07 Pete 379 sells for $280,000

Probably the same type of guy who has 3 mid to late 80’s 359 Gliders in his shop near Sparta Ky that have never been built. For several years I stopped at the BP in Sparta for breakfast 5 days a week and got to know this guy very well. I struck up a conversation with him and he really liked my Glider so we had something in common to talk about. Initially he had no interest in selling any of them. After several years BS’ing with him he started coming around and while he never committed to selling one, he said he would think about it. I stopped running that route but I plan to go back up there one day and see what it would take to buy one. If you saw the guy you would think he didn’t have enough money to buy breakfast, but clearly he isn’t hurting for money.

 

You've also got to try and predict what will be valuable down the road. With my luck Id be holding on to a 2007 Volvo.

 

The guy who owns the business where I park has a 2016 389 Glider he hasn’t built yet. He builds and races Dragsters for a hobby so money isn’t tight in his world.

 

Yeah - that’s where my brain was going.

 

You could literally restore and build your own truely custom truck for way less than that and have something actually unique.

 

But it wouldn’t be a numbered truck with a factory 2 stick. If I remember the story from back then the factory wouldn’t approve the aux trans and the salesman talked them in to doing it but they wouldn’t attached the shifter at the factory.

 

Here’s a 2019 glider with a Cat and less than 200 miles on it.

 

I guess I just don't understand the appeal of collecting. I'm a big car/truck/bike guy but I buy vehicles to enjoy, not sit in storage to look at or preserve. Something numbers matching or limited edition really adds nothing of value to the vehicle, for me anyways.

 

That paint scheme is bad ### . Id buy the truck just for that

 

Not nessessarily always for collecting either. There was a guy up where i grew up.

Bought a brand new 64 GTO he had saved up for almost a decade to buy with cash. 2 days after he got it, he suffered a stroke. He refused to sell his dream car even if he could no longer walk or drive. He died in the 1990s then his kids got into a pissing match over who got what and it sat in a climate controlled garage for like another 30ish years before it got sold off in the late 2000s

62 miles on it and it looked factory new. Think the dude bought it for around 3k and it still had the sales paperwork with it. Ended up reselling for iirc almost 90k at auction. This was like a decade ago so ill need to dig up the news paper thing. But its not uncommon for people to buy something even big equipmemt and something goes wrong in life and it ends up sitting for decades for whatever reason.

As for this particular truck. Its because it was a unique model and im sure whoever got it truely wanted one like this. Hell if i could find a needle nose pete that was in essence brand new. Id be willing to pry my wallet a lot wider then most normal trucks. Maybe not 280k wide but i wouldnt turn my nose up for the high 150s-200s for a clone of my grandpas rig.