47-55.1 Getting ready for a car (truck) show

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by vintovka

Must say a nice, but not perfectly restored running AD for under 30K is a bargain as the cost of restoration - even partial- can easily cost more. This i know.

That may be where you live and what the local market is. Here in the valley a stone stock AD or TF that is nice but not a high caliber show level truck = one that will score 95 points or more on the judging sheet at a national level show it is hard to get 30K for one. The ones you see bring the big money at Barrett-Jackson are probably 98 point trucks that you can load in the trailer and take to the National Chevy show and be able to compete for the top awards. I posted a truck on the look what I found that's for sale thread a few months ago that is one of the nicest stock or real close to stock AD trucks I have seen and photographed in a while and the price wasn't that high. 25 K and it is one nice truck but he messed up when he two toned it as GM never sold trucks with different color fenders and never sold two tone trucks before 1954. At a Judged show he couldn't show it as an original truck and would have to show it as a modified truck because of the paint job. Out in the park at that show it brought attention to no end especially from the lowrider Bomb a guys.