1988 Chevy Truck | Retro Review

Rust took a lot of these trucks away here in the east. How are they holding up near you?

[trevagraham]

Back when a truck was a truck, and affordable.

[mdlclassworker]

Today people feel the need to have 400 plus horsepower and spend 90 thousand dollars to drive their leather clad dually to the grocery store.

[DeltaOps]

Daily I see dozens of these still on the road

[chop]

Classic design. Still looks good today

[weegeemike]

Here in California these things are literally everywhere. I see 20-30 a day here in my hometown. Super dependable, easy to work on trucks.

[edwardpate]

Those GMT 400 platform trucks from 88-98 were just awesome! I had 3 different ones. They still look TONS better than the current ones.

[JadXtreme]

Best generation GM truck ever. My favorite modern truck too. I've had an 89 C1500, 2000 C3500, 99 Yukon, and currently 99 K3500. Dependable, easy and cheap to work on, great trucks

[sXSniping]

Best generation of Chevy truck ever 1988-1998!!!

[NSXTypeRGTRLM]

Chevy doesn't make simple work trucks anymore, they make luxury pickups now.

[georgealmeter]

When Chevy knew how to built a truck that looked good.

[mattfarahsmillionmilelexus]

Hard to imagine that this truck series is already 30 years old.

[melrose]

This was probably the best vehicle Chevy ever made. The 4.3 was a great Marine engine as well.

[ernestoch.]

I have a 90s Chevy Silverado stepside single cab the best truck ever

[wranglercody]

I have a 98’ k1500. I’ve had it for 7 years science I was 15. Great truck, wouldn’t trade it for anything. Never left me stranded and very easy to work on when it seldom needs to be fixed. LIKE A ROCK.

[RockwoodJoe]

Today's trucks look too "pretend macho" - basically a caricature. Whatever happened to simple and purposeful?

[roberthernandez]

I love these trucks . They live up to there names the most dependable longest lasting truck .

[aaronpowell]

I've had many of the 88-98 c-k series pickups 1500, 2500 and 3500 they've all been great reliable trucks. I still own the first one I bought 12 years ago from the original owner, a 1990 c1500 Silverado trim package had 600, 000 miles on it when I bought it, still running but very tired it's been in the great plains all its life, so rust is thankfully not a problem here. We put a rebuilt engine and trans into it a month after I got it and it's been my favorite truck so far. With 710, 000 now it's still solid and rust free, hopefully I'll be the one driving when it rolls over 1, 000, 000 .

[stepheng]

I borrowed one of these from a friend of a friend a few months ago to move a washer and dryer, it was a 95. I was surprised by how well it drove, even the ride was really good. Back when trucks were trucks. Too bad nobody offers a stripped down basic work truck for 25K. Now a full size is a mortgage payment and even a Colorado is 40K, dream on.

[justinanderson]

I have mine, a red and silver 2 tone extended cab from 1994 that has the factory 5.7L 350 and it has the stock output of 220hp. Good ole truck. Really really beneficial on the trails when I kick it into 4 wheel drive....oh did I forget to mention it was a Z71 too! I actually use mine for what it was built for. Not this pansy pants leather clad $90k sissy trucks of today’s generation! I only have a working A/C and heater, a working radio and cassette player and some gauges to give me info and that’s it!

[.lsupercharged]

That truck started a revolution in the 90s