Originally posted by packhorse32:
No doubt if it were parted out you could pile up some money for it, running boards will fetch 250-300-- windshield frame another 250-300, --front fenders 350-450, rear fenders 350-450, headlights for them sell like 250 as well...might be worth it...
Not a chance.
The 1.5 ton trucks don't have full length running boards and don't fetch much at all. Front fenders on the 1.5 ton trucks are way bigger than the 1/2 ton thru 1 ton trucks, and don't bring anything, either. No rear fenders on a 1.5 ton truck.
What's worth something on those 1.5 ton trucks, and I know because i've bought over a dozen of them and sold the parts, is the stuff that DOES fit on the 1/2 ton trucks.
That's pretty much the hood, grill, headlight buckets, and the cab stuff.. aside from the doors, for whatever reason.. never had any luck selling doors, so I usually just sell off the door hardware and then sell the doors along with the stripped cab.
Assuming the parts are in excellent dent and rot free condition, the price breakdown is about like this:
Grill (top & bottom) $300
Chrome off the dash $75
Cab floor $75
Gas Tank $175
Headlight buckets w/ excellent chrome $200
Exterior door handles $30 each
Interior door handles $20 each
Windshield frame $250
Grill crank hole cover $50
Seat springs $75
Windshield interior header assembly w/ covers $100
Solid, non modified dash $150
Instrument cluster $50
Solid, rot free cab & doors $300
Windshield crank mech $100
I may be forgetting a part here or there, but those are the average prices i've gotten for those parts.. and i've sold lots of them.
So provided all that stuff is actually there, and in good to excellent condition, those are the average eBay prices.. right around $2,000 worth of stuff.
Now once you calculate eBay and PayPal fees, your time and costs getting the truck in your yard and yanking off all those pieces, taking photos, doing the listings, and your time for hunting down boxes and packing stuff up to ship it.. you ain't clearing $2,000 by a long shot.
If the truck has been sitting for any length of time.. especially outside in a junk pile or pasture, you can expect a whole lot of mouse debris and nastiness to contend with, too.
Gas tanks are often found to have rust holes in the bottom of the tank. Grills, especially in the big trucks, are rarely found to be in good or excellent condition, and windshield frames are almost always rotted out in the bottom center.. many times they look fine from a brief inspection, but once you get the glass out you find rotsville.
Maybe if you were in L.A. or in a place with high demand and low supply due to atmospheric conditions, a truck like that might fetch close to the $2,000 range if you sat on it long enough and waited for the right buyer.. but out in Colorado, Wyoming, and Western Nebraska where the higher elevations and dry air keep this stuff from rusting much at all, it really is pretty commonplace stuff.
