Craigslist Find -57 chevy

[SCHRUMGMC]

http://asheville.craigslist.org/cto/3689324427.html


Any thoughts ?

[agnes the dog]

It would seem to me that you could do much better for $1500. Could be a cool project at the right price. Needs a LOT!

[SCHRUMGMC]

I am buying a GMC 100 that has heavy rust in the Cab,fenders,The step in the cab is completely gone, how much do you think i should pay for that

[agnes the dog]

Hard to say without pics. I guess a lot depends on what you're planning to do with it. I would suggest starting with the best truck you can afford. Look at a lot of them and be patient. Good trucks at good prices ate out there. I got antsy and overlooked some issues that I should have caught when I bought mine. All fixable stuff that I can live with, but stuff I could have likely avoided if I had waited a while longer. Just remember you'll spend 3x more than you plan on spending when you start to work on it!! :-)
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[meter swinger]

Have you looked at it yet? Its hard for me to say for $$ as value seems to deviate with location a lot but if it had the parts you are looking for in decent condition i would think 800. What confuses me is what " vintage two door mopar" is he expecting someone to give him for this truck?
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[Midgets50]

yeah 1500 is a little high but it also has a title for it and if its the original title some guys are willing to pay upwards of 500 just for the clean titles

[SCHRUMGMC]

This is the one im not going to buy, just saw this


Now my Granfathers 1959 Gmc is the one im going to buy it has Heavy rust.I know how to repair it and what not..I think its worth $1,000

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by agnes the dog

Hard to say without pics. I guess a lot depends on what you're planning to do with it. I would suggest starting with the best truck you can afford. Look at a lot of them and be patient.

Extremely good advice right there and something that guys wanting a project should really think on. Buy the truck that is in the best shape of those you can find for what you can afford and paying a premium for one that you don't have to buy replacement panels for or do massive repairs on is money well spent.

The Craigslist truck has one redeeming value, It has a clear title which to me is worth a couple hundred bucks minimum. Personally I'd sit it out for a few weeks and keep watching the add. Chances are that it won't sell at the asking price and maybe in two weeks cash greenies talk real big. Figure on paying 7 or 8 hundred for it which should be a fair price for what I see. Take cash or at least enough cash for a serious deposit. "I've got 400 in my hand and 400 to hand you when I pick it up" works better than "I have to go get the cash", when you are trying to wheel and deal. Rolling in with the trailer in tow and couple of buddies along and having a wallet full of hundreds to pull out and make the offer then and there works too. Then you can show him you have cash in hand when you make the offer and after counting out the bills in front of him while you make the offer all BS stops and the deal starts. When I bought my 31 Model A I had cash in hand in front of the car owner's friend who was on the phone with the car owner. "He's got xxx dollars in his hand now" she tells them on the phone and I got the car for half the asked price.

Some guys trying to sell old trucks are a bit nuts on prices because of all the tv shows though. They see the clowns on pickers pay a premium for a running driving older restoration and all the sudden their old parts truck is worth gold when two years ago they were willing to sell it for scrap price.

I've watch this pile of parts for the past four or five months were the guy has it pulled out beside his gate with a for sale sign on it. I stopped by last week with 4 $100.00 bills in my pocket which I though was a high offer for a truck with no box, part of the nose and a couple of really rusted doors laying on the remnants of a flatbed. The body is just sitting on the 3/4 ton frame and he claimed to have a 235 which he was very proud of in the shed that went with it.

I asked him what he wanted for it and he said two and I pulled out two 100 bills and handed them to he and he threw them back saying I was crazy and he wanted two thousand and all the other guy who had offered between two and five hundred were crazy too. Evidently he has had a number of offers between two and five hundred on it but thinks it is worth 2000 because he has a 235 in the shed for it.

[agnes the dog]

Glad you are going to buy your grandpa's truck. That is really cool. I wish I had something like that to keep in the family. I just hope to live long enough to pass mine to my grand kids in person. :-)
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[mr48chev]

When I was coming back from lunch I had a woman pass me towing a trailer made out of a near perfect Taskforce short bed box hauling junk to the dump. I thought about you then. No time to get a photo though.

[SCHRUMGMC]

Haha thought about me ?. What was it off exactly.Find a photo of it for me

[dirtracer81_2]

How's he know the floors are solid with 6 inches dirt in it.
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[SCHRUMGMC]

Dirtracer who are you speaking to ?