Re: Re stating my answer to your question


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Posted by Willy-N on Monday, May 26, 2003 at 12:22PM :

In Reply to: Re: Re stating my answer to your question posted by Jonas on Monday, May 26, 2003 at 2:14AM :

I would but I like the way it turned out. I would not have done this to it unless it was what I liked. I would like to do another one with a regular bed on it. But I also like this bed and the way it handles and such. The seat is so confertable that I would not change it back. It holds me in the seat and gives me a lot more support for my back. It seems to absorbed the bumps nice too. I also like the way it adjusts to a range of 6 inches so I can have different settings for the ride. I can have it close with a pull of a lever for when in tight spots like on that hill being able to reach the brake by leaning forward. Then I like to set it back to straite arm it when crusing down the road. I like to lower the center arm rest for my elbow to sit on that way I can hold the steering wheel with 2 fingers and enjoy the drive. To put a original seat in takes un/bolting 4-3/8" bolts from the original frame and sliping in the old one. That part has not been removed. My new seats are on there own frame seperate from the original mount. It only uses the top to support it and keep it in place. I did not cut out the original frame or modifi it to work. It comes out as a unit both seats are hooked together on the frame I built. This truck was not ment to be a show truck in the first place 100% correct. It was ment to be a personal rig with some touches that made it confertable. Like your truck you are selling for 17,500.00 should you not replace the cut in haft bed to one that is not? I know it is only a weld but for that price range it should have a good bed on it. No amount of grinding or filling the weld would change the fact the bed was cut in haft and it is a big deduct from value since a new bed painted to match the truck aging would make the cost of the truck around 22,000.00 plus to restore it to original again. As for me it would not matter being cut and welded back together again. But for someone who wants it original it is not anymore is it. So it is all the perspective of what the buyer wants. What others want dose not matter because they are not buying it. It is the buyers choise on what they want or not want on a truck. Others just have opinions and that is what this world is made up of. Heck just drive these trucks and have fun with them isn't that what it realy is all about? I would hate to spend 5 years restoring one to the point I would be afraid to drive it or could not afford the insurance to keep it because of the investment. To just be able to take it to a show and say see my truck it is all original and perfect, I have won lots of First place ribbons with it. I never drive it because I can't afford to scratch it or I will have to spend 10,000.00 on a new paint job again. So it is more fun to sit in a chair next to it and let others droul over it for my pleasure. Sorry not me I want to go out and drive it and enjoy it that way. I feel to each there own on the way people re-do there trucks. They all look good in their own way. Mark H.



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