75 Chevy Scottsdale SWB 4x4 traded to my best friend

[72 Monte Carlo]

My best friend decided that he needed my 75 Chevy Scottsdale SWB 4x4 pickup so he could take his 108 # German Shepherd "Sako" with him to town or just on drives in the mtns, and just for cruising in the mtns hunting and fishing.

He traded me his 79 Camaro Z28 factory t-top car for it. It has a heckuva built 383 Stroker, turbo 400, new 3.73 gears and a Yukon posi.

I've helped him do a lot of mechanical work on the car since he bought it. The motor was built 7 years ago, and my buddy maybe only put 5k miles on it since the engine was installed. He only cruised it once in a while when the weather is nice.

It runs really hard and fast when you press on the skinny pedal 😎

[72 Monte Carlo]

[DragCat]

No engine or burnout pics ? 🤣

[Leghome]

Great looking car but I have Avery hard time getting in and out of Camero’s, Corvette’s and all of them low sitting Machines thus I am a First Gen Enthusiast 

[72 Monte Carlo]

2 hours ago, Leghome said:

Great looking car but I have Avery hard time getting in and out of Camero’s, Corvette’s and all of them low sitting Machines thus I am a First Gen Enthusiast 

I agree Larry, a 1st gen Camaro or Firebird is my very first choice for them, but I don't have $40-60k to buy one that's already all restored and ready to run.

[72 Monte Carlo]

4 hours ago, DragCat said:

No engine or burnout pics ? 🤣

LOL.....I'll get some of the engine after I make a list of everything the car needs - small interior items, misc exterior items, etc.

[Scott S.]

No pics of the truck ???

[72 Monte Carlo]

The last pic was when I got it before adding the new suspension lift and old school Enkei 15x10 wheels.

[DragCat]

Those wheels gotta be pretty rare 

[Scott S.]

Nice !!!

My '77 was more of a cherry red, and it only had 8" of clearance under the front crossmember. (2WD) 

[Dtret]

Don’t take any offense to this but I’d rather have the truck. The Camaro is nice but I like the old square bodies. 

[72 Monte Carlo]

I do love square body short bed 4x4 pickups and K5 Blazers as well. But it just needs more work done to it than I have time for right now. As soon as my painter will get off his butt and paint my 72 Monte Carlo, I can concentrate on finishing my Dad's '66 Peterbilt custom truck. He passed away in Jan 2019 from brain cancer, and I promised him that I would finish the Peterbilt in tribute to him. 

I've had a 77 Cheyenne SWB 4x4, a 74 Cheyenne Super SWB 4x4, a 78 Cheyenne SWB 4x4, a 87 K20 LWB 4x4, a 89 K5 Blazer 4x4, a 86 K5 Blazer 4x4, and a 84 K5 Blazer 4x4. 

[Dtret]

48 minutes ago, 72 Monte Carlo said:

I do love square body short bed 4x4 pickups and K5 Blazers as well. But it just needs more work done to it than I have time for right now. As soon as my painter will get off his butt and paint my 72 Monte Carlo, I can concentrate on finishing my Dad's '66 Peterbilt custom truck. He passed away in Jan 2019 from brain cancer, and I promised him that I would finish the Peterbilt in tribute to him. 

I've had a 77 Cheyenne SWB 4x4, a 74 Cheyenne Super SWB 4x4, a 78 Cheyenne SWB 4x4, a 87 K20 LWB 4x4, a 89 K5 Blazer 4x4, a 86 K5 Blazer 4x4, and a 84 K5 Blazer 4x4. 

Holy Truck that’s a lot of trucks. 

[Scott S.]

Not as bad as some Blue Oval owners.....

Good buddy in high school had 23 F-100 to F250's. 

All between 1967 and 1976.

YES !! He was a farm boy. 

[Scott S.]

21 hours ago, Dtret said:

Don’t take any offense to this but I’d rather have the truck. The Camaro is nice but I like the old square bodies. 

Ditto....

My '77 Silverado SWB sat like a jack rabbit, turned about 350 hp. and ate 3rd Gen Camaros as late night snacks.  

[Dtret]

59 minutes ago, Scott S. said:

Not as bad as some Blue Oval owners.....

Good buddy in high school had 23 F-100 to F250's. 

All between 1967 and 1976.

YES !! He was a farm boy. 

That’s because none of them ran long enough. And not worth fixing 😮

[Dtret]

1 hour ago, Dtret said:

That’s because none of them ran long enough. And not worth fixing 😮

Just saying. lol. 

[DragCat]

6 hours ago, Scott S. said:

YES !! He was a farm boy. 

Oh now we're dissing farm boys ? 🤣

I'm used to the blue oval dis 🤣

[72 Monte Carlo]

My friend is the local Camaro guru. He has 70+ Camaro cars in his collection. 

Whatever Camaro he thinks it's beyond fixing, he scraps every available part of them. He has a shop that has bins for every type of Camaro part, and he sells them across the country.

[Dtret]

7 hours ago, 72 Monte Carlo said:

My friend is the local Camaro guru. He has 70+ Camaro cars in his collection. 

Whatever Camaro he thinks it's beyond fixing, he scraps every available part of them. He has a shop that has bins for every type of Camaro part, and he sells them across the country.

My brother is looking for the radio hole section of the dash for a 70. See if he has any. 

[Scott S.]

14 hours ago, 72 Monte Carlo said:

My friend is the local Camaro guru. He has 70+ Camaro cars in his collection. 

Whatever Camaro he thinks it's beyond fixing, he scraps every available part of them. He has a shop that has bins for every type of Camaro part, and he sells them across the country.

David T. in Edmonton has a fetish like that......

Camaros and Firebirds.

Last count was somewhere over the 1000 mark. 

[72 Monte Carlo]

On 8/28/2025 at 3:02 AM, Dtret said:

My brother is looking for the radio hole section of the dash for a 70. See if he has any. 

He said that he has one. He'll get some pictures of it and send them to me with a price.

[Dtret]

3 minutes ago, 72 Monte Carlo said:

He said that he has one. He'll get some pictures of it and send them to me with a price.

Ok thanks. 

[72 Monte Carlo]

It has a really old school set of Recaro seats in it as well.

I'm trading the 1980 hood, grille, front fender vents for 1979 parts, but I'm keeping the 1980 rear fender flares as I prefer that look of them on the car.

Also, since it was an automatic transmission car originally, and it has a turbo 400 trans in it now, I removed the manual trans clutch and brake pedals to exchange them for the correct auto trans brake pedal.

 

[Scott S.]

Yup....

Old School for sure.