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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
Let me know if you would like to sell it cause it looks better then mine!!!!
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Join Date: Mar 2013
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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
I would ask him for some money back and keep the truck. The truck looks pretty good... I would not really mind tht it has been cut..but its really only matters what you mind. I believe you can sue him at small claims court. Going to your local court house and getting info from small claims section is the best option if your looking to sue.
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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
I am not a lawyer, but I was talking about this to a friend and his advice was to take it to small claims court if you have the original add. Also, check the county records to see if the guy who sold it to you has any property. That way, if you get a judgement, he or his heirs will evntually have to settle the judgement in order to transfer the property. Hiring an attorney would eat up any settlement you might get. Small claims cost little and in most states you can take issues up to $10K. Try to figure out what you are out and be able to prove it to the small claims judge. Might take a little homework, but sounds like a way to get some justice and satisfaction.
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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
he price of a real number matching shortbed frame and cab truck will always be high now because of all this , my 67 has the vin on the frame and my cab matches my truck is an original shortbed and I like it that way but I have no problem with one shortened the right way , if this keeps going and shortbeds get higher and higher the guys building them will just get better at hideing it they can cut a frame and do a little bodywork on it so you cant tell it by looking at it ,
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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
I don't intend to be crass here but I only see this as much ado about nothing. If the op is this upset about an otherwise beautiful truck, he will not really care about it and will wind up running it into the ground having lost sight of what he is sitting on. I can't say it will go this way but it is the law of averages.
As it is, it can be reposted for about the same as it is and honestly and someone will scoop it up. All this talk of lawyers and courts would make a grown man sick to his stomach. The facts at the end of the day are that the truck was bought all but sight unseen. When I was looking for a truck, I found a truck and bought the truck. It needed work and over the years I did the work. 17 years later I am still doing the work. If I were looking for a restored, factory spec shortbed truck, I would keep looking until I found a restored, factory spec, shortbed truck. First, I would have to know what a restored, factory spec, shortbed truck looks like. If the SPID says 127" WB, nope, that's not a shortbed or the glove box is not the one from the factory. Rut-roh... If the frame has any welds on it whatsoever, nope, not factory... If the bed has welds all the way across it, nope, not factory either. I could buy it anyway and bring it home and see that I really didn't look for the things I had set out to find. I can only chalk it up to the fact that I didn't know what I was buying which to me is very bad considering what I have to go through to earn the money I am spending. That said, the government is trying to sell a bridge in Alaska and we all trust the government at face value, don't we? Suing the PO would be much like saying, "I cut this board 3 times and it's still too short!"
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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
What he said !
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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
Interesting thread. Glad the OP is Ok with his truck now, sucks to be lied to. I'll have to go look at the frame on my 71 step side. I'm suspicious now since just the other day I checked the VIN and it was an orig fleetside, so I thought hmmm why someone changed from a fleetside to stepside. It's a driving light project that is basically straight but needs paint little body work. I'm not upset at all since it was a low price and I picked it up because of that. On the positive it has a fresh 383 and 700R4, seller thought it was a 350.
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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
And not all swb conversions are cut down from lwb trucks. Some are swb frames under original lwb trucks. Yea, the frame VIN won't match if it's readable. It could have been removed which creates even more ambiguity.
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Re: Lied and defrauded on 1971 c10 short bed
the world had to have 4 door cars , long wheel base trucks , and as I read above 305 engines LOL I got a kick out of that one ! you know long bed trucks are always in better condition ? but they were bought to do work with ? so how is that ?
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