Should I buy this parts truck?

[DougKrebs]

It's an 82 1 ton chevy camper special 4x4, so it has dana 60 front, 14 bolt rear, sm465 transmission, and a np205 tcase. Engine and body are scrap iron the guy said.



The guy wants 850 for it so it's a pretty good deal. Normally I'd buy it, but I've got so much other crap laying around right now. Two blazers of which I need to make one out of and sell it.



I want it for the axles. Sometime in the future I want to build a crew cab chevy with a cummins in it.



What do ya'll think? Buy it, or pass it up?

 

[Chace TX]

Front 60's

These are getting harder and harder to find. I think you could get $700 for just the axle here. I am in a similar boat right now, lots of good parts but not one good vehicle till some of them are combined.

 

[1stgen4evr]

lots of good parts but not one good vehicle till

I think this is an afliction that truckaholics get from too much diesel smoke inhalation. Sounds all to familiar.



Parts trucks? Money makers if you don't get attached to them. I HAVE noticed that they are sitting everywhere. Like in my yard.



1stgen4evr

James

 

[T. Baker]

I've drug home parts trucks before. They hog up space and sometimes you get somthing you need but they always hog up space and are hard to get any money for. I won't sell the axles out from under parts trucks because then they are almost imposible to move around. I would say try and get it cheaper because you don't "need" it right now and who is going to give him $800 for it - or better yet skip it and fix the stuff you have! I'm one to talk

 

[MidwestMotorman]

A deal indeed

Here are my thoughts on this...



You better buy it. I sold an identical 83 to a fellow in Tennessee who cuts them down to make a jeep body fit. Pays $3000 for them just to cut them down.



Those Dana 60s are really hard to find. The mud racers want them badly. Last one I had went for a $1000, and I had a waiting list a mile long for the next one I got.