Hy MarcF, okay I looked through the pictures, the bigger ones, and I must agree it is a pretty truck. I am always nervous when the seller isn't as proud of the chassis as he is the body, why no chassis pictures? My priority has always been the engineering in a vehicle not the pretty body. The engine pictures revealed some disturbing things to me, the hole in the valve cover through which clean makeup air is to enter is plugged, under high vacuum conditions this may cause the fuel pump diaphragm to float. there is no vacuum advance tube down to the distributor and hence no vacuum advance. The fuel line appears to be all rubber and is just drapped over the valve cover in the most direct route from the fuel pump to the carb. The air filter is Mickey Mouse at best, being held in place by a hose clamp. It mentions in the text about a gauge package, but the temparature gauge is still a capillary type just as the truck would have stock. The last thing that glares at me about this truck is that it is advertised as a "53", yet it has the doors of a "50" or older truck. If it were me I wouldn't even entertain buying this truck at half the price, I'm sure you could find a more properly assembled truck for a much more reasonable price!
Last edited by 3B; 06/17/2011 3:14 PM.
