40 Years Later, Wyoming Still Loves Legendary Square Body Trucks

Square body Chevrolet and GMC trucks might have been the market standard during their ‘70s and ‘80s heyday, and perhaps even regarded as boring a few years later, but now they’re cool again.

As in, the kind of cool that’s worth some big bucks.

Lander-area resident Ken Legstra recently sold a 1985 Chevy Silverado pickup to a potato farmer from Idaho for $27,000.

“It was an all-original truck” that reminded the farmer of the trucks he grew up with, Legstra told Cowboy State Daily.

“He jumped right in it and drove it back to Idaho,” he added.

Trucks of that vintage can easily fetch prices in the $40,000 range, depending upon their condition.

As of Friday, the bid was scraping $50,000 for a 1985 Chevy K10 4x4 short-bed pickup, packaged with a vintage Winchester rifle on the Collector’s