vehicle prices becoming crazy

you may have kind of hit on something with that cash for clunkers and the fact metal prices are up
scrap yards are paying a little more, and i have noticed through my own experiences and other friends that work in the mechanic business, alot of people have gotten to where when they have any "major" issue with a vehicle(transmission goes out, motor needs rings, rear end gears come apart, somthing like that) instead of paying to have it fixed, or possibly rebuilding/fixing it themselves, they trade it in, sell it as scrape, parts or something along those lines and buy something new.

realistically, a dealer wont give crap for a old b series, so most end up in junkyards, scrap yards, or in someones back yard rusting away.

got it, so maybe im a bit of a low baller, keep in mind first off its gonna cost me 55-75$ to get anything more then 30 minutes away home. on top of that im looking at two different ones both 45 minutes away. one the guy wants 500 for cab plus all stock, dosnt run, no current registration, no pink slip, he wanted a 1000 now 3 weeks later hes down to 500. theres no way of finding out back tags which are 180% of each year after the first year penalty wise, so every year if the tags are 100$ then they just became 180$ now if its multiple years its 180+180 etc etc. basically at that point it becomes almost registrable. the second one also a cab plus missing alot of parts, they painted over the factory paint and its cracking and showing thru the factory paint. also its been hit as the bed hit the cab at one point but its clean title. no back tags he wants 200 firm i offered 150. its missing about 300$ minimal in parts and unknown if it runs it last ran and was registered in 1995... oh yea and both will need tires.

It only goes for a few years. It doesnt keep adding up for backed reg.

Id buy both of them...


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california does ive got one thats in my back yard 2500 in tags and climbing, i think i will with the 200$ one. the 500 one im gonna wait out a bit theres one an hour and 20 minutes away thats 900 obo and runs.

That sucks

Is this one overpriced?

yea i know it does sucks big time.. nothing drops from the cali system anymore either

Yup

yea its clean but thats probably a 5k truck tops if it had custom rims, body dropped maybe it would be worth 8k but thats custom billets and bodied. also cant tell if thats a base clear paint job or single stage from macco