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Had a potential buyer come and look at my 72 Cheyenne C10 today. He asked all the right questions on the initial phone call, was on time to look at the truck etc. While on the test drive he mentioned he likes fuel injection and would want to put a LS motor in the truck. Well we talked price and didn't come to an agreement. So he left and said he'd get back to me.

Calls me back tonight and is a hundred under my asking, but I'm having 2nd thoughts about selling such a well optioned, mostly original truck to someone who wants to remove the numbers matching 350ci V8 to install a LS motor.

What do you think? Am I crazy for caring about what a buyer does to the truck after its no longer mine? Or am I sane to not want someone to "mess up" a truck that is pretty well optioned, well documented and pretty nice the way it is/came from the factory?

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it's your truck until you sell it. i get it.

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Let him change it. It'l make mine worth more :). Kidding of course.

I personally like original, but also must admit, the LS builds on this site are pretty cool. Full on builds do not really need such an optioned truck, all that coolness gets changed anyway.

Id like to see it go to someone who will keep it original. But, I also believe in who owns it, gets to decide. I guess I believe in the choice to do what we want more than I believe in preserving what I would like to see preserved.

One just hopes it goes to someone with the same mindset.

Thats a long way to say, its a tough decision YOU got to make.

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Here's the SPID...

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You decide what you want to do with your truck. Once you sell it, the new owner decides what he wants to do with his truck. Numbers matching engines don't really mean much in these trucks, but if that is important to the new owner, he can always store the original engine.

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This is an ongoing discussion between me and my wife with me thinking as you do that I don't want a sell truck to someone that is going to slam it and stick in an LS motor because I love them original. As much as I hate to say this, once someone has paid you and taken ownership of anything, it is theirs to do with as they see fit.

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It's hard to imagine something original being cut up. The first online forum I joined was a gun collecting one and to even mention "sporterizing" a weapon got the comment/thread deleted and could get you banned. I feel the same way on these trucks: seeing the lowered and shortened frames really bothers me B U T......

FREEDOM! PERSONAL LIBERTY. People have the right to do what they want with their stuff......I have to remind myself of that. Once I sell something or give it away, I have no more say on what that person does to it.

If you want to keep your truck original, keep the truck. You certainly can try to encourage the buyer to keep it original, you have that right also. It comes down to personal choice. Since I have no children, I'll have to figure out who to give all my stuff to when I depart this reality. It would be nice if the heir kept the truck original but that's up to that person.

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Usually I only sell my collectibles if I need money for something else and in that circumstance I am not concerned about what happens to them once $$$s have changed hands. I do have a few items though that I have put into a different category. I view myself as their steward and have charged myself with protecting their condition and originality for the sake of future owners. Your truck would be in that category to me but I can see how not everyone would feel that way.

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Pretty much anything I buy is special in some way, so I have to feel the buyer appreciates it when I sell. #3 and #4 are going beyond. Once it's theirs they decide what to do with it. I am saying I have prevented sales based on what the buyers plans were or when I saw they were not focused on what makes the truck what it is. I sold my '72 K/20 Highlander to a friend who appreciated it's rarity when I had a guy bugging me for months to sell it to him. I was actually selling the '72 GMC but he wanted the Chevy because he liked the blue & white 2-tone. The GMC was white with lower trim and blue interior. I told him just add upper trim and add blue upper and lower. He said, "But the Chevy is already lifted". I told him I'd put a lift on the GMC if he buys it. I just didn't appreciate his mentality and kept ignoring him or putting him off. My buddy hands me a wad of cash and says "This is for the Highlander. I'll have the rest next week when a couple cars are sold. What do you want for the total?". Well, I don't hate the GMC, so I took the money knowing the truck went to a good home and kept the GMC

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The ones in this thread don't look to stock to me why should it matter to you?
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=680115

When I seen the paint job on this one after you sold it it took me a while before I could see again. 😳

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=683975

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Personally I like the original trucks. They seem to be getting more and more rare with these stupid ls motors and bagging to mimic a honda civic, but money is money

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I'm sitting here wondering why you just posted all this when it is obvious he is talking about the blue & white truck he showed a picture of. So, you are saying you don't like Grapefruit on these trucks. That's cool, we all have our preferences. But you will find a lot of people who feel quite the opposite. To me, in my taste, GM didn't use a bad color on any 67-72s and it takes a very special custom color to look right. But that's just one man's opinion.

Ok, let's get back to the topic now.

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He stated about changing out matching number 350 motor to an ls that isnt original. Look at his trucks in the first link practically scraping the ground. To my eyes that does not look original. It's pretty obvious and I'm not sure what you are wondering about. Don't get me wrong I love the original gm colors too I just never seen any that were chartreuse. Was that a "special" paint code?

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I would rather someone tell me their plans for their truck so I can see their vision- when they buy what I have for sale. Beats them lying to me and me seeing them do what they said they wouldn't do.

