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BOSCO76

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You're not gonna wanna hear this but, if I HAD to have a 454 SS truck, I'd wait for a '91. Why yes, give me an overdrive transmission and factory tach for about the same money please. :)


No offense taken, but my 1990 has already been LS swapped, '91+ guage cluster, so it has a tachometer. I wasn't shopping specifically for a 454SS but this one fell into my lap w/ 46k origanal miles. No overdrive yet, and I wont feel bad about making some other tasteful alterations to it.


Hope your not gonna butcher it and lower it. I have seen too many of these factory 454SS trucks cut up into customs, then the owner talks about its "pedigree" I end up laughing because once you take a torch to the stock numbers matching frame, and start doing permanent alterations to it, that "pedigree" everyone talks so much about goes right out the window.

Seen a guy at a car show once with a back halved 70 chevelle SS 454. It was "numbers matching" and the dude butchered it. Whatever it may have been worth as a restored example went right out the window on that one as soon as he made it into a street freak.

Have seen that with all makes. Shook my head at the pro street 69 Dodge Dart GTS. Factory built M code 440 car. Cant fake this one the engine code is part of the Vin number. It was 1 of approx 500 made. Again pedigree? What pedigree. That went right out the window the moment you took a torch to it and back halved that car then stuck a Dana 60 under it lol.

I got a friend right now restoring an M code 1969 440 'Cuda fastback, another 1 of 500 car. It was a back halved race car. The solution with the unibody construction and back halve issue ended up being purchasing a stripped roller 1969 318 barracuda, cutting the body off from the firewall forward, and sliding it under the body of this one from the firewall back, then installing new AMD rear quarter skins and trunk drops. This kept the 2 Vin partial numbers stamped in the body intact as well as the dash vin. Had a body shop done this for him it would have cost him dearly but worth it for a $60K collector car.


I hear ya, since its not pedigree at this point I'm not going to worry about it not being numbers matching. I am dropping it a little, but no frame notches. I'll also bring it back to a 454 eventually, one way or another. If I was starting with a pedigree, it would stay that way.
 

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I know prices better than most, and will say NDA price give ya around 5 k ,depends on area, where you live, I found a few places where your vehicle I can get around 500 ,but I know what's wrong up front, and turn around sell it for profit.
 

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I know prices better than most, and will say NDA price give ya around 5 k ,depends on area, where you live, I found a few places where your vehicle I can get around 500 ,but I know what's wrong up front, and turn around sell it for profit.
WHAT ?
 

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Nice looking truck I say in the range of 5k and up trucks hold there value.

If you keep your truck look into Haggerty insurance it’s like having full coverage insurance but you choose what your truck is worth.
 

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If you keep your truck look into Haggerty insurance it’s like having full coverage insurance but you choose what your truck is worth.
Just about any insurance company can do that but it's not "full" coverage. Your agreed upon value is for Comprehensive coverage unless you pay extra for Collision.

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Just about any insurance company can do that but it's not "full" coverage. Your agreed upon value is for Comprehensive coverage unless you pay extra for Collision.


I didn’t know that before I had full coverage with All State but if I totaled it I wouldn’t get what amount I bought insurance for it now.

I don’t know if one can do that here in Texas
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