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Originally posted by Bassamatic:

Here is a pic of my 1979 C10 with a 454.

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Originally posted by egregore:
Even for a single guy like myself, the regular cab is a bit of a pain. An extended cab, provided it has suicide doors, is a lot handier for carrying groceries, guns to the range, etc. With jump seats, you can carry passengers in a pinch. Add this to a long bed, however, and it becomes pretty unwieldy. A 6- or 6½-foot bed with this cab is a good compromise between cargo carrying and drivability. This length of bed will easily carry my work tool boxes. A 5-foot, like often found on crew cabs, might, but is pushing it.

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:

Here is a pic of my 1979 C10 with a 454.

I - and before that, my brother, so it remained in the family until 2001 - had an '84 C20. It passed everything but a gas station. One thing it had that you also don't find on new trucks is a big, wide and flat bench seat. It wasn't very supportive, and if not for seat belts and power steering you'd roll around on it like a marble in a mixing bowl, but what it was great for was catching Z's on a long road trip. I could sleep on it comfortably.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

It ['86 Chevy] had the infamous exploding saddle tanks, so no matter which side you got hit on, it was bad news bears.