Imagine the drive shaft in that thing! There was a little more 'rust' than I expected, ocean salt? That's a problem with Florida vehicles. Very unique!! LOL --gary
@Stupid Liberals Rochester-ish NY here! LOL That truck would have been in the crusher by now here. I just had 4 break rotors rust off my 12 Silverado in 2.5 years!
I saw that truck on 101 years ago when I was on my bike, I think the lady driving thought I was checking her out but I was only obsessed with this unicorn of a truck.
94 didn't have a extended cab yet. And the company out of Texas was named "custom conversions" I believe. They did allot of conversions like these back then. Sadly they are no longer around. There was also another company called "Bayer" that built these but we're made out of metal over fiberglass
Yeah in my area, a rusted out, holes in the floor, 400,000 mile, 2 wheel drive, automatic trans, steaming pile of CRAP truck will sell for $10k if it has a 12 valve under the hood. Jeep wranglers of any year or condition $15k at least. Squarebody chevys are all over the place and dirt cheap though, but they're ALL automatic small blocks.
I'd repaint it for sure, Flat black or grey. Build a roof rack for it. Lift it a little with some Alcoa wheels and some aggressive tires. Replace all the light bulbs with led. Oh and tear out all that aftermarket electronics junk and start fresh with just a simple radio and speakers. But that thing is sweet for sure. That's cool you got to go drive it and check it out atleast.
@@garrettpitt2057 Agreed, if one wants to do all that they need to find different truck. Is almost as bad as guys that go buy rust free bronco/ blazer only to cut em up for looks. Bet that truck tows sweet as a sugar factory.
You have to match the paint by adding spinners on the wheels, and a pickup bed that tilts and spins. Anyway it is a seller market now for the smog exemption stuff. The guys that bought those trucks new in the 90s are old guys today. Thank you for sharing and have a great day!
Found your channel yesterday, came across the 2nd gen ram 2500 you restored. Not going to lie, that got me by the heart strings. I just inherited my dads 2nd gen 2500 after he passed, it was his pride and joy. I'd love to restore it back to its former glory, I just don't have the space or the funds to do so. Love seeing the 2nd gen rams getting some love! Great work, can't wait to see more.
I had a 94 Cummins. It had a custom sleeper on it. It was a regular cab long bed. A company down in Arizona called McKinlly Custom Sleepers, cut the back of the cab out and the front of the bed, and mounted a 36" sleeper on the back of the cab it had that same bench seat in the back. I loved it I sleeper in more times than I can count.
Glorious! I saw an extended 2nd gen with Cummins in Colorado a few weeks ago. Denver/Boulder area somewhere... All silver in color with a camper shell I believe.
You should have taken the money and run. Wholesale on those are 2k-3k dollars. Retail they go for around 5K in the south east. Unless there’s been a recent engine swap or rebuild. Then they fetch 6-7k for someone lucky.
I was going to look at this truck, I live close to Auburn, such a sweet truck, but these 2nd gens are so spendy now. I own 2 2nd gen duallys I use for my flooring company, love them, simple to work on, but everybody tells me to buy a new truck,but I'm old anuff to remember the 2nd gens when they were new, fell in love and there great work trucks.best body style i think. Just nutz what they go for nowadays since they became popular with the kids. But love seeing Old iron still on the road.
You definitely need to put some silicone on that dashboard and then a dashboard cover rug Dodge ram dashboards of your Vintage disintegrate! Good luck 👍
Had to have been a standard cab originally, no Club Cab in '94. Have '95 Crew Cab myself 54K miles. Right now it's a V-10 2wd, came from California......both will be changed.
Other than repaint it so the donkeys quit laughing everytime it drives by? Handle the maintenance and then use it to haul the horse trailer, toy hauler, RV, or ... Whatever I want to haul with it.
