At $10,800, Is This ’84 Chevy S-10 Conversion Van a Nice Deal?

Probably the most superb function of right now’s Nice Price or No Dice S-10 conversion van isn’t its dually rear axle, it’s its gull-wing door! Let’s see if this odd, and oddly intriguing throwback is value throwing down 5 figures.

It’s lengthy been mentioned that dying and taxes are two inescapable inevitabilities in life. Besides in Nevada, after all, the place there isn’t any earnings tax. For Nevadans, it’s solely dying. Most likely from the warmth. I’d like so as to add another inevitability: the No Cube lack of final Friday’s Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona project car at its $39,999 worth. Now thoughts you, the vendor claimed to have decreased that worth all the way in which down from $80K, however that didn’t make the value any extra palatable. On the finish of the day, it got here in at a 98.9 p.c No Cube vote, probably the most stinging rebuke we’ve ever seen. Additionally, that 1.1 p.c of you who voted in any other case ought to see me after class.

Postulate this: might there be something cooler for a child than to be dropped off in school or follow in a automobile with gull-wing doorways? I imply, the one higher method can be to reach within the sidecar of a V12-powered bike piloted by Beyonce.

This 1984 Chevy S-10 conversion fulfills that childhood dream of a grand arrival with a gull-wing fashion door. That almost all pleasurable of portals sits on the aspect of its enclosed aft half. That add-on van half additionally comes with two-level theater-style seating that may convert to a semi-flat seating floor and a dually rear axle. It might very nicely be the best and most versatile automobile ever imagined.

According to the ad, this is one of only five such conversion S-10s ever built. One must ponder which such greatness was so unfairly constrained. This was built in the ‘80s and who knows what went on back then? Honestly, that decade is pretty much a blur for me.

Underneath the amazing conversion bodywork lies an S-10 platform and cab, powered by a 115 horsepower 2.8-liter V6 which drives the quartet of rear tires through a three-speed column-shifted automatic. If the ad is accurate, it carries a clean title and 99,000 miles on the clock.

Now, one of the downsides of offering something for sale on the Internet is the likelihood that prospective buyers will do a little online research, potentially discovering previous sales or perhaps other, less-than-favorable information about the product in question. There doesn’t seem to be anything particularly nefarious in this S-10’s past, but there is an article concerning the final time an try was made for it to vary fingers. Yep, this isn’t this Chevy’s first rodeo.

Per the June 2020 article (the advert is lengthy gone), the truck was provided on Fb Market with 98,996 miles displaying and a price ticket of $4,800. A number of variations are notable between the pics from again then and people within the present Craigslist advert. Among the many most noticeable of these is the elimination of the operating boards on the perimeters of the cab and the substitute of the damaged grille with one that appears to be intact. Nothing has been completed concerning the floor rust on the entrance fender, nevertheless.

There’s a bit extra information within the older article, gleaned from the advert. In response to that, the conversion was created by an organization named New World Editions, Inc, which, truthfully sounds just like the identify of an ethnically-inclusive boy band. It additionally states that the truck was initially a part of an property.

The present advert doesn’t even give us that information. The photographs do present a truck that appears to be in respectable form with an exquisite ‘80s brown paint scheme and considerably unhappy Pep Boys wheel covers. Inside, it’s all brown velour with beige piping atop gold shag wall-to-wall on the ground. Surrounding that, all the unique ambient lighting and window therapies appear intact. The truck has A/C with what seems to be a brand new receiver underneath the hood. It’s questionable whether or not that will be as much as cooling your entire inside. A shot of the door sill signifies that the truck’s authentic colour was white.

As I famous, having a historical past on the Net can generally be a foul factor. Within the case of this S-10 conversion, meaning the $4,800 asking worth from two years in the past. No less than seeing as the current vendor is asking $10,800 for the truck. That’s greater than double in two years with nothing actually to indicate for the upper quantity. I do know inflation has been fairly out of hand the previous yr or so, however I don’t suppose it’s been THAT dangerous.

What do you say? Is this superb S-10 conversion value that $10,800 asking? Or, for that a lot, are the youngsters simply going to should be upset?

You resolve!

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Craigslist, or go here if the advert disappears.

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