Personally I'd stay away from links on a DD truck. You'll be wearing out expensive heims, who knows how well it was setup and fabricated, and how good its road manners are.
The red one looks like they fabbed the lower links in such a way that they could mount larger shocks without having them high mounted above the bedsides. Who knows for what reason. You could fix it, buy/fab new lower links and new upper shock mounts higher up on the bed cage with a little modification. You might be able to move the lower link mounts higher up on the axle to gain some additional clearance. As it stands tho you'll be hitting those whoops, curbs, and anything else taller than a few inches tall. Front geometry is another big questionmark. It could have crazy bump steer, a shitty ackerman, who knows what kind of quality the engine cage is for the lower arms and the upper shock mount. Its really a risk you take when buying any used garage setup long travel tho.
Assuming there's minimal cab damage the gray one might be a decent find but like 94cobra said, there's not much there to go on.
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