47-59 One ton truck?

[Tar Heel]

My wife and I are looking for a one ton truck and stumbled upon this:

https://classics.autotrader.com/clas...ckup/101624790

How do you differentiate if it's a one ton? Does the price look fair for the condition and what it is?

[mongocanfly]

welcome
whats the model number on the truck?...it looks to be at least a 1ton.. should be a 250 series, i think, to be a 1ton
as for price...thats a tuff one..seems a little high to me, but looks like a solid truck...and being a GMC, its gonna be more rare than a Chevy would be
Saving pic of truck

[Tar Heel]

The gentleman selling it stated that it was a 250.

I was going to offer him $15K and hope that he wasn't insulted.

We have a '71 Sierra Grande with (what we believe) is the matching numbers' 402/TH400 12-bolt and is also an original AC truck.

[mongocanfly]

very nice 71
i wouldn't feel to bad at the 15k offer
id be real cautious about how any metal repairs were done during its restoration
does he have pics during the restoration, so you can see what was done to it

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by mongocanfly

very nice 71
i wouldn't feel to bad at the 15k offer
id be real cautious about how any metal repairs were done during its restoration
does he have pics during the restoration, so you can see what was done to it

Good advice there, It's worth 15 K if it is in as good of shape as it looks.
As he said, go over and under it with a fine tooth comb. Look up inside the front fenders to see if those nice fenders have dents that were filled with bondo. look down in the cab corners and up under the floor checking for rust or suspect work. Where most old car folks spend hours getting the dings in a fender down to a bare minimum now and the body filler is far more a skim coat than dent filler that wasn't always the case in the 70's, 80's and 90's. Guys laid on bondo with a trowel and cheese grated it down to shape to fill in all too easy to fix dents then.

I'd have to think that there weren't many 1 ton dual wheel trucks built with the hydromatic and that has to add to the rarity value.
I'm not a huge fan of the color combo but could live with it on that truck and Imagine it caught your wife's eye.

I would never suggest carrying that much cash to go make a deal these days but being having it all ready so you can to into a bank local to the seller and transfer the money should be a deal maker these days. Trying to weedle a deal and then having to go round up the money is an absolute deal breaker. I had a guy pull that with me a while back, showed up wanting to buy something but didn't have available funds to do the deal.

[_Ogre]

not hydromatic. 3 pedals and a floor shift
based on that, i'd suspect a scam and tread carefully

must have been a popular 2 tone paint scheme,
i did an image search and came up with 6 in that combo

[Tar Heel]

Thanks everyone for the help. Yes, I noticed the stick too and wasn't sure how "Hydromatic" fit into that equation as I'm not as familiar with this model truck as I need to be. I'm not a fan of the color either but thought that was something that could easily be changed down the road if it was solid and honest.

I may pass on this one. Looking for originality as we want something to use around town for hauling lumber, gravel, etc. and don't need one that cosmetically nice. Patina doesn't bother me as long as we don't get into a rust bucket all rotted out.

[dsraven]

probably hard to find a good running old one ton that is street worthy without spending a whack of cash on. these things usually snowball into a project. you would want to swap up to a dual brake system as a first "to do" list at least. do a thorough mechanical inspection with a estimate for repairs before you spend money on one. if the guy doesn't want that done then he probably already knows it needs a bunch of stuff.