I get 20 mixed county road / town driving when I'm not leaking fuel. So 22 highway isn't really a stretch.

My, new to me 97 has `43,000 miles on it right now.

43K? Does it still have the "new car smell?
43K is sweet!

It doesnt quite still have that new car smell, but im sure its not to far gone! 43k is sweet. :)

There was a '97 F350 CC 4x4 on ebay last week with 41k original miles... they wanted $18,000 for it. And it was only 2 hours away from me! Wish I could convince my wife to drain savings to buy it.

She wants an Escape... couldn't convince her to buy the truck for her instead.

Well time heals everything. It's always easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

That $18,000 is a shade over 3 times what I paid for this one. But let me remind you mine didnt have a bed on it, which is a good thing because Im not a big fan of the way the dually beds look. Its also an XL, no power seats or windows. These trucks up here seem to always have at least 150k on them. Glad i found one with a few less than that. :-X0A6

Thats what is crazy about our trucks. Where i live in ohio a regular cab f250 or f350 with less then 200,000 miles is a 10 grand truck all day.
:-huh

^x2 in the midwest where Im at...the trucks will be rust buckets with 185k or so and still want like 8 or 9000 for em!

Well the same thing applies up here I guess, 150k-200k no rust but kinda beat up, and they have probly sat and idled half the winter and people still want 7k-10k for a truck that blue books for 6-8k wierd. The saving thing for me was that the guy didnt have a bed on the truck and Im sure people walked away from it because of that alone. Another thing is he told me he only had 4 people other than me even look at it in the 7 months he had it for sale. Im glad the guy couldnt use the internet very well. (He didnt have it advertised very well).

Yeah i got mine from texas just a couple months ago for under 3800 but had to put some money in to it to get it up to par. but still way cheaper then buying a truck in my neck of the woods.

Nice buy! Good choice... :-X04 I just got mine in April!
97 f350 reg cab xlt 4x4 with 160k miles.

paid $5k for mine with 160k on it and only 5k on the trans

Got my 96 in June with 190K for 5K with the Warn winch and brush guard and an extra set of tires included. Very well maintained by the PO. It has been an absolutely great running truck and hasn't used a drop of oil in the 3K I've put on it.

Mine was a bit different when I bought it though... dually, 4.10 gears, blue stripe instead of red...

Should have held out for a 4x4 5spd truck, but I was impatient and tired of driving a VW Golf. Now I have enough money into repairs and mods that it would be stupid to sell and buy what I want, and I have most of the conversion parts I need for 4x4 now anyways.