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Took my wife to labor & delivery. Daughter born.

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I drove across town to pick up my degree since im still waiting on parts

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Took my truck into the back country of Colorado.     Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

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Mckenzie Senior Enthusiast

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I'm lucky if I break 300. most I've gotten on these gears is 350 on a tank. I had half a gallon left [emoji17]

 

Sent while cruising down a back road...

Man i feel your pain!! Thats what i normally get at school cause its all stop and go! I got less than 260 miles on a tank one time haha which means i was getting like 8 mpg and thats on 33s!!!

 

 

On my way to get a spare key made

 

sent from my truck in a field

I cranked up my truck and foolishly shut the door real quick without rolling down the window which locked my key in the truck while it was running on a Friday when i just got off work! Thank god for my spare key!
SnakeEyeSS Senior Enthusiast

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Paid it off today.

 

 

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Congrats!

 

12 days until I'm completely 100% debt free(no more mortgage).

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LongrangeLauber Senior Enthusiast

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Congrats!

 

12 days until I'm completely 100% debt free(no more mortgage).

That's awesome. and your only like 27 or 28 ain't you? that is damn impressive

 

Sent while cruising down a back road...

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That's awesome. and your only like 27 or 28 ain't you? that is damn impressive

 

Sent while cruising down a back road...

28 now, 29 next month. I trained myself in my single digit years to resist impulse purchases and set goals with my allowance from chores. 5 bucks a week took a long time to buy the next $50-60 Mario game or box of baseball cards so I guess that helped too. :lol:

 

When I first bought the house I was eating ramen 3 times a week. :lol: It was that or sell this:

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I later did sell it, though, when I got married. It helped erase the wife's student loans, and took a chunk of the mortgage too.

 

It was a beast. Had a pro built 383 that was painted to look like a stock 350 block, and had some expensive ProTopLine heads, which were apparently so amazing the company was bought out by a big player soon after releasing them(what I was told in a Camaro forum when I asked about them).

 

Ryan, take note of this:

 

My only regret is I didn't drive it more.

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RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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Gonna try and do my emblems and grill inserts.

Be careful that stuff is like crack very addictive

 

 

Ryan

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28 now, 29 next month. I trained myself in my single digit years to resist impulse purchases and set goals with my allowance from chores. 5 bucks a week took a long time to buy the next $50-60 Mario game or box of baseball cards so I guess that helped too. :lol:

 

When I first bought the house I was eating ramen 3 times a week. :lol: It was that or sell this:

8ybetyzu.jpg

 

I later did sell it, though, when I got married. It helped erase the wife's student loans, and took a chunk of the mortgage too.

 

It was a beast. Had a pro built 383 that was painted to look like a stock 350 block, and had some expensive ProTopLine heads, which were apparently so amazing the company was bought out by a big player soon after releasing them(what I was told in a Camaro forum when I asked about them).

 

Ryan, take note of this:

 

My only regret is I didn't drive it more.

I drive mine plenty just had it out close to 4k miles :)

 

 

Ryan

Btuggle88 Senior Enthusiast

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28 now, 29 next month. I trained myself in my single digit years to resist impulse purchases and set goals with my allowance from chores. 5 bucks a week took a long time to buy the next $50-60 Mario game or box of baseball cards so I guess that helped too. :lol:

When I first bought the house I was eating ramen 3 times a week. :lol: It was that or sell this:8ybetyzu.jpg

I later did sell it, though, when I got married. It helped erase the wife's student loans, and took a chunk of the mortgage too.

It was a beast. Had a pro built 383 that was painted to look like a stock 350 block, and had some expensive ProTopLine heads, which were apparently so amazing the company was bought out by a big player soon after releasing them(what I was told in a Camaro forum when I asked about them).

Ryan, take note of this:

My only regret is I didn't drive it more.

No offense to Ryan but there is a whole lot of difference between those two cars, I would be scared some teenage punk that just got his liscense and driving a pinto would hit me.

RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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No offense taken looks good

 

 

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Btuggle88 Senior Enthusiast

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Thanks I would show pics of my emblems but it's pouring rain, I finished pulling the excess off the doors and the tailgate was out in the rain( sudden storm blew in QUICK ) and it slacked up enough to turn the truck around and amazingly enough it was dry enough to be good so I started untaping and pulling the excess and everything held except for the O in silverado and the Z in LTZ and it took so much to the grille I don't have enough left to fix it. :(

RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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Nobody will get into it

 

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Changed my T-case fluid today. Hopefully next weekend i will have the time I can get to my front Diff

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