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Re: Buying first truck - guidance on price?
Matt - do you know if your buddy has checked out the primered one also around Columbia? Maybe he didn't even look if he saw the primer and is not looking for a project.
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I'm pretty sure he looked at the green one and just one other truck which he ended up buying.
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Left off the k. 116k original miles.
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Matt told me about the ease of swapping beds and just saw this one list. Motor is not original nor is hood but body looks very nice in the pics. I will be in that area today so will try to go look.
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Re: Buying first truck - guidance on price?
has a 455. prefer a gm, even if not original, engine in mine. always makes troubleshooting much easier, other than the basics, of course. There's nothing wrong with a 455 in a chev, however, as your thread title highlights, you're buying your first truck, so might be worth your while to buy something with a gm engine in it so that the wiring, all that stuff makes sense. If I'm misreading your thread title and you've got tons of experience with cars, in general, then please disregard. If just starting out, the small block chev is a great engine to learn on. and folks will be able to more easily answer your questions on here as well. it does look pretty nice though!
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Like mentioned above, if you don't like having a "buick" motor... and want to ever swap to a Chevrolet, you won't be able to use anything off of that motor, and chances are the trans has the Buick, OLDs, Pontiac bolt pattern (referred to as the "BOP" pattern), which means you'll need a "Chevrolet" trans or bell housing.
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I found that it's not a bad thing to look at one in the pouring rain, my dad and were checking one out and if it weren't for the rain he probably would have bought it. The rain was leaking through a seam in the roof somewhere around the windows and dripping inside the cab. There seems to be a replacement panel for every part of these trucks so I guess anything is repairable, but for me rust holes (or bubbling) anywhere around the windshield inside or out; I'm walking. So anyway if you've got plans to look at one and it starts raining, I'd say go look anyway.
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Very good point about the engine and I do not want to take on having to deal with alien wiring to the Chevy for my first time. Ask realized that truck did not have the small back window so even with the bed swap it would still be missing a feature I want. Back to waiting
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^+ apparently it needs to be a big block. Reading the first few posts, I thought it would primarily be a truck for "I need a truck as we have a garden and orchard and are constantly working on things at my house", I don't see why a big block/more gas is needed for that type of hauling. That's just me though. I can somewhat understand the need for A/C, but typically could bare the heat if I've been working in it all day also. So idk
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I think there are two conversations going on. Good luck in whichever you decide.
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