81X11
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Hi all, just joined and thought I'd share some pics of my past and present toys. We live in Central Texas, and a Suburban or such vehicle is nearly a requirement to live in this state. We've driven these since the 90's and have loved them all.
Here is our '96 Conversion Suburban. 2WD. This truck was perfect, rode smooth as glass and never gave us any issues. Here's pics from when I first picked it up. I replaced the goofy aftermarket wheels with factory alloys soon after.
Took the truck to Colorado on a ski trip. My wife Misty took these pics to prove to our friends that our cars DID in fact get dirty sometimes. These pics still bother me...can't take a dirty vehicle! ha!
Here's the truck with the stock wheels and RWL tires added. This was still my favorite Burb. My friends called it "The Taco Wagon" and said it belonged in south of the border because of the stripes, but I loved this beast. ; ) It was SOO CLEAN.
Soon after I bought my wife this '98 Suburban 4x4. It looked great, really pretty, and was loaded, but the a/c never worked right, I didn't like the way the 4x4 rode, and it had a wind leak around one door that flat could not be fixed. I only kept it a year. When the right-front wheel bearing failed, at 50K miles, I got rid of it.
I traded this Suburban for a 2003 model. This was our best truck. We put over 100K on it and it needed nothing but basic repairs. Gave this to my retired Mom a few years back and it's still going strong with 185K miles on it. Only mod was a Denali dash trim panel.
For the past three years my wife has been driving a Pontiac Grand Prix. We only had two kids and with gas prices just could not justify feeding a Burb...even though we missed them. Well we recently took in three teenagers from some friends going through a divorce, and it looks like this is going to be a permanent situation, so it was a great excuse for another Burb.
Here is our '96 Conversion Suburban. 2WD. This truck was perfect, rode smooth as glass and never gave us any issues. Here's pics from when I first picked it up. I replaced the goofy aftermarket wheels with factory alloys soon after.
Took the truck to Colorado on a ski trip. My wife Misty took these pics to prove to our friends that our cars DID in fact get dirty sometimes. These pics still bother me...can't take a dirty vehicle! ha!
Here's the truck with the stock wheels and RWL tires added. This was still my favorite Burb. My friends called it "The Taco Wagon" and said it belonged in south of the border because of the stripes, but I loved this beast. ; ) It was SOO CLEAN.
Soon after I bought my wife this '98 Suburban 4x4. It looked great, really pretty, and was loaded, but the a/c never worked right, I didn't like the way the 4x4 rode, and it had a wind leak around one door that flat could not be fixed. I only kept it a year. When the right-front wheel bearing failed, at 50K miles, I got rid of it.
I traded this Suburban for a 2003 model. This was our best truck. We put over 100K on it and it needed nothing but basic repairs. Gave this to my retired Mom a few years back and it's still going strong with 185K miles on it. Only mod was a Denali dash trim panel.
For the past three years my wife has been driving a Pontiac Grand Prix. We only had two kids and with gas prices just could not justify feeding a Burb...even though we missed them. Well we recently took in three teenagers from some friends going through a divorce, and it looks like this is going to be a permanent situation, so it was a great excuse for another Burb.
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