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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.9.37] on Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 12:48:06 :
In Reply to: Re: It was for sale a year or two ago posted by Jerry in Idaho [69.59.83.175] on Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 11:48:25 :
Hard to say what the true story is. I just remember the picture and the location from a couple years ago on ebay or craigslist. It may be the same guy re-listing it and using he same text he used last time, or it may be a guy who bought it last time and was going to restore it but ended up just leaving it setting in the field. He may have made up a total BS story about it or recycled an old story. Maybe somebody told him if you want to sell things on ebay, raise the price. There's definitely something sketchy about it.
That said, I look at a deal like that pretty simple. There are only two things that matter, the truck and the money. It doesn't matter if I like the guy or not or if his story is BS or not. I'm buying the truck, not the guy or the story. If I lived in the Rogue River country and this old rig really did fire up and run, and I could get it for closer to $500 than $1200, I probably would, just to save it from scrap.
I would, however, also talk to the owner of the "horse pasture" where he "found" it. By that, I might mean the old guy who actually owns the pasture and is now living in the Pioneer Home or with his daughter in Roseburg, not the lady in the trailer who rents from him, or whatever. You don't just go "finding" vehicles on other people's property and selling them on ebay. If it fired up and ran so easily, the best explanation for that is that somebody else fired it up and ran it not all that long ago. There might even be a title for it still in the system somewhere. A call to Salem with the VIN might be a good idea. To the seller's credit, he's not scrapping it, which he could easily do right now and nobody would be the wiser for it. I don't think he's a crook, but I think there are some missing pieces to the story.
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