1965 Chevy C10 – Bernie B.

This 1965 All Original Green Chevy C10 Short Bed Step side with 3 speed automatic on the steering column and power steering became all mine on my 25th birthday 1981. Timing is everything as I would pass this truck parked in a driveway on the same street that we lived on. One day I stopped and knocked on the door with no answer. I left a note on the truck asking if they might want to sell. Just the right time, they called me and told me they were thinking of it since it was parked all the time. They were the second owners, the first was a farmer. We agreed on a price of $1500 which at the time was a good sum of money (when a dollar was worth its value). I had dreams of wanting this truck—the attached sketch is a drawing from memory I had drawn before I bought it.
During this first decade of having the truck I did not do much with it as I was still going to school full time and only working part time. I did manage to add the side pipes and got my license plate personalized with ‘BBARRON’. My wife kept telling me that the side pipes had to go because our girls could burn themselves on them. While out on an errand, one got damaged when I was driving in a parking lot and hit a curve…that was the end of them. I went thru the first straight six cylinder and a second during the 1980’s and 1990’s. In the second decade, I did painted the truck a Crème Beige (kind of yellow). I also had to replace the back window as I had an accident carrying a refrigerator that I did not tie down and had to break quickly…thus it crashed into my back window and that’s how I got a slider window installed.
I was able to get myself another vehicle for my commuting, so in went my first V-8 engine and out with the 6 cylinder in the third decade. Around the same time, I was able to paint the truck once again this time a ‘Rosewood Pearl’ that I got off a new vehicle at a dealership that I liked, and added some chrome wheels with 50 inch tires. Had it looking like this until around the end of another decade 2010. At this point, another V-8 350 went under the hood. During the 4th decade, I decided to put back some stock wheels and tires and went with some rally’s I got at flea market for a Chevy Blazer truck. Hence, the look we see today 2024. What my grandsons’ will do with it once I can’t drive anymore will be determined…hoping it will stay in the family another 40 plus years and beyond!