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02-03-2020, 09:34 PM
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Backwoods find....
To my amazement, there are still some decent trucks to be had just sitting around. A friend of mine was joyriding his motorcycle in Nowheresville with his wife. They stopped at an old service station for gas. I mean an OLD service station with 2 bays and 2 pumps. His wife spotted a shortbed truck around the side for sale. She goes in to talk to the guy and finds out there is another one inside on a lift and he needs to get rid of them both because he already sold the station and has to be out. Shortened version, he buys 2 shortbeds. A '71 with a new 400sbc and th400, all new front sheet metal, new tailgate, factory a/c, lots of new parts in boxes, new American Racing wheels and tires, runs and drives. The other(from outside), just a decent roller shortbed with 5 lug and disc, a/c cab, and '67 sheetmetal. All for 4k. Then we bought the roller off of him for 1k. I figure it's a better start than cutting down the lwb custom c20 from this thread...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=778022
I'm still up in the air about using the c20 as a parts truck.... |
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02-03-2020, 10:09 PM
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Location: Beebe, AR
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Re: Backwoods find....
Dang it! Good find. All I find is the 85 year old dude that swears “I’m gonna fix that up some day.” All I can think is if it ain’t today or tomorrow you are running out of time.
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02-03-2020, 10:16 PM
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Re: Backwoods find....
Another local guy we know also recently bought a shortwide in really good shape with a newish engine for $1500!! The previous owner came to him needing cash in a bad way.
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02-03-2020, 10:51 PM
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Re: Backwoods find....
Wow, that is a good find. Congratulations!
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02-03-2020, 10:56 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Searcy, Ark. USA
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Re: Backwoods find....
Yeah there are still some good finds out there. Just harder to come by these days. So many were crushed up back when the owners thought they were worth more in scrap metal than not. Now days many who have hung onto them believe they are all worth BIG money. It's hard to find the good reasonable buys. For sure you need to get off the main roads.
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02-03-2020, 11:56 PM
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Re: Backwoods find....
And people who don't watch these TV shows that make they think their trucks are worth $$$
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11-04-2023, 11:08 PM
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Re: Backwoods find....
Ya,......I know.......we've just had A LOT going on and still do actually. BUT, we are going to start making time for projects as we aren't getting any younger. My wife is going to start working on the C10 so today we almost got it stripped down.
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11-05-2023, 08:20 AM
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Re: Backwoods find....
Well that’s one way to skin a cat
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11-05-2023, 09:52 AM
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Re: Backwoods find....
Great looking find!
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11-05-2023, 10:06 AM
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Re: Backwoods find....
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 What I would give to have a good firewall drip edge!!! :crybaby: |
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11-05-2023, 02:15 PM
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Re: Backwoods find....
Nice!!...
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11-05-2023, 02:40 PM
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Re: Backwoods find....
I literally have dreams about finding trucks like that for sale.
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11-05-2023, 08:56 PM
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Re: Backwoods find....
We picked up another cab. The blue one needs typical rust repair but also needs an inner roof patch just above the windshield. I found another A/C cab that still has all the a/c stuff in it and the firewall is nicer, and it looks like the roof is all still in good shape.
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