The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk What did you fork over for your 'bolt?

This is purely for fun and curiosity. Obviously the cash you fork over is usually a confidential matter and based on many factors. Not everyone is willing to relate their negotiated price. My thought is that getting the truck is the cheap part, fixing it up to any level needs a part time job to feed it. That being said...

I really anticipate the new gallery pictures and stories that come out each month. Ocassionally someone will describe the deal they made. Those are usually my favorite parts to read. I'd like to hear more of those stories.

Mine was extremely fortunate but I was prepared to walk away empty handed. Can't hurt to ask, right?

I discovered my truck in the back yard of an auto shop. By all appearences it had been there for ten years and hadn't run in twice that. Overall the tin was good and nothing had been modified. The shop owner gave me the owners number, a call was made, and a message left. A week later the owner calls and said he needed to get rid of it since the shop was closing and he had no interest. Finally price was brought up. He asked what I thought. I said I had no idea and returned the question by asking him what he expected to get for it. He paused and said "How does $75 sound?" Not trying to sound to excited I said that would be just fine. Truthfully I had no idea of its worth but was willing to part upto $1200. In hindsight he probably would have had to spend a few hundred to get it towed and stored somewhere else so my showing up saved him some dough and some hassles.

Granted this example is a rarity, I'd be interested in hearing some other stories, fortunate or not.

My 53 was given to me, here is how it looked then...

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Here is how it looks now...

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Hi 641. I used to live in St. Peters, Mo. Worked in O'Fallon, MO.just behind that furnature store on the north side side of the interstate. I bought my 51 when I was living down there. A guy at work told me about the truck. Went to see it and it was in pieces. The motor was supposed to be rebuilt and was back in the truck, but there was not much else done except that it was dismanteled. I asked why he was selling it and he said it was his brother-in-laws truck and he was getting married and didn't have room for it.I then asked what his bottom dollar was and he replied $500.00. I thought for a minute and said ok. Cost me $60.00 to have a rollback bring it home, and so the saga begins.(still working it)

in 1983 i paid $1200.00 for my 54/3100. it came from southern indiana where they use much less salt. after a 2 year project i spent more than enough to buy a top of the line new truck. click here to see the orginal and now

I thought I was getting a deal when I handed over 3 g's for my '49 GMC. It was driving, had no major rust, and seemed to have most of the trim. Driving it home to OC from Hollywood the wiring for the headlights caught fire, the clutch squealed from a main seal leak and the timing gear went out pushing the stock driveline to a wopping 50 mph on the highway 3 months later. When I started my driveline swap I was saving reciepts cause I thought I'd want to know how much I spent. Shortly after I was ready to cry everytime I looked at the growing stack so I quickly threw them all away. I'm much happier not knowing but I am pretty confident that between parts and garage rental it is way more than the $3000 I paid for the truck (which at this point only has about 1/2 of the parts that orginal $3000 bought)

Well I recieved my 62 from my dad. He knew I liked the truck and had many a fun time in it. One day I was home he drove up in the truck and said here is the keys to the Chevy take me home it yours. My Dad and Mom towed a 22' trailer with it all over Calif. during their retirement camping and fishing. I rebuilt the 261 and it lasted 18 years until I retired. Then drove it a few more months until I got my new SUV-truck and picked up all the parts I needed for it. Then got started in 9/06 tearing it down to bare bones frame to start my rebuild. Now so far a rolling chassie. I guess not to bad for just one man rebuilding it. I did have two fellows help me remove the engine and body as I had messed up my back at the time. Thanks Jason & Danial.
62Blue
Don

Bought 1950 3600 from original owners family for $500...Have bought two additional trucks for parts.

Dissassembled 1954 3600 Stake bed (brand new rebuilt HP 235)$1800 made all my money back on parts engine free!

