Originally Posted by 95 Z/28 LT1

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.