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Another Oregon wildfire derelict. What's your thoughts - is the sheet metal too warped to save?

https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/...265378299.html

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The tires burned, it is just barely scrap metal. Scrap seems to be going back up as I see adds for guys wanting to buy junk cars again on FB market place after not seeing them for about three years. I figure China will be buying scrap metal lie crazy in another year when the trade deals are their favor.

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Tough to say without being there with a nice long straight edge. Not knowing how much paint was missing before whether the fire removed the paint or if it is the oh so valuable "Patina" .
The front looks to have gotten hotter than the rest. Notice the blued bumper and melted aluminum grille. The biggest risk to me would be that the frame has become hardened and may start cracking once it is on the road.
I'm no expert but I would guess there are experts in California. After decades of fires I would bet some one specializes in fire restoration. There have been many valuable and rare cars lost and I'm sure many of them have been resurrected. Its all about money.

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I keep looking at this one and wondering why it hasn't sold. I'd like to buy it, but negotiations with the wife are ongoing. He puts it up for sale and when the ad expires, he waits a bit and then puts it back up. It's been for sale for many months. It started out at about $17k, iirc. Has anyone gone to look at it, and passed? And if so, why? He says no rust but the lr fender has chunks of paint missing. Ad says 2 ton, but that's obviously a typo.

https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/...263685657.html

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They must’ve fixed the typo- looks like it says 1/2 ton now.
I like the truck and the hydro is cool for sure. I haven’t looked at it of course but it’s probably a too scruffy for 17k.
Rattlecan black under the hood and interior but none for the crusty firewall?
Neat rig but it still seems a bit high (at least where I live).

Also, I notice that sometimes if they start too high of an asking price and slowly drop/drag it out people just assume it’s a dud because they’ve seen it posted for a year. At some point it’ll get to the magic $ but.
Just my thoughts...

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That 53 GMC is a nifty truck but a few things say that someone did some short cut and you either have a choice of leaving it as is and driving it and Taking it to some local events or you tear it down to the bare frame and RESTORE it to as perfect as you can get all original truck. Being a factory hydromatic truck to me means that you restore it rather than modify it. If it had a 3 speed or granny 4 speed I wouldn't be too concerned.

As far as it being for sale for a long time. Some guys run more prospective buyers off than you can count. I've showed up with cash in my wallet to buy a couple of rigs over the years and walked away because the guy who had it just flat wasn't someone I wanted to do business with. One even ran me off when I showed up in my 48 to look at some Chevy truck parts he had for sale. The cussed me for modifying my truck and told me to get off his place.

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If I were to buy it, and that is a big IF, I wouldn't be too worried about originality, since I'd put AC in it. I wouldn't abuse the rest, just run it and keep it maintained.

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AC can be installed discretely or hang a Mark IV style under dash unit in it to look like it was put in way back when. That would still blow the "all original high point show truck" thing though. If you are going to pay that much for a truck simply because it has specific original equipment pieces on it you keep it as original as possible.

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my thoughts on the burnt shell, or any burnt shell.
keep walking.

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'53 project. Looks like someone welded around the gauge openings.
https://portland.craigslist.org/clk/...264988953.html

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It looks like someone put small gauges in it at one time. Other than that, that truck with all the parts included and a clear Washington title is a pretty good deal these days. Few if any patch panels needed on the cab, maybe four or five hours fixing the dash if you want to and from what I see it is down to the details on the cab.

If I had the money to spend I'd be looking into that one.

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I'm not looking for an "all original high point show truck". Is that what you see, there? I do not. Maybe I'm misinformed or just a Philistine about it. If I were to buy it and pay some sort of "premium" it would be solely so that I don't have to do body work. Anything else, I can do and have done on dozens of vehicles over the decades.

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I agree, seems like a good deal. I really want to go get it but I need to focus on the projects I already have.

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I have that one saved too. Price just dropped to 2600. Someone needs to go grab it. I’m with jweb though. I don’t often answer the question “how many cars do you have?” Except to say “I usually hover around a dozen”

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advertised with 'new oak bed' with 3 pictures of a piece of oak plywood
that will delaminate the first time he drives it in the rain
that was hardly worth the time and effort to install
just food for thought


https://images.craigslist.org/00W0W_...t2_600x450.jpg

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the price is right for a project truck, i'd jump on it if i was looking

90% complete?
maybe 90% of the parts are there :D
or 90% of work left to do :D
i mean other than a little disassembly, there nothing done to it :lol:

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They did do a good job of bending that exhaust pipe around a tree though. Just sayin'...

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:lol: That pie's a trip for sure! I did notice the plywood in the bed. That wood have to go. But I'd put a cover on it first. This is all pretty hypothetical, as I don't have the wife on board, yet. I want a truck, which she says I don't need another of (true, really), but she has seven sewing machines, one of which is still new in the (unopened) box! And one of those machines new was about what the guy is asking for the truck.