1949 Old Navy 3100 for parts $100 got it all stripped took what I need rest will go on Ebay after the holidays.

I paid $200 for mine. Cost me nothing to get home and I gained a friend(from here) who got it home for me. I have since got it running and drivable except for needing some floor patching and brakes. I've had 5 offers and all were for more than I paid for the truck. Thanks to WE b Old(who has the same truck type as me) I now probably have over a thousand dollars worth in spare parts to add to the $200 if I ever would sell it(not going to happen). There was a little "adventure" if you want to read my gallery submission at the link below.

Too darn much

My brother had the truck. He had bought it several years ago for 4500$. He has a Karmen Ghia that he drives, but it needed work. Here is where it gets long winded. On the 4th of July I suggested that I find a 56 get it running, and then swap trucks. That way we would each have a truck built in the year we were born. He called back a few days later and said he would rather have the money to fix up the Ghia. So I grabbed the checkbook and had my wife drive me over to his house, and drove "Shasta" my new truck home. And I have been thinking about a part time job to feed the restoration.

Yup! Me too!

But I still love it!

I bought my 54 3100 for $125 in 1976. The PO needed to sell it because his wife was pregnant and they needed the money. I got it in a little town in southern Illinois, not far from where the original owner bought it. I drove it for quite a few years, and now am doing a full restoration so that it will be a good driver for another 50+ years.
Samantha

$2000, 2 years ago. drove it off the guy's lot, no problems at all. since then new king pins, tires, some weatherstripping, water pump, and recently I burned a hole in a piston. maybe spent $1800 in 2 years. but including $700 for tires, and $450 for king pin work, that is not too bad, not too bad at all

I picked up the '48 in Sherburn MN in March of 2007 from a long time friend and business acquaintance. The call started out discussing A/C systems for a project at work, which lead to home projects. His daughter had an Audi Quattro that I was interested in for parts (turned out to be wrong year). Then his 1970 Impala convertible came up (which I still may pick up). Lastly, he asked if I wanted a truck. So I said, what kind of truck. He said '48 5-window chevy, completely torn apart, drivetrain and running gear were sold a long time ago, sitting in the garage for the past 15 years, wife wants the garage back. Yours for Free. So I said Heck yeah, planned a trip the same weekend Margaret was at the Mall of America (easier to ask forgiveness than ask for permission - cost me $300 in fuel and a new ring for Margaret).

Then while picking up parts for that truck, I picked up a fairly clean cab and front clip in Denver from a fellow bolter for a little over $300, spent $900 on fuel, food, and hotel (cash from selling the pair of 1940 chevrolets). This became Frankentruck.

What has been sunk into them is another matter.

I paid $1,200 for my '47 but have spent more than that just getting it ready to start hanging all the sheet metal on it.

For my '50 5 window (Ole Red Truck) I paid $2,300 and for my '51 3 window (Ole Green Truck) I paid $3,100.

This is $6,600 for three trucks and I don't even want to guess how much to get them the way I would like to see them. Seems like I just got carried away and could not stop myself.

Paid more than most..........
but a rare truck commands a few dollars in this country!
Pretty thin on the ground, and very hard to find one in reasonable condition worth restoring.

I paid AUS.$3000 ( current exchange U.S.$230 000! )for my truck, dented, rusted, no glass, gearbox in pieces, engine not running, no interior and a few mechanical and trim parts missing!
But a bargain here for an all original all steel body and good chassis.
This is why it is being built using as little funds as possible.

Did you make a typo or did you really spend $230,000 dollars?

I think we should start a club, the " I paid too much for my truck" club.

How much are the club dues??? I can't afford much, I just bought another truck.

Kevin

G"day Jordan,
Nah not a typo mate........
Just the dry Aussie humour thing taking over again.
I was being sarcastic about the current exchange rate for the Australian dollar.
The last couple of parts I got from a fellow StoveBolter came out at .96c U.S. for each $1 AUS.
NOW we get .63c U.S. for each $1 AUS we spend

Look at buying a part for $50 U.S.
and I have to pay almost $70 AUS.

Watch out for that dry humour in alot of my posts Jordan,
It'll get ya every time!

