So, it has been a while since this longrooffan has stepped up to the plate to provide my fulfill my commitment to all of my fellow Curb Dwellers. There are to many reasons for these inadequencies to delve into here but let’s just put it at Florida Power and Light needs their contributions every month and the independent contractor business around the Birthplace of Speed has been a tad slow these spring months. As a result, my stress level has super imposed my CC contributions. Fortunately on Monday of this week, a good friend of mine called and asked me if this longrooffan was available to “come down and be my wife for a couple weeks?”
Now my single friend Kris, an accomplished female, had accepted a position with a well known nip and tuck firm as the office administrator down in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. As a result, she has been down here for about a month and, after leaving all of her furniture for one of her five sons to enjoy in her former home in MickeyMouseLand, she had been left with literally just a bed and a dresser. No tables, no couch, even, aghast, no TV.
So, on Monday of this week I get a distress call from a friend of over ten years. If you were in a situation where you could help out a friend, wouldn’t you do it also? That’s what friends are for.
Well on Tuesday, this longrooffan jumped into my old Comanche and headed out, for a rare trip for me, on that Eisenhour Highway System 95 down to toney Palm Beach Gardens. Once I arrived at the multiple gated condominium complex she resides in I realized just what “come be my wife” means. She dropped a cool grand in my hands and told me what she wants.
Meanwhile, I receive an email from our wonderful benefactor Paul as to my well being. Yeah, Curb Dwellers, he is a great guy. I replied back that all was well considering and this longrooffan, as always, tries to Celebrate Life. And I included that since the first car I noticed after exiting 95 down here in South Florida was an 80’s era Rolls Royce Corniche convertible, (and yes, the top was down), I noted my contributions to CC during my visit here would not be that great. After all, this is Curbside Classic, not Aston Martin Daily.
Yeah, check out the company my Comanche is keeping down here. Audi A6, Range Rover and a Mercedes something or another, just big. However, as I am typing this up, I noted the old Ford van just over the hood of my truck. Aerostar or Windstar?
Now my fellow Curb Dwellers, southeast Florida, from about Fort Pierce south, is one big megalopolis containing a seemingly impossible number of cities to determine. And some of the cities don’t allow big box home improvement centers nor do some of them allow Wally Worlds either. However, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstroms, Macy’s, and a few hundreds Starbucks are welcomed with open arms.
As a result I had to travel south to North Palm Beach to find the location of the store that sponsors Jimmy Johnson on his weekly trips around in circles to fulfill my wifely shopping obligations. Much to my surprise, I spotted the aforementioned Isuzu Diesel Longbed for sale.
So as all of my fellow Curb Dweller should know by now, this longrooffan absolutely had to stop and capture some images and try to find out its story. As this was near a busy intersection, I had no way of easily turning around so I whipped into the Kwik Mart lot next door. As I was parked immediately in front of a “Non Customer Cars Will Be Towed” sign and even though I had a cooler full of waters, this longrooffan wisely went in and bought another bottle of H2O. Only 75 cents! I asked the guy if I could stay there for just a couple minutes to go gather some images next door. “10 minutes and I call a wrecker,” was his response. No sweat.
I was able to get a few images of the 320,000 mile surprisingly nearly rust free truck. It apparently had been owned by a local auto parts store and used as their daily driver parts truck until it was forced to close after its owner had passed away unexpectedly.
The leather interior was in near excellent condition however, I did notice a crack or two in the bedliner. The asking price for this classic is $6,900 and if you are feeling lucky, contact Lucky at Lake Park Auto.
Oh my, Am I missing something here or is the asking price equal to the original sticker price?
320K., just broke in 🙂
Over here on Gods green island we would call that a Holden Rodeo ute @$1500 all day plenty about but not worth anything.Good little ute though just not very popular
That price does seem a bit steep. Good to see you back longroofan! Hope those wifely duties aren’t too onerous…..
You sure they didn’t put an extra 0 in there cause it’s worth a lot closer to $690 than $6900.
Nope…$6,900.00 is their asking price…I laughed out loud when I saw that one. And by the way, that was the cash price!
I also think they got carried away with the zeroes…and forgot to put a “P” in front of “leather.”
Great to see you back in action; we missed you!
There’s several of these diesel P’ups here, still hard at work.
how much is this car cause i’m interested let me know please.
Aerostar.
87 or 88 it would appear.
The Merc is newer C class of some description – which is the extent that I care about those.
Nice write up dude.
Surely that seat is vinyl? I could never imagine leather upholstery being in an 1980s Isuzu diesel work truck.
Looks kinda like vinyl to me too. But there is carpet on the bottom of the door panels, so . . . .
I like it. I don’t $6900 like it, but I like it. As I think about it, $6900 may represent the total retail value of every CC I have done so far.
According to what Lucky had written on the windshield, it is leather. But remember, he is a used car salesman.
I always have the burning urge to correct people who advertise cars from the 70s and 80s on ebay as having leather interiors when they’re almost certainly vinyl. Until about the last 20 years or so, genuine leather interiors were available only in high end American and certain German cars (Even low-end Benzes and BMWs only offered “MB-Tex” and “leatherette” for the seats). There were some exceptions to this (the Mercury Cougar XR-7 is the only one that comes to mind at the moment), but they were few and far between. Even the interior in my old ’78 Seville was of questionable origin, in that it didn’t smell or feel like leather, even though that’s what it supposedly was.
I always have the same burning desire. But believe it or not, you can STILL get MB-Tex and leatherette in certain Benzes and BMWs. They’re just not as common as the leather-clad versions here in the States.
GrangeRover……in 1963 my uncle who had always bought Buick cars and Austin and Holden utes,bought his first MercedesBenz.It was the fintail model and was a 220S or SE.An Australian rally driver,Gelignite Jack Murray,famously said that the Benz was so underpowered that it wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding.My uncle Stan visited with his new Benz and took us for a drive in it.I was only seven years old then and already a car nut.I said to my uncle that I liked the leather seats but he said they are not cow leather,they are pig skin! I have often wondered if any Benz owners and of the Jewish religion realised they were sitting on pig skin.
Lake Park Auto Brokers
I am surprised these crooks are still in business. I lived up the road in Jupiter Florida for years and know the area all too well. And those jokers. They clear out trade ins from Al Packer and Ed Morse dealerships.
King of the buy here pay here repossessed here lots.
Hey..know of any cool car stuff between say Jupiter and West Palm that is relatively inexpensive? I got ragtopsmotorcars down in West Palm but still looking around. drop me an email at longrooffan at aol.com. I sure would appreciate it.
The Holden LUXO model had carpet but no leather
I had a P’up diesel once. Good drivetrain until I got water in the transmission. I got an estimate to rebuilt it, complete with a taller top gear so it wouldn’t run out of steam at 70 mph, but I was poooooor at the time and junked it. The rust was terrible, though mine was a very nice example, tu-tone blue with the long bed. The rust was in the dark blue part down low on the bed side and it wasn’t that obvious, lucky for me.
As for that bedliner, you pretty much had to have one because the bed was single-walled; anything that makes a dent inside the bed made a dimple on the outside.
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