Potential Purchase help
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From: Fowlerville, Michigan
My dad owned an '89 F250 2wd dually with a 460 and E4OD - it was usually parked inside and it rusted out in 10 years! Of course I live in Michigan where there's more salt on the road than snow... Overall good trucks.
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salt? snow? what are these things? It's 60 degrees outside at 9:45 a.m. Southern folks don't do cold weather.
OK everyone, any ideas on how to pitch this to my mother so that I don't wind up dead? I've got to sell my old '63 Ch*vy C10, which would bring me down to my daily driver Mazda 3 hatchback, my '71 El Camino, and an F250( hopefully). Dang.
OK everyone, any ideas on how to pitch this to my mother so that I don't wind up dead? I've got to sell my old '63 Ch*vy C10, which would bring me down to my daily driver Mazda 3 hatchback, my '71 El Camino, and an F250( hopefully). Dang.
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UPDATE:
All is lost. Just called the owner and he said he sold the truck two days ago; that would explain why he hasn't responded to my email in 2 days. Dang it. Well....... another one bites the dust. Crap. Back to the drawing board for a truck.
All is lost. Just called the owner and he said he sold the truck two days ago; that would explain why he hasn't responded to my email in 2 days. Dang it. Well....... another one bites the dust. Crap. Back to the drawing board for a truck.
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From: Maine, Virginia
I hale from Maine where rust rules. My brother in law jokingly but very seriously said that he'll never buy another used Maine truck. He's shopping in Texas next time.
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This is truth. I paid 2k for a 92 longbed 5.0L with 150k on it. Runs like a beast still though. But the bed was SHOT, not just the wheel well's either. There were holes the size of my fist in the bed when I took the bedliner out. So we made a custom flatbed and flatbedded it. Looks sick.
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From: Maine, Virginia
This is truth. I paid 2k for a 92 longbed 5.0L with 150k on it. Runs like a beast still though. But the bed was SHOT, not just the wheel well's either. There were holes the size of my fist in the bed when I took the bedliner out. So we made a custom flatbed and flatbedded it. Looks sick.
Tim
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From: Fowlerville, Michigan
This is truth. I paid 2k for a 92 longbed 5.0L with 150k on it. Runs like a beast still though. But the bed was SHOT, not just the wheel well's either. There were holes the size of my fist in the bed when I took the bedliner out. So we made a custom flatbed and flatbedded it. Looks sick.