OK, so that truck is rougher than my $800 '89 RCSB K1500 SLE. Now I feel like I got a great deal because almost everything on my truck works, is original and there was almost no duct tape...
I'm sure all that stuff on your truck will polish right out! Have fun.
I’ve made worse purchases. I bought a Jeep Cherokee 4x4 earlier this year, my first and probably last, for $1500 at a used car lot, literally dropped $400 in it less than an hour after buying it. Was into it for more after a few months, then a bearing let loose in the transfer case.
I was done with it, wound up trading for a beat up S10 with no useable title and a 5 year expired tag that took me $600 to fix, drove it to work for a week and the slave went out. Took me a month to swap the clutch and components, never will I get a 4cyl 5spd S10 again lol. Then when it came time that I wasn’t putting 500 plus miles a week on my vehicles, I decided to sell that.. no one wanted it for anything above $700 so I lost my ass on it.
$600 I can’t complain, I haven’t really put any money into it yet other than a sea foam treatment and an oil change. It drove almost 60 miles home down the highway. It’s worth fixing up, and it really won’t take a whole lot to do it. I just need to decide if I wanna stick with TBI or just say screw it and bolt my Vortecs on and carb it for more hp and torque.