My wife is the reason I have my 49 Burb. As we were driving out of the Chevy dealer with her third Suburban she gave me the evil eye and said "You are not going to trash out this truck by haulin junk in it like you did the last one. You need to buy a beater truck". What's a guy to do? Two months of internet search produced a 49 Burb in a junk yard in Oklahoma. Three years late it is almost on the road. So my advice is spend a little more money to get a good driver, do whatever is needed to make it safe and dependable before putting the wife in it. Good Luck

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