[FC] 61 Rampside Deluxe Value

[Ron]

If you really searched and searched for one with minimal rust, how come we 
couldn't find anyone the least bit interested in two of them like that and 
ended up having them crushed?  There was just no response at all pn VV.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Greg Shaw" <65vair180 at sbcglobal.net>; <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] 61 Rampside Deluxe Value


> Did you look underneath?  Are the "frame rails" intact?  Both sides?
>
> I can't count (even using both hands) the number of rampys I looked at 
> over
> a 2 year period in order to find one that was not too rusty to save.  That
> was over a dozen years ago.  There has to be way less of them by now.
>
> Mine is a standard.  I think the deluxe ones may have had upholstery on 
> the
> inside of the doors?  Not certain about that.
>
> Later, JR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Greg Shaw" <65vair180 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:09 PM
> Subject: [FC] 61 Rampside Deluxe Value
>
>
>>  There is a Rampside Deluxe within striking distance of me. Pretty rusty
>> with
>> automatic trans, I believe it's a 61. Besides the chrome bumpers (with
>> bumper
>> guards on the front), chrome around the windshield, sun visors, tailgate
>> reflectors, and arm rests what else did the Deluxe have that the standard
>> did
>> not?  The guy is asking $1000 for it. He calls it a parts truck. The
>> reflectors
>> are shot, glass is good, rust at ramp door/tailgate bottom, dog legs are
>> gone .
>> I told him I'd take the bumpers off and he could sell them separately as 
>> I
>> want
>> the truck for a winter beater. I don't want a nice one to get rotted out
>> here in
>> Michigan. He doesn't want to sell it in pieces. I could buy it and sell
>> the
>> bumpers I suppose. What would you say the truck is worth?
>>
>> Greg
>> Dearborn, MI
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