I paid $4500 for my 91 V3500 Crew Cab, and I still hade to put another $1000 in parts into it just to make it safe for the road before I could start driving it around.
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What would you give for this Crew Cab if you were buying?
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mountainexplorer
1/2 ton status
I did some rough figuring...
Including the $2700 purchase price of it in 2001, I have sunk a total of $7040 into the truck to make it what it is right now. This is accounting for almost every add-on part, maintenace parts, gaskets, the 1st set of tires I ran, and an estimated used value on all the used parts I had laying around that I put on the truck.
If I subtract the parts that aren't on it now, and the value/price of all I'd be keeping off it (light bar, canopy, winch and mount), and the parts I sold off it (the old motor, and old tires), I am into this truck a total of $3640 including the original purchase price.
Heres how it broke down: (non-cash means I didn't pay that much in cash for the item, but traded for or already had the part, and assigned it an estimated value).
$2700- Purchase price, March 2001
$75- 33" tires
$50 chrome wheels
$75 4" lift (non-cash)
$125 new shocks
$700 Warn 12000lb winch
$350 Chrome Warn winch mount
$100 exhaust-new glasspacks
$125 rear u-joint/rebuild rear driveline
$100 front brake parts
$100 6" Lift (non-cash)
$50 steps
$50 better hood, and bug guard (non-cash)
$50 4" Dana 60 steering block
$150 35" BFG M/T's
$100 upgrade value- swapped 14 bolt rear with better brakes
$100 upgrade value- swapped 60 front in better shape
$200 new clutch and parts
$30 resurface flywheel
$35 Battery (non-cash)
$35 starter (non-cash)
$300 canopy (already owned)
$125 lighted visor
$40 Headers
$850 value on reman. 454 and Edelbrock Intake/Carb (non-cash)
$75 Exhaust work
$150 Light bar
$200 other misc. over the years-maintenance, etc.
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$7040
Minus:
$80 trade off value from original skinny tires/rims
$400 old 454 core
$1500 parts I'm keeping off the truck (canopy, winch, mount, light bar)
$570 value in parts that went into the truck that are parts I kept off other rigs
$850 value of 454 motor- (actual cash invested in motor- about $25 in gaskets and $12 in some blue paint)
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$3640 invested
Including the $2700 purchase price of it in 2001, I have sunk a total of $7040 into the truck to make it what it is right now. This is accounting for almost every add-on part, maintenace parts, gaskets, the 1st set of tires I ran, and an estimated used value on all the used parts I had laying around that I put on the truck.
If I subtract the parts that aren't on it now, and the value/price of all I'd be keeping off it (light bar, canopy, winch and mount), and the parts I sold off it (the old motor, and old tires), I am into this truck a total of $3640 including the original purchase price.
Heres how it broke down: (non-cash means I didn't pay that much in cash for the item, but traded for or already had the part, and assigned it an estimated value).
$2700- Purchase price, March 2001
$75- 33" tires
$50 chrome wheels
$75 4" lift (non-cash)
$125 new shocks
$700 Warn 12000lb winch
$350 Chrome Warn winch mount
$100 exhaust-new glasspacks
$125 rear u-joint/rebuild rear driveline
$100 front brake parts
$100 6" Lift (non-cash)
$50 steps
$50 better hood, and bug guard (non-cash)
$50 4" Dana 60 steering block
$150 35" BFG M/T's
$100 upgrade value- swapped 14 bolt rear with better brakes
$100 upgrade value- swapped 60 front in better shape
$200 new clutch and parts
$30 resurface flywheel
$35 Battery (non-cash)
$35 starter (non-cash)
$300 canopy (already owned)
$125 lighted visor
$40 Headers
$850 value on reman. 454 and Edelbrock Intake/Carb (non-cash)
$75 Exhaust work
$150 Light bar
$200 other misc. over the years-maintenance, etc.
________________________________
$7040
Minus:
$80 trade off value from original skinny tires/rims
$400 old 454 core
$1500 parts I'm keeping off the truck (canopy, winch, mount, light bar)
$570 value in parts that went into the truck that are parts I kept off other rigs
$850 value of 454 motor- (actual cash invested in motor- about $25 in gaskets and $12 in some blue paint)
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$3640 invested
Diesel Dan
1/2 ton status
I see two things that will hurt the resale.
The SM465 and the lift. Been there with almost identical truck. Mine was a '83 Silverado, fairly loaded and most options worked. Cloth seats, carpet, headliner, tinted power windows, A/C etc.
Power wise I had a 6.2 diesel that wasn't much of a detractor. Also new 35" A/T radials. I had many people very interested until they found it was a manual trans and several stated they liked it but wanted stock height. Always one or the other, they could live with the height, but not the trans or vice/versa.
Three years or so ago I put it up for $6500 and sold for about $5800. I had many extras on it also.
The SM465 and the lift. Been there with almost identical truck. Mine was a '83 Silverado, fairly loaded and most options worked. Cloth seats, carpet, headliner, tinted power windows, A/C etc.
Power wise I had a 6.2 diesel that wasn't much of a detractor. Also new 35" A/T radials. I had many people very interested until they found it was a manual trans and several stated they liked it but wanted stock height. Always one or the other, they could live with the height, but not the trans or vice/versa.
Three years or so ago I put it up for $6500 and sold for about $5800. I had many extras on it also.
