THE - Muscle Truck - From Roadkill For Sale on e-bay

patgizz wrote:

rslifkin wrote:

mazdeuce wrote:

patgizz wrote:

mazdeuce wrote: It's cool, but couldn't you pay any one of 100's of shops in the country to make you one just like it for waaaaaay less than $50k? Or, you know, make one yourself?

pay me 50k and i'll build you one with a supercharged LSA crate motor

I do love me some LSA.....

How does that compare to LSD? Oh wait...

you actually DO get to fly.

Well, you know lysergic acid IS one of the chemical precursors to lysergic acid diethylamide. So, yeah.

This morning on facebook he posted : "Sorry, I had to delete the posts about the Muscle Truck for sale. The eBay auction is haywire, and asking people to send email offers wound up with a hundred messages in a couple minutes, few of them serious." See, David, not worth the trouble of selling. Keeeeep it.

I'm a fan of the 73-79 Chevy and GMC trucks. I have a 79 GMC.

Back in high school in the mid - late 80's, a good friend of mine and his dad built a 77 Chevy Silverado. 350, aftermarket cam, camel hump heads (that spent a lot of detail time on the bench) headers, and wonderful sounding short glass packs with a auto trans/shift kit/posi rear combo. Factory rally trucks wheels. Black.

We had a lot of fun with that truck.

That was when you had to spend a lot of time to get the package of all of the bolt on parts, fuel and timing down yourself after assembly.

TIGMOTORSPORTS wrote: That was when you had to spend a lot of time to get the package of all of the bolt on parts, fuel and timing down yourself after assembly.

You still do, but people either don't bother or they gloss over that aspect when talking about it because they're embarrassed - forums have told them how easy it all is.

It is easy, you take it to a good shop, pay them, they get it all bueno and you drive off happily.

Thats what Im doing next week, because I know a good tune is harder than most think it is and Id blow my E36 M3 up or itd run like ass if I tried. So even my cheap ass is happy to pay for a good tune

Getting off topic, but relevant to this thread. I see more and more articles and threads, especially LSx related where they tell you to buy a complete running vehicle or get a complete package from a junk yard as if you just buy a long block you're in for well of a grand in sourcing parts for the easy swap. Many also tell you which years to go to for return fuel systems, cable throttle and easy to re-flash to eliminate the original vehicle security features. I think it's like anything, 10 years ago when the LS craze was starting it was as easy as 'throw an LS6 in there Bro' but now the information seems far more honest and complete.

Ten years ago this magazine did an article on putting a BP Miata engine and trans in an MGB. They pointed out before they started that fitting the engine was the easy bit, it was getting it hooked up and working that took the time. I think they've re-hashed the same series of articles at least once and used the same info for spin off articles several times.

You should check out the hybrid section of ls1tech, theyve pretty much got it worked out on most popular platform.

I used to browse through there and see if anything cool was going on, and i saw a thread along the lines of BMW Swap Help. I think ill see if I can lend a hand. Open it and hes asking about a clearance issue with a master or booster, and i think, oh this E36 M3's way above my paygrade, but minutes apart there were two posts mentioning some obscure bolt in solution.

you can get MS3 with a LS harness for ~$1,300 now too. I don't think the donor vehicle is needed anymore either.

I love the truck, but not a 50k truck by a long shot.

java230 wrote: I love the truck, but not a 50k truck by a long shot.

But its famous on Youtube!

I'm upset that they are selling this car, which has been one of the fan favorites, and not some of the stupid other junk sitting around, like the tow truck they just got for no reason or Pig Pen

That tow truck they just bought is WAY cooler than a hack and slash LS swap squarebody pickup that's had the snot beat out of it.

Also, as much as i love watching their show, i've been watching them work with the eye of someone who has worked on cars professionally and i would never pay TOP money for ANYTHING they built for Roadkill. I love the spirit of the whole thing but that's not the level of skilled labor that i'm willing to actually spend money paying for.

Vigo wrote:

I'm upset that they are selling this car, which has been one of the fan favorites, and not some of the stupid other junk sitting around, like the tow truck they just got for no reason or Pig Pen

That tow truck they just bought is WAY cooler than a hack and slash LS swap squarebody pickup that's had the snot beat out of it. Also, as much as i love watching their show, i've been watching them work with the eye of someone who has worked on cars professionally and i would never pay TOP money for ANYTHING they built for Roadkill. I love the spirit of the whole thing but that's not the level of skilled labor that i'm willing to actually spend money paying for.

