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I saw this on ebay during the day and then went to a beer tasting event and the rest is history. Unmolested farm truck from Arkansas/Missouri border.

http://i549.photobucket.com/albums/i...805/apache.jpg

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Cool!
From one Four Eye'd Brother to another! Good luck with it

What are your Plans?
Allen 58 Cameo& 59 Stepside

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lol... nice truck. You could have done much worse.

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Nice find.
Kim

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very nice truck sober or not !

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nice original

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So what does one bid on a truck like that when one is under the influence? If it's to much, just come on over to my shop we'll have a few then we can talk about an old scrap metal tower I have for sale in Paris. LOL
Rob

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I've been in the process of hot rodding a '53 for about the last 3 years. You can put a LOT of money into one very easily. Those era of trucks were trucks....they ride like trucks, run like trucks, etc.;)

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If you got it worth the money at your price it's all good. If you got into a beverage influenced bidding war it might not be so good.

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Haha, well I got it for an excellent price. What I had failed to do was look at exactly where it was located. It is on the west side of Arkansas by the Oklahoma border! I am in the process of trying to get this thing shipped because I don't want to drive 1,800 miles round trip.

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Excited to get it home, but will rest once its in the driveway. Shipping always makes me nervous.

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theres a web site called uship or something like that, you might be able to find someone that needs something hauled the direction your going, and you might even make money on the trip if you can get more than one thing to deliver.

http://www.uship.com/

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I tried U-ship but ended up going the traditional broker route. That's a very weird industry to say the least. Very competitive which is good and bad. Good because the price is driven down, bad because every yahoo with a truck is out there running around.

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yeah I had a guy come down from Kansas and buy some parts from me, he was already loaded down with stuff going to texas, said by the time he gets back to Kansas he will make about $100 profit after paying for everything to come down and get my parts.

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A guy just shipped me a '55 Lincoln to restore. Had an absolute cow because it took the guy 2 1/2 weeks to get it from Santa Cruz, CA to N Central Arkansas. When the driver got here he had a strong Ukrainian accent. I'm just glad the car made it here at all.

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Well that doesn't make me feel any better!

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Hey, the up side was it didn't have any more damage on it when it got here than when it left Cali.
Hey, it's in Arkansas? :hmm: I've got a trailer...and an opening in the shop...

I could fix that so you could fly down and drive it home...just sayin'. :devil:

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I used the u ship service and it went fine. The truck that delivered it was a bit shaky. Indy to Boston.

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old crow: That is an idea! I don't know if I could handle the drive in that thing. The truck is in Fort Smith, AR. I may end up driving my truck down and renting a trailer.

So the trucker was supposed to be there Thursday afternoon, then something came up. Then Friday morning but got a flat. Then Friday evening arounf 6-7pm so I have the previous owner push the truck out into his parking lot. The previous owner sends me an email at 10pm saying the truck is still there!!!

The trucker never called me or anything. So here I am Saturday morning at 7am already pissed off ready to get in my 1990 dodge diesel and start driving.

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Only adds about 50-60 miles to the trip to bring it by my shop, according to Yahoo maps.
This said, assuming you aren't really on the road at 5am on Sunday morning.

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No, not on the road yet. Supposedly it was picked up yesterday though I have my doubts. I don't even care at this point, I'll deal with it Monday. Don't use Queens City transporters for trucking. I was supposed to get the damn truck yesterday and I don't even know where it, on the road? In Arkansas? Stolen? who knows.

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I used http://www.paragontransportllc.com/ twice with no problem. I just had a truck shipped from CA to MD last month it took 6 days.

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duallyjams: Truck running or not? what does that cost if you don't mind me asking? I passed on a truck in California because it was so damn far, figured shipping would be out of this world.

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You can estimates at most sites with 2 zip codes and on ebay

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pm sent