[Tomahawk30]

Originally Posted by special-K

I think it's worth $4,000 unless a whole lot worse than what we can see. I only commented on his claims. And,weirdos are obvious. Slick salesmen,not so much. They know what to say to make you feel comfortable...just sayin'. What I see is the cab corner rolled out past the rocker and the front corner of the door rolled in.

I appreciate everybody's "second set of eyes" looking for discrepancies with me. I've certainly run into a few slick salesmen over the years as well. I only meant that he at least passed test number one in that I wasn't immediately turned off the whole thing after talking to him.

My weakness has always been clueless but nice people that have no idea what they have or where to look for problems on their rigs. I sold my black K20 Cheyenne at a pretty good loss because the more I dug the more rust reared it's ugly head. I knew it was worse than I anticipated in talking to the seller when I first saw it, but he'd drove it two hours with his very pregnant wife to meet me with it. He was just a nice guy with a very sweet wife who had paid way too much for it when he bought it. I let my own big ideas for the truck and my self imposed guilt for them going out of their way to drive and meet me cloud my better judgement on that one....

That said, I've scored a few screaming deals, and the guy I bought my first truck from (the 72 k10 Super) offered to trailer it 6 hours across Oregon to my doorstep. He also unexpectedly handed me two $100 bills because of the peeling clear coat on the hood that he hadn't remembered to tell me about (before I'd even noticed the clear coat issue myself). You run into all kinds doing what we do for fun, but I try to maintain cautious optimism that every call could be one of the good ones!