S-10 from the other thread turned out to be a simple clutch safety switch issue.

I bought it tonight for $1000. It's a dry country truck, and the body and chassis are clean as day one. Well, except for the driver door and LF fender that were replaced, but not well.

This is an absolutely stripped truck, manual steering, heck, manual everything, and you get 4 gears, not 5.

The interior is thrashed, as GM used total junk materials to make these things.

I plan to have a bit of fun with this truck and a sawzall, in a totally redneck/ghetto fashion.

Look for a build thread soon. Tomorrow I go get it smogged then apply for an "antique vehicle" plate.

Do I feel old when an S-10 is legally an antique? Yes, yes I do.

Pic from the CL ad:

did you get it running?...

i've got a nasty looking Leer high top topper on mine... that one looks SO much better... but mine was only $25 lol...

a few inches of drop makes em look a lot better... :)

Yes, it's running. The clutch safety on those is weird, but it runs now.

I'll probably sell the topper on CL and get $100 of my $1k back :)

Need to sort out steering and brake issues before the mods start.

what sort of plans do you have for it?... but yes steering and brakes are good :)

I had an 86 2.5 4 spd. and it was one of the best vehicles I've ever owned.

I have plans to turn it into a ghetto roadster

Seems a shame to go sawzall on such a clean truck but it's yours to enjoy how you see fit! Good job on figuring out the clutch switch.

dculberson wrote: Seems a shame to go sawzall on such a clean truck but it's yours to enjoy how you see fit! Good job on figuring out the clutch switch.

I feel you. I came from the rust belt, too. I know that if I felt like driving this truck to Michigan, Ohio, or Wisconsin, it would fetch an easy $2500.

But this is the desert. All white trucks, regardless of age, look this good. (The darker ones all have the paint baked off.)

When it comes down to it, regardless of how it looks, it's a thousand dollar truck. I'm fortunate that, in this stage of my life, a grand is fun money. So I might as well have fun!

Ohhh, for some reason I thought you were up here with us rusty folk. Yeah, I can see how in the desert a truck like that would be a dime a dozen.

I drove one of those while I was in the Navy, and you are right...the interior is total crap. Even nearly new, the design/details were incredibly stupid. (I'm assuming yours has that FAUX digital instrument panel and the switchgear that "mimics" that used in several Chevys of the period. Switchgear that looks like it pulls on when it pushes on...or something like that?)

The interior is a total train wreck. The dash is worse than any I've ever seen. Two good hammer blows and it would probably be dust. The door panels are gone. The headliner came out on day 1 and the visors are just toast.

I got the truck because it has good "bones". Everything else can be fixed.

I had 3 of those, an 86, and 2 87's, and the only beef I ever had was the saggy drivers seat in the 86 from the fat guy that owned it before me. I put almost 500k on it and everything always worked. I liked it. It was plain and simple, the way it should be in a truck like that. I should go down south and grab one of those while they're still available.

Whoever at GM designed the turn signal switch should be shot.

That is all.