After looking at all the other amazing vehicles on here I was hesitant to make my own page, but to me even though its not much Id like to think Ive done somewhat better progress to my ride than it was the day I bought it. Which was Feburary 28th, 2007 and this was it:A 2006 RCSB Silverado 4.3 w/t. Not the cheapest cheapest, it does have the automatic transmission, am/fm/cd player (now replaced thanks to Alpine) and cruise control.
I would have bought an ECSB with the 6.0 vortec max or even 5.3 would of been nice but due to my age at the time combined with no credit and not much income I was desperate for wheels, but I was still picky. To me Ive always been around GM cars and trucks, well except for when I used to live with my brother in Arkansas who had an obsession for the infamous rotary engines in his 86 Mazda Rx-7. I say engines because in the 3 years I lived with him I helped him replace not one not two but yes, 3 13b motors from his car. Not my fault he had a heavy foot and too much air, not enough fuel raito... anyways with that said and had nothing to do with my truck I always liked GM trucks they all were designed well had plenty of power and were reliable (to most people) so I wanted a GM truck. When I found mine I saw how plain it was but I also saw alot more. Ive always liked messing with things to make them "better" to my liking at least.
So when I took her home it didnt take long for me to start blowing money on her, and the first thing I bought... was some fuzzy dice.
My boss had bought some new rims for his 06 GMC and I asked to buy his old ones from him so I did, added some headlight tint and this is how it looked a couple months later:
Then came a vertical billet grill and chrome bow-tie, but I didnt like all the chrome so I had my step dad paint it black. I was fortunate to have him when I got into my wreck but I'll get to that soon enough.
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For fun I also sanded down my stock bumper (the grey part only) and painted it gloss black from the local auto parts store, wasnt show car finish but it looked better than flat grey! Then after a couple more months I got greedy again, bought some mirror covers, a smooth paintable front bumper cap and clear headlights (no more orange!) Like I said my step dad is a painter so I prepped my bumper cap along with my grille and he painted everything lol this was the result: 
Yeah I was starting to feel good about how my truck looked, I bought me a rollpan next to add to the mix and in the back of my head I worried as soon as I install it I'll get hit from the rear. Then about a month later this happened: 
At my step dad's work 
That was on the frame machine, bent the front left one down, and I mean down.. instead of him just getting a new bumper cap painted, he painted the whole new bumper chrome and all to match, plus I had him paint some interior pieces for me too so I was feeling better after that 
Notice anything different? They put a 03-05 hood on my 06, looked funky if you know what to look for plus they took a chunk of paint where the pointed tips touch my grille. About a week later they got the new and correct hood on and: 
Can you believe they saved my chrome billet girlle after that too? I thought it was a goner for sure.. Anyways after all was said and done I had a little extra spending money from insurance and got a couple new goodies, a new instrument cluster and some foglights 
I took out my chrome grille, wanted to see it blacked out, and added some headlight covers which were stolen about a couple months ago. 
So there it is so far, weve been though alot and hopefully one day I can cough up enough money and get someone who knows what there doing with the right shop to help me get her swapped to a 6.0 Until then Im just a dreamer... thanks for visiting!
Always buying things I dont need to impress people I dont know