I used to own a '95 Chevy C1500 Silverado reg cab long bed 350 V8. Tri tone (silver on top, then dark metalic blue, then silver around the bottom.) My parents bought it for me while I was in college when it was 3 years old with 55k mi on Xmas eve '98. I helped out of course, but I think they paid for close to 2/3 of it.
Gorgeous truck, and it really came in handy when I was moving back and forth between home and school. Helped a lot of friends move too! Lots of great tailgate memories at college football games. She was generally trouble free and ran great. It ate it's trans at 65k, but I never blamed the truck as I later found out that it had spent it's life with it's prior owner pulling around a 14,000 lb horse trailer
. A little beyond its limits, to say the least.
I still miss that truck. After I got married and settled down, it didn't do much hauling duty, other than lugging around 40 gallons of gas that it would burn through at the rate of 13 mpg
... always said it'd out run everything but a gas pump. My wife hated it because it was "too big". She always managed somehow to take up 4 or 5 parking spaces with it
.
In '03 with 120k I traded it for a new '03 Mazda Protege5 and now I average 31 mpg!
To keep this gun related, my 686+ 4" fits like a glove in my MP5's glovebox, they were made for each other!!!
