SOLD: 1996 club-cab long-bed 2500 2WD

[JRihani]

Bone stock, 1996 club cab long bed 2WD 12-valve P-pump automatic with only 63,800 original miles. The first owner drove it 58,000 miles in 21 years, second owner put another 2,500 miles on it in two years. The body is rust-free and the original paint is in good shape. The decal kit really sets this one apart. Dodge did a special edition of the 1500 truck for the 1996 Indy 500 (around 2,800 made) but the best I can tell, there were some of these diesels with this sticker package used at the track that year. The stickers are in good enough shape but have some cracking from age.

The owner just prior to me did the following:
- new heater core
- new evaporator core
- new tires
- new upper and lower ball joints
- alignment
- new batteries

Since I picked it up, I've done:
- KDP kit
- new serpentine belt
- new master cylinder
- new thermostat
- new brake switch
- replaced coolant
- engine oil and Fleetguard filter
- new Fleetguard fuel filter
- new Fleetguard air filter
- new transmission fluid and filter
- new rear differential oil
- chassis lube
- Line-X spray-in bedliner
- Bilstein 4600 shocks all four corners
- new Moog upper control arm bushings in front suspension
- new tail lights
- new bumper step pads
- new chin spoiler trim piece
- new Goodyear spare tire
- Lorado tonneau cover
- Krown rustproofing treatment professionally installed

Everything runs and works like new except:
- power door locks quit working
- radio works well but I believe all four factory speakers are blown or rotted...you can listen to the radio but it doesn't sound very good.

I used to work for Cummins and have been looking for a 12-valve p-pump truck off and on for the past twenty years. If this truck looks like an impossible garage find, it's as close to that as I've found. If I had a third bay in my garage where it could live, I'd keep it. As it is, it's just a little bit too big a hassle to play driveway Tetris with our other vehicles. My loss is your gain. Here is your low-mileage dream truck to either drive stock or start turning up the fuel on. Either way, it'll make a great truck. Clean Indiana title in hand. Clean Carfax.

Asking $12,950

 

[Timd32]

I did a ton of research on these 2.5 years ago, its one of the emergency trucks used during the race.

https://www.turbodieselregister.com...icing-a-1996-indy-500-td.259090/#post-2516384

Yeah in really nice shape, we never figured out if they did pump.work to these to tune them up, but besides the graphics, some folks never found too many other changes.

Price is not bad, good luck with your sale someone will be getting a nice rig.

Same here too many in the house already.

 

[JRihani]

Thanks Tim, that's what I found as well - a neat story! We have quite a few connections to the race and it was a selling point for me when I bought the truck. It must have been a trophy piece for the original owner...58,000 miles in 21 years! Thanks also on your comment on the price - I have quite a bit more than that in it, but I really do want it to go to another enthusiast who will enjoy it.

 

[Timd32]

Nope really good price IMO.

I'm kinda that way with mine. I have a spot for it, have more in it then can get for it, and it's a great truck, I would need to ask more for mine then what your asking. My is as rust free as it gets for a NJ truck. If I could finish the small odds and ends it would be as nice as what that looks like.

The heritage is there on those. I was hoping a pro writer from the TDR would pick up the story and make some calls, folks at FCA seem to require a media credentials to dig in their archives, there is a way to register, but they vet your connection to the publication. Fake it till you.make it was not working.

Unfortunately since its now FCA not Chrysler who knows if they know the exact production numbers and the real back story if these have some go fast goodies no one knew about.

Those kind of articles are hard to do, print space and labor is very limited nowadays..

But yeah someone with a garage and like a sub 20k budget should be all over that.

I got pretty far with the story on those with all my digging. Plus the guy who posted it was his dads, he had just passed, so it was nice to figure out the story for him back then.

Good luck.

 

[JR]

Gosh now your pulling at my heart strings. Same color and configuration as my 98 was (minus 4 wheel drive)

I'm assuming you worked at the Columbus plant?
We were down there for the rally last June. Good luck with your sale. You should have no problem selling it at that price. Beautiful rig.

 

[dodgesst]

Wow that’s one slick truck.

 

[JRihani]

Thanks for the comments, guys! I'm not sure why I'm not getting notifications. JR - yes, worked at CMEP in Walesboro back in 2000-2001. Absolutely loved my time there. I had the diesel bug before I was there and I've never shaken it since! Dodgesst - I appreciate it!

I had this truck listed on my local FB marketplace and man, that was just awful. I took it down. I'm just going to leave it listed here with the hope that someone comes along that appreciates it for what it is.

 

[JRihani]

Doesn't seem to be much of a way to "bump" these ads, but I'll likely start cross posting this next week. I was hoping someone in the TDR community might be the next owner of this truck.

 

[JRihani]

SOLD