abodyjoe
Well-Known Member
so in the later 90's to early 2000's i had a lil red. ended up selling to for a number of reasons.. super original truck but not fast enough for me at the time... went to a great home.. the guy i sold it to did a frame off restoration on it.. truck is perfect now...
fast forward to current time.. i get the bug for another one from time to time and lok around on craigslist and ebay and various other sites.. the ones for sale are usually over price junk or nice ones that are way over priced....
so a week or so ago and lil red thread pops up here and i read through, post a couple times in it and yup i'm on craigslist later that day...lol... now i did see this add up a few months ago and it disappeared so i figured they sold. i knew the trucks just by the add. one had been sitting in a tent for as long as i can remember. hell when i had mine it was in the tent just sitting.. stones and plastic down on the ground, truck under a cover wrapped in plastic under this tent...
so the day i see the thread here i search craigslist and theres the add again (see below).. this time i call. he tells me a price thats quite high and i say i can't get there till monday (this is thursday) he says well i have 4 guys coming to look this weekend.. i say ok i'll call monday since i'm off if they are there then i'll look at them..
so this time i call about them..needless to say someone put the ad up for the owners and they wanted 15k for all three. so i asked and asked what he would sell just one for.. he told me a number i thought was high but said screw it i'll look at them and see whats what.. so i'm looking at this 79 up and down.. i had the price in mind that he told me on the phone thinking i'm walking at that price. not that the truck is bad but its been sitting since 1994 so its gonna need some **** to get it going and safe again. i tell the woman l'm gonna take some pics and see what my better half thinks.. so while i'm out there getting pics she comes out and says he will take $2700 less then what we talked about on the phone... so i say to myself FUUUUUCK!!!! thats a good price and hard to walk away from.. i tell her again i'm going to see what jamie thinks.. so i get to the car call jamie and tell her the price and she asks what i think.. i say i think its very fair but i want to ask the guy who restored my old one what he thinks since he is more up on pricing then i am.. send jason pics and he says its a real fair price.. call jamie back and tell her what jason said.. she says buy it we will find the money somewhere... well she found the money, so i call the owner and say i want to look at a couple spots that are known problem spots and if they are good i'm in at his new price.. went back the other day, spots checked out and i left a deposit. today i paid in full, moved it from the tent and will be grabbing it in a couple hours when my buddy gets there with a trailer.. title in my name already..
i'm excited.. can't wait to get it running...
so what i'm bringing home is an all original 79 lil red with 51,000 miles n it.. appears to have all the hard to get lil red specific stuff still on it.. gonna need a couple of doors but thats common on dodge trucks..
plans... get it running,driving and safe. then i'll buff it out and have a cool driver. maybe even put a 518 trans in it to make it even a batter cruiser...
fast forward to current time.. i get the bug for another one from time to time and lok around on craigslist and ebay and various other sites.. the ones for sale are usually over price junk or nice ones that are way over priced....
so a week or so ago and lil red thread pops up here and i read through, post a couple times in it and yup i'm on craigslist later that day...lol... now i did see this add up a few months ago and it disappeared so i figured they sold. i knew the trucks just by the add. one had been sitting in a tent for as long as i can remember. hell when i had mine it was in the tent just sitting.. stones and plastic down on the ground, truck under a cover wrapped in plastic under this tent...
so the day i see the thread here i search craigslist and theres the add again (see below).. this time i call. he tells me a price thats quite high and i say i can't get there till monday (this is thursday) he says well i have 4 guys coming to look this weekend.. i say ok i'll call monday since i'm off if they are there then i'll look at them..
so this time i call about them..needless to say someone put the ad up for the owners and they wanted 15k for all three. so i asked and asked what he would sell just one for.. he told me a number i thought was high but said screw it i'll look at them and see whats what.. so i'm looking at this 79 up and down.. i had the price in mind that he told me on the phone thinking i'm walking at that price. not that the truck is bad but its been sitting since 1994 so its gonna need some **** to get it going and safe again. i tell the woman l'm gonna take some pics and see what my better half thinks.. so while i'm out there getting pics she comes out and says he will take $2700 less then what we talked about on the phone... so i say to myself FUUUUUCK!!!! thats a good price and hard to walk away from.. i tell her again i'm going to see what jamie thinks.. so i get to the car call jamie and tell her the price and she asks what i think.. i say i think its very fair but i want to ask the guy who restored my old one what he thinks since he is more up on pricing then i am.. send jason pics and he says its a real fair price.. call jamie back and tell her what jason said.. she says buy it we will find the money somewhere... well she found the money, so i call the owner and say i want to look at a couple spots that are known problem spots and if they are good i'm in at his new price.. went back the other day, spots checked out and i left a deposit. today i paid in full, moved it from the tent and will be grabbing it in a couple hours when my buddy gets there with a trailer.. title in my name already..
i'm excited.. can't wait to get it running... so what i'm bringing home is an all original 79 lil red with 51,000 miles n it.. appears to have all the hard to get lil red specific stuff still on it.. gonna need a couple of doors but thats common on dodge trucks..
plans... get it running,driving and safe. then i'll buff it out and have a cool driver. maybe even put a 518 trans in it to make it even a batter cruiser...
