Vintage RAM.... what to do?

davelinde wrote:
I appreciate the opinions here, thanks for chiming in.

Some reactions. Yes, I've picked up a lot of the parts I needed to refurb my truck from Geno's and they have most of what is still broke too. So far the busted plastic junk in my cab is all repairable.

In terms of rough numbers... back in the day I paid 36K for my truck new. I bought the Volvo for 35K and ended up selling it for scrap at 5K (if I had not let the maintenance get away from me it would easily have sold for more, my bad). I mention that to note that paying 50K (or more) for a truck is hard for me to wrap my mind around.

But yes... I'm contemplating about 10K in refurb as someone noted... and that does give me pause.

Also yes... I bet I could sell mine as-is. I have two neighbors who have mentioned they'd love to buy it, though we never talked price.

For the interior, I've already fixed the grab bars, the busted tilt steering and installed a modern radio/bluetooth. What remains is fixing the busted lock/mirror/window control cluster and fixing one rear door lock... the real challenge is making the seats comfy enough to do 10 hours (I can barely stand them for 3 now).

The exterior paint is still just cosmetic and pro-active against letting it degrade too much.

The big ticket would be a pro-active rebuilt tranny and maybe an engine brake.

Finally... I know me - if I go drive a 2018 I might write a check.