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Posted by Eric B. [99.100.189.137] on Sunday, September 05, 2010 at 21:53:49 :
In Reply to: Here are the actual answers posted by Eric B. [99.100.189.137] on Sunday, September 05, 2010 at 21:41:07 :
And a ridiculous number of them have turned out to be W100s. For a while there I had a couple guys looking to buy one tons, and they kept E-mailing me ads from all over the country (this was before Craig's List was big) with trucks listed as 1 ton 4wds. I kept having to calm the buyers down and explain that the great deal they found was on a 1/2 ton W100. Too many people think 8 lug = 1 ton, which it does, after 1968, if the truck is not a 3/4 ton.
Verify any truck that does not match the standard, 98% of the ones I have seen that deviated from standard were either not as advertised, or they were modified later in life, not by the factory. I can count on one hand the number of real trucks I have found that I would have sworn were fake if you described them to me.
Like a SEG built 1959 W100 Sweptline (there is ONE that I know of that is real, and a small handful of home made fakes), or a 1960 W200 Town Wagon, only one known as real, and no fakes that I have heard of.
So until I see proof I remain always skeptical, and that has been the right course almost every time.
Eric