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Member ID: Heavrolet9894

Location: Sebring, Florida

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1997 Chevrolet Silverado

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Interior

Custom Gauges

Exterior Styling

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- Currently 4/5 Stars.
Overall Rating
- Currently 4/5 Stars.
Overall Exterior
- Currently 4/5 Stars.
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This is my new truck that I bought for myself for christmas in 2007. It is a 97 K1500 Regular cab stepside bed with the famous 5.7L vortec engine and the almighty Z-71 suspension package.

What it's all about.
Here's a couple pics from the first few days I had the truck.

When I bought the truck it had flat black nerf bars that looked like they were hanging down do to the body lift, so the first thing I did was get the bars color matched to the truck and raise them up to the body. It looks much better now.

I had to go and try the 4 wheel drive out a little.

Here's a few more pics of the exterior.

After sitting around and looking at the exterior for awhile I decided to make a few changes. First I wetsanded, polished, and painted(Trim on turn signals) the turn signals and headlights. Then I painted the Bow-Tie, corner lens, and the center sections of the grill black. I didn't really like the black corner lens so I put in a set of clear reflectors. Heres some before and afters.

Then I decided to take of the silverado emblems on the cab and remove the pinstrip and the Chevrolet decal off of the tailgate. I also painted the tailgate handle because it was down to bare metal. Here's some more before and afters.

Updated: 3/17/08!!! I decided to go barless so I took off the step bars and the bed rails. I think it looks a lot smoother now.

Updated: 5/31/08- I finally got around to washing up the truck and throwing on a good coat of wax so heres some nice new pics.

I also got tired of all the black on the truck so I decided to color match the handles and the front valence. I still have to do the mirrors and the bow-tie. Let me know what you think.

I also finished up the installation of my 4-hi relay kit from painless and my strobelight kit from wheleni including 6 strobes, one in each taillight, headlight, and turn signal.

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Posted by: brewha05

06/11/2009, 05:16am

nice job.. take the trim off the sides it will look alot smoother 5*'s

Posted by: nanochilango8

05/19/2009, 09:05pm

I like those gauges where did you get those????

Posted by: ZetaChevy71

04/22/2009, 03:43pm

hey those led look sweet and i wanted to ask you what does that throttle body blad do wher did u get it.

Posted by: JesusJr

04/14/2009, 10:10pm

Sick truck im expecially liking the guages man. 5*****, great work on the gauges, so the 2000 just plugged right in? And did you just pull out the stock bulbs and put in the Blue LEDs? Or is there any other things that need to be done?

Posted by: I82LUZ

04/07/2009, 06:33pm

hey sick truck. where did you find those l.e.d.s i can't find shit where i'm from

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