Who says they will ever do the swap?

Who says the next owner will rebuild the 350 rather than getting a Jeg's crate motor 350 for it?

If you are $100 off from your asking price, its time for it to go...................IMO

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Not to be overly critical, but I'd have to ask who added the non-stock wheels and the white paint around the headlight trim. What I'm saying is that you've added touches that make the truck yours. Why try to prevent a future owner from doing the same?

Look at it this way: would you rather sell it to someone who likes the truck but wants fuel injection (and a more reliable, economical, and powerful engine) or someone who tells you what you want to hear?

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"Anybody can restore a classic. But it takes balls to cut one up." I saw that on a T-shirt at a car show one time and it always come to mind when someone wants to ensure a buyer keeps a vehicle "all original", or maintains it a "certain way". Once money changes hands and titles are signed... all bets are off.

Everybody has their own idea of what they want in an older rig. I met my wife's boss the other day and we went out to his shop and he showed me a very cherry 1968 Camaro RS/SS. I made the comment that it would make a fantastic drag car. He was horrified. :lol:

Again, I don't care all that much for Camaro's but they make great light weight race cars. So views differ no matter who buys or sells a rig. :)

Gary

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I've delt with sellers who sort of question what plans are for their vehicle if they sell to you and usually I can just tell them what I think they want to hear. I'm there buy not interview as the buyer. That said when I've sold things I avoid asking any questions about what they plan to do with it for the same reason. Once it's theirs it's not my business.

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As long as the money is there they can re-enact Ground Hog Day and the quarry scene if they want......

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Once you agree on a price and the money changes hands, the new owner can do what he/she wants. Part it out, resell the next day...

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Once the money changes hands, you no longer have any say what happens to the truck. Maybe he'll flip it the next day, maybe chop the top and shorten the frame? Who knows and who cares. Your truck isn't that rare or well optioned anyway.

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Meow.

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I feel for ya.
The last person that had intrest in my 9ft.c30 wanted too cut it down to a short bed.:crazy:

I sold my Pontiac to a local fella he told me he had a good motor and trans for it.
Thats All it needed was a motor an trans installed after I pulled the bb out of it needed absolutely nothing else.

He took it home rolled it off the trailer and it's been sitting in that field for 3-4yrs untouched.
In the summer the grass almost covers the car.

I would've never sold it too him if I knew that was gonna be it's fate....damn shame.

I cringe and feel disgusted every time I go by it.

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Yeah, I guess that didn't come out sounding right.

It's not a factory 2wd blazer, or a factory short bed super with big block, buckets, cruise, tach and tilt.

It's a nice truck that I'd be proud to drive, but just not super rare.

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that sounds like parallax bill's forum, I drove those guys nuts with my builds because I prefer to start off with very good condition undrilled oberndorf gew98's for most of my builds.

well if a potential buyer told me he was gonna do my truck up rat rod style with fake patina, red spray painted wheels and spider webs all over it i'd probably tell him in my best clint eastwood voice to get off my lawn. but then again I never have and never will own a stock all original vehicle because its just i'm my nature to modify everything I own in one way or another.

in all reality as long as the person does a quality job I don't care what they do to it after its theirs

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Once out of the nest the babies fly away and go as they wish.
Russ

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Once you decide to sell it take the money and move on. Just let go and let the healing begin.

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Who cares, it's a longbed....


There... I said it :hm:

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If your that attached to a vehicle you shouldn't let it go. Who knows what is going to happen to it once it's in the next person's hands. If they sell it to the next person they may not feel the same and sell it to someone that may cut it up. You never know. There are plenty of these trucks out there still.

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I have sold a lot of classic cars, trucks and parts I have never or will ever tell the buyer what to do it them. I have also brought as many and I don't care for sellers trying to
have my cash finish their dreams and I tell them that also.
We are just caretakers of these rides when we own them thats it.
Take the money if you want to sell before the deal dies. The next guy may tell you what you want to hear to try and get a grand or so off your asking price and turn around and sell it for a profit or cut it down to a short bed and turn it to a bagged LS patina truck on this site.

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I'm gonna swim against the tide on this one. Sold lots of vehicles to folks that went a totally new direction on them and I have almost every time regretted the sale. That is a well optioned pickup, and if you hold out a little while, the right buyer will come along. I wouldn't sell my truck to any one that I didn't want to. In fact, I'd just keep it if I could.

