Sad to see

[crewadmin]

This man owned a service station for years down the street from me and this was one of his old shop trucks. He has passed away and the estate is auctioning some vehicles including this. This could have been a nice truck at one time but he let this and several other pretty valuable vehicles just rot in his storage lot. Sure is sad to see!

[SC1969c10]

Originally Posted by crewadmin

This man owned a service station for years down the street from me and this was one of his old shop trucks. He has passed away and the estate is auctioning some vehicles including this. This could have been a nice truck at one time but he let this and several other pretty valuable vehicles just rot in his storage lot. Sure is sad to see!

Id go 2 grand if the interior and engine arent shot. Its not too far gone
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[dmjlambert]

It is in better cosmetic condition than my daily driver 1969 CST/10, except I don't have the tree growing on the back fender and I have better tires.

[FleetsidePaul]

It doesn't look to bad to me. I'd grab it.

[Warrens69GMC]

It's only sad if it goes directly to scrap.

[tutone]

I agree 100%. it is sad. I have seen hundreds of good vehicles sit out in the weather around these parts over the years just melt nearly into the ground. There are two Supers with period canopies less than a mile from the house that will never be restored. Same problem, the owner will never do anything with them and after he is gone, too late.

[Grumpy old man]

The right guy with a chainsaw /pressure washer and a set of tires will grab that up and have a good project ...I've seen way worse brought back ...

[B. W.]

Love the rear fender guard! I've saved worse.

[morepwr]

Totally savable and worthy of it!

[bill3rail]

If the price is right to you, grab it.

[57taskforce]

My 3100 was way worse than that when I started. That’s a cool truck.

[KN4ICR]

What is really sad to me is the 15-20 trucks I know of that people won't sell and that will never do anything with. I'm not afraid to knock on a door and ask if I see something of interest. "I'm going to fix it up" "That was my dad's truck, I can never sell it". Whatever the case people need to let things go to someone willing to save and enjoy. Cancer spreads quickly with neglect.

[mike16]

some people are lonely. Their self worth is measured by , in this case, the number of people who come up to them and tell them how valuable the truck is or that it should be fixed up or something where others constantly come up to them and confirm the value of something they own. they think people are friendly but its a rescue mission.

I knew guy who owned a 68 GTO and for 4 years I drove past his house and sitting out front was this really nice GTO but it had a battery sittin on its trunk. and over time the battery leaked out and destroyed the trunk and the interior of the trunk, I stopped by to try to buy it but he never did sell it and it sits there today almost 20 years later .

yea, people are lonely so they do stoopit things to draw attention to themselves, they do it with children and pets too

idiots are lonely for a reason and they wonder why

[Overdriven]

I think this one could be saved too, definitely not the easiest of restos but doable. We all know of vehicles like this. I know of a 60-66 c30 Chevy tow truck sitting behind a service station with stuff growing out of the back that’s higher than the boom. They won’t sell either, they say they’ll get to it eventually.

The worst story I have is a 55 Chevy 210 2dr 6cyl that was all original and was in the wife’s family since new and she inherited it. They clearly couldn’t afford to restore it judging by the condition of their house but the mechanic husband kept saying he’d get to it so they wouldn’t sell. It was on a dead end street with a long driveway we found by accident so it was an unknown car and my father and I would visit the wife yearly. Usually in November hoping she’d like some extra $ for Christmas and that she’d still have our number if they were short come tax time. Fast forward about 20 years and a car that before they inherited it was likely stored in a car port with basically no rust had it’s rockers so far in the ground that the doors would scrap the ground if you tried to open them, the bench seat was clearly much higher on one side than the other and what we could see underneath was not pretty. We had stopped visiting the wife but would check on the car now and then out of curiousity until one year we saw a real estate sign while coming up the street. The car was gone and where it was parked was an astonishing amount of rust flakes on the ground and I’m sure there were more rust flakes hidden by the dirt that was churned up from it being dragged out. It was really sad to see that transformation.