[Dannyboy1966]

I know not everybody is too keen on Facebook with all their behind the scenes mining for user information, but I'm in several 73-87 Squarebody groups on there, and they always have guys selling trucks for everything from $300 to as high as $18,000, the average is around $5000, so your budget should get you a pretty good ride. Good luck in your search, 4 years ago I found a 1986 with minimal rust, and a rust free cab on it for $1500, so the deals are out there, just got to wait and look for the one you want to pop up.