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Hi everybody! I bought my 13 year old son a 1980 LUV 4x4 for his birthday. He’s been nagging me for a project and I found this while I was scrolling craigslist. I bought it from an old man, in which it’s been sitting for 6 years in a field. My son already luvs the truck, and he even wants it to be his high school car. He wants to completely restore it, like paint, interior, striping, and other things. For $400 bucks, it’s a pretty solid truck. Even the motor is all complete. Over the next 3-4 years his goal is to get it finished. He hopes this forum helps, so some help is needed for parts, rarity, value, and other.

Welcome to LUVTruck.com! Great to hear your 13-year old son is wanting to take on the LUV as a project. I think you/he will find there is a good group of individuals with a great amount of knowledge on many different topics. The site has helped me many times over!

Excellent way to bond with your son. Build a truck for him to drive in high school. The boy learns respect, for the machine and the man.

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while the pessimist and optimist were arguing about the glass of water, the opportunist drank it.

I bought this for my son a couple days ago off of eBay... we hope this should help lol! Our next thing to do: take off the ratty custom bumper

Took off the bumper.

I stumbled onto this after reading your post about the radio. I love to see these father-son (and sometimes daughter) projects. Great job, this will be worthwhile in more ways than one.

In general, any "manual" that claims to cover 11 years is a joke. The 1972 LUV is quite different from the 1972 model--especially if the 1982 happens to be a diesel.

Year-specific factory shop manuals are still around. They may be a little pricey (or not), but they are generally thorough and accurate.

Jack

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