These Are The Top 10 Affordable Classic Trucks To Buy NOW Before They Rocket In Value!

today on tfl classics you joined tommy and i here in the studio because we have something very important to talk about truck prices right now are crazy we've been talking about that a bunch around the office so we wanted to discuss a few great trucks that you can buy or should be able to buy for less than ten thousand dollars and this is the classics channel so these are going to be older vehicles and vehicles that are interesting and in some cases may even appreciate in value some of that has already happened on some of these rigs but we're going to hopefully find you guys some cool vehicles you know that is still relatively affordable yeah of course not all of the examples of these vehicles are going to be less than ten thousand dollars but in theory you should be able to find a relatively decent one for around that price yeah all right so case why don't you start us off with number 10. oh number 10 is so obvious who would who would see it coming it's the 2nd gen cummins yes the truck that i bought uh only well around about a year ago i bought my second gen cummins for eight thousand dollars and it's been a super solid truck yeah so the second gens especially for a long time we're just kind of like use trucks and you saw them a lot as work trucks and you know just vehicles that people use they were somewhat disposable but especially within the last couple of years it seems like a lot of folks are actually starting to collect these and really put a lot of thought and effort and time in restoring these vehicles which is interesting because they're really not all that old they started in what 94. yeah 94 was the first year of the second gen and then specifically the cummins because that is i think really what solidified this generation of dodge truck as being you know collectible and worthwhile not to say that like the 5.9 the 1500s and the the the 5.2s were bad trucks it's just that the cummins was legendary in these vehicles tell me about what made those so special oh well they're just super super simple solid reliable engines everything in them is gear driven say what you want to about the rest of the truck but that cummins engine itself is really solid and actually the 8 liter v10 that they offered in these trucks is pretty cool too but i like the cummins a lot and i think the other cool thing about these trucks is it was a big departure for dodge styling for a long time pretty much every truck in the market was just a box and then this truck came out and people hadn't really seen anything like this with that big rig look where the hood is actually higher than the fenders and that was a really big deal and that's kind of what made them so significant that look actually continues all the way through today it's got the iconic crosshairs in the front they did update the design a little bit right in in the end of the production with the sport bumper yeah yeah they came out with things like the sport bumper of course later on they also added the extended cab and then they updated the interior as well mine is a first year mine is a 1994 and i like the older interior and everything but no they're great trucks the cummins engines do suffer from a couple little issues one of the more notable ones is a killer dowel pin that's of course something that's pretty easy to fix i fixed it on my motor and then the manual transmissions are generally a lot tougher than the automatics but they're solid trucks mine's at 250 000 miles bulletproof reliable it's it's been a great vehicle so i've got no complaints still going strong so number nine is a little bit unusual it would have been not that long ago where when we were talking about you know affordable classic we would have had the square body chevy's on this list from you know the 70s to the early 80s but those have really just shot up in value i mean they've gotten really expensive which is you know rather unfortunate but the good news is the next generation of chevy truck is now becoming you know a little bit more sought after and even those are starting to go up a little bit so why don't you tell me about number nine yeah so number nine is the truck of choice of our good friend david morrow he in fact has three of them that are running all the same year 1992 454 chevys heavy duties all of his trucks have nv 4500 transmissions he likes the 92 because he says i think they have a lower crawling gear in that transmission but they're awesome trucks one really cool thing about him like the 3500 chevy that he has has independent front suspension so even though it's a 3500 it rides incredibly smooth yeah so these were called i think the gmt-400 right was the internal designation of this truck and they built them like we were talking about just like the second gens in both half ton and hd configuration case specifically chose the 454 the big blocks because it's just a cool thing to have i think there was even an ss version where you could get like a high performance model those ones are already getting pretty expensive but if you can just find like a 2500 with the 454 in the manual you can hop them up you can put a cool exhaust on them really well made trucks the early ones had this really funky uh instrumentation on the interior with these uh really blocky radios yeah the dash on that truck is honestly really cool all the buttons everything it looks like a 1980s calculator it's way cool and then we also had the the 1500 version through um this no payment needed series i think it was like a 1998 or 96 and something like that that one had the updated interior which wasn't as cool but the early ones were really really funky right they look like a calculator uh so definitely check out the gmt 400 era of chevrolet trucks really well made as well so next up on the list is the 73 power stroke what are we talking about yeah so 73 power stroke it's the first power stroke named engine diesel engine from ford and these are just unbelievably solid diesel motors they're right up there with the 12 valve cummins one common issue that i've read about with them i've never actually owned one myself but a cam position sensor can go bad on them but other than that i mean they're very solid i know a couple people that have them around about 300 000 miles and still driving them all the time really no major issues is that attainable for 10k can you get a 73 for about 10k i have a buddy that bought one for about seven grand okay so it might be i'm i would guarantee it's a lot more difficult to do right now right but it should at least in a more normal truck market be possible and remind folks if they're looking for a 7.3 and they find a similar truck that just happens to have a 6 liter is that worth buying i personally