NPOCP?

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
04/27/2018 at 12:32 • Filed to: None

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Looks like a bone-stock Malaise Era 318 with a loud muffler and a ruined suspension. CP, says I; CP.

DISCUSSION (19)

Takuro Spirit > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 13:02

CP. They couldn’t even get the stance right, and the tires are shitty.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Takuro Spirit
04/27/2018 at 13:12

Perfectly preserved and unmodified, I could see paying maybe $3,000 for that vehicle.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 13:14

I suspect what’s going on here is the intersect of elevated truck prices and a notional rare/uncommon vehicle premium. That a comparable more modern or common truck might for for as much as $4k, and that something interesting or with pedigree as a car might go for 1.5x something more boring does not mean the premium is a compound one... but some might think that way.

Takuro Spirit > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 13:18

Its a small V8 long bed 2wd.... so you’re right on the money.

nerd_racing > Takuro Spirit
04/27/2018 at 13:32

If it was a short bed D150 and pristine maybe.

GLiddy > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 13:48

Didn’t Hamster buy one of these on Top Gear roadtrip through the American south for $1000? (Not that didn’t stretch the truth a bit to make things interesting.) Seems a bit high.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > GLiddy
04/27/2018 at 14:09

The homophobia of those guys got old.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 14:11

I feel like I should throw my K3500 up there with a reserve that I’d definitely sell it at...sheesh

Spridget > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 14:25

If that had been lowered properly, I’d say maybe $5,000. And that might be on the upper end. A nice ‘88 short bed with the six, aftermarket wheels, and red paint has been floating around CL here at around $4,000 for a couple months with no takers.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
04/27/2018 at 15:14

As a general rule, I like square body pickups. But that one, even without the suspension mods, is too plasticky and just plain yuck. My curiosity: how much did Bring A Trailer get for a commish?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spridget
04/27/2018 at 15:16

Where is “around here?”

I have this thing about pickups with shorther-than-8-foot beds: what’s the point?

GLiddy > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 15:16

True.

Pickup_man > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 15:56

Hard CP. I’m not big into the old Mopars, but I’ve been warming up to these lately. This one however with the wrong front end (ie. too new), the wrong transmission, a questionable lowering job, cheap wheels and tires, the small V8, 2wd, and a long bed (all 3 actually ok by me), went for way too much. It’s so clean though, which makes it almost, almost, worth it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Pickup_man
04/27/2018 at 16:06

Bone stock, we could talk, and a pristine specimen, but as is? As you say: hard CP.

Pickup_man > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 16:26

I actually like it lowered and modified a little, but then I’ve been window shopping for a 2wd pickup I can lower for a while now, so this appeals to me. But it still has the worst front end they ever put on this body style of Dodge, and it’s still an auto. I still can’t get over how clean it is, but still CP yeah.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Pickup_man
04/27/2018 at 17:42

I hear you. For me, if I buy a pickup, I want to be able to use it as such.

Speaking of pickups: here’s a really fun episode of Roadkill Garage where they shorten an older Chevy C10:

https://www.motortrendondemand.com/detail/hack-the-c10-market-longbed-to-shortbed-diy-conversion/0_xmvxr44h/

Spridget > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/27/2018 at 19:42

North Carolina/Southeast.

I personally prefer longbeds to short beds; paying a premium for less functionality is a bad call, IMO. Stepsides get an exception though.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Pickup_man
04/27/2018 at 19:50

Hot Rod Garage...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spridget
04/27/2018 at 19:51

When I was 16, I thought stepsides were so cool.

I’d buy a van before I’d buy a pickup.