I once bought four year old Chevy pickup that came from a ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills. I bought it as a rebuilder for body damage, so I had no illusions about it.
Turned out the engine was shot, too, but rebuilding a 350 Chevy engine was not that big of a deal. Only when I pulled the engine, I found one of the motor mount brackets was bent. How the heck do you bend a motor mount bracket unless you play "Dukes of Hazard"?
I rebuilt both the body and the engine, sold it, and still made good money on it, but you gotta keep your eyes wide open about pickups that come out of ranch country.
I'd go with a city pickup. Yuppies and others buy them for status symbols instead of to put to work and a lot of them have never been off of pavement. You can tell a lot by looking inside the box. You'll see a lot of five year old pickups that don't have a scratch in the paint inside the box.
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