So in this lifestyle we live our truck is our life line. The life line we started with has had enough towing. Our current truck, no longer wants to pull anything and we shall grant her wish lol...
We must buy a new life line, we have searched for weeks and weeks trying to find the perfect new addition. We want big enough to pull anything, 4 doors if possible the dogs need the big back seat, decent body not all rusted out, MOST IMPORTANT great running truck oh and another important thing NO PAYMENTS. that's what's great about everything we have we OWN IT, NO PAYMENTS and I think that is the best way to live this lifestyle.
I found what I said was going to be our truck 1 week into our search. Todd wanted nothing to do with it because the pictures the owner took did not show well it looked rusted out and the bed looked horrible. In our search we ended up driving to Minneapolis,MN to look at a yellow truck, I know who wants a truck that will stick out like a sore thumb.....I DID lol... but when we got there it did not have a/c that is a deal breaker because we are in the heat a lot and with the dogs it is a MUST to have a/c for comfort. So that was a wasted trip also because we had a few other trucks lined up to look at and no one would answer their phones. Honestly if you have something up for sale wouldn't you answer your phone??? just saying. That was a bust and a waste of a day.
It is getting close to the day we need to leave and we do not have a truck that will pull our camper. The next morning I remember that truck I said was going to be ours over a week ago.
I finally convinced Todd to go look at it, luckily it is right down in Fargo. We find out it is at a used car dealership which makes Todd a little hesitant to purchase but it does not hurt to take a look. We pull up and there is a home made wooden bed on a flat bed truck looks horrible. The body that Todd thought was going to be rusted out was just paint peeling nothing a paint job cant fix. We get in the truck and start it the engine sounds really good. We drive it down the road and Todd says this runs like a dream and for the right price this is going to be our truck (he should have listened to me from the beginning about looking at the truck we would not have wasted so much time and gas looking lol...)
We get back and we try to get out of the truck....the door handles on the inside on both side are broken off, we are stuck in the truck we had to roll the windows down and open the doors from the outside. I got a kick out of this and Todd said that is just something else to get the price just right lol... The bed looking horrible, door handles broke, we still fell in love with the truck. The truck was listed $1,900 the address that we are at was 1350 so Todd threw out $1,350 the owner countered at $1,700 they got to talking about the truck and Todd said he was still at $1,350 the truck bed was full of dry wall looks like someone was getting rid of stuff from a remodel. The owner says ok $1,350 if you help me empty the truck!!!! SCORE what a great day and the guy also tore the home made wooden bed off the truck, this could not have been any better. We now own our new life line she is a 1998 Chevy 3500 with a flat bed and 454 engine. she only has 160,000 on it and she runs like a dream.
The new few days to follow bought parts and Todd gave her a tune up. New plugs,wires,air filter,fuel filter,oil change, some treatments she ran even better. We are super excited about our new baby she needs a paint job but that will come the most important thing to us was she would pull our 5er with no problems the appearance can always be fixed she is white right now but we are thinking what color we should paint her and what we should call her?? any suggestions for names??
Here comes the sad part of all of this, the truck we started this journey with will have to be sold because she no longer works for us. We have priced her for a quick sale $1,000 you would think people would jump at this price being it is a good running truck. Most cars at that price need a tranny, engine or a bad head gasket. People were offering us $500 because of where we were selling her and she was not 4X4 everyone was low balling HELL NO>>>> she is worth more then that. Finally a couple that appreciated what she was drove 3 hours to look at her and she is going to have a great home with them we sold her for $950 and YES I CRIED I had to go out and say goodbye and as she pulled away I cried, Todd of course called me a weirdo but there is something sentimental about the truck because she is what we started our full-time journey with and she has brought us this far hopefully she will take her owner on a great journey as well.
We no longer have the truck we started out with or the camper, we have the new 5er that we love and our new truck but I will never forget what started us out. It crazy we have been at this for 2 years and boy how things change.
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