An essentially brand-new 1988 Chevrolet one-ton pickup just changed hands for six figures at a GAA Classic Cars auction, and it might be the closest thing to a time machine the truck world has ever seen. The odometer reads 55 miles. The factory plastic still covers the interior.
This thing was never even dealer-prepped. Spotted first by the crew at Truck Rodeo, the Squarebody dually came loaded with a spec sheet that reads like a wish list from a different era. Under the hood sits a 454-cubic-inch big-block V8 fed by a factory throttle body injection setup, which GM introduced in 1987 to replace the old carburetor arrangement.
Backing that engine is a three-speed automatic, and power goes to all four wheels. This wasn’t some stripped-down ranch hand, either.
The options list includes air conditioning, power windows, cruise control, a comfort tilt steering wheel, an AM/FM stereo with a cassette deck, and intermittent windshield wipers. The original window sticker is still in place, confirming every last detail.
The truck wears Doeskin Tan paint with a Saddle-colored interior, right down to the brown seatbelts. Dual fuel tanks gave the original owner a fighting chance against that thirsty big-block, and a 4.56 rear end means this thing was geared to pull hard. There’s no gooseneck hitch in the bed, which remains completely scratchless.
What the bed does have is some fantastic windshield paint advertising the truck as a “Super Dooley” closeout special. That kind of period-correct dealer marketing is the sort of thing money can’t normally buy, and whoever snagged this rig would be wise to leave it exactly as is.
The listing traces the truck’s origin to Greenwood Chevrolet in Fort Meade, Florida. The dealer’s name still appears on the front plate and the tailgate. Normally, dealer branding on a truck is just a rolling billboard nobody asked for, but when the dealership is a long-gone “Chev-Olds” store from small-town Florida, it turns into a piece of automotive archaeology.
The $100,000 price tag will spark debate, and it should. You can walk into a Chevy dealer right now and spend that kind of money on a loaded 2025 Silverado HD with a Duramax diesel and every modern convenience imaginable. Backup cameras, heated everything, a screen the size of a laptop.
That new truck will tow more, ride better, and last longer without a single mechanical worry. But it won’t have 55 miles on it 37 years from now. It won’t still have factory plastic on its bench seat.
And it damn sure won’t have a 454 big-block rumbling through throttle body injection with that raw, analog character that no modern powertrain can replicate. The Squarebody generation of Chevy and GMC trucks has been on a relentless climb in the collector market for years. Clean examples with reasonable miles routinely fetch $40,000 to $60,000.
Restored show trucks push well past that. But a virtually untouched, never-driven specimen like this one exists in a category of its own, the kind of truck people build entire collections around.
Whether $100,000 was a steal or a stretch depends entirely on who you ask. For the buyer, it was apparently worth every penny. For the rest of us, it’s just another sad country song about the one that got away.
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