How dare you argue with a 67-72 enthusiast.

[bigrigpardo]

So I went to go look at a 67 short bed with an awesome utility bed on it. The CL ad said frame was blasted and painted Ted and it ran drove and stopped great but needed some smalls fixed. I planned on buying it as a flip and putting 22 transits and drop springs on it and selling it as a running driving patinad shop truck. I went to go see the truck and first off it barely ran shifter linkage got stuck and I had to fix it for him brakes were almost too the floor. Everything was butchered together and then the argument started. I asked him why the Vin was swapped. He told me it wasn't and he had a clean title for it. The title was for a 70 it had plain pop rivets holding the tag on and it didn't match the correct 67 short bed Vin on the slide in the glovebox. He had no idea there were other vins. And started arguing with me that I was making g things up. I pulled out my phone showed him pics of correct tags with rossets and everything he still denied it and the frame was half brush painted with the body still on. Never blasted. He plainly told me well this truck just isn't for you then and I left. He also was firm on his 3k as that's what he paid and he thought it was worth more. I told him I would give him 2k if he had the original 67 Vin plate. I didn't care about a title. In NY that isn't a problem for pre 72 vehicles but I wanted it to be correct. Oh well. Cool truck but a waste of 2 hours of my day. Had to rant. Check it out.

https://newjersey.craigslist.org/cto/6020245661.html

[kwmech]

That's worth maybe a grand, tops!

[7071lwb]

I saw that same truck on Craigslist. Glad I didn't bother pursuing it.

[custom10nut]

I hear ya screamin.
I had a similar discussion with a guy who swore up and down he has a "special order" truck and it's all original.
It was a SWB 4x4, 72 with a 396, 70 grill, and 8 lug axles.
He said it was a "Special Order Heavy-Half".
And I stepped away, because obviously he was the expert.

[67ChevyRedneck]

Originally Posted by kwmech

That's worth maybe a grand, tops!

Oh you Cali guys

That's a very solid truck *for New York*. His price is actually fair for the area.

Based on the pics I'm seeing, it does appear (cab and all) to be an original 67. Must have lost the registration? Was the "title" from another state? Or did it have a NY registration for that VIN? (I'm originally from NY).

He could have very well had no clue what you were talking about. He probably bought it to flip too.

[robs71]

that would have been a neat one bigrigpardo..I am partial to these things having grown up in the plumbing business.My father had his own plumbing shop for 50 years,,always bought chevy trucks with Reading utility bodies....so many were sold for a few hundred bucks or retired for scrap..man the old story if I had only known.......

[B. W.]

Tried the link, it's been deleted

[DBK81]

In the guys defense there is a possibility he really was clueless, lots of people get their backs up when they realize they have been fooled, it's a very realistic possibility that he had no idea until you informed him of the VIN flaws. The frame, well, that's probably on him. Either way, cool truck, to bad someone dicked with the tags.

[kwmech]

Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

Oh you Cali guys

That's a very solid truck *for New York*. His price is actually fair for the area.

Based on the pics I'm seeing, it does appear (cab and all) to be an original 67. Must have lost the registration? Was the "title" from another state? Or did it have a NY registration for that VIN? (I'm originally from NY).

He could have very well had no clue what you were talking about. He probably bought it to flip too.

Did you see the floors and rockers with the door open? I'm thinking a flip also

[Shinysideup]

Good thing you called him on the BS.

Reminds me of a guy at swapmeet who said his truck was rust-free. I said I can see right thru the lower body in three spots on this side of the truck alone!?

[El Dorado Jim]

really cool truck, and some people are just a-- holes, he may or may not have known about the vin, but when you pointed it out he was an as&, can't stand people like that.

[bigrigpardo]

Well I think he knows and is full of ****. Because it was up for sale a month ago for the same price but it said on the side in title status. Missing. And the ad disappeared a day later then all of a sudden it's up and says clean title in his name. So I think he pulled the ad bought a title and got it together. Guy was a nasty arrogant ****. He had a bunch of people come see it he said he blamed them for not taking it but I think they all told him he was full of **** on his ad. I hate people who lie on there ad. It just wastes people's time.

[67ChevyRedneck]

Originally Posted by kwmech

Did you see the floors and rockers with the door open? I'm thinking a flip also

Yep. The term "solid" is relative. That's a "solid" truck *for New York." I grew up there. They can look MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than that.

[garyd1961]

CL SUCKS!!!
I saw a 1970 Dodge Dart I liked on cl and contacted the seller. It was a long drive to go look at but it looked really good in his pictures. We agreed on $10,500 for the price. I asked him before I drove all the way across the state if there was anything that might need attention on the car. It wouldn't have been a deal breaker if it needed brakes or tires or tune up, I just wanted to know before hand. He said the car didn't need anything it was in excellent condition as posted in his pictures.
I took off work and drove across the state to see a rusted piece of junk leaking fluids from the radiator to the rear end. The mirror was ripped off the pass door and when I opened the drivers door it nearly fell off the car.
He still had nerve to ask me if I wanted to hear it run. I sad no and walked away.

[leddzepp]

Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

He probably bought it to flip too.

That's all anyone seems to do with these trucks nowadays. Each hustler adding more buzz words than the last

[bigrigpardo]

Originally Posted by leddzepp

That's all anyone seems to do with these trucks nowadays. Each hustler adding more buzz words than the last

I do like to buy and sell it's kind of what I do as a side business but I always buy the lost forgotten ones either oddballs or ones most likely headed for scrap or parts and put them to a point were they will have a new life. Like grumptruck. He bought my 67 c3500 with tool boxes on the step bed. That truck I saved from the scrapper it was just an old beat up work truck but I got it running driving cleaned it up and now it's in the best ho.e of its life. I like keeping these trucks on the road. But what I hate most of all is guys who buy stuff and do absolutely nothing to it and double the price. Like what the ****. Work for the money damn it.