Patching SCSB Frame

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someotherguy

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Someotherguy there ya go. A potential customer for a rust free cab and frame.
About 10 years too late. :D

And seriously, about the only way this would ever work would be to find a supplier that could partner up with someone in the rust area to bring in trailer loads of rust-free parts. It would require an investment on someone's part, for sure, and IMO that should be the person doing the ultimate sales of parts to the end-user. The supplier in the rust-free area already paid out for the donor trucks to begin with.

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And seriously, about the only way this would ever work would be to find a supplier that could partner up with someone in the rust area to bring in trailer loads of rust-free parts. It would require an investment on someone's part, for sure, and IMO that should be the person doing the ultimate sales of parts to the end-user. The supplier in the rust-free area already paid out for the donor trucks to begin with.

So you're saying you have a business plan? :lol:

I kid, but I do wish you would start a GMT400 salvage yard again. The pictures of your old one that you've posted over the years look so awesome.
 

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So you're saying you have a business plan? :lol:

I kid, but I do wish you would start a GMT400 salvage yard again. The pictures of your old one that you've posted over the years look so awesome.
Yeah, it was already kinda bar-napkin hashed out, ya know? I had the parts and the place to stockpile them.. I could have simply stacked frames in a corner instead of scrapping them. Just as easy for me to scrap bare cabs instead. I just needed someone willing to pony up the cash and come get a big pile of them to take back to their rusty home. :D You could stack a big pile of frames on a trailer.

I remember only one local request for a frame.. quoted the guy and had one ready to go, but he changed his mind I guess after he figured out how much work it was gonna be. He was going to repair a wrecked truck, not a rusty one. I felt like I quoted him pretty low too because otherwise it would just get junked and that's not a lot of scrap value.

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I can't tell you how many good frames I've scrapped in the past. Nobody wants them down here, because rust isn't an issue. I'd part trucks out until it was a shell of a cab sitting on the frame, and off to the scrapyard it went.

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I'm in A similar situation with my 1500 Crew Cab. Needs so much frame repaired that I'd be better off starting over with A reg cab short bed 4x4 frame. I'm in Michigan so I've thought about going down south myself to get one but that's out of my budget currently.
 
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