Well I won a newer truck for towing my 5th wheel today at a fairly local auction thanks to my dad and his best friend since high school. When they retired from their jobs, the two of them started to transport cars and trucks all over New England for private dealers, dealerships, banks...etc, and my dads friend has an auctioneers license. I told him last summer to keep his eyes open for a newer Chevy/GMC Duramax because my old one(a 2001 Chevy Duramax) was getting old at 310K, and was starting to get a little rusty.
Well he called me Thursday night and said they found an 07 GMC Sierra SLE Duramax/Allison 2WD with 79K, 2 owner, that was in exceptional condition, and was a bank default that was going to auction. Fortunately, there isn't a big demand for 2WD trucks around here at all, thanks to our snowy winters, so it was only us and one other guy bidding on it. We were sure we were gonna be battling it out to the point we couldn't afford it....but, the other guy quit at $9600...our last shout was $9900....SOLD!!!!. I did have to borrow a couple K from the old man, but he was happy to help.
It's not perfect...it needs a few things, full brakes, tune-up, power steering hose leaking, tailgate mechanism has issues, hood has a couple small chips in the paint...mostly minor stuff. Just drove it home and it rides like it's on air, just as smooth as can be, and all kinds of power!. I decided I'm gonna give my 01 to my dad for hookin me up with the small loan and finding this one.
Here she is...
