You ever known this is the one...

[kevinr1970]

Lots of pictures
I've been looking around for a few months for a relatively inexpensive truck to buy to use for a commuter(ish). I was looking for a 2wd, but keeping an open mind.
No shortbed 2wd's locally worth a sh!t, a few 4x4 swb's but nothing that was really saying this is the one to buy.
I have been working on this one truck, an '87 Chev 2wd lwb in pretty good condition - repainted a few years ago (dark blue/silver), new tires on 15x8 rallyes, newer carpet, seat, etc. Asking $2995 and won't budge.
I was looking through Autotrader and decided to not select 2wd and see if something didn't come up. Sometimes people don't describe their car very well.
The last truck on the list was an '86 GMC Sierra. Couldn't tell if it was a 2wd or 4x4 from the grainy picture but it wasn't too far away so I took a look on the way home yesterday.
It took about 2 minutes looking at it before I even drove it to know I was going to make an offer. It is a 4x4, light blue/silver(gray?), 22,000 showing and it has to be about the cleanest truck that hasn't been at least in the proccess of being restored I've ever seen.
I swear the door panels, seat, front air dam and bumpers are brand new. I understand that car lots have armorall in a hose, but everything under the hood looks almost new. The decals are bright an shiny, the wiperfluid bottle looks like its never had fluid in it, the jack is bright and shiny, the mastercylinder and booster look brand NEW!!!!
The paint has some ugly scratches and is faded on the hood and it is obvious they had a canopy on it for some time, but a coat of the blue and it would look new.
I drove it around and its needs a tune-up badly, but not a wisp of smoke to be seen. It also needs exhaust pretty bad. When I hit the brakes they felt like the strongest brakes in any chev/GMC truck I've ever felt, they were almost grabby, maybe too grabby....
I'm not too thrilled with the rims, but I have a set of rallyes that came off a 60k original mile Blazer on my '86 diesel I'll be throwing on there as soon as I get a lug wrench that will fit.
I offered them $2k and when all was said an done I ended up paying a few $ over $2500 with all taxes and fees. Anybody ionterested in buying an '86 Chev diesel 4x4!