Okay…its been cold here. I can’t do much work on the old Chevy when its cold. I still have to prep it for Winter which means getting anti-freeze in it…..will do that next week. But I do have some news which I will share, The work to this date has been to get the old Chevy running so when I had to paint the Dodge I had I could drive it. Well, sold the Dodge and now I have an all Chevy family with the addition of the 2015 Colorado. So I am changing plans for the old Chevy. Here it is.

Next spring I will be doing some major upgrades and getting the old truck drivable so I can get it out and drive it more. I probably will not tear it down for a full restoration for a couple years. I need to work on getting the Colorado paid of in those two years, but I want to continue to move forward on the old Chevy. The plan will be to put parts on that I will be keeping even after to full restoration, but get the thing running so I can enjoy it for awhile. So look for that as I am will be planning that over the Winter. It will have upgraded parts underneath but probably look like it does now, I will not be doing much body work. Will update you.

I have done a couple things to the Colorado. I added a receiver hitch. I have learned the hard way that towing by the bumper is no good unless to are towing a feather. So this is what I added.

This is way overkill for what I normally tow which is a small trailer and a lawnmower, but if I even need to tow bigger this hitch can handle more than the truck can tow, so I will be safe. Me and Melina’s father installed the hitch a few weeks ago. Took about 2 hours or so. Was not too bad. Will post some pictures of it installed later. If you do not use one of these and only use the bumper and your trailer is lower than the bumper, you risk bending the trailer hitch…had it happen. If you tow to heavy a load for the bumper you will bend your bumper. There is a science to making sure you are not towing more than your truck can handle and a lot of people do not calculate it right. I will find a video online and post a link that explains it.

I also put a fun item on in the form of a new grille emblem. Its a retro styled, the design came from the ones on the trucks Chevy made in the 40’s and was made to celebrate Chevrolet 100 year of making trucks. Here is a before and after.

Does it look better?