I don’t know what was worse: Brodozer Alley at SEMA this year or returning back to Kentucky, the land of Carolina Squat, the diesel farm kids, and the loudest Toyota Tundra I’ve ever heard in all of my freakin’ life. Seriously, how is your Rhino Liner-painted, year-old truck louder than my Imperial, a car that not only doesn’t have mufflers, but doesn’t have an exhaust past the manifolds?! Trucks might be the hottest thing going but truck culture tends to put me off. Keep your stickers, keep your coal-rolling, keep the 1996 Z71 that looks like it’s hauling half a ton of lead weights right at the very edge of the bed against the tailgate, I want nothing to do with ’em. Get me this instead.
I don’t know if there is an actual term for this kind of find, but I refer to it as “Grandpa’s Truck” clean. Grandpa bought it new back in the day and he kept it as beautiful as he could from that moment forward. Sometimes weathering is okay, other times the paint is jaw-dropping in quality. Here, it’s an older repaint. The engine and interior were good, solid choices: the 400ci big-block and a fully-decked inside, complete with gauge package and the tartan-covered seats that came with the Adventurer package. Granddad knew how to work the options sheet, didn’t he?
Now, just a bit of a hint: get $5,500 together and go get this beauty. Seriously.
Already gone!
Maybe Mark Worman bought it.
$5500?!!! I’l bet he could have gotten twice that price.
That was a good buy for somebody! If it were mine I would have thrown it on a 1st gen Cummins frame & kept everything else the same – dog dishes & all!
I’m of the mind that those things are good fodder for Gen III Hemi swaps. More power and more torque than the smogger 440’s (which were only so-so in trucks. A similar vintage 454 would blow the doors off, while a 460 watches from way, way in the back.), but way better fuel economy. Scads of room under the hood to go that route, too.