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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Looks great! So....this body on your frame and the LS1?
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I have a radical idea!
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Awesome! If that truck is as nice as it looks, you stole it for 6K!
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'67 C-30 Dually Pickup 6.2 Turbo Diesel, NP435 ‘72 C-10 SWB , 350 4bbl, TH350 '69 C-10 SWB , 250 L6, 3 OTT '69 GMC C3500, dump truck, 351 V6, NP435 '84 M1009 CUCV Military Blazer 67 C-30 Turbodiesel build thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=254096 My trucks http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ediafilter=all Member of the 1-Ton Club! |
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Yes sir... thats the plan. While driving this one I will build up the LS, get a good tranny and have the rolling frame all ready for the body swap
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
awesome!
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
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Then, you can part out the leftovers from the red truck....or throw all the gmc's parts on it and sell that one!
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
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Hello members... I'd like you to know that I sold, my 72 GMC (Ratikle), back in November of 2011. I don't visit the site much anymore, but please feel free, to drop me a private message. RIP...."RATIKLE" |
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I have a radical idea!
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
^^^What he said!^^^
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'67 C-30 Dually Pickup 6.2 Turbo Diesel, NP435 ‘72 C-10 SWB , 350 4bbl, TH350 '69 C-10 SWB , 250 L6, 3 OTT '69 GMC C3500, dump truck, 351 V6, NP435 '84 M1009 CUCV Military Blazer 67 C-30 Turbodiesel build thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=254096 My trucks http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ediafilter=all Member of the 1-Ton Club! |
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Its definitely that nice. Wish I would have had the scratch to pick it up but glad someone off this site was able to get it.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
That is a nice truck! Wish there were truck like that here in NW Florida...
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
You did good. You managed to prove us wrong about finding nice trucks for 6k. No doubt you got a smoking deal there, but it doesn't appear to have A/C.
BTW- Better get those plug wires off the headers. They won't last long like that.
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
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I will have to look at those plug wire. I never noticed it. thanks!
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Nice truck! It looks like you got an excellent deal! Congrats!
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Deals are out there. You just have to look, look, look and have cash ready to make the purchase.
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
i agree... nice truck
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
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I was just wondering the Circumstances around the sale/asking price? The Economy is Bad and people are parting with "Toy's, they said that they would NEVER part with. In 2005 I sold my 67 C-10. Bought it for $4K and put about $10K into it. Sold iot for $8K Thats where my GM ZZ383/425HP engine went. Daymn!!! But we need some pictures (more pictures).
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Hello members... I'd like you to know that I sold, my 72 GMC (Ratikle), back in November of 2011. I don't visit the site much anymore, but please feel free, to drop me a private message. RIP...."RATIKLE" |
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
I really dont know how I got so lucky with this one. The truck is in good shape but it is defiantly not perfect. There is some fiberglass and bondo work that has been done to it. I really am curious to know how the rust repair was done on it. I will find out when I decide to have it media blased and repainted. It looks flawless in the pics and from far away but when you get close to it there are alot of things that stick out. One thing that really baffles me in the cab supports. they almost look home made with some bondo on them. I will take tons of pics tomorrow and post them up. There are a few other small things that bother me that I will fix in the next few days like a bad exhaust leak around one of the headers...there is a bolt missing and I havent played with it yet but I hope its not stripped, one of the exhaust braces has broken so the exhaust bangs around under the truck when in turns, the battery that was in it was crazy bad... after driving it for a little bit the truck would REAK, the battery was boiling (simple change of the battery and cleaning up all the acid eatn crap on the battery tray wire brushed taped off and painted with rustolem) Also the tranny is leaking.. I bought a gasket today, now I just have to find the time to fix it. Its going to be a pain since you have to move the xmember.
Anyway.... here is the story behind it. He posted it for sale around April for $16000 This is his post on another forum. Quote:
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Over the past few months he had several people look at it but no one showed him the cash. He even had one guy drive all the way from ?Texas was in the driveway for 5 minutes and said he tought it was a 72 and he turned around and left. Brought a trailer with him and was ready to get it. He lowered the price a few times asking for offers and saying he needed a quick sale. In June he lowered it to $10,000...then in late june he said $8000 had a sale pending and it fell thru so it went to $7000. thats when chevyman95 turned me to his post on another forum. I PMed him my number and asked him to text me at ANY TIME. He text me at 1.30am that same night and we planned on meeting at 3pm.
Now I have looked at many trucks in the past few months and NONE have been up to par for me. This one was above and beyond. It was perfect for me. I drove it, everything was fine, I got under it and everything on the suspension looked really clean (the restore was a frame off with a mild cnotch). It would crank right up with no knocks. I felt comfortable with $7000 but I really wanted to talk him down a little bit. (The wifes budget had a lot to do with this... lol) I have learned my lesson with the last truck I bought...it looked perfect and after media blast I got a ton of surprises... So I was really nic-picky with this truck and pointed out the flaws to him. I offered him $6000 and he countered with $6500. I stuck with $6000 and also talked to him about the LS1 longblock he had. I bundled the two together (learned that from American Pickers haha) and I ended up getting the truck for $6000 and the LS1 for $1250 ![]() The guy was super nice... Really cool and he knew I would treat this truck right. I showed him my currect progress with the frame I am building and he said to me that is exactly what all he was wanting to do with his. He knew his truck was going to a good home and everything that was going to be done to it will be done RIGHT, well documented, and babied! So I think that helped him sell it to me for that price too. Ill post pics of the LS tomorrow too.
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Still sounds like you got a good deal. I would have spent the money on it too...
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Sure looks like a great deal all around ... I'm glad your wife let you do it.
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Any newer pics that you took? I'd like to see the full view of that one. Nice truck!
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
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last October. ![]() So when I need something for my 72 GMC, it's pretty much, "Sure Dear....whatever you want".
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
WOW! That is better then mine I just got for $4k and still need to build the motor, paint and interior. I am jealous........
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Location: Russellville, Arkansas
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
Did you have a buyer/driver clause in that birthday present so you could drive it once in a while. Nice Camaro, and nice truck. Now get the LS in it.
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Re: Wife approved spending $6000 on daily driver!! WOOOHHOO
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We share a 2005 GMC Ext Cab (but I drive it most of the time). Then I drive my 72 GMC. She has the 2011 Camaro and for the "Top Down Days", she has her Saturn Sky Redline Convertible. If Mamas happy...then EVERYBODYS Happy! ![]()
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