My Silverado was my company work truck, I got it new in 2004 and I am the only one to drive it.

After the truck got to many miles on it and started running bad they were going to retire it, I figured I would check to see if they would sell it to me. They made me an offer I couldn't refuse $3500. so I bought it.

I replaced the stock mirrors with manual towing mirrors, cut the valance and added some foglights.
It still looked like the same truck so I got some Lund scoops and painted the gray part of the grill white

That was a little better, but I wanted it to stand out a little more. I ordered the factory foglight kit with a black valance, clearance lights, sanded and painted the chrome on the grill, painted the bowtie black, got some bigger tires and cranked the torsion bars just enough so the 285's wouldn't rub which pretty much made it level

Then I decided, I need to do something with this bare bones W/T interior, so I stripped the interior, added a headliner with bowtie inlays,
sanded and painted the dash and all the plastic,
Added a Stereo with DVD and GPS, touchscreen and audio input

Added a autodimming mirror with compass and temp

Sliding rear window

recovered the seats with embroidered bowties in the headrest

removed the rubber flooring and replaced it with Black carpet, and added white face gauges

I then decided I needed to do something to the bed so I did the Herculiner in the bed and over the rails

I think the last thing was the deal I got on a Ranchhand bullbar bumper, added it

removed the center jump seat and replaced it with a fold down center seat with opening console

and I think thats it for now anyway, here iy sits now 229,000 miles still all original, only things changed have been oil pump, and drivers side hub bearing except for normal maintenance

 

thats a **** ton of miles. you have done quite a bit to it. not a fan of the painted interior peices, but i do like the stance with the cranked TB's

 

I would have gone a different way with just about everything on the truck, but hey it's not mine.

 

im dont particularly like your truck, but i have to give you a "E" for "EFFORT"

 

x2 but to each their own, long as yer happy with it man

 

I can't argue with a guy who's put that much sweat into his truck congrats!

 

tell you what it dont look bad you did a hell of a job on it and 229,000 thats definatley impressive which motor is in that anyway?

 

the grille, carpet, front bumper, T-Bar crank, big tires, even all 3 mirrors - I can dig that

the hood scoops, cab lights, dash painting - definitely different

 

the truck has the 6.0, I just drove it from Ohio to Oregon in November then to Seattle in January, then back to Ohio the beginning of May. Still runs and drives great, painted interior is changing this summer the dash was peeling so I thought it would work but I'm not that happy. Cowl hood or ram air is on the list along with an offroad rear bumper.

Keep in mind this was my 1st attempt at doing most of this, I am 48 Y/O an old school gear head. All we did was take junk tear it down, power it up, go fast. My last project was in the late 80's it was a 1973 Nova so its been a while. I have never done interior mods at all except the usual stereo replacement. I am going to attempt some fiberglassing in the interior, along with redoing the headliner. I think for a 1st attempt my work was decent although not exactly perfect. Stand by for updates and see what my 2nd attempt will bring.