The $1200 truck 1947farmer discribes and the $2500 truck Bigdreamer bought are about $5000 worth of parts and labor apart from each outer.
That's exactly my point... I do enjoy the complete restoration, but there's no way in the state of Utah I'm going to pay $1200 for something with numerous unknowns when just a hundred buck more got me a running, stopping, functioning truck... I just wish sellers would be reasonable on their prices.