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It's a truck, but not a Mazda.

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mazdatweaker   +1y
This thing is either a diamond in the rough or a really bad idea.

I bought it a couple months ago, and I finally located an inexpensive remanufactured 2 bbl carb for it. Sometimes E-bay works out.

My carb had a worn-out throttle shaft, so rebuilding it wouldn't have helped and the nearest rebusher machine shop was $120.00. "We have a reman unit for $245.00" Umm. . . thanks, I'll think about it.

High bid at $45.00. plus $19.00 for the shipping. . .do the math, and I bought the carb and saved a lot.

Brown paint.

Automatic.

Power steering with a leaky pump. . .which is cheap to fix with a Pull-a-part not too far away.

Big cab.

Cloth, worn out bench seat. Room for three across.

A/C that maybe works but parts are cheap if I need them too.

A HUGE LONG BED.

A tailgate that opens and shuts.

Brown paint.

Probably 16 miles per gallon.

A 250 CID straight 6-cylinder TRACTOR MOTOR that doesn't smoke.

Noisy exhaust until heat closes the crack at the flange.

Dents.

Dings.

Cracked windshield.

Cracked dash.

Wing windows.

A slider rear.

And now it starts when it's cold because it has a working choke on it.

Brown paint.

White fromt bumper, dented.

I need an air cleaner housing, since the PO kept taking it off to start the truck and now has lost it I think.

No emissions. . . it's exempt because it's an '81. That's $25.00 that I get to keep every year.

Original 15" steel wheels. With the original chrome spinners and trim rings.

I already had 5 tires . Now I can use them to replace the worn out booties on this sled.

No spare.

No jack.

Brown paint.

Chevy C-10 Scottsdale.
sincitylocal   +1y
Sounds like it's a bit rough, but where is an '81 smog exempt?
mazdatweaker   +1y



391-3-20-.03 Covered Vehicles; Exemptions. Amended.
(1) The requirements of this Chapter apply to the following classes of gasoline-powered
responsible motor vehicles, as defined by the Act, registered or pending registration in
covered counties:
(a) All light duty vehicles 24 model years old and newer.
(b) All light duty trucks 24 model years old and newer with a gross vehicle weight rating of
8500 pounds or less.

(2) The requirements of this Chapter also apply to the following vehicles in the classes listed
above which are operated in covered counties:
(a) Vehicles which are owned and operated by a federal or state agency, municipality or
other political subdivision in a covered county.
(b) Vehicles which are operated for 60 days or more per year on federal installations located
in whole or in part in a covered county.
(3) Vehicles which are capable of being operated on both gasoline and any alternate fuel
are covered by the inspection requirements, and shall be tested on gasoline.
(4) New vehicles are exempt from testing until the test year three years following the model
year of the vehicle.
(5) EPD may require that any vehicle registered or operated in the covered counties but
which is claimed to be not subject to the requirements of the emission inspection
program, be presented for verification that the vehicle is not subject.
(6) For vehicles which do not have the original engine, the model year of the chassis will be
considered the model year of the vehicle.
Page 6 January 10, 2007
sincitylocal   +1y
Okay, your state exempts it, but where are you?
skrapinsask   +1y
Pictures or its all lies!
elbine69   +1y
PIcs! I wanna see this tractor motor and brown paint
oldspice213   +1y
yea lets see this
paparoach1983   +1y
^^^^^^X4 i wanna see this.
heavenly_blade101   +1y
I doubt it is actually a tractor motor. Chevy did make a 250 strait 6.

The LE3 was a 250-cubic-inch (4.1 L) I6 engine produced from 1979 to 1984.
hocbj23   +1y
In some form or another,Chevy produced OHV straight 6's for a long-g-g-g time---236 ci, 250 ci,272 ci and GMC put a 302 ci straight 6 in their pickups. A torque monster. Back in the day,McGurk and others produced speed equip for these thing. McGurk even had a 5 carb set up for the big Chevy six and the 302 Jimmie.Ah--those were the days.lol.bj