I'm actually getting ready to restore this truck. It's not ultra rusty, but it as had a lot of bad body work done to it over the years (Lots of rivets, chicken wire, and bondo). I'm basically replacing the bedsides, fenders, hood and lower cab sheetmetal (The doors are usable).
I grew up in the back of an ol rusty Chevrolet. People worry about seatbelts I was worried about falling through the floor as a kid. Oh what fun it was who would have thought nearly half my life later it was some of the best memories of my life. 👌
The white smoke out the exhaust during the winter is so real. Carbuertors are so good in the summer and so butt in the winter unless your good at adjusting them.
For the most part that is true, but there's been some times where the GMC was the only vehicle to start for me in the cold. th-cam.com/video/29R_ArOb41s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=x6EJQ8PB8lDJkoZr This video from 2019 kinda demonstrates how easilly a carbureted vehicle will start if tuned well.
You? I still drive a 85 Chevy 3/4 ton, I can see the road by my feet some. I wish I could show pictures of it a couple of years ago, going to work at 6:30 in the morning my left back tire went flat ( was a good tire but was soft so I was going to air it up at work) well 3 miles from work it went down and no place to park so I creeped along and the tire fell off the rim. Yeah I drove the noisy beast to work on the rim. Did not hurt the rim and I still have it on my truck to this day. Can't do that with this new stuff.
@@jeffharper7579 Somewhere there is a used-car lot with the tragic collection of the vehicles we drove when we were too poor to buy anything good. Or reliable. The cops literally laughed when I drove by. Everything I owned was theft-proof; no self-respecting thief would be caught dead in it. Your tale of driving to work on the rim is perfect!
@krisaaron5771 the older the shit with good maintenance will run better and longer then things we got today with the plastic jack on all the engine today old cars are nice
True . my old truck is a 85 model and still runs good only 265,000 miles on it . back in 2016 I made a trip 450 miles one way from where I moved to put almost a ton of attachment for a skid loader in the truck plus my #4000 trailer with a #3500 skid loader and more attachments on the trailer and brought them to where I live now. Truck might be rusty,dusty but still runs😊
I love this version! I have family and friends who had such vehicles. I have ridden in such vehicles. Even though I can relate secondhand, I can relate!
Me too. 🙂 I was too young to drive when I hung around with people who had vehicles that required skill to operate and could be worked on by the owner. I occasionally went trash picking in rich neighbourhoods with one of them when a lot of good quality fixable goodies got curbed. At one time aluminium had decent scrap value, so I guess that’s why we picked a screen door one night. I was tasked with holding onto it through the window of a 1984 Olds Omega as we slowly made our way back to the apartment building. The car’s owner was the building’s primary caretaker and is quite the character. She had several vehicles at different times while she was there, my favourite being a 1978 Ford Econoline 150 with a modified 1979-82 grille.
@ Cool story! Thanks for sharing! Rich neighborhoods were always good for finding unwanted objects that were still in good condition. I never thought of doing something like that myself. I had a friend who did something similar to what you did in rich neighborhoods.
Had a 71 K20 Chevy, body was rusty. Some one commented in amazement, "I'm not surprised how much has rusted, I'm surprised how much of it hasn't rusted YET" The upper hinge on drivers door was only point holding door on cab, when door opened,,,,, for awhile, then the door detached from that too. I could still put door onto hinge, holding with one hand while I jumped into drivers seat, , , holding upper part of window frame with left hand, slam door shut and push door lock down at same moment, kept door in place, while driving. Pulling into parking space at grocery store, pull lock up, lift a little and open door, holding by inside top of window frame, , , jump out grabbing door with both hands, pull it off the rusted out hinge, throw door into bed of pick-up. Walk away and into store, trying to not laugh at the chin-drop-wide-eyed-stares, from people. Nobody ever tried to steal the truck, with Dog, sitting in drivers seat, one paw on steering wheel. Driving down beach access road, shoving driftwood logs out of way, drops down and across small creek door flies off and cartwheels across creek, beside the pick-up,,, grinning at others on beach, laughing so hard, they can barely stand😂😂😂
Although I'm more a big fan of slightly more modern trucks, like mid 90's trucks like 2nd Generation RAM 2500, I still love Squarebody trucks, they are what got us here to the 2nd gen rams and such
This reminds me of my parents 1990 wolfswagen station wagon. Its life ended when the engine cube had a big crack, the gear box didn't work and the turbo just desintegrated. All this is beacose the turbo hasn't been cleaned. At last, everything has an ending even wolzwagens (1990-2021
@catalingeorgianatudor3284 How many miles (or kilometers) did it have? The GMC has at least 250,000 miles, but maybe 350,000 (It only has a 5 digit odometer, so I can't be certain).
