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I bought a "new" truck this week. I've been looking for a good straight and clean example of one of these trucks for at least 4 yrs now. I've been telling myself that if I ever found one I would grab it. Well I wasn't expecting it, but this week the opportunity finally arrived. I saw the for sale add on craigslist, and lucky for me, I was the first person to contact the guy and go look at it. After looking at the truck I told the guy I would think about it and let him know. I went to leave and got in my vehicle and thought to myself, "what the heck am I doing?" here is a good clean rust free truck, exactly what I have been looking for, I don't need to think about it! So I went back and offered him $500 less than he was asking
and he accepted. 
The guy took really great care of it, truck is originally from Oregon. When I got it home I looked in the glove box and there were all the receipts from recent repair work and maintenence records. Oil just changed using synthetic. New K&N air filter. New tires and clutch less than 10,000 miles ago. Work done in the last several months: brakes all around with new calipers and rotors on the front, complete exhaust, both front driveshafts, Ptiman arm, idler arm, tie rod ends & ball joints, new battery, recently aligned, new Bilstein shocks all the way around. Had a brand new hitch & emergency brake cable for it that he never got around to putting on which he gave me, even gave me a service manual! What more could a guy ask for?
I felt bad for the guy when I went to get the truck, I could tell it was his baby for a long time, and he hated to let it go, but he had to for financial reasons. He emailed me later and told me he had been swamped with people calling about the truck. Have good one. TC
The guy took really great care of it, truck is originally from Oregon. When I got it home I looked in the glove box and there were all the receipts from recent repair work and maintenence records. Oil just changed using synthetic. New K&N air filter. New tires and clutch less than 10,000 miles ago. Work done in the last several months: brakes all around with new calipers and rotors on the front, complete exhaust, both front driveshafts, Ptiman arm, idler arm, tie rod ends & ball joints, new battery, recently aligned, new Bilstein shocks all the way around. Had a brand new hitch & emergency brake cable for it that he never got around to putting on which he gave me, even gave me a service manual! What more could a guy ask for?
I felt bad for the guy when I went to get the truck, I could tell it was his baby for a long time, and he hated to let it go, but he had to for financial reasons. He emailed me later and told me he had been swamped with people calling about the truck. Have good one. TC