About 5-6 years ago I was looking at First Gen CCLB with a sleeper in it. Was 2 tone Do Do Brown with maroon interior. Also had 250k on it. Guy was asking $30k and I thought it was a lot of money. It was sold in less than a week. 😳
Would be cool to get a picture of this truck and a Ford F350 centurion together. Basically same cab configuration and dually as well. There seems to be more Ford conversions out there than anything else. I don't think the centurion's came with a stick though. I'd keep that thing bone stock though, its too cool to modify to modern standards.
V belt I have a question I hope you can answer. I have a 12 valve 215hp manual with 304,000. I think it's all stock being how the screw on the injection pump has not been tampered with. It does not smoke and runs good. I changed the tappet cover gasket because it leaked a lot of oil. Drove it to work I thought everything was fixed but when I got home 100 miles later I noticed oil all over under the truck and it's coming out the vent tube along with air. I seen were someone said it could be the rings but it starts right up and runs great, I would think if it had broken rings it would smoke. There's no oil cap blow by a little smoke comes out but that's it. Smoke comes out the vent tube also. I was wondering what you think it could be. When I changed the tappet cover gasket I seen the oil drains were full of oil but I didn't think any thing of it.do you think the tappet area oil drains could be stopped up and the tappet area is filling up with oil and draining out the vent hose? Any other ideas ? I appreciate any suggestions and advice. Thanks BTW I have a 68 charger r/t with a 440 4 speed.
It’s your vacuum pump. Little vacuum line is t hooked up and makes it look like blow by. Easy way to know it’s a vacuum leak is you will only have air coming out defrost. Send me an email let me know what happens Vbeltandson@gmail.com
V-Belt... By golly I don't think a guys ever seen a channel operator respond to a comment. Too bad Cali is dumb & too far. I'd like to shake a man's hand. 👍
@@torxxx1 I put a vacuum pump on it yesterday and I plugged the vacuum pump off right at the pump and it still blows a good amount of air out the vent tube and white smoke after warmed up. No smoke out the tail pipe while driving only one puff when first start. The oil fill cap when off has white smoke coming out but no pressure when cap is sat on it. I wouldn't be worried about this if it wasn't using so much oil because the truck runs great going down the road.
It was said that the exhaust brake is often not working on used trucks. What is the fix or problem that you have often found with these exhaust brakes? I just bought a 02 of my wife's grandfather and the exhaust brake randomly doesn't work.
Love the truck ( not color) and the wood trim has to go. Hated the cup holder placement in the first couple of years of the 2 nd gen. Other than that it’s a beast!
Talk about one hell of a return on his investment lol 21,500 in the green on it. Where can I get his luck and find a 12v in pretty good shape for around 3-4K 😂
During the late 70's to early 80's there were dozens of companies that did van conversions, with custom interiors and some type of custom paint. It wasn't until the early 90's when the purchases of the conversion vans waned did the conversion truck become a thing. I just want to know, did this one come with a circus tent? The only thing missing was the mirrored spinning ball hanging from the ceiling. None of the conversion companies build a wiring harness, so all of the add-ons were strung together with a salad bowel of wires. Between wiring issues, the next most common cause for these vehicles getting parked was water leaks and overloaded suspensions..
They are notorious for front suspension issues. Especially death wobble and wondering. Transmissions are just short of garbage. Any kind of rust is a bad sign. Those trucks turn to sand if rust sets in.
This was something made by a custom shop, dodge never had a true 4 door truck till the 3rd gen trucks, albeit a nice looking truck but still not made by dodge , but I do think it'd look better with just the 4 regular doors and without the exstended cab doors in the very back
Crazy they paid that and used it all them years and made $21,5 in profit. Bad ass truck I would have changed the color, put sport front and some 24 Alcoa’s
The conversion trucks are all something to see, that's for sure. Unique piece, sounds like it went to a good home.
Imagine the drive shaft in that thing! There was a little more 'rust' than I expected, ocean salt? That's a problem with Florida vehicles. Very unique!! LOL --gary
@Stupid Liberals Rochester-ish NY here! LOL That truck would have been in the crusher by now here. I just had 4 break rotors rust off my 12 Silverado in 2.5 years!
