Selling Vintage Pickup

Sounds like Crazy Steve's Used Trucks , Cars and Wake Board Racks.

Thank God.

LPSL

Hollywood wrote: If you can get a MPH/RPM, final transmission ratio and tire diameter you can calculate the rear end ratio.

In this particular truck rpms are measured in terms of loud, pretty loud, or really loud.

JoeinNY wrote: Considering how far I have now driven it and that it passed its nys safety inspection with flying colors I think Steve can officially blame any future problems on the new owner and sleep well.

Whew!

quinner wrote: That is a cool truck........... how many gallons per mile are you getting with that rig!!

CQ - It is a cool truck. I'm glad Joe's going to do right by it and it should do right by Joe. We always got the same MPG empty, loaded or hauling. It's not aerodynamic and no overdrive doesn't help spare fuel..... but it moves along.

(I'm glad this thread didn't get updated with the classic "old trailer on the side of the road tale" we often hear. When you sell to friends....who knows what happens! - Whew!!! )

What rear end gear is in that thing Joe?

To update this thread I was the one that ended up buying Steve and Val’s truck. After an oil change and a new set of tires I drove it home to upstate NY and have been driving it about a hundred miles daily since. Cosmetically, it is very nice for a 37 year old truck, of course it will someday get some minor rust repair, paint job, and maybe a little interior freshening.   Eventually it will also someday get some more power, and perhaps an overdrive transmission. But for now it seems a shame to mess with it too much as it has a good survivor charm to it. I’ll drive it every day for another couple weeks to get comfortable with it and then I’ll likely give it an ignition tune up and a carb rebuild before calling it ready for the summer.

Thanks to Steve for all the help on the long distance sale!

Laparoscopy isn't cost-effective in veterinary medicine.... don't give up your day job.

I'd rec'd a MINI convertible.... small enough to store in that big garage of yours without disturbing the boats (small footprint)... but plenty of juice to race nearby at VIR.... as modified stock. Loved mine!

Air206 wrote:

It would be tough to get in the way back machine and drive a 89 Dodge after being in this new machine.

lol Peter. Too bad they didn't make the Drop top Dak in the Shelby trim with a 318.

The 3.9 was one of the most horrible V6 engines ever produced in the history of the world IMHO. You couldn't pay me to drive one.

Kill two birds with one stone, buy a 1989 Dodge Dakota convertible ha.

Congratulations.

By the way, are you in the middle of your crisis? Losing weight, selling the old truck/buying a new one. What's next? Retiring and starting a new business venture ?

YES! But, it's going to a better place..........

Sold.............