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What in the heck happen to the square body prices

H20 Toie

H20 Toie

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Seem like over night everyone here on the west coast thinks that the things are made of gold or something.
i know what people are asking and what they are selling is completely different but damn.
a 90 k5 with salvage title and needing work for $10k you got to be kidding me.
heaven forbid you look at a shortbed 2wd truck

glad i have a few of them i would hate to have to go buy one right now
 
Yeah I live in la county and I know what your talking about. I remember back in the day there where cheap projects all day long on Craigslist. In the last 5 years it seems like a rusted pos will of any thing old is going to cost you 8k lol
 
Barrett Jackson and millionaire builds on instagram. No hate but a syndicate and sponsor builds ie. Not from their pocket builds drive up prices...

Another reason Squarebodies are picking up, is guys my age (genX) grew up driving them or learned to drive on them. Our parents are starting to get the age of passing on. So it’s a reconnection with our youth and parents, coupled with a genuine love for this Squarebody style.

With that nostalgia the rich bros are pricing us poor guys out. And the boomers who have the money and had these truck back then, it’s a reconnection for them as well. But they, mostly can afford the frame offs.... generally

Maybe....
 
Also the fact many up my way have turned back into iron ore has depleted the supply too...now rotted ones people left sitting out in the back yard 15+ years have prices listed in the thousands instead of hundreds..
 
I've had an '87 K5 sitting in my garage for ~10 years that has been slated to receive the current trucks running gear. Absolutely straight and modification free other than a dent from some idiot shooting a bb into the door skin and denting it before I owned it. Other than the typical GM paint issues.

I really don't want another vehicle around, but lately I've been tempted not to touch it...I hate to think about denting and scratching it up when apparently people like these things now. Then again, in 40-50 years, it's going to be like Model-A's, where almost no one grew up with them and they hold no nostalgia, and thus value will probably be minimal.
 
In a simple word...........Internet.........happened. Washington and Oregon probably had 100's of trucks shipped out to the midwest and east coast. Supply and demand unfortunately. On top of that they reached collector year status like the 67-72's in fact I think they've surpassed the 67-72 values. The hard part is if you want a "parts" rig they went from $1000.00 to $3000.00!!
 
86454K30 said:
In a simple word...........Internet.........happened. Washington and Oregon probably had 100's of trucks shipped out to the midwest and east coast. Supply and demand unfortunately. On top of that they reached collector year status like the 67-72's in fact I think they've surpassed the 67-72 values. The hard part is if you want a "parts" rig they went from $1000.00 to $3000.00!!
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I just hate that I got rid of my fleet in the recession for cheap, I only have half a dozen squares left.
I do have a couple I am getting running and then selling them, hopefully make some money
 
imiceman44 said:
I just hate that I got rid of my fleet in the recession for cheap, I only have half a dozen squares left.
I do have a couple I am getting running and then selling them, hopefully make some money
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Make sure to offer to ck5 first! Fingers crossed. I called last week about an ‘86 k30 srw 454/auto truck, not perfect, but just an honest used truck. It’s been sitting at a local repair shop for 3-months, guy says it needs engine work. I offered $5k, admit I started @3 haha. He came back with $20,000. :eek1:
I’ll get a picture and post, but’s it not that kind of truck. He started mentioning a local spit shine classics dealer that sold a k10 for $20,000 and his would be worth even more once fixed.:yikes:
 
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bigjimmy82 said:
Make sure to offer to ck5 first! Fingers crossed. I called last week about an ‘86 k30 srw 454/auto truck, not perfect, but just an honest used truck. It’s been sitting at a local repair shop for 3-months, guy says it needs engine work. I offered $5k, admit I started @3 haha. He came back with $20,000. :eek1:
I’ll get a picture and post, but’s it not that kind of truck. He started mentioning a local spit shine classics dealer that sold a k10 for $20,000 and his would be worth even more once fixed.:yikes:
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Yeah I always do.
I am looking to sell my 84 turbo diesel 3/4 ton 4x4 suburban.
I was thinking $6k
I wanted to keep it but my wife doesn't like diesel.
Since it would be a family truck she needs to approve.
I will have to fix my gas suburban
 
As others said, internet, tv shows, Barrett-Jackson, etc. It's become ridiculous today. I still want to find a cherry truck to DD but not at these prices. I've owned my '85 K30 since 1996 so if everyone is playing and paying these outrageous prices I'll list my K30 as-is for $25K. Even for that price it would be hard for me to give it up.
 
It started with fleabay
I would go to flea markets or garage sales and there would be tags on stuff that said "price on fleabay $$$"
Then they're price, the same

Now everyone has a phone in they're pocket

Went to look at a d60
Got there the guy had to weed wap so we could see it, sunk in his yard up to axletube. There was a hole in the diff cover and wasps were going in and out

"How much"
$1000
"What?"
"That's what it says on google":doah:
 
Maybe eBay started it but I found out from my experience it was the off road magazines that really blew the trucks into the scene.

Way back in the early to mid 90's I got an M1008 off one of the govt. auction sites for $500. You could bid and win them all day long for pennies on the dollar. Then Petersens 4WOR magazine did a write/build up on one and they plastered all over the mag of how they won it off the same site as I did. They listed and advertised the same site plus a few others. Once that issue was in publication and the sites were spread all around the nation the prices started skyrocketing. Fast. It wasn't long the $500 trucks became $1000 which became $1500 and so on. Last time I checked the auction sites were averaging around $3K for a military truck as-is.

Needless to say I wasn't very happy Petersen made that article.
 
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