Hello everyone, this is my 1959 Chevy Apache Suburban. A friend of mine dug it out of Delta, UT last year and brought it home. After a short while, and the generosity of his awesome heart in ended up in my possession.
The Suburban is a SPEC paint code vehicle. Meaning it was a special order vehicle, and was purchased and in use by Delta High School through most of the first chunk of it's life. In the seventies it was picked up by the second owner who had it running until it was last registered in 1979. From then it sat in the same spot until my friend purchased it. Some air was put into the 35+ year old tires, which surprisingly are still holding air almost a year after being filled. (Though they are in no ways road worthy.) and the thing was loaded onto a trailer.
My friend got the truck running, and changed out the brake lines. It wasn't really charging the battery at all, so we swapped in a newer alternator, and with some fidgeting got that working beautifully. We got all the lights wired up and working as well. I had to clean out the gas tank, but it's been a pretty decent running vehicle. (Though I don't actually drive it yet, as I still need to get it registered, and get new tires on it.) I plan on replacing the Rochester carb with a different one, as the Rochester is being difficult on me, even after a rebuild. The burb will start up and run fine. It'll warm up and idle fine once the choke is pushed all the way back in. But the second you try to put on the gas pedal it chokes out and the thing dies. Not sure what's going on there. It doesn't have an air filter at the moment. Could it, sucking too much air in, cause it to die? I don't know. I'm still pretty inexperienced with carbs.
Anyway, here are some pictures of it. Body work is pretty shot. I'm still undecided on if I want to really go all in and fix it up, or just keep the character it's developed over a rough life.
Last edited by Peggy M; 05/05/2025 9:00 PM.