I'd hotshot with that beast. Especially with a paint matched 40ft Diamond C. It would be awesome setup
I saw that truck on 101 years ago when I was on my bike, I think the lady driving thought I was checking her out but I was only obsessed with this unicorn of a truck.
94 didn't have a extended cab yet. And the company out of Texas was named "custom conversions" I believe. They did allot of conversions like these back then. Sadly they are no longer around. There was also another company called "Bayer" that built these but we're made out of metal over fiberglass
The Texas company was named "Cleburne" all their trucks were fiberglass. The Bayer trucks were steel doors. And had a reinforced roof.
I thought they made an extended cab in 94' did they really not make that yet?
@@GR-rx7zq nope. They didn't come out until 95
@@oldcroneysgarage9739 wow I did not know that. Thanks.
@@GR-rx7zq no problem.
I’ve seen single cab 2wd 2nd gen trucks in the $10k +/- range. Rough some of them. $15k and I think you would have stole it, even needing work.
Yeah in my area, a rusted out, holes in the floor, 400,000 mile, 2 wheel drive, automatic trans, steaming pile of CRAP truck will sell for $10k if it has a 12 valve under the hood. Jeep wranglers of any year or condition $15k at least. Squarebody chevys are all over the place and dirt cheap though, but they're ALL automatic small blocks.
I'd repaint it for sure, Flat black or grey. Build a roof rack for it. Lift it a little with some Alcoa wheels and some aggressive tires. Replace all the light bulbs with led. Oh and tear out all that aftermarket electronics junk and start fresh with just a simple radio and speakers. But that thing is sweet for sure. That's cool you got to go drive it and check it out atleast.
Damn you would ruin it😬
@@garrettpitt2057 Agreed, if one wants to do all that they need to find different truck.
Is almost as bad as guys that go buy rust free bronco/ blazer only to cut em up for looks. Bet that truck tows sweet as a sugar factory.
@@garrettpitt2057 Yeah for sure. Keep it the way it is!
That was such a cool unique truck! I wish you could’ve got it. I’m definitely looking forward to all the upcoming projects this winter! Can’t wait
That would be a dream highway tow rig for off roading vehicles or multi state events.
You have to match the paint by adding spinners on the wheels, and a pickup bed that tilts and spins. Anyway it is a seller market now for the smog exemption stuff. The guys that bought those trucks new in the 90s are old guys today. Thank you for sharing and have a great day!
hey hey we are not old we are vintage
I’ve got a first gen that’s pretty much identical 😂 love seeing trucks like mine, they ain’t around no more
You gotta email me some photos of that!
Vbeltandson@gmail.com
I’d put some Alcoa’s with 33s, paint it black, and update the interior to black. Fox suspension and add t style steering. Make it a highway hauler.
12V content will get you to 100K 🙏. That was a crazy unicorn 🦄😂. Can’t wait for W100 build, now that’s worth following👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Intresting truck would have been a neat project looking forward to seeing the old crew cab you have get done
Found your channel yesterday, came across the 2nd gen ram 2500 you restored. Not going to lie, that got me by the heart strings. I just inherited my dads 2nd gen 2500 after he passed, it was his pride and joy. I'd love to restore it back to its former glory, I just don't have the space or the funds to do so. Love seeing the 2nd gen rams getting some love! Great work, can't wait to see more.
I had a 94 Cummins. It had a custom sleeper on it. It was a regular cab long bed. A company down in Arizona called McKinlly Custom Sleepers, cut the back of the cab out and the front of the bed, and mounted a 36" sleeper on the back of the cab it had that same bench seat in the back. I loved it I sleeper in more times than I can count.
The only dodge truck that actually needs tow mirrors out to just drive:
Length has nothing to do with what tow mirrors are for. Even if you're towing a trailer
@@twayland6186 bro he was joking
Apparently, all the 1500s around here need them out all the time
@@twayland6186 whoosh
@@48Boxer lol I hate 1500s that try to look like 3/4 ton trucks.
