RodrigzCrzr
SILVER Star
No i am not saying you have too pay the $15k for this. And for anyone too get rooked like you said. I am merely saying regardless of what your willing to pay on a cruiser your going to drop some money on it. No if ands or butts.Its a valid point here and without knowing more about the rest of the truck, maybe its premature to discount this deal outright. I have just seen too many examples of much better sorted trucks (as in no rust) for way less money to make this one an easy pass. The rust you can't see is most likely far worse than the rust you can. Just too many solid trucks out there to ever take that chance, especially at that pricing IMHO.
People treat them these days as if you will never find another one and set the price accordingly. "They are just so hard to find". "You'll never find one like this". Funny thing is I get alerts almost daily about another one for sale here on MUD, some rough, some well sorted. If you are doing it right, then the cost of buying one of these trucks, pales in comparison to the cost of owning one. As @89fjlandcruiser alluded to you'll spend plenty of cash owning one. No reason to get rooked from the start buying one.
Personally, if I were in the OP's shoes, I would be looking at a completely different vehicle if only going to have it for 2 years.
In your case you found a nice clean body and clean interior. And from reading your build it seems your dropping money on the mechanics. Something is not working or something is wrong.
At the end you may just as well spent $15k on it. And yes I get it it’s how you want it and you know what’s been done. But never the less it still needs to be worked on.
And he is looking, and what he is finding is good trucks with bad interiors good interiors with very high mileage. Then your get a low mileage truck with rust! But being low mileage doesn’t take away you still need to do the knuckles and so forth. And on a FJ62. And we know how fickle them trannies are. And if they go they are costly and almost to the half price of the car.