Thread: Asking too much?

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Bob makes a very valid point. I agree that this forum is one of the best, but as a marketing tool it won't have the wide exposure of something like Ebay.

Here is what I would do. I would clean it up a little and put it on Ebay. The body actually looks solid, but that surface rust makes it look worse than it is. While you don't want to be deceptive and cover up rust with primer, I would at least clean up some of the bigger areas and spray a little primer on them to keep it from getting worse. If you do it with a darker primer, at least people will know you aren't trying to hide those spots under an inch of primer.

Then I would run it on Ebay, with a starting price of $ 100 to get people moving. Set your reserve at what you are willing to take, run it for 5 days so the last day ends up being Sunday evening about 8 PM, and say it is for local pickup only. It will cost you something like $ 40 if it doesn't sell, and only about twice that if it does, but it is the best way to move something like this.

Oh, my title would read 1955, 55 CHEVY PROJECT TRUCK, HOT RAT ROD, CHICAGO. The reason is that whatever key words someone types in, they will have a chance of seeing your truck, and the hot rat rod thing is because those words are very popular search words these days. I also put in the city because it will let people in your area know this is right in their back yard.

If the truck has a good title, mention that........big selling point. Oh, and get some air in the tires and pull it out of the weeds onto a flat surface like a driveway before you take more pictures.

Don