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well, how about putting it across to her this way. if you get the truck she could use her new machine to help you recover something (pick something she might enjoy doing that is in the "new" truck). haha.

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:lol: Now, there's a joke! I built a really nice walnut tool chest and we went and picked out the material for the cover...6 months ago.

Here's a picture of the finished chest. Solid black walnut with Baltic birch for the drawers.

She only does quilts, btw.

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nice work steevee.

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Thanks! It turned out so well that I am afraid to put the carving tools in it to transport to and from the class and/or club. It sits in my bedroom now, and I built one out of plywood and painted it. I'm not worried about scratching that one! :lol:

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That walnut tool chest is a work of art. When my oldest was going to school to be a machinist I had planned to buy him a high end wood machinist tool box for graduation.

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Thanks! I used hardware from Gerstner (the folks who make the nice machinist's chests) because it looks a lot better than what one may find at a wood boutique like Woodcraft or Rockler's. I made my own, though, so that it is customized for the carving tools.

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I love working with wood but my skill level at it is pretty basic. Amazingly my mother still has every piece that I made in the 60's in her house including my first project a mahogany napkin holder that every student in beginners wood shop had to make on Bainbridge Island then.

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Copart auction:
https://www.copart.com/lot/32307821/...-so-sacramento

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32K for what looks like a fresh build with fake patina? The way it is being sold makes me wonder if it is getting salvage yard papers on it and was "built" at a wrecking yard.

I've got a friend who does that with later model daily driver rigs he tows in and later pulls out of his impound lot. They have been inspected by the state patrol and then he does the repairs (usually engine or trans swap) and puts them out for sale and you have to finish gettng the paperwork done including having them inspected again at the state patrol office. My son bought one off him after he totaled his El Camino.

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I bought 2013 GMC pickup from a copart auction. Had been hit in the back, didnt look serious from the pics. Got it here, frame was bent worse than expected, found a cutoff from one that was hit in the front, got a near new box from a guy that put on a service box for $500. All that was pretty much planned. Found out fuel pump and guage in tank was broken loose, still worked but had to be replaced, drivers seat was bent, seat belts were toast, still worked out ok just not as good as expected. Has been a great truck.

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Here's a '50 5 window on copart. Again with very high value. Dolphin gauges, stock chassis on air, two-tone paint. Hit hard, too.

https://www.copart.com/lot/33251681/...pi-ca-van-nuys

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Looks like Copart is selling cars for this dealer:

https://www.vintagecarcollector.com/...chevrolet-3100

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The price is right, free cab. Go get it!
https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/z...279046417.html

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One of my brothers lives just outside of Eatonville but is usually busier than a one armed paper hanger in a windstorm.

I'm sure not up to dragging my trailer over the pass to get it in this weather though.

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Thank you. I just love the power of the internet.

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Normally it is where insurance companies or wholesale salvage yards list their salvage cars. Then the wrecking yards and rebuilders buy from them.

We have at least three rebuild shops in town that buy from their auctions and then rebuild the cars, a buddy of mine who has one of the better wrecking yards in the area started buying auction cars a few years ago rather than relying on impound cars as he can make a lot more profit off the newer cars he buys out of the auctions.

For a few guys on here it is where they look for their LS donors or chassis donors.

For that dealer who has a lot of cars in his "collection" it is another venue to advertise to reach a market that he normally might not reach.

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This would be a nice start for someone looking for a 1947 AD truck.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...ck-up.1221616/

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Here are a few from Oregon.

https://eugene.craigslist.org/cto/d/...272844381.html

https://eugene.craigslist.org/pts/d/...261721894.html

https://roseburg.craigslist.org/pts/...278978742.html

Canna-bus!
 

The Canna-bus, powered by THC, rolling down Highway 420!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1947-Chevro...AAAOSwOLFgOCh~


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Several years ago when looking for a truck project I drove around Sutherlin and found it brimming with ADs. A fellow on Sutherlin-Oakland Road was selling about a dozen AD trucks for $600 TOTAL, but you had to take them all. I didn't have storage room so I had to pass. Maybe you know him; he has a wrecking yard a couple of miles north of Sutherlin and owns a very nice 2-tone green AD pickup with a blown big block. The "Curtis for Service" used-car guy on the old highway on the south side of town has a cool patina AD too. A woman east of town was selling a super-cute 1/2-ton that drove great but was so rusted you could literally see through from one side to the other. It was actually a work of art that would get tons of attention at car shows today.

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In August 1969 I was on my way to Texas to get married and pulled into a gas station around Pueblo Colorado and there were a bunch of rag tag individuals in an old bus like that headed to some event called Woodstock.

I had no idea of what a "woodstock" was and one of the gals in the group explained that they were on their way to New York state for this big concert and party. We actually got married on the Saturday of Woodstock. In McGregor Tx an not NY though.

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Seattle craigslist:

https://seattle.craigslist.org/est/c...284401210.html