i know people actually that like the 6 liter a lot like its tuning capability that motor has issues but from what i'm told it's all repairable it's all doable if you want to make that motor put out more power but from everyone that i've talked to that knows these trucks because again i've never actually owned myself a 7 3 or a 6-0 power stroke it sounds like the 7 3 if you just want a bulletproof reliable engine is the way to go all right that's good that's a good consumer advice right there and you can tune them up to make quite a bit of power like you're talking about so next up on the list is a vehicle i have a lot of experience with it is the jeep comanche so this was a built starting in the mid 1980s it's a basically a pickup pickup truck version of the cherokee the really square one yeah it used something called the the uniframe which was this bizarre combination of unibody and frame but it's a really cool looking truck to kind of getting desirable so for a long time you could pick up a really good one for like four or five k now a really good one is going to be like 12 or 13 but you can still find decent drivers for under 10 4 liter straight six if you're smart you'll get the four liter straight six um don't get the v6 because it was pretty bad short bed four-wheel drive is a desirable ones and then don't get the french transmission so certain years also had the pujo transmission which was just a garbage pile but if you can find one with the four liter in good shape that's not that rusty they'll go forever they last a long time parts are somewhat easy to get you know there's a couple things you can't get though tail lights and rear bumpers really yeah tail lights so valuable for some reason because you can't get them i would think those would be two things that you would want to have very readily available yeah and they didn't make as many as the cherokees part of the reason why they're more sought after more desirable well i guess the whole front end of that truck is pretty much the same as it was on the cherokee so those parts i would imagine are probably interchangeable i don't think doors are the same but like dashboards a lot of people put the like uh face lifted cherokee front ends on them remember when they kind of got like more roundy yeah like the late 90s you can smell like a boxy front end yeah you stay with the boxing one don't swap them you know i'm actually really upset that i never got to drive our comanche that was a gorgeous truck it was it was um pretty nice to drive it drives a lot like a cherokee avoid ones that are too lifted i would say um you want to find more of the originality in the comanches but yeah if you want to take them off-road you can do a lot with them so speaking of kind of smaller trucks what is next up on the list uh yes we're getting back to uh back to my favorite truck brand dodge dakota early dodge dakotas like the first and the second gen these are cool because you could get engine wise anything from a inline four cylinder to a v6 to a v8 the first generation of the dodge dakota in 1989 there was even a shelby version of it with a 5.2 liter v8 jeez yeah you could get dakotas with convertible manuals yeah there was a convertible yeah um so they're actually pretty pretty cool trucks i like the first gens a lot the really really boxy ones yeah rust i think is a pretty big issue definitely from what i've seen poking around online but kent just bought one as i understand it go figure it needed a transmission oh really yeah i didn't know he bought it he he did yeah he bought it first in dakota very cool though i really like the um the decoded a lot and i think they are going to be very collectible here pretty soon they may already be going up in value so next up is the tacoma one that we have a lot of experience with and why the tacoma versus the older toyota trucks the nice thing about it especially going with a more modern version of it is just that it's going to be a little bit more drivable day to day and in our experience the tacoma is unbelievably good off-road a lot of them had factory rear lockers ours actually didn't but even though ours didn't have a factory rear locker it still crushed it when we took it to moab and we bought that truck for 7 700 if i remember right which for an older tacoma is not super cheap ours was really straight but you can definitely pick up a good tacoma for less than 10 grand take it off road of course there were there's no shortage of rust issues on those as well yes but if you want to go off-road tacoma is pretty pretty high on my list of trucks so the reason that the tacoma in my opinion is on the list versus the older toyota trucks you know that they back through the 80s if you look at the older trucks from like the the mid 80s i think they were cooler in a lot of ways but they're they only fall in one of two camps they're either pristine and forty thousand dollars or they they are entirely made out of iron oxide you know there's like there's nothing in between yeah no metal left yeah exactly whereas like the early 2000s tacomas and even like the late 90s ones you can still find with some metal left grant they also like instead of the rust issues and nowadays finding one a really good one for under 10 is going to be a little bit trickier but if you you know are reasonable with your expectations maybe look at the four cylinders that go a long time that head issues as we found out but they go for generally for a long time get a four wheel drive one and have fun with it i think that's another one that we'll appreciate one day and what about there was a supercharged one too right yeah there was a factory trd supercharged one that we actually had race against our ram trx we had a viewer bring in his supercharged tacoma it lost by the way it lost but granted it was an old little tacoma and i was surprised at how quick that truck took off that was a mean little rig he had a single cab too right i think so yeah i don't know if they did the three four in the single cab he may have swapped that in for that year but whatever it was a really cool truck so next up on our list kind of in the same vein but maybe a little bit older a lot of them are also made out of rust now but the nissan hard bodies a really old nissan truck set uh is what the pathfinder was based off of the early ones they were called d21s very solid trucks not quite as desirable as the toyota versions yeah but like tommy said still hard-working good little trucks and i actually never got to drive our pathfinder uh but it was yeah since they're based on the same platform i would imagine that it would perform right about the same so when you took the pathfinder off-road how did it do it's very good yeah they're very underrated the toyota just sucks all the air out of the room be