73-87's in abundance??

[kevinr1970]

Just paging through the local craigslist and noticed a lot of 73-87 trucks for sale right now and some seem like pretty good deals.
The best two I saw were both Blazers - an '86 with a claimed 40k original for $4000 (looked pretty decent in the small pictures) and an '85 or '86 with a claimed 80k original with a 5000 mile old crate 350 for $3500.
Another good one was a '84 (I think) 1ton 4x4 with lots of new parts and paint for what didn't seem like a lot of money.

There is a lot down the road from me that has been sitting on a '85 or '86 Chev swb 2wd with a brand new looking engine (at least it was repainted knowing how these guys operate), headers flowmasters, 15x8 rallyes', etc, for about 3 months now. I talked to the one guy when he first got it and he wanted $5995 but said the price was going to go up when they put in a new dashpad, carpet, and some other things. When I was walking away he said they would take $3995 right now. The truck still sits on the back of the lot and they haven't done anything to it.

I was thinking that maybe with gas going through the roof right now that people were starting to unload the trucks to save money? Kind of wish I had a little spare $ right now or maybe not so many projects on the stove already!!! But then again, maybe I would have some spare $ if I didn't have these gas hog trucks tapping out my bank account!