Good to know, I don't think I'd spend that much either for a Stovebolt, unless it was the last one in the world....

1964 GMC 4000 tanker. Paid $3,000 for it. It was taken out of service on a Monday in August, caught the Amtrak that Friday night for a 400 mile trip to get it, handled the paperwork around noon on Saturday, hopped in drove it home. Ran like a top. 10.2 mpg at 45 and 9.9 mpg at 55. Much better fuel economy than I expected after reading horror stories about gas guzzling 305 V6s. After a couple wrong turns adding about 60 miles, fuel stops and a couple meals we hit town at midnight. Was a fun trip.

Mechanically it is in top condition. It will eventually get a flatbed and new paint. It will be my big "trip to Home Depot for a sheet of plywood" pickup truck.

First payment on the 66 was $400. Still hasn't turned a wheel and I have more than the original price in just epoxy primer. Don't want to add up the rest. My labour at $1 per hour seems like it would add up to $10,000 over the last few years.

I haven't actually paid for mine yet, but don't anticipate it being too much, yea right. I got mine from my cousin in exchange for a hot rod project to be named at a later date. Well it has been since May when I picked it up and I have only moved it once. That was only to push it forward 15 feet so I had more room to park around it. But I have spent close to $25,000 on the garage to put it in. I will put some other toys in the shop also. I hope to get the old bolt in the shop in the next few weeks. It will live there through the winter and as long as it takes me to get the brakes into proper working order. I also have to replace the fuel pump, and batteries. I am probably not going to switch it over to 12 volt yet. I just want to get the thing running and driving the way my Great Uncle was driving it. The only thing different will be the size of my smile.

My first 49 chevy 5 window was givin to me but it sat to long in a pasture. It was rotted to far to bring back. My 49 gmc came from western iowa in was pretty much rust free. The guy I bought it from wanted 1200.00 but talked him down to 800.00. I've around 7000.00 spent on it now and still going.

My '54 was the ranch truck so I got it free (from Dej). Spent about $3,500 to resurect it (from Dej); run and stop after about 22 years of sitting, tires, coat of paint and registration and a couple minor parts like windshield wipers & a piece of plywood for the bed for in the meantime.

Having a place to work on Jack ourselves would have been handy but at the time my better half was barely home as he was working and living across the border. Thank goodness mechanical work and everything involving labor is a bit more reasonable here in Mexico than in the States (and our mechanic doesn't mind it when I hang around and 'help'

Gabriela's '54 3/4 ton cost $750. The PO held on to it for about 6 mos until I could get him the $$$ and then waited another 4-5 mos for us to pick it up. It sat for 18 years in his garage after starting a frame-up restoration. We just dragged it in to the mechanic in November (still no shop )(but soon ). In looking through the receipts I was given with the truck I found out: the PO paid $800 for the truck and spent over $2,000 in sandblasting and priming and a small fortune in parts which he packed up for us.

He really wanted the truck to stay basically stock (it will) and be with someone who would keep it forever. This was going to be a project we'd all three do together but school has Gablet away from home and that shop is still in the works soooooo...

The big truck '49 1 1/2 ton was our platform that Alberto got running after sitting about 15 years and made into a water truck. It was free... This one will be our personal project, no hurry & all receipts will be burned

My '52, back in '82 cost me my 2 year old Toyota Corolla and $300. That was a steal Original everything and everything working... I still have the pink slip, it got stolen 6 mos after I bought it.

I'm in for the " I paid too much for my truck " club.

4 1/2 years ago I bought a 1946 Chev big bolt fire engine with 46oo miles actual. To date all new wheel cylinders, brake lining, master cylinder rebuild and lots of odds and ends. I also did some engine work including the repair of bent push rods, front seal leaking, oil pan gaskets leaking & water pump r&r. I stripped her down to bare metal front to back. Lots of sanding and primer & high build primer. I now have the cab and body painted to a nice body shop shine. I still need complete glass replacement and lots of brackets and wheels to be stripped and finished. I bought the truck for $1250.00 and spent less than $4500.00 to date. I hope to have a complete truck bought and finished for not more than $7500.00 - $8000.00. Oh buy the way if I gave myself a dollar/hour for all the work I would be broke. Maybe another $$$$$$ ???????? ;>) Untill the ecomony turns around I'am just going to park it.

