nice looking truck, and great job on the bed wood!
for those that don't know, 68-72 chevy/gmc longhorns had a 6" longer wheelbase of 133" and the beds have a 6" extension making them 8' 6" overall. the bed is extended at the front where seam is visible, they weren't filled at the factory. the trim if optioned, has a 6" extension at the rear of the bed so those seams are not in the same place.
all of them had wood bed floors, no factory stamped steel longhorn beds offered.
they were all c20 or c30, no factory half ton or 4wd offered.
production numbers were fairly low. not necessarily rare but definitely less common.
growing up on the the family farm, I learned how to drive in dad's '65 chevy c20 283 4spd. still have the truck and the farm. just mowed that lane yesterday where this picture was taken years ago.
my first truck that I bought was a '68 gmc c20 350 3spd on the column. bought from a fellow sailor when we got back from desert storm. drove it all over ca and most fun driving was in sf while I was at c school on treasure island, even drove it down lombard st.
this is in front of the barracks on treasure island. along with the navy training center, now all long gone.
along the way I have acquired two '71 longhorns, still have both out on the farm.
'71 c20 longhorn 350 auto
wood bed was shot so I bought a mar-k kit, finished it and put it all back together. I use it for chores and it still looks like a coffee table in there.
'71 c20 longhorn 350 4spd
also needs a bed, old wood completely stripped. I already bought the same mar-k bed wood kit I used in the ocre truck, just need to muster up the will power to do another one. that's a big job, about two weeks with multiple coats of epoxy and spar varnish and all the fitting and finagling to get everything straight and square.
sorry op for the intrusion, but these are one of my favorite hobbies that I can actually get work out of.
