"The GRINCH"

[Sixty8panther]

Guess how much I paid....?

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It's a 1995 chevy 'Burb 1500 LT 4x4, on the floor

transfer case lever, and MOST importantly, it has

BARN doors. I'm 100% with XP on that, just as

ALL Camaros and post 1949 Cadillacs should have

hardtop greenhouses & NOT B-pillars w/ glued in

fixed windows like some garbage-pile Japanese

economy cars, real Chevy/GMC Trucks should

have barn-doors, not lift-gates like a Honda Civic.

Oh, the truck has 184,700 miles on it.

Sooooo,guess how much I paid?

[ocnblu]

$4000, Bob!

[Intrepidation]

Always liked the generation. I know how much it was, I want to know how it runs and drives.

[Sixty8panther]

$4000, Bob!

Eh.... I wouldn't ever pay $4,000 for a pedestrian

vehicle with almost 200k miles, although even w/

197k the Deutche-Spec. Mercedes 500SEC was

a bargain & a half at $1460. it cost twice as much

as a Corvette in 1984, plus importation costs from

Europe & the fact that it's super rare here in the

USA, but this is just a run-of-the-mill 'Burb.

(plus I'm tight with the little money I make)

It needs a radio and a new front seats (buckets)

due to very worn/ripped leather. Also, having sat

for a while a few small issues have cropped up

since I started driving it. I'll be doing one of the

rear brake lines today.... despite the truck being

VERY rust free for a 14 year old vehicle with high

millage from New England.

Keep Guessing. (and here's more photos)

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This is me flying up Rt.495 the day after we got it... just

after a pretty intense Blizzard, which I navigated in the

RWD, traction-control-lacking Benz for almost 200 miles

while everone else in their Acura MDXes & Lexus RXes

was $hitting Twinkies as I power-slid around corers in

euphoric counter-lock, snow rooster-tailing.

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A shot of the filthy, snow/salt/sand covered underneath

of the truck, quite solid for the year/mileage!

[A Horse With No Name]

$2500?

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

Oh, BTW...Nice looking truck. Should make quite the nice family vehicle.

Chris

[Sixty8panther]

Thank You Sir.

I agree.... with gas at $1.57 why not enjoy it while it lasts!

More than one friend has already said \: Well I know who

I'm calling for an Airport Shuttle/Camping Trip buddy.

$4000 was too high

$2500 is too high...

Keep guessing.

[ZL-1]

$500?

[A Horse With No Name]

That thing would bring at least two grand around here, I think...as a plow truck if nothing else.

People buy these things, along with the ASTRO/SAFARI vans for running crews of hispanics to construction sites if nothing else.

C'mon what did you pay?

Chris

[Sixty8panther]

$500?

Getting close.....

[Z-06]

The guy GAVE you $500 for taking the POS off his hand .

[Robert Hall]

$250?

Seriously, though,

I checked the cars.com, and in my area a '94 4x4 Burban, rust free, 170k is listed at $4500. Other '93-96s are anywhere from $3500-4999, all with over 150k and rust free. there is a vast amount of used SUVs on the market in Colorado, and the Denver area has the highest % of SUVs registered of any metro area, IIRC.

Edited December 27, 2008 by moltar

[A Horse With No Name]

You just can't beat a desert car. If I ever get another older car, it is going to be from the southwest.

Chris

[Robert Hall]

You just can't beat a desert car. If I ever get another older car, it is going to be from the southwest.

Chris

Those were in the Denver area...the Burbans here in Phoenix are almost all 2wd. A search in PHX turned up an '94 w/ 201k, 4x2 for $3500.

Edited December 27, 2008 by moltar

[A Horse With No Name]

I would like a Suburban as a tow vehicle. I like a little weight in the back and a little longer vehicle to tow with.

Sylvesters car is a good buy.

Chris

[Nick]

$350

[Sixty8panther]

The truck is a 1995. And so far has given me 250+ miles

of service... I still need to replace a P.S. hose & figure

out how to bleed the brake lines, the ABS UNIT seems to

be preventing some of the trapped air from being bled.

Anyway overall it's a great truck, needs a good cleaning

but it's solid and safe, I'll give you guys the 411 soon.

The guy GAVE you $500 for taking the POS off his hand .

I need to get on that plan as far as my '34 Cadillac V-16 day-dreams go...

"Sure Grandma Rockefeller, I'll get it out of your garage ASAP, flat tires or not"

[daves87rs]

Very Sweet! I like!

[Intrepidation]

Seems like a great "buy" :wink:

[knightfan26917]

You just can't beat a desert car. If I ever get another older car, it is going to be from the southwest.

That is the way to go. I remember when I visited a fellow MC owner, Crazy Bill, in New Mexico during my 2004 road trip. He showed me 100% rust free cars...it was simply amazing!

Nice buy, Sixty8 .

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"Can you believe what a year it's been?" ... Savage Garden ... 'I Don't Know You Anymore'

[2005 EquinoxLS]

So will you be using the 4x4 function?

[Sixty8panther]

Thanks again guys.

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So here's the (non-Hyundai) Scoupe:

A few weeks ago I found out a certain redneck in N.H. had dropped the price

of his drivable but in need of a tune-up Mopar classic to near scrap metal

$/lbs. levels. This was a car I was LUSTING after when it was $3K, not it was

well under a grand.... the ad said you could "drive it home".

The car in question? The very last four-door HARDTOP ever made by an

American manufacturer, which was also the very last 4-door HT ever to be

offered for sale in the USA:

1978 Chrysler New Yorker. (powered by the MIGHTY 440 none-the-less!)

I had been formulating a plan to replace the Roadm0nster, which I had

decided was getting to the point of no-return. I made mention of my desire

to own this 7.2 liter V8 powered dinosaur at UPS at break, which made the

half dozen or so Honda owners chuckle.