Glorious! I saw an extended 2nd gen with Cummins in Colorado a few weeks ago. Denver/Boulder area somewhere... All silver in color with a camper shell I believe.
Very cool truck thanks for sharing it.
That's a "give me 40 acres" truck!
Something in me the whole video was hoping you bought that truck, but I think the D200 will make a cooler truck!
Man this Truck is cool ! 90s style pimp wagon 😬🙌🏻👍🏻
That has soo much potential to be cool.
That silver one you missed is awesome
What a rig. Thanks for showing it on your channel. Very unique
You almost have to become a hotshot if you buy that rig. Almost to 90k, keep it up! 👍
Definitely a one of a kind rig that was entertaining for sure
These old clean trucks will hold their value. For instance have 1990 f250 no rust diesel and 5speed and was offered 8000.
You should have taken the money and run. Wholesale on those are 2k-3k dollars. Retail they go for around 5K in the south east. Unless there’s been a recent engine swap or rebuild. Then they fetch 6-7k for someone lucky.
El looking behind you seem to be a negative person. Cheer up for one comment 🤦🏼♂️ you don’t sound like you know the market at all.
Right now any truck in decent condition has good value.
I was going to look at this truck, I live close to Auburn, such a sweet truck, but these 2nd gens are so spendy now. I own 2 2nd gen duallys I use for my flooring company, love them, simple to work on, but everybody tells me to buy a new truck,but I'm old anuff to remember the 2nd gens when they were new, fell in love and there great work trucks.best body style i think. Just nutz what they go for nowadays since they became popular with the kids. But love seeing Old iron still on the road.
Lol...I was just looking at this truck listed on Craigslist. You'll find parking for it in town.
The only other guy I've seen besides my pops put tge truck in neutral before going into park. 👌 Good man good man 😎🤙
I have two 2001 2500 cummins and one 6x6 and pay for your time been watching you for a couple of yrs. that Donkey was funny
You definitely need to put some silicone on that dashboard and then a dashboard cover rug Dodge ram dashboards of your Vintage disintegrate! Good luck 👍
Had to have been a standard cab originally, no Club Cab in '94.
Have '95 Crew Cab myself 54K miles.
Right now it's a V-10 2wd, came from California......both will be changed.
It did need a lot of redoing. I would not have paid more that 15k. Neat truck.
It’s basically a mega cab! the work alone is worth it!
Lol my nephews want that as his prom limo! Smh 🤦♀️ lol what have I created getting hooked on your channel!
😂😂🤟🏻
Other than repaint it so the donkeys quit laughing everytime it drives by? Handle the maintenance and then use it to haul the horse trailer, toy hauler, RV, or ... Whatever I want to haul with it.
Pretty cool truck. Definitely one of a kind keep up the good work and stay safe out there.
Great video Sam 🇺🇲 I really enjoyed this video 🇺🇲 I remember seeing those in the day here in Alabama
I’ve done some work to that truck! One of my old co workers truck
About 5-6 years ago I was looking at First Gen CCLB with a sleeper in it. Was 2 tone Do Do Brown with maroon interior. Also had 250k on it. Guy was asking $30k and I thought it was a lot of money. It was sold in less than a week. 😳
Saw this in one of the cummins fb groups everyone talking about it definitely a bad ass setup
Would be cool to get a picture of this truck and a Ford F350 centurion together. Basically same cab configuration and dually as well. There seems to be more Ford conversions out there than anything else. I don't think the centurion's came with a stick though.
I'd keep that thing bone stock though, its too cool to modify to modern standards.
My best friend has a c350 aka f350 centurion and I just sold my centurion bronco but both centurion and this mega cab would be a hell of a picture
@@xrogerdabbitx7728 man that would be an amazing one off picture. Why did you end up selling it?