Way too much. I had NO idea what I was buying or that AD trucks were some kind of cult-status vehicles. It didn't take me long to realize how badly I'd been taken but faced with the option of either being upset or making it a "project" so I decided to take the high road and it's turned out to be fun. Gets me outside moving around instead of sitting in front of the computer.

I should paint it yellow and call 'er Lemonade.

ANYWAY,its not so much,how much you paid for it,but how much you have in it when ready to drive or show.Which is why you see old trucks for sale at $20,000 plus.Lets see new suspension,new drive train,mega bucks in body work and paint. If you want something really nice,its gonna cost you.Now back to my original; post. I paid way too much for it in the beginning,which is nobodies business what I paid. I did 99 and 2/3s percent of the work on it myself,using good parts,TCI front and rear suspension,350 built motor,a 700R4 built tranny,etc.It is now a great truck to drive and show,but I have a lot of green tied up in it.

paid $500.00 for a pile of 1949 chevy parts.bought a fairly complete 48 chev parts truck a year later for $50.00.just unbolted alot of parts from it.wish i knew then what i know now.woulda have drug the whole thing home..................dave

$1200 on ebay then drove 800 miles to pick it up, but it was in decent shape and had a cler title. 1 year and 16K later it is comming along nicely. may have it on the road by late summer.

I got my 52 for $900 about 1-1/2 years ago. I bought it off my old boss who bought it about 12 years ago to use for parts for his 52. All he swapped was the doors and stuck it in his barn. 10 years later I bought it for $900 and he towed it to my house for FREE. I got with it a BUNCH of spare parts that I sold and more than likely made back what I paid for it. The guy he bought it off of was in the middle of resto-modding it and had to get rid of it. Most of the body work was finished, mainly paint left to do, the 54 235 was rebuilt along with the trans and nova rear end. The suspension, steering and brakes were completely redone. The truck mostly required assembly as everything was off the truck except the drivetrain, the rest was in boxes in the bed. My quess is I have a bit over 2k into it, but im not counting, Id rather just enjoy the time I spend working on it, and some day the time I get to drive it on the road.

I bought my '54 GMC from a former boss, it cost me 2 weeks pay (before taxes) and was in a bunch of pieces. I realize it was too much but I was making good money so I thought it was something I could do. After 2 years and a lot of green stuff it was running again after sitting for over 30 years, mostly inside a barn or garage. Now I'm trying to correct all the minor problems to make it my daily driver. I'm up for membership in the "paid too much" club. Next project will be getting my 1932 Chevrolet pickup together, I paid $75.00 for it in 1962 and have spent the next 46 years collecting parts and pieces for it. I guess I will be a few years getting it done, but I hope to have it to drive for my last ride (in a box).

'54 4100 $700
'48 3100 $200
'53 3100 = extra cab and frame already nova subframed $500
'53 3100 parts truck $500

$2500 cash money, then a bit more to get it running.

The above personal message is the last that will be left in this thread. Let's keep it about trucks and do our personal messages by PM.

I got my 50 1/2ton for $800. $300 to go get it from Kansas. I figure it'll be a daily driver for less than $2000. It had been sitting for a couple decades in a field. Small rust holes in cab corners. Lots of dents. Got the original 216 running, but I think I'll have to swap in my 235.

Sorry about that Cletis wasn't thinking/ Won't happen again.

I paid 2 cases of Coors Lite, towed it home and put in points and condenser and it started,(someone forgot about 6 volt)

Then I got the bright idea of restoring it,didn't look like a bad start. As the rest of these posts have proven to me,repairing previous fixes is a nightmare. (boy those floors looked good ,,on top)