Need Opinions...

[bpatch85]

All,

I am looking at a 68 c20 Stepside w/ a 327 4x4. The owner states that it is a 327HO however im not sure what the details are on the HO part of the motor. The truck is a 4 spd, solid axles w/ leafs. The truck only has 7075 miles on it. It was used as a grass rig for a small town fire department and was used very little. It seems to run great and not have any major mechanical flaws. The bad: The wooden bed was once home to a water tank for the fire pump and unfortunately it leaked which cause the bed wood to rot and the driver bed side to rust. The guy has everthing to redo the wood bed and has a new bedside to change out. He also has new chrome bumpers front and rear to go with the truck. The truck has a few small dents but nothing beyond repair. The paint is faded but still has the markings of the former fire department it once served. I have been talking to the guy about it and I can get it for 5K w/ the extra parts. Let me know your thoughts on whether this seems like a sound deal and what all I need to look for on this year of truck.

Thanks

[67swb72klb]

sounds like a deal to me if it is what he and u say it is
would be better if we could see some nice big pics

[MrSchaeferPants]

Its so hard to judge a price from all over the country, since the same truck would be a very different price in different places.

Have you gone out and seen it, test drove it? Hows the interior, whats missing, even little things, rust anywhere else beside what you've described? How old's the 327? Even with 7k miles on it, things still age. Its good though if it was occasionally used, as opposed to sitting there for decades. If you like it, and it has everything you want, I guess all you can do is look around at other similar trucks and see what they're going for. To me, if I'm paying $5k for a truck, it better have about $3500 worth of work recently done to it. Some people think their old truck is gold and rare, to me, it's a 44 year old truck, that looks, and runs like a 44 year old truck.

So I dunno man, if that's what those trucks in that condition go for there, and if you like it go for it. But try to CL some comparable I guess. Where I'm at they're all over the place, and are a lot cheaper.