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Originally Posted by Davidf
I bought my '71 lwb running and driving about 5 years ago for $3600 (I thought that was bargain). It had rust of course. Now that I have fixed all the rust (for the time being), painted it, rebuilt the suspension, new interior, and dropped in an LS my cost is up there. Would have to sell for $25k plus just to get the money back out of it. Oh well, guess I will have to keep it for awhile.
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I bought my 72 Super C20 about the same time for $3300. Rust for sure, not fixed. Most of the components don't work or not well, like gauges, headlights, wipers and that, but it's my preferred driver locally and carries a big load when I need it. I didn't know how to do brakes at the time, paid 2K for the shop to replace everything but hard lines. That's pretty much it on start & stop. Replaced the mirrors on the cheap and nice wheels on a rough truck, I'm in 7Kish.
There's a story to that purchase I won't admit to. Not that I did something wrong, but I can say my fill-in bought it for $3000
Let's just say the former owner and I didn't take some reason, and the truck would pop up for sale every now & again. I told my friend Alice in Wonderland about it, and she volunteered to handle the situation and wouldn't let that one go. Whoops, I just admitted to some
She only looks like Alice, probably prettier, and she can talk paint off
Wasn't even 5 minutes I got a call "Tony I got it for $3". She was in just to chalk one up and didn't want money for it, but a deal's a deal.