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1948 Chevy 3600 Flatbed Truck - Reserved Lowered on 2040-cars

Year:1948 Mileage:50 Color: black trim and parts
Location:

Fruita, Colorado, United States

Fruita, Colorado, United States

Presented here for you is a 1948 3/4 ton Chevy truck.  I spent 4 years rebuilding this truck and 21K worth of receipts. It was appraised to $42,000. I went to great detail to keep the truck looking as original as possible although with many modern comforts and accessories.  It is powered by a  Chevy SB 305 that was completely rebuilt. Naturally aspirated. Edelbrock intake and 4 brl carb, headers into dual Flow-masters and custom cut stacks. 700R4 transmission with OD with a Lokar shifter, again to keep the look. Power steering. Power assist to all rebuilt drum brakes. Original suspension.  New tires.  8 lug wheels.  Bed is custom made with 2-6 wood decking and oak side rails.  All new rubber throughout. Vintage air heating and AC. Under-bed tool boxes on both sides. All new wiring throughout.  Wired for trailer hitch and has receiver.  Cab was completely insulated and is very quiet, perfect for 1600 watt stereo system with 10" sub-woffer.  High back seats with seatbelts, driver side is power.  Center console houses sub-woffer.  Custom interior with reverse embossed spider web design on door panels and ceiling,  CD player housed in ceiling console.  All dash instruments new OEM.  Tach is mounted to steering column. Wipers converted to electric but left operation switch in original location. There is a hidden fuel shut-off switch and a master electrical shut-off for security.   Beautifully painted with ghost flames of silver with gold tips. All exterior black trim and parts are powder coated. Custom cut flames on exhaust stacks are back lit with green LED lights as is grill.  Windshield is new remaining glass is original.  Passenger door glass is intact but cracked.  Rebuild has approximately 50 miles on it.  Has not been out of the garage yet except for test drives. 


Disclaimer:   This vehicle is sold AS-IS WHERE-IS.  This vehicle is being sold as is, where is with no warranty, expressed written or implied. The seller shall not be responsible for the correct description, authenticity, genuineness, or defects herein, and makes no warranty in connection therewith. No allowance or set aside will be made on account of any incorrectness, imperfection, defect or damage. Any descriptions or representations are for identification purposes only and are not to be construed as a warranty of any type. It is the responsibility of the buyer to have thoroughly inspected the vehicle, and to have satisfied himself or herself as to the condition and value and to bid based upon that judgment solely. The seller shall and will make every reasonable effort to disclose any known defects associated with this vehicle at the buyer's request prior to the close of sale. Seller assumes no responsibility for any repairs regardless of any oral statements about the vehicle. Once the Auction has ended, and the Reserve has been met the high/winning bidder is responsible for payment and for arranging shipping.

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Fri, Jun 16 2023

General Motors sold second- and third-generation Suzuki Cultuses with Geo or Chevrolet Metro badging in the United States from 1989 through 2001 model years, and we've all seen plenty of those cars on the street over the years. The first-generation Cultus was sold here as well, with Chevrolet Sprint badges, and I've found a rare example of the Sprint five-door hatchback in a Northern California car graveyard. The Chevy Sprint first appeared on the West Coast as a 1985 model, then became available everywhere in the United States for the 1986 through 1988 model years (in Canada, it was sold as the Pontiac Firefly). It was available here as a hatchback with three or five doors; for 1986 only, the five-door was badged as the Sprint Plus. Soon enough, The General would be selling many more Asian-built cars with Detroit badges here. Isuzu I-Marks were sold as Chevrolet/Geo Spectrums starting in the 1986 model year, while Daewoo provided the Pontiac LeMans two years later. Under the hood, a 1.0-liter three-cylinder rated at 48 horsepower. The five-door Sprint cost $5,580 in 1986, which was $200 more than the three-door (those prices would be $15,445 and $14,891 in 2023 dollars). I've documented seven discarded Sprints prior to this one (including an extremely rare Turbo Sprint), and all of them were three-doors; we can assume that price was the most important factor for Sprint buyers. Gasoline prices were crashing hard during the middle 1980s, but memories of gas lines and odd-even-day fuel rationing from 1979 remained strong. What cars competed with the '86 Sprint on sticker price? Well, there was no way to undercut the hilariously affordable (and terrible) Yugo GV, which cost $3,990. The much bigger (but still pretty bad) Hyundai Excel listed at $4,995, while Toyota would sell you a sturdy (but zero-fun) Tercel starting at $5,448. Even the wretched Chevy Chevette — yes, it was still available in 1986 — cost $5,645. The original buyer of this car was willing to shell out an extra $395 to get an automatic instead of the base five-speed manual. That's about $1,093 in today's money. This car must have been slow. By the end, the doors were held shut with duct tape, but it still stayed alive until age 37. 53 miles per gallon on the highway! It does everything. The camels of the highway.

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