@@sweetmammoth7067 more work restoring it then I had time or money for
V belt I have a question I hope you can answer. I have a 12 valve 215hp manual with 304,000. I think it's all stock being how the screw on the injection pump has not been tampered with. It does not smoke and runs good. I changed the tappet cover gasket because it leaked a lot of oil. Drove it to work I thought everything was fixed but when I got home 100 miles later I noticed oil all over under the truck and it's coming out the vent tube along with air. I seen were someone said it could be the rings but it starts right up and runs great, I would think if it had broken rings it would smoke. There's no oil cap blow by a little smoke comes out but that's it. Smoke comes out the vent tube also. I was wondering what you think it could be. When I changed the tappet cover gasket I seen the oil drains were full of oil but I didn't think any thing of it.do you think the tappet area oil drains could be stopped up and the tappet area is filling up with oil and draining out the vent hose? Any other ideas ? I appreciate any suggestions and advice. Thanks BTW I have a 68 charger r/t with a 440 4 speed.
It’s your vacuum pump. Little vacuum line is t hooked up and makes it look like blow by. Easy way to know it’s a vacuum leak is you will only have air coming out defrost. Send me an email let me know what happens
Vbeltandson@gmail.com
And ps I send me photos of your car!!!
V-Belt...
By golly I don't think a guys ever seen a channel operator respond to a comment. Too bad Cali is dumb & too far. I'd like to shake a man's hand. 👍
@@jrodsumpthin7516 I was thinkin the same thing. . V belt rocks!
@@torxxx1 I put a vacuum pump on it yesterday and I plugged the vacuum pump off right at the pump and it still blows a good amount of air out the vent tube and white smoke after warmed up. No smoke out the tail pipe while driving only one puff when first start. The oil fill cap when off has white smoke coming out but no pressure when cap is sat on it. I wouldn't be worried about this if it wasn't using so much oil because the truck runs great going down the road.
It was said that the exhaust brake is often not working on used trucks. What is the fix or problem that you have often found with these exhaust brakes? I just bought a 02 of my wife's grandfather and the exhaust brake randomly doesn't work.
Cracked vacuum line or no power to switch
Brother, Awesome video! That was a BADASS Rig! Thank you for telling the price! Best Regards!
I literally looked at that truck and thought it was really freaking sick I love a Cummings with a manual
Nice truck for a conversation kit
Wow that is sooooo cool but it is almost too unique. I think your offer was spot on. He made more money so good on him
There is a gmc from the 80’s that looks just like this 2nd gen in Hooksett NH on route 3A
Love the truck ( not color) and the wood trim has to go. Hated the cup holder placement in the first couple of years of the 2 nd gen. Other than that it’s a beast!
car hauler for your hot rods i'd like to see it after you changed it up to your style
Theres one running around dfw Texas that has a sleeper conversion with the flat bed.
Talk about one hell of a return on his investment lol 21,500 in the green on it. Where can I get his luck and find a 12v in pretty good shape for around 3-4K 😂
Cool truck! I was a little scared of all the rust.
Yeah cab had a few spots coming thru the paint aswell but still cool rig
Get on the rust ASAP. Those trucks will turn to powder in no time if it sets in. There’s videos of them folding up from frame rust.
Really cool truck, thanks for sharing.
During the late 70's to early 80's there were dozens of companies that did van conversions, with custom interiors and some type of custom paint. It wasn't until the early 90's when the purchases of the conversion vans waned did the conversion truck become a thing.
I just want to know, did this one come with a circus tent? The only thing missing was the mirrored spinning ball hanging from the ceiling.
None of the conversion companies build a wiring harness, so all of the add-ons were strung together with a salad bowel of wires. Between wiring issues, the next most common cause for these vehicles getting parked was water leaks and overloaded suspensions..
Ive always wanted a van. But i refuse to buy a ford. Since ford is all that i ever see....
Perfect hotshot rig 😱
“Ive bought a lot of dumbsh*t in my life but I ain’t never paid $5 for a girls onlyfans”
I hope California comes back to reality some day soon!
