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Originally Posted by dd74
Did you buy that? With that front end damage? Looks like more than just the bumper. The hood seems out of alignment. Hmmm...
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The hood is perfect. Weird comment...
It needs a bumper, ~$200 and plentiful on ebay. It was a one owner truck bought and used by an older guy who lived on a ranch in Ventura Co. He died and it was an estate sale. It was definitely used as a truck; he apparently hunted with it and used it on his ranch to haul crap in the back. The bed is well-scraped, (no bed liner), and the front bumper looks like a case of
"whiskey bottle/brand new truck/oak tree, (and anything else), you're in my way..." 
He was not a girly-man when it came to trucks and was definitely not saving it for the next owner. That said, it's really not bad. He seems to have kept-up w/ maintenance although no records exist. They don't know where he wrote it down. It's had zero dealer/warrantee-related issues and runs perfectly, only thing it's been back for is a recall/service bulletin issue in '06. I'm still cleaning red dust from every cranny of it but it's 100 times newer and cleaner than any PU truck I've ever had. The interior is close to perfect, much too nice for a painter's truck. Not sure what I'm going to do about that, don't want to wreck it.
I'm in the process of *base-lining* all the scheduled maintenance, basically changing all fluids and filters and starting a new calender. It's on a 7500/15000/30k factory schedule, so @ 62k miles it works out perfectly. 7500 is just an oil change w/ fuel filters every 15k.
And yep, $42k it was 4 years ago. (I got the MSRP sticker w/ it). I'm happy.