Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A 1961 Chevy Apache 4X4 Panel Truck
Continuing on with our Vintage Panel Truck Weekend, and here is an odd one. It’s a Chevrolet Apache 4X4 Panel Van, which is rather rare, and very desirable. The pictures leave a lot to be desired, but one can forgive such transgressions for this particular vehicle. Want to see more? then make the jump…
According to the listing:
1961 Chevrolet Apache 4×4 Panel Truck, very rare 4×4, 100% original, complete frame-off restoration completed 2009, numbers matching, only 37,750 original miles on the 235 cui blue flame engine and the 4 speed manual transmission with four-wheel-drive. Produced only for municipal, very beautiful truck. The chrome is in very good condition as well as the beautiful new red paint. It has a new wooden bed. It comes with a lot of paperwork, windowsticker and original operators guide. This is a very rare truck. Price just reduced!
As this listing said, the price is reduced, but at $45,000, I wonder what the original price was. This is a very nice truck, but that really is an awful lot of coin. See the listing here, and tell me what you think its worth.
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That's a beautiful rig and I'd love to have it, but not for 45 large, sheesh.
The price tells me he doesn't really want to sell it. For $45,000 he should have put African Blackwood and Pink Ivory in the floor instead of Red Oak.
I suspect thats one of those deals where a wife wants it gone so he posts an ad with a ridiculous price. "See honey, its for sale!"
Big points for being the Right Kind Of Ugly, 4×4, manual transmission and all that, but the price is kinda north of what I would pay for it. If it was a lot closer to $20-$25K, then it would be a little better.
What do you do with a $45,000 dollar truck? Park it in a climate controlled garage and bow towards it 3 times a day?
Maybe it's my age, but to me these will always be work trucks, made to be used hard and worth every penny of $4,500.
or on my truck budget it would be about $450.00
My father-in-law's next-door neighbor has an old panel truck parked in front fairly regularly. It's probably a close friend of the neighbor.
The truck has magnetic signs on the sides for house painting, and just enough paint drips on the back to make me believe it is indeed used in that type of business.
Looks like someone has been watching Barrett-Jackson and huffing glue. That truck is very nice, but I think they will be lucky if they get half of what they are asking.
That said I would really like to own it.
I would love to know where it originally came from. It always seems like these old, utilitarian, six-cylinder beast-mobiles always come from either Montana, or Colorado. They all fit a general profile. Lots of factory ground clearance, manual trans, tall and skinny knobby tires, and a large displacement six-popper. Come to think of it…that is what every truck should have!
Also…crackpipe! on the price.
A lot of these trucks were fitted out as fire support vehicles to run up fire roads in the forests and mountains. Most of them were used pretty hard and beat up until there wasn't much left. They're narrower and lower than the beefier 4×4's, so they can manage the steep, twisty trails fairly well. This one looks like it spent its life in a garage, and never faced anything more dangerous than being washed and waxed every week. But maybe that's just the restoration talking.
Surely overpriced, but aside from that, uncountable kinds of awesome!
When I first spotted the initial images of this truck, the first thought through my mind was "Straight 6, Four on the Floor."
HA! I knew I would run across the ad again! This is what I was referring to in my comment above! Different brand, but VERY similar in their build! It even has the 4X4X4-on-the-floor…with a six-banger!
http://nmi.craigslist.org/cto/2832515197.html
it might be a beast…it might be an albatross…it might be a gas hog…..it might be totally impractical….it might be overpriced….it is for sure a unicorn…..but it surely is the one thing that would make my bride say "Move into your damn truck, and live in it" if I brought it home…..
almost makes me wonder where it is located….think he'd take a trade on a couple of 40's era Jeeps???….
ah…on second thought…never mind…..
"that would make my bride say "Move into your damn truck, and live in it" – Why would you say that like it would be a bad thing.