Nice, bagged '68 shortbed near Austin for $5000

[superchevy]

Not mine.
Just posted on craigslist.
Here's the link:

http://austin.craigslist.org/car/49384992.html

[82chevyc-10]

Thanks for the link man, I'm gonna be in austin on saturday and emailed him about it, good looking truck.

[mocwon]

Wow!! That looks like a screamin' deal....

[kxmotox247]

That's got to be a misprint!

[82chevyc-10]

Guy already got back to me on email. It's a bad *****, I saw the interor and bed, I'm coming to austin saturday and then again next week, maybe I can get lucky and sell mine over the week and bring this one home.

[GreyHoundSteve]

Man thats a hell of a deal. Makes me feel stupid for what i got for $4500.

[CHEVYE]

dayum, wish i had 5 g`s

[Randy70C-10]

$5,000?? Is that the real price? That looks like a $15,000 truck for sure.

[kxmotox247]

Originally Posted by Randy70C-10

$5,000?? Is that the real price? That looks like a $15,000 truck for sure.

That's what I'm thinking. I think he left off a "1". A candy paint job would cost more than 5K.

[Randy70C-10]

At least, and the 17" wheels had to be around $2,000 or more with tires. The $5,000 doesn't sound right at all but I'd sure love to own it. (not much fun though knowing that someone else built it)

[PICKMUP]

Find me a nice Chev/GMC 1-ton rollback flatbed or car hauler in your area of Texas to buy and I might come down and get both...carry the 68 SWB back on the rollback/car hauler.

[sixty8c10]

deals like these always seem to come along at the most inoppurtune times!

[82chevyc-10]

Originally Posted by sixty8c10

deals like these always seem to come along at the most inoppurtune times!

I know right. But I've been talking to him through emails, he has two coming to look at it saturday, 3 if i show up. 1 from houston and 1 from round rock. I'm just hoping they don't have the funds for it right now and would need to get back to him. Because I've got it.

[Gary]

I think I'm gonna call on this one tomorrow if he still has it, this one I think is worth a plane ticket to Austin and a ride home with a rental to tow the new purchase! If it has AC I'm gonna crap myself I think.

[71k20]

I've never seen this truck personally, but I know someone who has, and another who's going to look at it on saturday. story is...its a mechanical piece of #$%^ that some guy put a nice surface paint job covering tons of bondo with a nice rusty undercarriage.....and sold it to some kid that doesn't know where the oil goes!!!!! The guys only had the truck for a few months and now he's already selling it??? Wonder why???
If it sounds too good to be true....it probably is

[82chevyc-10]

Originally Posted by 71k20

I've never seen this truck personally, but I know someone who has, and another who's going to look at it on saturday. story is...its a mechanical piece of #$%^ that some guy put a nice surface paint job covering tons of bondo with a nice rusty undercarriage.....and sold it to some kid that doesn't know where the oil goes!!!!! The guys only had the truck for a few months and now he's already selling it??? Wonder why???
If it sounds too good to be true....it probably is

Either that or you are trying to help out a friend who is trying to go look at it and you are trying to turn away buyers. I'll make sure to take a magnet when I go on saturday. Because if it was such a big pile, why is your friend going to look?

[71k20]

Originally Posted by 82chevyc-10

Either that or you are trying to help out a friend who is trying to go look at it and you are trying to turn away buyers. I'll make sure to take a magnet when I go on saturday. Because if it was such a big pile, why is your friend going to look?

I warned him too....just passing along what I heard
by the way, this truck has been for sale locally once before, and has not sold...doesn't that make you wonder why? Great looking truck though!!!
And yes I was trying to help out a friend...I consider everyone on this board as such

[GreyHoundSteve]

Originally Posted by 71k20

I warned him too....just passing along what I heard
by the way, this truck has been for sale locally once before, and has not sold...doesn't that make you wonder why? Great looking truck though!!!
And yes I was trying to help out a friend...I consider everyone on this board as such

My old grandpappy use to tell me " boy, if it looks too good to be true it probably is". Of course, he was talking about my grandmother but when i got older i found that there are very few things truer than this.