@catalingeorgianatudor3284 growing up we had this old green Subaru station wagon. it was a car that lasted quite a long time.. but eventually we ran out of replacement parts. :/
/had/ an 89 K5. Paid to much for it to begin with, put a crap to of money into it to keep it running band sold it for less than I wanted to to get the financial burden off me. The floor was air duct metal used JB weld and self tappers to fix all the holes, literally a couple pieces wire to hold the new exhaust cause the mounts broke (straight piped it) after one drive. The electric windows didn't work, horn button fell off when I bought the damned thing, seriously the only thing I wish I kept was the rims and put them on my Astro van
Oh rust and smoke, the heaters broke, the door just blew away, i light a match to see the dash, but then i start to praay! Frame is bent, the muffler went, the radio its ok, oh what fun it is to drive this rusty chevrolet!
i bet ya in canada every single one of those square body trucks has litaraly the bare minimum left of a floor for the cab to to even physicaly stay up or has had soo much patch work multiple times lol bc i know square body chevys rust soo bad lol i have a suuper rusty k20 it runs great but so dang rusty and i live in mn lol swiss chese floors and it looks like a dang white cow w brown spots all over the bed and fenders lol
Yeah, I got the whole set for $130 at the Junkyard basically brand new (they dated to like 6 months in the past). They came off a wrecked jeep, and the tread was chewed up slightly on one of them, (sidewall wasn't touched) so they couldn't sell it as a full set. With a 50% off coupon, I got all 4 for the price of a brand new one would be mounted. I put the slightly damaged one on the Drivers side rear, and the damage seems to have worn out of it.
It's 2024 I'm 9 and guess what we have some old rusty square body's I'm going to help fix one it's going to be my first vehicle other than some trackers
Those old quadrajunk carburetors make them hard to start. Get an edelbrock carb and watch it start right up. I used to have to pour gas down the quadrajunk to get it started.
@@AdamSander-b3b It's an inline 6 with a one barrel Rochester MonoJet. Your quadrajet probably had a bad accelerator pump, or the choke was stuck open.
@ I thought it sounded like a 6 but I wasn’t sure. Yeah I figured the accelerator pump was bad but since I started restoring my ‘78 I just had to have an edelbrock. I’m going to replace the 350 with a 5.3 ls eventually. I’d love to restore your truck. It’s an obsession.
I love it! Up north every morning you have to decide is the door frozen shut or did it some how get locked, because from outside you really can't tell.
Dashing through the snow in My rusty Chevrolet down the road I go sliding all the way I need new piston rings I need some new snow tires my car is held together by a peice of chicken wire oh rust n smoke the heaters broke the door just blew away I light match to see the dash then I start to pray-ay the frame is bent, the muffler went the radio it's okay oh what fun it is to drive the rusty Chevrolet i went to the iga to get some christmas cheer i just passed up the front left tire and its getting hard to steer skidding down the highway right past the nagani cops i had to drag my swomper to get the car to stop oh rust n smoke the heaters broke the door just blew away I light match to see the dash then I start to pray-ay the frame is bent, the muffler went the radio it's okay oh what fun it is to drive the rusty Chevrolet
If you're talking about turn signal switch, I put that in there to replace the original which was broken (It had been butchered so bad that putting in a factory switch wasn't very easy).
As a sqaurebody owner (restored truck) this song what it feels like to rebuild a rusty vehicle
I'm actually getting ready to restore this truck. It's not ultra rusty, but it as had a lot of bad body work done to it over the years (Lots of rivets, chicken wire, and bondo).
I'm basically replacing the bedsides, fenders, hood and lower cab sheetmetal (The doors are usable).
Don’t replace anything
It’s perfect the way it is
@Mat-o1m 😟
Sadly mine is too rusted out now, the front cap and fenders literally fell off, but boy that 350 small block sure is a piece of gold
I grew up in the back of an ol rusty Chevrolet. People worry about seatbelts I was worried about falling through the floor as a kid. Oh what fun it was who would have thought nearly half my life later it was some of the best memories of my life. 👌
JAMIE K DEER CAMP
I do the same thing its actually pretty fun whats not fun is when you fall off the back and get left behind😊
same here, dad had three kids and drove a single cab. i was the oldest, so guess who rode in the back
as the owner of a rusted out squarebody this is so accurate lol
ALCOs are the pretty much the same as this
@@F40M07 i honestly laughed way to hard at this
Another train enjoyer
@@YourLocalRailfanhi im one too
@@duckiesquad9me too
Tanner looks like an old sailor that is gonna give you the crazy eye and start talking about sea monsters.
