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The 2500's are unknown jewels.
This thread was made exactly for chiming in without the normal 'hijack' worries.
It's was made as a tangent attractor.
So, in my normal fashion, there's a story:
In 2003 we had never owned a 4x4 except our bravada, or a truck before and lifestyle changes said it was stupid to not have one. Avalanches were new and odd at the time.
We looked at everythjng from Subaru little truck to Ford sports to Mercedes amg gwagens
We thought the avalanche too odd so never looked. We're on a Chevy lot, got near one up close, decided we would never haul an 8ft pallet of chicken crap, so the fold down wall would indeed work, so we bought a 5.3 under the President Bush 'buy a 6000lb gvw truck and write it a off the same year' tax plan. Free truck if you need to think of it that way.
So, the wife's Chrysler convertible is getting way old and we're looking for a fun replacement.
We go to Vegas to buy a jaguar(or a Kaiser Darrin if one fell in our lap, we didn't know what we wanted.) . Within a block of driving the jag, I hate it. First year of the electronic shocks, I can feel them buzz like some people see fluorescent lights flicker, and it seems to steer from under your butt like a miata does.
So we're off on a search.
We drive them all.
Lexus to biggest bimmer(couldn't find an xlrv or a vw phaeton in Vegas), everything that looks fun.
Wife is saying every drive.
'anothe avalanche would be perfect.'
I'm saying I want something a bit different and two avalanches limit usability as suited to need.
She's saying
'there's only a Chevy and Ford dealer within 150 miles of town and they won't even do Olds warranty work'
I say
'look. If we find find a loaded white 2500 used avalanche in the next hour I'll buy it, but otherwise I'm buying that used v12 BMW.
I turn around in a Buick lot to head to the BMW lot to buy that WAAAAY back of book L, I turn too broadly at the dead end of a car mall, I clip the rear bumper of something not parked right, just a tap.
I had hit a white 2500 avalanche with 14,000 miles on it, less than 6 months old, somehow on a damn Buick lot. I call my secretary, she books it at 32,000, I'm out the door with it at $19,000. So get this: the Iowa farmer who had it changed the exhaust. It has straight through Purple Horny's(glass packs like cherry bombs but throatier) on it. The dealer was afraid of smog mods on such a new vehicle so wanted it the hell off the lot. He couldn't sell it to anyone in Nevada or California or most of Arizona. It was traded in that night and they found the exhaust in the morning. Scared. Straight. Shitless.
No smog in my county, hell, no windshield is required in my county. It still has the hornies on it.
Frickin universe.
Frickin Karma.
There wasn't a buyer in the world for a bigblock gashog with a huge licensing problem but me. There wasn't another white bigblock within 400 miles, let alone a used one.
I'll own it forever.
70,000 miles on it now, a bigbear tune puts it at about 500hp(and he added a trans kick down like the Ford 6sp now has AND it gets almost 14mpg on the freeway. Still gets 5mpg in town) 35psi in the 10 ply tires, rides like a dream. (I have an extra complete factory leather interior in a box. A take off from some silly southern comfort conversion, so I never have to worry about the interior leather doing the Chevy thing.)
We were a land mark for years.
Do you know the house with the matching white avalanches? We're three streets up from that....
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