Anybody here ever purchased an intermediate Truck. I'm in a funny place vehicle-wise right now. I can probably keep doing what i've been doing to haul wood. that's use my 1000lb 40x48 (with a slightly larger deck on it) behind the Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo. I have been looking for a 3/4 or 1 ton truck for some time now and I'm being pretty picky about it because I don't NEED a new truck for transportation reasons and I've been "getting by" without one. Life really would be a heck of a lot easier if i could haul some drywall, plywood and some firewood. Life would be even better if I could haul A LOT of that stuff. As it stands I only haul what my little trailer can hold and it's not good for plywood, so i am limited to getting drywall delivered from the local lumber yard, and he doesn't have the plywood I want 90% of the time (same goes for treated lumber)
The point of this post is to just get some feelings (and hopefully scrounge up some information) on an intermediate truck. One of the local small-time dealerships has a pretty cool looking old dodge truck. I stopped and looked and talked to the dealer. He gave me the name of the previous owner, a local farmer. I know him by name, but don't think I've ever met him. anyway it's a 1988 D100 with a long bed and the 3.9L V6, 2wd, automatic transmission, and a leer topper on it. I normally wouldn't even consider it, but the thing only has 57,000 (or something like that) miles on it and he's only asking 2775 for it. It's a really basic truck and a fair price (I'd try to get him to take a bit less). This truck looks exactly like it did 22 years ago, it's crazy. I can't find much information online about this year of truck and no payload and towing information for it. If it's not insanely light duty I might just get this.
so, to summarize:
1. Numbers to go with hauling/towing for a 1988 D100.
2. any input on the concept of an intermediate truck.
The point of this post is to just get some feelings (and hopefully scrounge up some information) on an intermediate truck. One of the local small-time dealerships has a pretty cool looking old dodge truck. I stopped and looked and talked to the dealer. He gave me the name of the previous owner, a local farmer. I know him by name, but don't think I've ever met him. anyway it's a 1988 D100 with a long bed and the 3.9L V6, 2wd, automatic transmission, and a leer topper on it. I normally wouldn't even consider it, but the thing only has 57,000 (or something like that) miles on it and he's only asking 2775 for it. It's a really basic truck and a fair price (I'd try to get him to take a bit less). This truck looks exactly like it did 22 years ago, it's crazy. I can't find much information online about this year of truck and no payload and towing information for it. If it's not insanely light duty I might just get this.
so, to summarize:
1. Numbers to go with hauling/towing for a 1988 D100.
2. any input on the concept of an intermediate truck.