1978 Chevy C10 – James C.

Family Heirloom

I was 7 years old in April of 1978 when my great-aunt and uncle replaced their yellow ’67 Chevy truck with a new brown one for their small farm on the outskirts of Akron, Ohio.  My uncle died two years later and the truck was rarely driven.  When I turned 16 in 1986, I was tasked with driving my aunt to appointments because she was elderly and nervous about driving in the city.  She insisted upon taking the truck.  In 1990, with only 16k miles, she gifted the truck to my mom to drive my sisters and their belongings back and forth to college between semesters, a several hundred mile round trip.  It became mine in 1998 with 47k miles.  The first thing I did was paint the white steel wheels and bumpers and remove the ugly camper and whitewalls!  I made improvements over the years but as she approached 100k miles, I decided to reward her with a total restoration.  This truck is basically a daily driver except in snow.  My great-aunt and uncle could not have imagined this truck still in the family and on the road exactly 44 years later.  Thanks LMC Truck for making that possible!