Of course, a super nice 3500HD, in fact the nicest one I've seen, has all the goodies: The nice cab, power windows and locks, very low miles, and its a box truck!

I think a box truck is a waste of a truck, especially a 3500HD and a really sweet one at that.

Maybe thats just me though. Maybe its just because I like work type trucks, like dumps and what not

Thats awesome Raymo!

When I'm FRE- I mean, out of the house and have hopefully a house of my own, I'd like to do something like that.

I'm planning on picking up a crew cab and making it into a pick up and converting it to 4x4. I was planning on keeping it stock motor, but now that I've seen yours I think it would be even cooler to drop a better engine into. Since you'd already done a Cummins I should go outside the box and drop a Duramax in it, providing one could fit


But this would be years from now. Unless I came across a lot of money, then it might make a good summer project for me and my uncle.

That would sure be nice

Oh really? Sweet!

What kind of condition did you get yours in? You get it at an auction or something?

Yeah there are quite a few around here, theres even a Vandura 3500HD box truck sitting at an abandoned part store just up town.

Well when I get out of the house and hopefully get a house and some land of my own, I'd like to have a 3500HD dump just for use around the property. But one thing I'd like to do is get a hold of a 3500HD crew cab, and even though 3500HDs are pretty popular around here, I don't think I've ever seen a crew cab, so that might be a bit harder. But anyway I'd like to get a hold of a crew cab 3500HD and make a giant pick up out of it. I've always thought it would be super cool

As for the engine, I prefer 454 or 8.1 power, but I'd take one with a 6.5 if it was the right year (I've heard '94-'97 6.5s were not very good) and the miles were low enough (probably 75,000 max)

Welcome!

I'd say you live in a good spot for them, I bought my HD just north of you for a few hundred bucks.

Willie

Welcome aboard...really great to see some young blood interested in these 3500HD gentle giants. You live in a good spot so hopefully you'll locate your very own 3500HD. Have any ideas of what you want ie wheelbase, engine etc or any other plans?

Ed

Hi everybody, the name's William, but just call me Willie. As my user name states, I am probably the youngest 3500HD fan on here, at age 15. The GM 3500HD is my absolute favorite truck in the Class 4 size, but I've obviously never owned one, so I'm not sure why I like it so much. Maybe because its such a beefy, attractive (gotta love that big front end), and heavy duty truck. And whats even better is I live near Flint, MI so its GM country, and I see a lot of 3500HDs whenever I go somewhere with my uncle, whether its on the road or parked, for sale or belonging to someone, I see bunch of them things.

Interesting fact: My uncle (who is basically my father for how close we are) has some of the same interests as me (trucks, heavy equipment, that sort of thing) and back in the early 1990s he was probably the first person in Michigan to own a 3500HD.

A red '91 stake truck with an automatic trans and 454 power.

In fact, heres a pic of it

Well I welded a new inlet on my fuel tank, ran line and got that installed. I lost a chunk of my pinky finger during that process 

So tomorrow I'm going to check the fluids and fire it up. Pretty excited to hear my new 4" exhaust.

Pat Condell is a British stand-up comedian, but this video isn't comic, it's pure truth, and utterly brilliant.

His Video Link:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/pat-condell-on-ground-zero-mosque-is-it-possible-to-be-astonished-but-not-surprised.html

Newt Gingrich

21 July 21 2010 1800EDT
There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia . The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.


The proposed "Cordoba House" overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks - is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that “Cordoba House” is a deliberately insulting term. It refers to Cordoba , Spain – the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque
complex.

Today, some of the Mosque’s backers insist this term is being used to "symbolize interfaith cooperation" when, in fact, every Islamist in the world recognizes Cordoba as a symbol of Islamic conquest. It is a sign of their contempt for Americans and their confidence in our
historic ignorance that they would deliberately insult us this way. Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for "religious toleration" are arrogantly dishonest. They ignore the fact that more than 100 mosques already exist in New York City . Meanwhile, there are no churches or synagogues in all of Saudi Arabia . In fact no Christian or Jew can even enter Mecca .  And they lecture us about tolerance.

If the people behind the Cordoba House were serious about religious toleration, they would be imploring the Saudis, as fellow Muslims, to immediately open up Mecca to all and immediately announce their intention to allow non-Muslim houses of worship in the Kingdom. They should be asked by the news media if they would be willing to lead such a campaign.

We have not been able to rebuild the World Trade Center in nine years. Now we are being told a 13 story, $100 million megamosque will be built within a year overlooking the site of the most devastating surprise attack in American history.

Finally where is the money coming from? The people behind the Cordoba House refuse to reveal all their funding sources. America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could.