it the forerunner or the toyota trucks of the 80s and 90s but the nissan was a super well made vehicle as well why were they called the hard body right it was something to do with the bed yeah so from the research that i can figure out they called it the hard body because it has a double walled bed and just because of the styling because it was blocky and straight edges i think it's cool truck i like them a lot yeah you can get them in fours and i think v6 configurations but definitely look at the hard body if you can't afford the toyota and then you put this one on the list i'm not really sure what this means it says just as ford 460. yeah really any truck with a 460 v8 i think is awesome because there's tons of tuning potential for the 460 you can even stroke them out to be massive as if it wasn't already a big enough motor as is so taking that motor up to new heights just getting a crazy amount of power out of it would be way cool and they offered that motor in a ton of different f-series trucks any of which i think would be a pretty badass setup to have yeah they were in like the 70s and the 80s and i think they were in the 90s we uh we had a it's called a brick nose which was a really square one in 1984 with the slightly different engine at a diesel but it was an excellent truck actually super simple it's amazing how easily you can quickly change how body panels and interior bits and how readily available everything is on these old ford trucks yeah and a lot of the body styles of so many different generations of the older ford heavy duty trucks is just so cool to look at you actually had a mid 70s f series truck that was really cool that's one of my favorite body styles of truck of all time that one had a uh it's called a 360. it was supposed to be 390 but i think it had a 360. that was like the fe generation motor but the 460 was definitely better so look for a 460 quick big block apparently 7.2 liters is not enough for case but you know that that's his thing and then number one on the list actually number two is the first gen cummins talk to me about what that means yeah so similar to the second gen it's it's another super solid cummins truck it's the first generation of the cummins in a ram truck and they're a lot simpler than the second gens i know there's a number of people out there that actually prefer the first gen they say it works harder it's easier to work on it's just a simpler overall truck leaf springs in the front actually some of the really earlier models of the first gen cummins weren't even intercooled i think it was the 91 and a half model year that they went to an intercooler on it so really simple durable truck but i just love the styling of it that boxy front end there was a actually a couple months ago i was sitting or standing outside of a taco truck and this first-gen dually two-tone red and white came driving by absolutely mint perfect paint perfectly straight panels and it was nighttime the cab lights were lit up the lights on the fenders were lit up and i thought wow that is a good looking truck i would love to own something like that it's another truck that's kind of hard to find though because a lot of them were used up and thrown away yeah and rust of course yeah so if you can find one though and under 10k i'd say go for it i think honestly i think rust is going to be the enemy of the majority of the trucks that are on this list yes but not my number one choice which is uh well case with the el camino but i'm going to scrap that because i want to go more eccentric i think actually the first generation um subaru baja do you remember that like little car yeah trucklet that was based on the outback yeah with the seats rear facing in the back no that's the brat oh that is the brad you're right so the brat was from the 70s i like the brat i like the brat too that maybe the brat's way cooler than the baja yeah but the brats are they're very hard i mean they're almost impossible to find in good shape now and like an early brat it got so expensive yeah really expensive but i mean in in good shape honestly most of the stuff on this list is very hard to find and that's the thing too like when i bought my truck it definitely needed work i actually got lucky because mechanically it was super solid and any one of these that you find for less than 10 grand i promise you it's it's gonna need work so what case is talking about is they did a vehicle called the brat which stood for who by drive recreational all-terrain i think and it was an old 70s subaru that they chopped the butt off of yeah and then to get around the chicken tax which is this importation duty on out of uh country vehicles that are commercial like trucks they put these rear-facing jump seats in it like literally bolted seats into the bed with these grab handles oh yeah and then sold it so rats are really cool but expensive i'm talking about the one that the like the baja from the early 2000s which was a four-door outback like bright yellow teeny-weeny little bed um the butt of so many jokes but the first chance bajas are actually really sought after for some reason like the community random they did a turbo model with um uh the right options in the right color they can be actually over 10k for this crazy little subaru truck but if you can find one in good shape under 10 it's worth a consideration because i think they'll be valuable one day because they just didn't make many of them and they're so weird and we got the santa cruz coming right right we got the um maverick coming so maybe these little itty bitty trucks will make a comeback i hope you know that the comments are just going to be on fire horrible especially for making the subaru baja number one dude on this list you've got you've got you put your cummins on there and i've got a subaru with a little four foot bed i know yeah everyone is gonna be so upset at us okay that's okay i'll take it but let us know what you think in the comments below yeah drop us some comments of trucks that we missed because there are a lot of cool vehicles out there that you can get for pretty reasonable prices again the market right now this is just crazy so you know you i i could pop the grill off of my truck and sell it for 10 grand but probably true so uh if we're out of whack 90s let us know and stay tuned for more tfo 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Keywords: Dodge Ram Cummins, Second gen ram, ram cummins, cummins, Powerstroke, Ford F350, Ford 7.3, Chevy Silverado, Silverado, Chevy, HD truck, big block, Ford F250, Jeep, Comanche, Cherokee, Dodge Dakota, Dakota, Subaru, Brat, Baja, Toyota, Tacoma, Toyota Tacoma, Nissan, Frontier

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Length: 19min 4sec (1144 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 01 2021