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In 04' I bought my correct VIN#138 Chevelle SS with the # matching 327ci V8 and 2 speed Powerglide. Previous owner was racing it in the high school drags @ Bandimere Raceway with a 350/350 combo. I told him I wanted the correct engine and trans if he had it. A week later he and his dad deliver the car with the original engine and trans combo in the back of the truck they towed the car down with.
Once I got a closer look at the engine I found they had filled the accessory bolt holes on the front of the heads and painted over to make them look like the other correct 461 camel hump cylinder head. Car already had headers installed too. I decided to run a brand new set of Chevy Vortec cylinder heads and an Edelbrock intake instead of trying to find 1 461 cyl head and dropping $1200 in to recon work in to the heads @ the machine shop.
I get the engine assembled, installed in the car and the Powerglide is shot! No engagement at all! Pull a 200R4 out of the junk yard, put a Transgo shift kit, Grand National converter and a purple super servo in it and it's still in the car now. Holding up behind a 500+HP LS engine.
To this day I still have the # matching 327 short block on a stand in the garage. I guess my point is I tried the best I could to keep my Chevelle #s correct. This truck runs and drives great with it's #s matching drivetrain. Wish I could have been as lucky as whoever ends up with this truck.

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my vote is cast. I like em original, but it's not my place to say what the person I sell it to should or shouldn't do with it - or to restrict him/her from buying it. If I've made the hard decision to sell, it is then a $ decision only. Doesn't mean I don't care about the hobby, but if I had a split window vette and the buyer had the cash in hand for my asking price, I don't care if he's going to graft a Pinto body onto the chassis. My 2 cents only. But I don't think that I, as an individual, should be the "protector of the breed" and keep someone from fulfilling their dream with a vehicle - because whatever they intend to do is none of my business and if they gack it all up, well, the one I have left in the barn is now 1 truck more rare and desirable. :) I'd be willing to bet that most, if not all, of us have done some stupid mod (in hindsight) to some of our vehicles in our youths. Or last week. Having said that - if someone is going to graft that Pinto body onto my fictional 63 vette chassis - I'll think he or she is an idiot, but it's that person's choice. And there' no point in me telling him what I think. It's a great hobby, and it drives me as nuts as anyone when someone totally screws up one of these trucks, but, it's just a truck - as hard as it is for me to say that - and in a few decades we'll all be driving Tesla knock-offs from our off-grid homes to the wind farms where we work anyway...

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If you've decided to sell something you are already letting it go....so let it go.
If you feel that strongly then simply don't sell it.
It is a free market and people are free to do whatever they want with whatever they own.
On the flipside how would you feel if the previous owner of your house did not want you to repaint it? or change the design of the yard? or rebuild his workshop?.....once you buy it, its your business not his.
So I guess the lesson is that if you decide to sell something....forget about what it is destined for because it will no longer directly be any of your business...respectfully.

All Good
Coley

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I personally price cars/parts high to keep the flippers away, if the right person comes along or someone REALLY needs the part prices come down or parts are sometimes free.

You will rarely agree with what the next person will do with the vehicle you sell so forget about it. If it is a family heirloom it makes it WAY harder to sell but in the end you can only control what you own.

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OOOOOO!!! Shots fired! :lol:

Short beds are for girls! :lol:

Gary

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:lol:

I was waiting for someone to say the typical "no one cares about longbeds" so I thought I'd take care of it! :mm:

You got that backwards, women prefer the longer version ;)

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I like these trucks as much as the rest of you. But when I was 16 or 17 my dad told to never fall in love with something that can't love you back.

In the end it's a hunk of iron.

Sell to the first person that meets your price with cash in his hand , I've had buyers show up trailer in tow and after all the looky loo and searching for damage / checking vin tags and such they pull out their check book like I'm going to take a check from someone I never met who lives 750 miles away ? I point them to my local bank to bring back cash only once did the "buyer" not return with the cash in there hand , I'm not a bank or finance company , I only deal in cash , as far as who to sell to well ... What does it matter once they own it ? It's there's to drive home with no tags or spin the tires until there bald ? It's only a hunk of metal with a "cash" value .
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My '72 was hardly original - the crate motor it came with when I bought it had a cracked block and I'd put a 4.8 and a 4L60E in it, almost all the body panels had some dents or surface rust, and it was an unmitigated beater. Sure, it would have made my day if somebody bought it who wanted to restore it, but I went with the first buyers to show up with the right amount of cash. They worked for a shop that restored these trucks and wanted to take it apart to study how to do LS swaps.

Now that I think about it, considering that this was the first engine swap I'd ever done... that was something of a compliment that they wanted to use it for that purpose.

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I'm emotional about the trucks I own. I would guess most of us are because this is our hobby and these are often our babies. I have a thing about selling locally, I just won't do it unless the buyer and I share the same views, or I will sell it out of state. I had a truck that my Dad bought new, then I bought from him and sold with around 200k. It was very nice, and I kept it in top condition...but I sold it locally and about a year later we saw it broken down at some tweaker's trailer with body damage, mis-matched wheels and just generally looking really sad. It still makes me sick and that was 15 years ago. I wish I could be pragmatic about my cars and trucks but I just can't.