These days, it is getting harder and harder to find survivor-grade vehicles that haven’t already been snatched up. Collectors begin winnowing down the list of requirements to very specific demands in order to find the example that best suits their needs, and one of those traits is low turnover among owners. Low mileage is the top priority, but one- or two-owner vehicles are not far behind. This 1964 Chevrolet C20, incredibly, is a one-owner truck fresh out of the California farm country and is listed here on eBay with bids to $5,300 and no reserve.
Talk about patina! This is as good as it gets for a rig like this, chock full of blemishes and faded paint but no cancerous rust. The bed sides are perfectly blistered with surface rust and if you’re going to have a truck with patina, a green base coat is perhaps one of the best compliments to the burnt orange appearance of old rust. The truck is a long bed which was the conventional choice for a working rig, and there’s no need for chrome bumpers here.
The interior is pretty spartan but also quite complete. The next owner of this rig should tread carefully in terms of doing too much to disrupt it, and thankfully, the cockpit looks decent enough to use as-is. The long-term previous owner must have taken some care to keep the truck in good shape and out of the weather, as the interior looks better than I’d expect for an ancient farm truck. Perhaps the good farmer used it as his going-to-town truck as opposed to being beaten around the farm.
The dependable Chevrolet powerplant still fires up and allows this C20 to mosey around the property as needed. It looks like it has some freshening up in the form of a new radiator and battery, and perhaps a hose or two as well. I’d love to know if the Chevy was in steady use all of these years or if it fell dormant in the recent past. Either way, it looks like a sweetheart of an old rig with the kind of patina you just can’t fake – and you’ll never do better than having just one owner.
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Wrong air cleaner.No thermac in 64 alternator on pass side with early 70’s bracket. Truck looks pretty crusty to me in the open door pics.Whats under the carpet in the bed? Not worth 5k imo.2k I could see upon inspection.
Carpet? That’s diamond plate and it looks like someone did a decent job putting it in way back when. Not as cool as an original wood slat floor, but a common repair that is very functional.
People in these comments.your not going to find a decent truck cheap anymore.
Exactly! The complaints come from those that cant afford it! It is all about the seller & buyer agreeing to a price.. 5g or 6g for a vintage chevy truck in good shape like that one and a c20 to. Not a bad price!
It’s not a straight six and it sure doesn’t look like a 283 so it may not even be the original motor unless they made a 283 without the oil fill spout in the front of the intake or someone changed intakes on it. That wouldn’t be a deal-breaker for me because it would be a daily driver for me and I would rebuild a 350 and drop it in anyway. Nothing wild just a stock build with a single exhaust system.
The as says it’s a 350, well 5.7 liter, but close enough. It’s sure not a modern LT engine.
Who thought for just a split second the top picture was a truck with an awkward home built camper shell?
It is always best to identify the engine, if there is one, for people like me that don’t know a whole lot about such things.
go fund me.. buy me this truck an i will drive it like it is..
I’m surprised the bidding isn’t higher, wonder if this thing would make the 1100 mile trip home or if it would be better to trailer it I think $5300 if it holds is a deal
Interesting question Troy. I’ve had a collector vehicle which I didn’t hesitate taking on 500+ mile drives, and another which I had to think twice about taking around the neighborhood. Sometimes people approach a trip like this as an adventure; make sure you have plenty of time, avoid the fast-moving and crowded interstates, make sure your credit card is in good shape, be ready to spend time at NAPA and a small-town repair shop. You will have great stories to tell.
20 call-outs on the cowl indicate a 1965 model.
Honest, old, workhorse, 64 Chevy longbed truck. $6-7k is a fair asking price for this one, IMO. I hope that’s not a 305 dropped in there, a 350 would be better. Finding ones like this one, at this price, is getting harder everyday.
I fail to comprehend why people are willing to pay the prices quoted on these old trucks. I know people who have taken second, and third mortgages on their homes, to buy and restore these things. A few have complained they can barely make their original mortgage payment. I blame the TV auctions for this trend. Everyone wants to brag how much they paid for these things.
Sold for $5800. You can’t buy old trucks like this anymore for $500-$1500. It is what it is, and seller and buyer determined its price.
I was the winning bid for this truck. Contacted the seller and no response. I went back to try to finalize the purchase and error code popped up saying something went wrong. So I reported it to eBay. Apparently seller ocautomatrix is fake. Just wanted to give a heads up to everyone.
I’ve had bad experiences in ebay from both ends, selling or buying. Hopefully, you didn’t pay a deposit
Heck Dodson you may have problem, this truck according to ebay sold on August 20, for $6,800. This is the second time this has been on Barn Finds in the last 10 days.
John, I’m not the one who bought it on Ebay, someone named Shawn did. Just saying that I’ve had issues in the past buying and selling on Ebay. I’m pretty leary.
I didn’t, thankfully
Good for you. That you didnt pay a deposit. The scammers out there certainly, abound. On both the selling and buying side of Ebay.