I need to meet someone that can tell me those stories. Just amazing what they(believe they)'ve seen.
Haven't heard this in 30 plus years!
Stereo Dust Particles. Those three words Instantly brought me back to 1966. Great video 👍🇺🇲
www.stereodustparticles.com/
Haha!!! This was terrific!!!
1:44 Okay THAT'S actually a pretty solid frame for a cold-weather truck THAT old.
@@LNERMallard Yeah, it's pretty nice.
Nice interior too.
I haven’t heard this in decades!
The white smoke out the exhaust during the winter is so real.
Carbuertors are so good in the summer and so butt in the winter unless your good at adjusting them.
For the most part that is true, but there's been some times where the GMC was the only vehicle to start for me in the cold.
th-cam.com/video/29R_ArOb41s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=x6EJQ8PB8lDJkoZr
This video from 2019 kinda demonstrates how easilly a carbureted vehicle will start if tuned well.
@@jestertech3790 spoken like a proper mechanic. :D
Swear to god, that was my truck!! He upgraded the chicken wire, though...
You? I still drive a 85 Chevy 3/4 ton, I can see the road by my feet some. I wish I could show pictures of it a couple of years ago, going to work at 6:30 in the morning my left back tire went flat ( was a good tire but was soft so I was going to air it up at work) well 3 miles from work it went down and no place to park so I creeped along and the tire fell off the rim. Yeah I drove the noisy beast to work on the rim. Did not hurt the rim and I still have it on my truck to this day. Can't do that with this new stuff.
@@jeffharper7579 Somewhere there is a used-car lot with the tragic collection of the vehicles we drove when we were too poor to buy anything good.
Or reliable.
The cops literally laughed when I drove by. Everything I owned was theft-proof; no self-respecting thief would be caught dead in it.
Your tale of driving to work on the rim is perfect!
@krisaaron5771 the older the shit with good maintenance will run better and longer then things we got today with the plastic jack on all the engine today old cars are nice
True . my old truck is a 85 model and still runs good only 265,000 miles on it . back in 2016 I made a trip 450 miles one way from where I moved to put almost a ton of attachment for a skid loader in the truck plus my #4000 trailer with a #3500 skid loader and more attachments on the trailer and brought them to where I live now. Truck might be rusty,dusty but still runs😊
I currently own a 77' GMC (or chevy, same shit) sierra 1500. its fuckin' FUN
I always pictured like an 80’s Caprice in my mind in this song.
I was thinking of my brother's 74 Nova.
I thought of an 80's Impala
Love this song. Have performed it many times at Christmas
I love this version! I have family and friends who had such vehicles. I have ridden in such vehicles. Even though I can relate secondhand, I can relate!
Me too. 🙂 I was too young to drive when I hung around with people who had vehicles that required skill to operate and could be worked on by the owner. I occasionally went trash picking in rich neighbourhoods with one of them when a lot of good quality fixable goodies got curbed. At one time aluminium had decent scrap value, so I guess that’s why we picked a screen door one night. I was tasked with holding onto it through the window of a 1984 Olds Omega as we slowly made our way back to the apartment building. The car’s owner was the building’s primary caretaker and is quite the character. She had several vehicles at different times while she was there, my favourite being a 1978 Ford Econoline 150 with a modified 1979-82 grille.
@ Cool story! Thanks for sharing! Rich neighborhoods were always good for finding unwanted objects that were still in good condition. I never thought of doing something like that myself. I had a friend who did something similar to what you did in rich neighborhoods.
Had a 71 K20 Chevy, body was rusty. Some one commented in amazement, "I'm not surprised how much has rusted, I'm surprised how much of it hasn't rusted YET"
The upper hinge on drivers door was only point holding door on cab, when door opened,,,,, for awhile, then the door detached from that too.
I could still put door onto hinge, holding with one hand while I jumped into drivers seat, , , holding upper part of window frame with left hand, slam door shut and push door lock down at same moment, kept door in place, while driving.
Pulling into parking space at grocery store, pull lock up, lift a little and open door, holding by inside top of window frame, , , jump out grabbing door with both hands, pull it off the rusted out hinge, throw door into bed of pick-up. Walk away and into store, trying to not laugh at the chin-drop-wide-eyed-stares, from people.
Nobody ever tried to steal the truck, with Dog, sitting in drivers seat, one paw on steering wheel.
