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Nov 15, 2013 | 03:26 PM

truckfella

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1997 Craigslist find

Figured I'd share this. The following 1997 truck showed up on Craigslist here a couple of days ago. Priced really high for a ~20 year old truck. But...WOW, this is ONE CLEAN TRUCK. I know these are rare to find anymore, especially with such low miles. I'm not in the market for it, but I'm willing to bet others here may be.

And, no, I'm in no way connected to the sale of this thing. Just passing along the ad.

1997 Ford F350 7.3 Diesel Truck, Roll-A-Long (Low Miles Reduced)

Nov 15, 2013 | 04:14 PM

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Uh oh....I think I may have broken some rules by posting the above link in this forum.

Moderator(s): my mistake, not intentional. Please move if need be. Apologies.

Nov 15, 2013 | 04:17 PM

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Na, you're ok I think. He may get that much money, that's a sharp truck with low miles. It wouldn't surprise me if it sold at or real close to that price.

Nov 15, 2013 | 07:10 PM

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I just gave 9k and a 2010 brute force efi 750(worth 6500) for one with 53k on it.

Nov 16, 2013 | 04:00 AM

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I love the fact that he put in the add, retailed new for 42k. 16 years ago! Lol

Nov 16, 2013 | 05:18 AM

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Nice Truck !!!

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WOW !!! That is a NICE & very clean Truck... I think it looks GREAT !!! Maybe he'll get close to his Price... "MAYBE"..

Nov 16, 2013 | 06:07 AM

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That is a great looking truck! Somebody took real good care of it. Hopefully the next owner does as well. Me? I'd just abuse and beat it up, lol.

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Nov 16, 2013 | 08:39 AM

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I'm not super familiar with the 7.3 in these OBS trucks.

What are the stock hp/torque numbers, and how much of an increase can you get out of them without going absolutely nuts? That is, for say $1000-$2000 what sort of increases can be gained?

Nov 16, 2013 | 09:29 AM

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I have noticed the wood grain overlay on his dash. Does anybody know, where to get this for our old trucks ? It's a nice truck though

I second that... I've been wanting a wood dash of similar sorts for a long time now. Shy of buying a sheet of wood-grain vinyl (the kind a sign shop would buy) and applying it like window-tint cutting carefully around the curves etc I have not seen one like that!

back on track though, that truck is beautiful. Almost as nice as mine

ha-ha. Seriously though other than some wear on the steering wheel and dirt in the engine my truck is spectacularly clean for a 1996 model with 175K. Nice to see this piece of Ford history so well preserved

Nov 16, 2013 | 11:29 AM

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If you source parts right you can get a 7.3 to put out 350hp for 2k

Nov 16, 2013 | 01:12 PM

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If you source parts right you can get a 7.3 to put out 350hp for 2k

I did it for a little over 1k.

But then it caused my auto to give up the ghost, so it then turned into about 3k. Lol.

Nov 19, 2013 | 03:39 PM

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I would think the wood grain could be done via a liquid dip, not exactly sure what the process is called. I just know about it because a lot of guys have their compound bows and all accessories dipped. They essentially place a film on top of a liquid, water maybe. The film dissolves I guess, but maintains the pattern. Then the piece is dipped into the film, thus, wrapping the piece in the liquified film.
Don't know the details, but checked into it a while back when I was going to have my bow dipped. I will look it up again for the correct name of the process.

Nov 19, 2013 | 03:42 PM

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The wood grain could be done with Hydrodipping.

Nov 20, 2013 | 07:58 AM

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little too much bling for my tastes but it is a really nice truck. i suppose if i had gobs of money i wouldn't mind paying it just to walk into a truck that should need little to nothing done for quite a while.

Nice truck bass... lol