Question on what to buy?

70's or early 80's model 359 Peterbilt flattop

 

How much you got to Spend? I have just such a truck

 

Money pit.

 

well by definition any hobby truck would be a money pit since money would go into it but it's not a working truck to make money.

so kinda makes your post redundant doesn't it Heavy?

 

Yah, I guess... As a tech I never see them as a hobby item. Usually the older they are they're harder to work on, more expensive to fix, they are more unreliable and harder to get parts. Accessories and chrome just get in my way of me doing my job and end up costing the customer more money in the end that nobody wants to pay. It's not like restoring a muscle car where there are oddles of after-market stores for all your parts. You would have to get more stuff custom done, which we all know is way more expensive. I would hate to see someone dump a bunch of money into something and not really get anywhere with it. But I guess he can do what ever he likes. He asked for opinions, so I gave him mine, that's fair.

 

there isn't anything you can't get for an old pete. Some of the rarer old motors like detroits or 1693's can be difficult to find parts for. but most anything in the 80's is fine. I walk into the pete dealer with te vin number on my 86 and can get anything yet.

he did say he wanted a truck to just drive around and sit in the driveway. I'd go one further and work it on an occasional more pleasurable basis. It can get overwelming to try and run one every day.

 

That ain't cool.

What is a tech. What does a tech do. You said you were a IH tech. Don't they make schoolbuses...

It is obvious that whatever it is you do...
you can do it without knowing what your talking about

The only thing I see in this post that isn't total bs .....
is you costing the customer more money in the end...

 

lmfao... that's good stuff

tech = what they started calling mechanics when they stopped being able to fix anything without a computer telling them what to fix