Gas prices, blah-blah-BLAH, MPG blah....

When I tried to subtly tell them the err of their ways my buddy Ronnie

who drives a mid-1990s Honda was laughing as we were joking around &

he says to me:

"Hey my brother-in-law has this BIG old Chevy in my back yard that you'd

probably LOVE since you like all that big stuff.... I was going to get rid of it

in the next few weeks before the snow...."

ME: Are you going to sell it or junk it?

Ronnie: Uhhh.... I just want it out of my back yard, I don't care how it goes

but there's no room for it since I live in (close Suburb of Boston) and I need

the space for snow removal.

About 4 weeks later, here I am. I've invested $15 for the tip to the AAA guy

to tow it outta his back yard, $42 after tax for a squeaky clean & recently

rebuilt starter from the junkyard & I was in business!

The funny thing is I stored it in a parking lot owned by UPS for the week

until I could get around to the starter, yet another fringe benefit of UPS

employment/Local 125 Union that was never offered to me but I still took

advantage of on my own terms.

Of course with my two jobs and busy schedule with the wife & 2 girls I had

to throw the starter in in the middle of the first blizzard we had this season,

two weeks ago. I drove back and forth with the RWD Mercedes all day in

conditions worthy of a Massachusetts "state of emergency" with almost no

one on the roads except for Osh-Kosh airport plows, and as soon as the

storm subsided, I drove the 'Burb home through cold, peaceful night, with a

nice crispy 3" of packed snow under the tires, Julie following me in the

Benzo since she refused to drive the 'Burb, I thought it only fair to keep the

truck in 2-WD... with the occasional spirited power-slide around a sharp

corners, just for fun.

So now, two weeks later I've invested about $53 for 25 feet of brake line &

$20 for a used junkyard battery and I still need to replace a P.S. fluid hose

but overall the truck has been DEAD reliable & tons of fun.

Naturally, after we bled the brakes we had to take it off-road for a bit down

some power-line access roads to "test" everything out....

All I the name of safety. 4WD-High & 4WD-Low both work great the transfer

case is fully functional and the rear end was recently replaced.

So that's my fire-side chat about the FREE 8-passenger 4x4 truck that I got

not in the middle of the summer when gas was $4.59/g and 4WDs are not

desirable, but in the onset of winter, with gas at a 5-year low.

[GMTruckGuy74]

So that's my fire-side chat about the FREE 8-passenger 4x4 truck that I got

not in the middle of the summer when gas was $4.59/g and 4WDs are not

desirable, but in the onset of winter, with gas at a 5-year low.

You lucky SOB!! Now if it was a GMC Suburban, I'd have to come up there and steal it from you!!

[Z-06]

Sly I was half right about someone asking you to take it off his hands. Missed that dollar mark.

Edited December 30, 2008 by smallchevy

[Sixty8panther]

Sly I was half right about someone asking you to take it off his hands. Missed that dollar mark.

True.

Indeed your guess WAS closest I guess.

Someone else's money-pit has once again become MY frugal-beater.

Labor is 80% of a money-pit's expense. I'll gladly do a brake line and

starter to get a vehicle for free that would otherwise sell for well

over two grand or for like $500-$1200 wholesale at auction.

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On a related note, it's official: The Roadm0nster will be going to

automotive heaven in the fall, but not before it delivers a few bone

crunching blows to several dozen other "demolition enduro race" cars.

Better to go out in a BANG, than to fade rust away...

[Sixty8panther]

WMJ:

Before you pass judgment on my decision let me post

a thread in the project car chronicles with some pics.

and you can decide for yourself.

[Intrepidation]

You should see his redneckeriffic heater core, hell I need to see that still...I've heard only legends.

Before you scrap it remember you owe me a photo shoot with the Grand Marquis.

Edited December 31, 2008 by Dodgefan

[Sixty8panther]

You should see his redneckeriffic heater core, hell I need to see that still...I've heard only legends.

Before you scrap it remember you owe me a photo shoot with the Grand Marquis.

Phuk that.... I say we do a tractor-pull style tug-of-war with 'em!

Sunday, sundy, SUNDAAAAAY!!!!

TiGh+ WH!P$ & Rusty Jones Entertainment presents:

Mercury vs. Buick, 350 vs. five-oh.... GM vs. FoMoCo

We'll sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the EDGE!!!

[Intrepidation]

Phuk that.... I say we do a tractor-pull style tug-of-war with 'em!

Sunday, sundy, SUNDAAAAAY!!!!

TiGh+ WH!P$ & Rusty Jones Entertainment presents:

Mercury vs. Buick, 350 vs. five-oh.... GM vs. FoMoCo

We'll sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the EDGE!!!

Haha..well your car is way more rusty, so that doesn't help it's odds. Does it make more power?

[Sixty8panther]

Hahahahah.... Dude, don't apologize. You're someone I honestly

consider a friend on here... not just fellow C&G member, you

know I myself preach the "DON'T crush 'em!" philosophy, esp.

when it comes to the RWD-V8-BOF cars.

The Roadmonster was, if you recall, bought by me a year ago

almost to the day. I saved the car from the junkyard and have

pretty much squeezed blood from a rock.

14,500 miles on less than $600 TOTAL investment? Beat that.

Like I said, I've been planning on posting a few photos of the the

Epic-Red-Neckary that is: The Roadm0nster.

Edited December 31, 2008 by Sixty8panther