“Barnaby”

Back in 2019, a girl I was dating at the time was looking for a classic vehicle for herself to do a ride-a-long with me and my ’81 cutlass. She found a ’76 GMC C15 Royale Sierra on Facebook Marketplace for $1,800. She only had $800 and I fronted the $1000. She went and bought it when I was at work with her friend. Apparently, it was sitting in a barn and needed to be dragged out with a tractor. They got the engine to run and she brought it home. Following spring, she would take it apart and butcher the paint job with rattle can over rust holes. She would run that truck into the ground to the point of locking up the factory 350. So we took it apart and rebuilt it. Fast forward, we broke up in fall of ’21, she took the Truck and stored it at her brother’s place till summer of ’22 when she sold it to a neighbor of the new place she moved to. It was a nasty break up to the point where she told me my hand will never touch this truck again, but her mood swings allowed her to give my number to the guy she sold it too. One day, the fella asked if I wanted it, and I immediately bought it back for $2,400 when she sold it for $2,200. Winter of ’23, I did a full restore inside and out, new paint rug, interior, reupholstered the bench seat and lights. It currently has an LT1 from a ’94 firebird turned carburetor backed with the factory th350 3 speed. I introduced “Barnaby” due to it being a barn find.