That wood grain add on was dealer added. So I guess it’s “factory” but not really. It was dealer add on. Never rolled out of the plant with it on.
That whole truck is dealer add on lol
It was a full Centurion Custom
Same company that made the four door Ford Broncos around the same time
12:48 I thought 98 12 valves brought into the state need to get some sort of inspection before being exempt?
Yup. That’s the way it used to be.
"Used to be" what is the current situation?
Smog required
The silver 4 door @11:30 is here locally where I'm at. I about flipped my lid first time I saw it.
No way get a photo of it next time
id say used as a rig to take to horse shows so you could all fit in it edit:looks like I'm right
That one sweet looking truck.
Saw this on my local page you must be up near oroville I’m in Arnold Calaveras county
would you ever buy a 7.3 power stroke out of a 97 f350 5 speed to compare it to a cummins
Maybe someday
Washington?! Lol glad you went and saw it
That same style truck just came up for sale in Colorado. Guy is asking 35k . Looks very nice.
That one looks cleaner than the one in my video
I think so . You better hop on it!
Gonna go bankrupt chasing second gen limos hah
Shoulda bought it and restored it man. Such a gem
Hard to buy something that needs restored for a finish’s price
Nice truck wish I could see it in person
I checked this thing out haha pretty slick built truck!
Got a diesel you wanna trade for another diesel I got a smog exempt turbo 7.3 idi 91 last year of split window and colored interior
Dang that's a nice looking rodeo truck you know somebody lost their virginity in that back seat lmfao 👍🏽
Bro I saw that truck on my Facebook market place very nice truck man lift build that would be awesome
makes me wanna weld a club cab onto my first gen crew cab hahahahah!
Have you thought about starting a small cattle farm
Hahaha, the donkey's are laughing at you in that thing!!! to funny
Saw that on Craigslist in reno
I saw a 6 door 5th gen dodge at the county fair literally a week ago.
Did you come out to auburn? Seen that on the side of 49 a month or two back.
Yeah
@@VBELTandSON shit I was just watching, you live out here too? Born and raised here brother.
Yeah $20k and fix everything it’ll be close to $30k to sell afterwords
Perfect light duty hotshot truck. Or tow your hobby race car cross country. Save on hotels, sleep in the back.
Wow that is a wicked truck bud 😎👍 Looks like an old hot shot truck. HI BOONE 😎
There's a white one for sale here in Colorado
I would lift it repaint it add nice wheels and convert the bed to a normal bed and bump up the hp to around 600hp to 800hp
I seen this thing for sale near or in nevada on Facebook marketplace.
I seen this on Craigslist but was waaay out of my budget 🥺🥺😂
the rear ones i want to buy them for my truck the ones that fold flat
The dynamic duo👍👍
I wanna get a second gen dodge with a manual what should I look for key signs that something could be wrong
Body rot is the deal breaker.
They are notorious for front suspension issues. Especially death wobble and wondering. Transmissions are just short of garbage. Any kind of rust is a bad sign. Those trucks turn to sand if rust sets in.
This was something made by a custom shop, dodge never had a true 4 door truck till the 3rd gen trucks, albeit a nice looking truck but still not made by dodge , but I do think it'd look better with just the 4 regular doors and without the exstended cab doors in the very back
I said that in the video:)
@@VBELTandSON oh , woops guess I missed that part , anyways nice looking truck though , just gotta know does it roll coal?😂
Clean it up and a small lift and use it for pulling trailers
That horse trailer is still here in California , I see it at the Mexican rodeos all the time
Haha that’s awesome!
Would you have any videos of this trailer? Sounds interesting.
Is that a centurion conversion?
Insane what the price of those trucks still are
Crazy they paid that and used it all them years and made $21,5 in profit. Bad ass truck I would have changed the color, put sport front and some 24 Alcoa’s
Paint it all one new color that things pretty sweet
Nice truck would love to have one
That’s a truck for Doug Demuro to review 😄