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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    I said that I would keep a running log of my transaction with Schotts so I will try to tell the story of what happened on wednesday. Every time I called Schotts to try to make an appt. to look at trucks they kept telling me to just call when I was on the way. So I happened to be in Augusta(about...
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Found it...1986 m813 with 10k miles and 400hrs on the meters, canvas topped(need the bows and canvas its a convertible right now) All six tires have 90% tread or more, needs some work exterior wise, however she took a shot of ether and started after 20 secs of cranking...after sitting for 3...
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Well, I have the cash, a friend with a semi and a lowbed and it is looking like next week after christmas I will be going up to Schotts. Towerguy1, pm me or gimme a call if you want to go, would like to have someone there to advise/browse take pics or whatever. Happy Holidays to everyone!
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Joe, from my memory, and I didnt check every single one, most, if not all had the ISO dropsides, and the cutoffs on the bumper. Most were stenciled USMC, sorry for lack of pics, I WILL get a bunch when I next go up. Most trucks had singles, there were a couple of dualed trucks, I believe they...
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Bruce, I think that I got kind of lucky in the fact that I spoke to two different people on the phone at Schotts. The first told me to come up and check some out, I had wanted to see what kind of prices he had on trucks. The second guy seemed reluctant to have me come out and repeatedly...
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Bruce and Towerguy1, I did see several nice trucks that I have my eye on, 2 soft tops and one hard top, the mileage on those three were all around 12k miles, around 2k hours on the trucks, mostly missing cometic stuff, passenger seats/ a mirror and some surface rust. Havent heard them run yet...
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Well just thought I would type a quick review of my experience so far in dealing with schotts, as I am a firm believer in trying to learn from others. I ended up at schotts on wednesday after a borderline brush off on the phone, however I was pretty determined to go check out the inventory so...
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Thanks Joe and everyone else for the advice so far, yeah primarily the truck is going to be kind of a weekend warrior but I do plan on a dump conversion so it will also get loaded and work occasionally. To that end I am going to see if Schotts has any trucks minus lockers, but from what I have...
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Yeah I actually called schotts a couple weeks ago to talk to them about what they had, as far as any phone info it was pretty short...the guy I talked to did say to just give him a call when I wanted to take a look around but other than that it was kind of a brush off. Work has been crazy but I...
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    5 Tons trucks in New England

    Hi to everyone on the site, I am a new member looking for some advice on M813's as far as a)Are there anyplaces or anyone who sells these in the New England area besides schotts, or has anyone dealt with schotts before? Actually any info on m813s as far as tips on buying one would be...
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