I dont see how ANYONE could sell a truck that has that much money into it for 5g's, especially when they are hard up for cash like this guy claims to be. If the truck is as nice as it looks then i would think all he would have to do was mention to a buddy or a coworker that he was thinking about selling it and it would be gone. I know that in the few weeks ive had my beater ive gotten half a dozen offers on it already and so it leads me to think that if no one this guys knows will pay 5k for it then theres probably a VERY good reason.

then again ..... you never know. Someone has to get lucky sometime i guess.

[82chevyc-10]

Originally Posted by Dixiesys

I think I'm gonna call on this one tomorrow if he still has it, this one I think is worth a plane ticket to Austin and a ride home with a rental to tow the new purchase! If it has AC I'm gonna crap myself I think.

No a/c, it's a factory non-a/c truck.

[superchevy]

I emailed him about the truck. He said he bought it from a dealer and still owes "around $3000" on it. Said girlfriend kicked him out, and he can't afford the $300/month payments.
SC

[Gary]

Drum brakes, no AC hmm

The paint job alone had to be at least 3 or 4 grand by itself, if the motor runs good and the tranny is in good shape, the truck would probably be worth the nearly 5K for the rims/airbag system/drivetrain alone, then you can gut the interior for the good bits, even if the body is a bondo pile the 5K is probably still not that bad of an investment IF the motor and tranny are solid, if the rear is posi trac/etc.

My wife came home the other day "there's a truck up by mom's for sale just like yours only finished" so I went to take a look. Looked good as we pulled in, popped the hood - no AC not a deal braker of course but just a big check against. 350 motor, forgive me I'm a big block fan, again no deal breaker, a solid 350 is nothing to scoff at. Clean interior. Started looking at the paint.... Lotsa rust underneath the pretty blue paint, bottom of the doors, behind the rear wheels, the spray on liner was looking like it might have quite a bit of rust underneath... I gave it a pass didn't even call to see how much they wanted.

Guess I'll keep working on mine, big block, factory air, no real rust on the inside, some on the outside in the normal spots.

[greens69]

Here is a reply that I got from the guy selling the truck, after sending him an email about going to look at his truck.

"A body shop owner from Uvalde contacted me about buying the truck to
advertise his shop around town. I told him that I had quite a few people
interested so he offered me $8500 cash so I had to jump on the deal. I get
to pay off the remainder of the loan and also a couple of credit cards. I'll
be pretty much debt free."

[GreyHoundSteve]

Originally Posted by greens69

Here is a reply that I got from the guy selling the truck, after sending him an email about going to look at his truck.

"A body shop owner from Uvalde contacted me about buying the truck to
advertise his shop around town. I told him that I had quite a few people
interested so he offered me $8500 cash so I had to jump on the deal. I get
to pay off the remainder of the loan and also a couple of credit cards. I'll
be pretty much debt free."

yeah thats kinda what i figured. If you have a truck that looks that good then the people around you would kick your butt for not selling it to one of them for a price like that.

[71k20]

Notice that the buyer lives in New Mexico and has never seen the truck up close, cranked it up, or taken it for a drive.

As i said before, a buddy of mine looked into buying this truck a couple of months ago (when none of the locals here would touch it) and after 30+ years of working on these trucks he turned it down.

Yeah the wheels are pretty and the paint is shiny...but only an amature buys a truck for those reasons.....

Looking to buy a truck?...check out the truck 'Tx Firefighter' just sold? Now that's a good buy!

btw, a couple of years ago a neighbor of mine worked at a body shop...he use to buy rust buckets and put a killer paint job on them and sell them to unsuspecting amatures....what a jerk!!!

[82chevyc-10]

Originally Posted by greens69

Here is a reply that I got from the guy selling the truck, after sending him an email about going to look at his truck.

"A body shop owner from Uvalde contacted me about buying the truck to
advertise his shop around town. I told him that I had quite a few people
interested so he offered me $8500 cash so I had to jump on the deal. I get
to pay off the remainder of the loan and also a couple of credit cards. I'll
be pretty much debt free."

Yup, got that email too.