Hard to believe:

1990 Ford F250 Ex-Cab Long Bed Diesel Truck from Handpicked Western Trucks LLC

27,553 miles and looks amazing.

 

Id buy that before a new truck anyday lol

 

It really belongs in a museum...

 

just wow...

 

Problem with stuff like that is every piece of rubber on it is rotting from age by now and if it sat for a LONG time then various other items will have worn by lack of use. Pop bought an olds 88 like that once, thing was cherry but the above problems plagued it till he sold it off.

 

$15K? Geez! Makes me feel better for paying $6K for the one in my sig.

Beautiful truck, though.

Mike

 

I really enjoy seeing trucks like that. I'd take it over a new truck too. I do know what you mean about seals etc. I'd just repair those things. It wouldn't bother me.

 

same here, and now that I found out someone in the big family of mine knows things about cars and body work and all that jaz id have there help...but $15k yikes, a bit much for me, even tho id love that truck...but I too agree I will always want an older truck like this over the newer trucks of today...

 

Oh, I know that truck...

 

with only 27,000 miles, i would run away real fast from that thing. it will beed a new engine due to cavitation within a year. due to having 22 year old coolant without additives in it.

 

I thought the actual breaking down of the cylinder walls only occurred due to the engine running, though, not just sitting. Even if it had NO SCAs for the entire 27K miles, would that really be enough to make cavitation an issue? The rule of thumb I always read on cavitation was that, so long as preventive measures were taken before 100K miles or so, you're fine.

Mike

 

Correct, cavitation can only occur on a running engine. The shock wave passing through the cylinder walls creates tiny air pockets in the coolant and the constant collapsing of the air pockets on the cylinder walls slowly eroded them from the coolant side into the combustion side.

My parents '93 IDI has 57,000 and I have put an oil cooler and new bed on it from rust, the new bed is rusting again, the rear leafs all rusted apart and both rear leaf hangers rusted through. Theres nothing cool about low mileage trucks.

 

Unless they are garage kept and rust free... like this one.

 

nope.
at the old job, we had 4 89 to 92 trucks that all lost engines due to cavitation due to no SCA's in the coolant with less than 30,000 miles on them.

 

pretty impressive truck...like fresh off the lot! those rims could sure use some changing though lol damn they are ugly