Buying at GL
xcapist said:
Would it be insane to bid on a truck without having a means of towing it home?
First of all, welcome aboard mtech and xcapist. I hope you fulfill your fantasy to get one of these fever inducing hunks of green iron.
Bid on a truck without looking at it or no means of making sure it gets home?
I did just that on my truck.
Short story -
I had just purchased a 1971 AMG that was in deplorable shape even though I did drive it home from a private party sale in Santa Barbara - about a 1 hour drive in normal traffic/vehicle.
What did I know? I was a NOOB.
I did not know about this site here and every truck I saw on ebay was clear across the country. This is the first one I found locally and it did run - well, it did run.
No windshield, leaking brakes/axle seals, leaky radiator, leaking fuel line, broken spring holding the parking brake shoes (clangity - clangity - clangity all the way home - sheesh!!!), tires were all weather cracked, and who knows if the brake lights worked.
Did I mention that it did run?
The guy I bought it from started it up and it drove it to the gas station next to the freeway. I paid him $2500.00 cash, put in $50 worth of diesel and, having never driven a deuce before, jumped onto the freeway and immediately passed a CHP sitting on the onramp (big wave!!
) only to be passed by another CHP within 45 seconds of entering the slow lane on the freeway.
OMG! I am going to jail and my truck impounded for sure.
But! I had my first deuce and the smile was pure genuine.
BTW, it did run.
Shorter ending -
I found GL and started watching it in hopes of getting a truck for cheap as a parts truck. Heck, just the tires and windshields alone would cost more than a whole truck off of GL.
Found one I really liked the looks of in the pictures. Never went to see it as it was 380 miles away. It also had a cargo canopy that I really like the idea of getting and ended up winning the truck for $3650. I really got lucky. It was a '73 AMG and a gem. Even though it did run great, I had it trucked to my house as I only had one day to get it back and didn't have the time in case there was one little glitch of getting it home.
Once I got it home I sold the first truck I bought for $2000.00 just to be rid of it. The second truck runs great and drives like a dream.
This picture is of the truck just before I started it up and drove it onto the lowbed.
Did I mention that this one runs a whole lot better, is a whistler turbo, and doesn't have all the bent up sheet metal like the first one
Well...... that first one did run.
