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Re: What should 5k buy me..
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5 grand should buy a pretty nice ORIGINAL truck that has not been redone. Personally, I would look int he desert south west. Figure 1000 bucks to get it home, that still leaves you 4k to get a truck with... still plenty of cash.
Personally, I'd want to get something with original paint, and no rust. The original paint ensures you are looking at what is really there, and not something that *looks* solid. Engine work is nothing. You can get a rebuilt short block (small block chevy of course) for 500 bucks or so if you look. So in all reality, that's chump chainge compaired to paint and body. $500 would get you all the supplies to paint it with good paint...but no money left for labor. THAT'S how expensive paint and body is. And we aren't even getting into metal replacement, the year or two that it'd sit in a body shop.... it gets nasty.
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