Someone buy this truck so I don't see it anymore!

[05crewcab]

Check out this truck (not mine):

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ws...202462537.html


I went and looked at it about 4 years ago and the guy was asking the same price (without the engine work I believe). I didn't have the scratch then, and well, I don't have the scratch now, but dammit I still want it!!

[too much stuff]

Just go buy it so i don't have to see the ad anymore.

[mr48chev]

Too far away but big block, lots of goodies and factory black to boot. Faded original paint works better for me than a quickie coverup paint job that hides who know's what.

Right now if steam boats were ten cents apiece I'd have to hitchhike to the river bank just to be able to walk up and down and holler "Ain't that cheap!"

610 bucks or a plane ticket
25 bucks for a three day Washington transportation permit
4500 for the truck
514 for gas per 1581 miles @ 10mpg = 158 gallons X 3.25 average per.
200 Motel rooms
100 food
5749 or so to get it home. I still don't have the money to do it.

[05crewcab]

Mr48, I bet he'd take $3500 so out of pocket would get a little better!

Too Much Stuff...that's what I am saying, if we get a member to buy it we don't have to see it every time we check the MN Craig's.

I just hope whoever buys it will keep the patina. It's got parchment interior that is pretty weathered and the top of the drivers door window sill is rubbed down to clean metal from a sweaty arm resting on it for years....pretty cool

I'd buy it, but then I'd have to live in it as i am pretty sure the locks would be changed when I got home...the wife is still pissed I bought that 72 parts truck in the fall...if only I could convert her over to the darkside!

[mrein3]

Originally Posted by 05crewcab

Mr48, I bet he'd take $3500 so out of pocket would get a little better!

Too Much Stuff...that's what I am saying, if we get a member to buy it we don't have to see it every time we check the MN Craig's.

I just hope whoever buys it will keep the patina. It's got parchment interior that is pretty weathered and the top of the drivers door window sill is rubbed down to clean metal from a sweaty arm resting on it for years....pretty cool

I'd buy it, but then I'd have to live in it as i am pretty sure the locks would be changed when I got home...the wife is still pissed I bought that 72 parts truck in the fall...if only I could convert her over to the darkside!

Sorry but if I scooped it up the first thing it would get is a fresh paint job.

But sadly I too would be living in it.

I do kinda miss the bare steel on the drivers door on my truck. Heck mine even had the glass worn down!

[VA72C10]

That's a cool truck....

[70cst]

Originally Posted by VA72C10

That's a cool truck....

[mr48chev]

If I could afford it and to go get it, it would be headed for a friends paint shop soon after I got home with it and got all the mechanical pieces checked out and up to snuff. I've driven trucks with worn out old paint so long that I call it worn out old paint and don't care anything for this "patina" nonsense. I've got patina is another term for I'm lazy and cheap>

[05crewcab]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

If I could afford it and to go get it, it would be headed for a friends paint shop soon after I got home with it and got all the mechanical pieces checked out and up to snuff. I've driven trucks with worn out old paint so long that I call it worn out old paint and don't care anything for this "patina" nonsense. I've got patina is another term for I'm lazy and cheap>

Brand new paint is great, don't get me wrong, but I think patina is much more cool. it tells a great story like the weathered face of a surly old cowboy.

Now, there is a difference between having some surface rust and blemishes, and really needing bodywork and paint and just calling it patina. This truck looks like it is somewhere in between.


either way it would look awesome in a new tuxedo, or like it is in now in worn out wranglers

[Duncan and son]

Patina is neither a plus or minus. A really nice quality paint job is always a plus and a poor cheap paint job is always a minus. The main thing that makes this truck desirable is that it is an original survivor and once you paint it it can never have that status again.

[VA72C10]

Originally Posted by duncan and son

patina is neither a plus or minus. A really nice quality paint job is always a plus and a poor cheap paint job is always a minus. The main thing that makes this truck desirable is that it is an original survivor and once you paint it it can never have that status again.

Originally Posted by 05crewcab

Brand new paint is great, don't get me wrong, but I think patina is much more cool. it tells a great story like the weathered face of a surly old cowboy.
Now, there is a difference between having some surface rust and blemishes, and really needing bodywork and paint and just calling it patina. This truck looks like it is somewhere in between.
either way it would look awesome in a new tuxedo, or like it is in now in worn out wranglers

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[kcsa75]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

If I could afford it and to go get it, it would be headed for a friends paint shop soon after I got home with it and got all the mechanical pieces checked out and up to snuff. I've driven trucks with worn out old paint so long that I call it worn out old paint and don't care anything for this "patina" nonsense. I've got patina is another term for I'm lazy and cheap>

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