Looks like something classic Clarkson/Hammond/May Top Gear would have created.

Wonder what the back story is on this truck? I maybe could understand someone buying a sports car and purposely saving it with no miles, but how would a pickup truck ever have been preserved like this? Must be some very interesting or weird story behind it.

Not fair to post that without the matching tow vehicle

https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content...it=2048%2C1536

"Don't make me come back there!"

$52,000 for a 28k-Mile 1997 Ford F-250 HD SuperCab XLT Power Stroke 4×4

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1997-ford-f-250-36/

Haven’t f250s always gone for crazy money?


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That one doesn't surprise me too much (though $52k is still insane). People love the 7.3L trucks for some reason. If this were an Expedition with the 7.3, I'd expect the sale price to be even higher.

Maybe I'm not wired properly to appreciate this sort of thing, but maybe any vehicle gets expensive when it's one of the last of its kind for collectible purposes.

I just don't think it's attractive, it doesn't look cool, it doesn't drive well, and it doesn't sound good. And at those prices, it will never be used to tow, etc. So if it's going to be decorative, I don't think it's pretty enough for that.

Totally agree.

I agree with you.

But for people who like trucks (or more specifically someone willing to pay 50 or 100 large for what is basically just an old truck), they think the exact same thing about a Porsche 993.

The 7.3 Powerstroke, as much as I hate it, was the pinnacle of Ford diesels for a long time because the engines that succeeded it (6.0 and 6.4) were unreliable turds.

The 993 comparison is apt here, too, because the 996 (and to some degree the 997.1) was a letdown in comparison.

Maybe people should just be buying the engine and putting it in a decent looking body.