Low mileage truck

You didn't mention exact year, brand, or engine, but if it's still carbureted, and near a hundred thousand miles, likely the engine's about used up.

If EFI, the engine is hardly broken in yet!

Got an old '92 Chevy 4X4 sitting out front with 322K miles, and AFAIK, the engine has never had major work done that uses very little oil and runs well.

Last year, my (then) high school senior son drove it, including a few 450 mile round trips, and it never gave a bit of a problem.
 
if you can verify the mileage and the maint work then I would think it might be a good truck. I think in Missouri the license bureau doesn't put the mileage on the title if the car or truck is 10 years old. don't know what year they started registering over 100000 on the odometer as some don't go over that.
 
Re genuine mileages

Years agone we had a car flooded to about the windscreen. The flood water did a fine job on removing old black furniture varnish and copper from printed circuits, So I needed the whole instrument cluster, and eventually found one in a wrecking yard. Which had lots of km on it.

The salesman obviously saw my raised eyebrow and said "All you need is a nail file".

The only place for that seemed to be between the mileage dials.

Turned out that the frame was nylon and you could spring it enough to dial whatever km you had in mind
 
Hmm. An '88 with 100,000 miles on the clock would have been driven only 3300 miles a year. 60 miles a week. Nine miles a day! Does that sound plausible? Maybe if it was only used to tow an RV.

Take a close look at the carpet and upholstery. If it truly has less than 100K, they will be original and should look like new.
 
It would be rare for someone to drive a truck consistently for 30 years, year in and year out.

Most likely the truck has been sitting for at least a decade. How much it's been sitting and where it's been sitting are huge factors in its condition. Did it sit in a dusty old barn on flat rotten tires or was it kept in a garage and maintained/driven annually?

Trucks of that era around here were pretty well used up by 100,000 miles. Nothing left of the body or frame usually.
 
I have a 1981 F350 dually with dump bed and it only has around 85,000 mi. don't use it much anymore but when I do it is always ready to go. These older ones handle sitting around better than the all electronic ones do ! Put a new heater core in last year and I did notice that many of the plastic clips and such easily break from old age.
 
One of my Uncle's had a 59 model he bought new and only drove every Saturday to the feed Mill and once in a while to go fishing, it had less than 25,000 miles when he passed away in 2012.
 
(quoted from post at 02:49:12 09/12/18) Hmm. An '88 with 100,000 miles on the clock would have been driven only 3300 miles a year. 60 miles a week. Nine miles a day! Does that sound plausible? Maybe if it was only used to tow an RV.

Take a close look at the carpet and upholstery. If it truly has less than 100K, they will be original and should look like new.

Such a thing can happen. I own a 2001 Chevy dually with just 63,000 miles on the odometer. I really don't have much work for a dually anymore so the truck mostly just sets in the shed. I try to drive it to town and back (about 10 miles round trip) once or twice a month just to keep it limbered up.
 
My 08 Silverado (I bought new in 7-08) just turned 50,000 last week and it has been to Florida and back (4,000+ miles each time) twice.
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(quoted from post at 10:49:12 09/12/18) Hmm. An '88 with 100,000 miles on the clock would have been driven only 3300 miles a year. 60 miles a week. Nine miles a day! Does that sound plausible? Maybe if it was only used to tow an RV.

Take a close look at the carpet and upholstery. If it truly has less than 100K, they will be original and should look like new.

I bought my 05 Dodge in August 05 with 17,000 on it. Drove it a lot for the first several years hauling my race car, back and forth to work (75 miles), etc. After selling the race car and retiring from work it has accumulated less than 50,000 in the last 10 years, and averages under 3,000/yr. now. Sometimes it sits in the driveway a month at a time without being needed.
 
Bought a 1979 F350 about four years ago with 15,000 miles. Always garaged and still smells like a new truck inside. One exhaust manifold had to be resurfaced - the one with a heat riser. That's about it.
 

Mother nature never goes to sleep be prepared to spend $5000 to get it in tip top condition... I see it all the time its one thing after the other no turning back once you are deeply invested into it...

I brought a 95 with 123k nice truck had to put a engine in it if I have had to pay a shop It would have cost me close to 10K for repairs... I have a 88 f150 at the shop a real nice low mileage truck she has spent 5K are more on it and its back for more repairs. To add to the misery its using oil it has a replacement engine it it.
 
I drive my truck every day to work, the whopping 11 mile round trip it is, and my wife pulls her camper with it. The truck averages 8,000 miles a year. So I see it as possible.
 

I walk to work combined 3 vehicles I would not put 5K a year on all of'em... 2K of that is haul'N my 91 year old mom to doctors and getting her grocery's and such... I have a 77 F350 it had 22K on when i brought it in 1979 it has 130K on it now. Don't matter it still likes to visit the shop its never cheap .

I put the 3rd set of rear wheel cylinders on it in January mileage did not get them mother nature did... Its on its 3rd radiator mileage did not get it Mother nature did, Exhaust manifolds, valve cover and intake gaskets mother nature never goes to sleep...

I could go on and on NUTT'N has never worn out on it Mother nature worked on it 24/7... You could move up to a 2000 Mother Nature has had 19 years to do her thang... No winning as far as I can see it bless it with your pocket book...
 

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