Well, I bought the truck in 1998 because I saw it sitting in a field near a place I was living in (North Pole, Alaska). The truck hadn't been registered since ~1986. It had sat there so long that it started to sink down into the ground.
The engine that was in it (305 Chevy, not original to the truck) only lasted about 1 full tank of gas before it developed a rod knock, so I swapped in a Pontiac 389 that I had rebuilt and was looking to put in something. I averaged about 14 MPG on the trip with that.
Wow.. thats something..
and how old was the 1972 chevy when you did this?
We have something called paved roads here in North America...
I think the concept of paved road is missing in several sections of this
rally. (Mongol Rally)
I'm tempted... to do this
