Looks like anything less than $3500 would be a good buy. If the gauge bezels are chrome and the plates are not, that seems fishy. It should be chrome/chrome (deluxe) or painted/painted (std). Most important is rustout places, also rechrome is 3X more than you think it is. The leaks you describe are do-it-yourself fixes, pretty simple and cheap. Not run in 10 years? rebuild carb, don't run it from the tank until cleaned and the usual restart procedures, oil in plug holes, hand crank first, oil the rocker area, etc. GMC more rare than Chevy and harder to find the GMC specific parts. I would do a compression test if price is above $3500. But kind of hard to do without oiling it up first and that's a lot of stuff to do to a truck you have not purchased yet. Do not consider the engine being good in your offer if no testing. dried up seals and a whole bunch of other stuff. I love old trucks but would never bother rebuilding their engines. It's way more fun and reliable to put power brake kit, disc front kit, roller bearings and more modern eng/tranny. I'm not a purest. You can do a pressure test with air pressure using a "rebuilt" spark plug I think but not without some lube on the cylinder walls. old freeze plugs are steel not brass like the replacements, so they rust out, no big. It's not barn fresh, it's just an old truck that's been sitting a long time. Just try to get it as cheap as you can and fix it up your way. Looks good Jim!
Last edited by bartamos; 10/16/2009 9:27 AM.
