1991 Chevrolet S10 Pickup
Oh boy, what a fun truck. If you read the Cutlass page, you'd know that I traded a nearly non-running sedan for it. You see, I was moving to TX in a few weeks and NEEDED something to get me around town to put stuff in storage, get things in order, etc, and would NEED something to get me around TX for the same basic thing.
Anyhow, it was a pretty nice truck for what I had into it($800 is what I had in the Cutlass). 2.5L Vortec motor, 5-speed transmission(a racing one was put in there after the stock one went out), rack and pinion manual steering, manual locks, manual windows, manual everything really, except brakes. This truck sounded mean, but thats because the pipe rusted in two at the firewall. I had that fixed and a huge glasspack put in when I moved down to TX. We towed it just incase.
It was a pretty good truck, it ran very well. With the Vortec under the hood, it was fast. Before I traded for it (and before the Cutlass started acting up) I raced against it. While it was cold, my Cutlass beat the truck every time. But once the truck was warmed up, I had a hard time getting around it. Afterall, I was in an automatic. When I bought it, it came with lame ass hubcaps on it, from a 70s Buick. Well, under the caps were 2 Rally tires on one side, 2 standard rims on the other. So, I got some Rally rims for $10 each at the local WV junkyard, had them installed, and I liked it much better after that.
I had some adventures with this truck, and really liked it. While I was moving stuff from the house to the storage unit, I put the front end of it off a cliff. Teetering, I decided to stay in so I could either die with the truck or steer it from the rich folk homes below. I didn't want to live through the court cases if I plowed into them. The only other big thing that happened is when I put it over Grandpa's driveway. I was hauling a load from the house to Grandma's house, and I accidentally popped the clutch when I was starting it and it lunged over the curb. We jacked it up on the driveway side, put boards under the front tires, and bricks to support the weight. We pulled it with grandpa's Dodge Ram van and got myself out of another sticky situation.