Driving down beach access road, shoving driftwood logs out of way, drops down and across small creek door flies off and cartwheels across creek, beside the pick-up,,, grinning at others on beach, laughing so hard, they can barely stand😂😂😂
Awesome video and squarebody! Your truck has less rust than my '89 Cheyenne!
Your old gmc looks pretty good, I have old chevy with a tire iron for gear shift the floor my box rusted off but I still love my old chevy
yeah my joke was GMC... Chevy.... Tomayto, tomahto.....
Amazing piece of work bubba!!! Ain't nothing better than an old rusty chevy tho!!
First time watching your channel I didn't know we were going to get a Christmas song this is awesome I'm sending it out to all my truck buddies.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Merry Christmas 2023, Y'all 🎅
From Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸
now this is a masterpiece 😆
Great work a couple of the original yoopers actually live by my cousin these days lol
it be great to have a one of them thank you for sharing this
I like how it sounds like one of them old rolls royce 40 litre airplane engines when you start it at 1:05.
Should’ve done the whole song, that would’ve been some dedication
This was fantastic
M6 great grandad has a rusty cheve rest his soul we got it to runthough it was made in 1978
I saw the stuck door in the thumbnail and had to watch the whole video because I could relate.
Although I'm more a big fan of slightly more modern trucks, like mid 90's trucks like 2nd Generation RAM 2500, I still love Squarebody trucks, they are what got us here to the 2nd gen rams and such
The frame on your 80s GMC truck looks better than the subframe on my 2002 Cadillac Seville!!
Honestly, it's pretty mint. Though the body is a culmination of pop rivets, chicken wire, bondo, and some old road signs.
@@jestertech3790 road signs are pretty high quality sheet metal. the question is in how you attach it... I don't recommend attaching at 50MPH.
I laughed so hard while watching this 😂
thx from down south
This is my food source, the chicken wire adds taste, 10/10 very yummy
the single headlight really bring sit all together
This reaminds me of my dads car it always is broken
Rusty Chevrolet is starting to become my favorite christmas song now
Absolutely perfect for a blue Chevrolet 1985 square body
My school-bus yellow square body C10 is also nicknamed "Ol' Yeller".
Is the radio good you know it's good to drive
That was great. Thanks
It look good and sounds good
This reminds me of my parents 1990 wolfswagen station wagon. Its life ended when the engine cube had a big crack, the gear box didn't work and the turbo just desintegrated. All this is beacose the turbo hasn't been cleaned. At last, everything has an ending even wolzwagens (1990-2021
@catalingeorgianatudor3284 How many miles (or kilometers) did it have? The GMC has at least 250,000 miles, but maybe 350,000 (It only has a 5 digit odometer, so I can't be certain).
@jestertech3790 sorry, it's long gone, at least 500k km, but I think it's way more
@catalingeorgianatudor3284 hole mole
@catalingeorgianatudor3284 growing up we had this old green Subaru station wagon. it was a car that lasted quite a long time.. but eventually we ran out of replacement parts. :/
i love this, its even better than jingle bell
Great one for the song😂😂😂well done😂😂😂
/had/ an 89 K5. Paid to much for it to begin with, put a crap to of money into it to keep it running band sold it for less than I wanted to to get the financial burden off me. The floor was air duct metal used JB weld and self tappers to fix all the holes, literally a couple pieces wire to hold the new exhaust cause the mounts broke (straight piped it) after one drive. The electric windows didn't work, horn button fell off when I bought the damned thing, seriously the only thing I wish I kept was the rims and put them on my Astro van
That was so cute!!
Oh rust and smoke, the heaters broke, the door just blew away, i light a match to see the dash, but then i start to praay! Frame is bent, the muffler went, the radio its ok, oh what fun it is to drive this rusty chevrolet!
i bet ya in canada every single one of those square body trucks has litaraly the bare minimum left of a floor for the cab to to even physicaly stay up or has had soo much patch work multiple times lol bc i know square body chevys rust soo bad lol i have a suuper rusty k20 it runs great but so dang rusty and i live in mn lol swiss chese floors and it looks like a dang white cow w brown spots all over the bed and fenders lol
@vicegripgarage seems up your alley or previous alley or wind driven snow gravel "highway"
Awesome song
Más como uno GMC
I would love to one of these in good condition😊
I was at school an these one kids live fixing things an they sung this song to the class
your vids are good I love them so much
Okay This is the 1st 1 that I like it I love it I like it I love it
This car is so pretty cool
But it still RUNS don't it!!!
Bet your ass it does, you can't kill them straight six's.