Maybe the tow truck is cooler, but it's kinda pointless. They already have a rollback that's way nicer and way more useful. Also, the Muscle Truck wasn't built for Roadkill. That was an old magazine project about 4 years before the words Roadkill were even uttered.

Ahh ok. I guess it became 'roadkill forever' to me once i saw them sawzalling on the body.

I've only seen one or two episodes and they were more like dodge infomercials than anything entertaining, so I don't really know the truck, but I do know I would pay nowhere near $50k for it.

If someone is willing to pay that much they should definitely sell it and build a new hemi powered dodge version.

Vigo wrote: Ahh ok. I guess it became 'roadkill forever' to me once i saw them sawzalling on the body.

Yeah, it was a prominent vehicle on Roadkill, but it was built a long time before that (to go to the LSx Shootout) and then got abandoned and revived for Roadkill. The part where they sawzall'd the fenders hurt to watch. Yes, I know, it's not a valuable vehicle and they weren't even OEM fenders, but to just hack up perfectly good parts for silliness doesn't sit well with me.

In reply to T.J.:

You watched the wrong ones.

T.J. wrote: I've only seen one or two episodes and they were more like dodge infomercials than anything entertaining, so I don't really know the truck, but I do know I would pay nowhere near $50k for it. If someone is willing to pay that much they should definitely sell it and build a new hemi powered dodge version.

Of the 48 episodes, there are only 8 where a Mopar is the main car, so it really isn't a Mopar infomercial. Even after Dodge picked up sponsorship, in those 10 episodes, there have only been 3 that were all about Dodge cars.

After seeing their latest effort (mullet cars), I think they are dangerously close to jumping the shark.

Yeah, they didn't put much effort into the latest episode.

I thought there were some good laughs, but it was entirely too short, and forcing the Jeep in at the end was borderline cringe-worthy.

I'll keep watching. It is free after all. I just wish they would give it a little more effort. My guess is that now that Finnegan lives in Georgia, filming has become very difficult.

They can't all be winners. There were duds here and there before. It certainly would have been better if the Mustang hadn't puked it's guts out. And there were some genuinely funny moments.

The next episode seems like it's going to be pretty good, despite being a rehash of an earlier concept. They are taking the current crop of cars back to autocross against their nemesis, the Kia Rio

The mullet cars sucked. I hope it was just a rush job to meet a schedule. If that wasn't a one off then the shark is far in the past.

Well, it didn't sell. Here's the story from Freiburger himself, via Facebook.

"People keep asking...answer is no, the Muscle Truck did not sell. I put it on eBay and got many bogus bids and not even the guys with reasonable bids reacted to second-chance offers. So it's still here. There's a chance we will take it on Power Tour. But no guarantees I won't be trying to get rid of it again in the future. Why? It's my personal truck, not the company's, so I pay all the storage and other expenses of keeping it around and I'm too busy to use it but of course not too busy to dream of replacing it with a new project."

NickD wrote: They can't all be winners. There were duds here and there before. It certainly would have been better if the Mustang hadn't puked it's guts out. And there were some genuinely funny moments. The next episode seems like it's going to be pretty good, despite being a rehash of an earlier concept. They are taking the current crop of cars back to autocross against their nemesis, the Kia Rio

They managed to get the money out of me for a years subscription of their on demand thing, so I can tell you can you look forward to seeing a 1950 Ford 2 speed axle come out of gear on an autocross course. Also the realization that they upped their game quite a bit since the last time they tried dodging ones.

NickD wrote: I'm too busy to use it but of course not too busy to dream of replacing it with a new project."

I don't think I've ever heard anyone explain our mental illness so eloquently.

"My 97% complete vehicle needs $73 worth of parts and a weekend worth of work. It doesn't make sense to keep it. I'm going to sell it and buy a basket case instead. That will be more enjoyable."

And so goes the cycle of self inflicted abuse So many of us are living with every day.

Chadeux wrote:

NickD wrote: They can't all be winners. There were duds here and there before. It certainly would have been better if the Mustang hadn't puked it's guts out. And there were some genuinely funny moments. The next episode seems like it's going to be pretty good, despite being a rehash of an earlier concept. They are taking the current crop of cars back to autocross against their nemesis, the Kia Rio

They managed to get the money out of me for a years subscription of their on demand thing, so I can tell you can you look forward to seeing a 1950 Ford 2 speed axle come out of gear on an autocross course. Also the realization that they upped their game quite a bit since the last time they tried dodging ones.

Something tells me that Stubby Bob's autocross days are over.