The guy sitting in the truck is the original and only owner of the truck; he bought it brand-new.
The truck, as you have probably already noticed, is column-shifted 3-speed.
Chevrolet put the column-shift in trucks at least until 1980, even in the 4WD trucks.
In the late 1970s, a friend purposefully bought/resold numerous column-shifted 4WD trucks.
Why on earth would anyone in his right mind purposefully order a column-shifted 4WD when it was just as easy to get a 4-speed ?
In those years, a manual truck came with the bullet-proof NP205 and locking hubs; automatics were only available with the problematic chain-drive NP203 and full-time hubs.
This guy was taking brand-new trucks with less than 100-miles on them and replacing the 3-speed manual and column with Turbo-400 automatics and columns removed from big GM cars, station wagons, and the like.
s wanting automatics, but not wanting the NP203, were lined up on his waiting list.
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