creeble, Someone just mentioned the Isuzu pup/Chevy Luv pickup which I completely forgot about. I have owned one of these in the mid-1980's and they are bullet-proof. I picked it up with 80k on it from a neighbor's father who was an electrical contractor for $900 with a cap. The cap I turned around and sold for $300. I ran that $600 truck for five years until the frame and body just disintegrated around the motor/drivetrain, then sold it for $1200 with a $100 parts truck to a couple of guys who carried them to South America where they were restored. That's my "great deal" vehicle story.
You can find these Isuzu diesel trucks, it just takes a lot of concerted effort and a lots of patience and you may have to travel across country to get it or have it shipped site unseen. I searched for over a year to locate my Isuzu Trooper turbo diesel and lucked out. I stumbled across it in the first three hours of a seven day auction period on Ebay. I did a "Buy Now" and paid $1500, but it did have new tires, new radiator, new alternator and several other misc new parts. Oh, the best part was that it was only an hour's drive from me to Brooklyn, NY: not a cross-country jaunt to Washington state. I did the twin tank conversion and have been running WVO in it. The guy up the street from me has a friend who just got a new Chevy Duramax pickup which cost him over $40k. It's not the new body cat-eyes front-end style, but the older 2000 body style, and for all intent and purpose, it's the same body style as the used $12-$15k gas pickups that you see running around. It's a pickup truck for God's sake! I refuse to accept the choices that are being given out by Detroit and Texas. I'm going this weekend to look at another Isuzu turbo/diesel. Lot's of rust so I'll just drop the motor and transmission into a primo gas body. The 1st generation gas Isuzu Trooper motors were notorious for blowing the head gaskets, so the bodies are all over the place. By the way, an Isuzu Trooper turbo/diesel just sold on Ebay several days ago for, I think, around $2500-2700. Good luck on the hunt and if you are looking for a Mercedes there is a group that talks a lot about these cars at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and for Isuzu there is the www.itog.com group. Jess Jesse Parris | studio53 | graphics / web design | stamford, ct | 203.324.4371 www.jesseparris.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "creeble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:34 AM Subject: [biofuel] Re: Mid sized Diesel pickups? > Slim pickin's is right -- I've been searching for a low-priced > (<$3000) diesel pickup of any size or condition in the general SF Bay > area, and I'm coming up pretty short. > > I'd like to experience using biodiesel (available at exactly ONE pump > in the Bay area) with a low-risk investment that I can experiment > with. Tough going! > > I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with B100 in mid '80s > vintage Chevy (6.2L) diesels. These seem to be among the more > available engines in trucks currently around, though I'd vastly > prefer a smaller truck/engine. > > Failing that, how 'bout mid-80's vintage Mercedes (e.g., 300SDL)? > > Eric. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