@@jestertech3790😂😂😂
38 years later, Still the same Issues!
thank god the radio works
Please just call a tow truck and triple AAA for good measure
Rusty Chevrolet is officialy the christmas song of 2024-2025
PS them grabber tires really are awesome to!
Yeah, I got the whole set for $130 at the Junkyard basically brand new (they dated to like 6 months in the past).
They came off a wrecked jeep, and the tread was chewed up slightly on one of them, (sidewall wasn't touched) so they couldn't sell it as a full set.
With a 50% off coupon, I got all 4 for the price of a brand new one would be mounted.
I put the slightly damaged one on the Drivers side rear, and the damage seems to have worn out of it.
It's 2024 I'm 9 and guess what we have some old rusty square body's I'm going to help fix one it's going to be my first vehicle other than some trackers
Those old quadrajunk carburetors make them hard to start. Get an edelbrock carb and watch it start right up. I used to have to pour gas down the quadrajunk to get it started.
@@AdamSander-b3b It's an inline 6 with a one barrel Rochester MonoJet.
Your quadrajet probably had a bad accelerator pump, or the choke was stuck open.
@ I thought it sounded like a 6 but I wasn’t sure. Yeah I figured the accelerator pump was bad but since I started restoring my ‘78 I just had to have an edelbrock. I’m going to replace the 350 with a 5.3 ls eventually. I’d love to restore your truck. It’s an obsession.
This is the original of the new meme and I love it
Love that song and where can I find it
Love this it’s hilarious
I love it! Up north every morning you have to decide is the door frozen shut or did it some how get locked, because from outside you really can't tell.
I've had plenty of mornings like that myself. I once broke the door key off in this truck's lock.
Great video!
Good song when you have a camper from uncle Eddie that he had on the Christmas vacation
I love your GMC 🥰😍🥰 Awesome Video! Merry Christmas! 👌
I just got a '90 gmc suburban1500 and isn't rusted out like crazy just floorboards as always
HELL, that was GEm's best built trucks yet !!!!!
I like this version better! When I first heard the song, I imagined it being a pickup truck. Think you'll ever finish the song/video?
I actually was thinking about remaking it this year (the full thing).
@@jestertech3790 It's about that time
@@dionysus6892Yeah, but there's no snow on the ground right now where I live.
Yep, on a quiet night you can hear a GM rust
Dashing through the snow in My rusty Chevrolet down the road I go sliding all the way I need new piston rings I need some new snow tires my car is held together by a peice of chicken wire oh rust n smoke the heaters broke the door just blew away I light match to see the dash then I start to pray-ay the frame is bent, the muffler went the radio it's okay oh what fun it is to drive the rusty Chevrolet i went to the iga to get some christmas cheer i just passed up the front left tire and its getting hard to steer skidding down the highway right past the nagani cops i had to drag my swomper to get the car to stop oh rust n smoke the heaters broke the door just blew away I light match to see the dash then I start to pray-ay the frame is bent, the muffler went the radio it's okay oh what fun it is to drive the rusty Chevrolet
Seems a lot of Chevys made in the 60s and 70s blinker lever brakes.
If you're talking about turn signal switch, I put that in there to replace the original which was broken (It had been butchered so bad that putting in a factory switch wasn't very easy).
We had this truck in 1985 and everything in this video is true!
Mine was an astro van but I relate strongly to
Well im finally saving enough money to buy myself a 2002 Chevrolet Blazer LT. I live in Maryland so yes, RUST AND SMOKE.
How to forget it? ))))) So true story )))))
I have an F-150 of similar vintage, I plan on being buried in IT!
Fantastic
This is accurately described as my truck started to frost in the winter dude I got to get new tires like every 2 weeks
I own a rusty 2001 Silverado and this is indeed accurate AF 😂
😊
Everyone here in the south has one of those or a late 80s F-150
Душевно!
Почему у вас такие классные машины?
You could attribute that to the lack of DOT mandated inspection in my state (It would be a gear head's paradise if it wasn't for the road salt).
LOL!! you take what you get!
old truck vibes
Chevrolet trucks are the best on earth. She's a beauty
Forgot about the Toyota Hilux
The truck horns help 2:14
Złoto
Yo that’s a gmc
My friend made me comment this 😂😂
song starts at 1:17
@@Tyrannosaurusstudios Yeah, but there's some nice editing and pretty visuals in the 76 seconds leading up to that.
GMC = great made Chevrolet
As long as the radio works, it's good to go. You can always find some drunks to give you a push.
Always hate when vehicles door freezes
bro really got us an GMC instead of a Chevrolet 😂