Rubber Duck Truck

[67RModel]

16 hours ago, The Rubber Duck 006 said:

Yeah but the price lol 

Have you ever paid to restore a truck or bring one back to life for daily use that has been sitting for years? Spend the money up front or spend it later. You would be amazed how financially deep it becomes. From where I sit and my experience $25 - $30,000 for a totally rust free, mechanically sound, currently working, vintage truck with the "correct specs" is a good price if that is the route you are set on going. Because to pull a $5-10,000 truck out of someone's weeds or barn and give it what it needs mechanically to be operational again adds up so fast it will scare you. That doesn't even consider cosmetics and a paintjob. And then you still don't know how reliable the major components going to be. I agree the first one I posted ($80,000 I think) is ridiculous. Plus I doubt and savvy business owner would put an E9 on the road for revenue generation in this day and age. However, assuming that black '87 is a 4V E6, at $30,000 seems like a fair price IMO. I certainly wouldn't write it off just because of the price. Its worthy of seeing in person and making a judgement from there if your looking for a Superliner to work daily......Just sayin

[The Rubber Duck 006]

1 hour ago, 67RModel said:

Have you ever paid to restore a truck or bring one back to life for daily use that has been sitting for years? Spend the money up front or spend it later. You would be amazed how financially deep it becomes. From where I sit and my experience $25 - $30,000 for a totally rust free, mechanically sound, currently working, vintage truck with the "correct specs" is a good price if that is the route you are set on going. Because to pull a $5-10,000 truck out of someone's weeds or barn and give it what it needs mechanically to be operational again adds up so fast it will scare you. That doesn't even consider cosmetics and a paintjob. And then you still don't know how reliable the major components going to be. I agree the first one I posted ($80,000 I think) is ridiculous. Plus I doubt and savvy business owner would put an E9 on the road for revenue generation in this day and age. However, assuming that black '87 is a 4V E6, at $30,000 seems like a fair price IMO. I certainly wouldn't write it off just because of the price. Its worthy of seeing in person and making a judgement from there if your looking for a Superliner to work daily......Just sayin

 I've had multiple friends that have restored Multiple trucks and I'll stand by my logic all day. IMO Restoring will make alot better memories and a Story line then just going out an paying a ridiculous amount for something and slapping a sleeper on it and saying this is our truck that we built. (There's enough hypocrisy in The Show truck /Working truck world as it is) I'm not about that Scene. We shall see. 😌 

Edited 1 hour ago by The Rubber Duck 006

[Vladislav]

An old thread gets on my mind of how JT Formula was bringing GMC General to running condition. He made that but found multiple troubles and put notable efforts. Something like "GMC General near abandoned house" was the name of the thread. I may search for it later when have a bit of time.