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Originally Posted by tomatocity
...Many people think CA is rust free. CA has snow, deserts, salt water and lots of it, and valleys. There are trucks in teh San Joaquin valley (Modesto, Stockton, Lodi, Turlock, etc) that you can see the ground when you get in them and that is a valley truck. Think of what a northern CA Bay Area truck can be like or a Lake Tahoe truck. CA has the highest and lowest elevation points in the continental US and no we don't have all the weather condition as other states do but we have our share. Don't take CA granted as being rust free...
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I know. I'm from Sacramento, but most of the Valley's classic cars and 2wd trucks rarely go up in the snow. Farm and rural trucks are an exception to the general rule since they get in the mud. Still, it is the best area in the nation save rich peoples garages. And rich people don't sell their investments cheap. Of course, I sometimes forget that these trucks aren't getting any younger, so they're getting more difficult to find in unmolested or unrestored condidtion.
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...If I find a good clean truck in Sacramento will be because I stumbled across it and the hawks had not already swooped down on the innocent seller with cash in hand. In our area alone we proably have 20+ people making a living at buying and selling these trucks....
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This explains it. I didn't know that there are lots of guys buying up the unrestored trucks cheap from, perhaps unaware, owners. When I bought my burb, I had found it in the classifieds and bought it for the asking price. In fact, my dad didn't get to look at it until several days after the ad began.
I hope you have similar fortune. Sounds like you have the patience to not allow yourself to get ripped off by the "profiteers." I think the poster above made a good suggestion to check the lesser classified, like the free classifieds. Many older or lower income folks will try to save money using the cheaper classifieds to avoid the Bee's high fees. Maybe you'll find a one owner truck, as I did. What?!! It could still happen.
