1965 Crew cab
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1965 Crew cab
I am considering buying this for 4k. Rust free...slant six. What do you guys think?
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Does it run? etc...
Give us some more details....
Give us some more details....
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
Yes. With a little dickering maybe but pretty nice looking powerwagon.
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if it is rust free and straight like it looks, $4k is a great price running or not.
Mechanicals are so much easier than fixing a wasted body.
AAA
Mechanicals are so much easier than fixing a wasted body.
AAA
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
Yes...it runs...65k miles...slant six...manual.
Love that its a old firefighing truck...I was a Smokejumper a few years back. Will be a great to have this and clear coat it.
Love that its a old firefighing truck...I was a Smokejumper a few years back. Will be a great to have this and clear coat it.
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What a great find....love the back bumper.
Sweet deal and congrats!
Sweet deal and congrats!
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
il buy it if you don't want to pm the guys number
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Looks to have a set of stock 17.5" wheels too.
John
John
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
I see the truck is from Missoula, Montana or at least the plates indicate it was not to long ago. Montana seems to treat these trucks pretty fair. My crew cab is a Montana truck (still is) and has very little rust, pretty sure it was a state truck as well which always helps. Anyways cool truck should definitely get it
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
17.5's?? only heard of 16.5 for half sizes.Hobcobble wrote:Looks to have a set of stock 17.5" wheels too.
John
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
There were 17.5s and 19.5s available on some Sweptline trucks. 17.5s were standard on on 1965 W200 trucks according to the brochure. 19.5s were optional.AKSweptline wrote:17.5's?? only heard of 16.5 for half sizes.Hobcobble wrote:Looks to have a set of stock 17.5" wheels too.
John
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
There are 22.5" tires on tractor-trailers, along with 14.5" mobile home tires, also.
[b]Patrick - 1969 D300 cab & chassis[/b]
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
wow never knew that... Looks like after I purchase it I will only be able to use those tires/wheel combo until they wear out.... Doubt they make that size any more?
I have been working quite a bit in the Arctic and can't make it back to Montana till spring to pick up a truck. I will be taking lots of pictures when I do get it though!
I have been working quite a bit in the Arctic and can't make it back to Montana till spring to pick up a truck. I will be taking lots of pictures when I do get it though!
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They do still make the 17.5" tires. I'm sure there are some 19.5's available too ifAKSweptline wrote:wow never knew that... Looks like after I purchase it I will only be able to use those tires/wheel combo until they wear out.... Doubt they make that size any more?
I have been working quite a bit in the Arctic and can't make it back to Montana till spring to pick up a truck. I will be taking lots of pictures when I do get it though!
that's the size on this Crew Cab. I'm thinking that you should thoroughly inspect
the tires that are currently on the truck. If they're old, they probably won't be safe
for the road.
John
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
Thanks John....I will throughly inspect the truck to make sure I don't damage that precious sheet metal!
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Re: 1965 Crew cab
Bias-ply tires are not affected as drastically as radials are. What kills tires is NOT necessarily age, but exposure to the Sun over time. It is the ozone that destroys rubber, and ozone is created when the light and heat of the Sun breaks down the rubber compounds. I've very safely ran 15 and 20-year old radials on the highway at speed, because the vehicles they were on were stored INSIDE and out of the sunlight.
I bought a '65 Chevy 4x4 several years ago that had bias-plies from the early '70s on it (US Royal 750-16.5), that I drove 45 miles from where I bought it to home. The receipt for the tires was still in the glovebox - they were purchased in 1971, and I bought the truck in 2005. Sold the truck to a guy in Dallas, and he drove it home on those very tires.
Of course, everything is a calculated risk, no matter how old the tires are.
I bought a '65 Chevy 4x4 several years ago that had bias-plies from the early '70s on it (US Royal 750-16.5), that I drove 45 miles from where I bought it to home. The receipt for the tires was still in the glovebox - they were purchased in 1971, and I bought the truck in 2005. Sold the truck to a guy in Dallas, and he drove it home on those very tires.
Of course, everything is a calculated risk, no matter how old the tires are.
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