Estate Sale Find: 1977 Dodge D100 4×4

This 1977 Dodge D100 pickup sports the desirable combination of four wheel drive and a reliable 318 under the hood. Now, the 318 isn’t exactly a fire breather, but it is generally pretty bulletproof – even if this truck doesn’t run at the moment. The seller notes that it was an estate sale find that was running when they picked it up, but now that’s it’s been sitting, the engine has fallen silent. The good news is it is largely solid underneath, with apparently only one rust spot of any significance. The Dodge is offered here on eBay with no reserve, and bidding is quite light at the moment at just $2,950.

That’s noting for a project truck these days, especially one that’s equipped with four wheel drive and doesn’t appear to be modified. The Dodge is located in Lincoln City, Oregon, which is a great place to start when hunting for vintage tin in driver-grade condition. The bed looks solid as well despite not having a cap or a tonneau cover, but the paint is pretty beat. The Dodge was clearly used as intended, and that’s not a bad thing – especially if you don’t want to feel any pangs of guilt about throwing your own crap in the back. The seller doesn’t sound they’re particularly in love with old Mopars, so I suspect you’re buying it from someone who just got lucky at an estate sale.

There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, but you may be on your own in terms of diagnosing why the 318 no longer fires up. The engine bay isn’t overly clean but it just looks used up at the moment. That’s potentially a good sign, that the truck was perhaps being used daily as a lot of folks in the Pacific Northwest have no qualms about dailying a car or truck from the 1980s or earlier. The odometer reads just over 60,000 miles but who knows if that’s accurate; the seller reports that the tags expired in 2005 and the Dodge was put up in storage from that point forward. The listing notes that since it was retrieved from the estate sale, it has also developed a coolant leak.

The interior is good not great; again, this was someone’s driver, not a truck put away for long-term safe keeping. The interior doesn’t look too bad aside from the torn up bench seat upholstery; this is a perfect candidate for a big, funky blanket to throw over the tattered remains of the seat. The truck really isn’t worth enough to justify a proper upholstery job, so I’d live with this and the solitary rust spot for the time being if I were to be the next owner. The D100 won’t likely become a collector’s item anytime soon, but it’s hard to go wrong with anything that has a 318 under the hood in terms of low cost of ownership over the long haul. What would you willing to pay for this estate sale find truck?