Never have owned a car and never will
Currently Driving...92 Chevy Silverado 1/2 ton 4x4, cab & a half long bed. 190,000 miles, still runnin strong. Pretty much my work truck...had it about a year. Ran hard a lot of the time pulling trailers and equipment between the 2 farms I work on. Love the thing and hope to put many more miles on it before it goes. Other then regular maintenance and a couple minor fixes its held up quite well. Had a true dual exhaust run on it when I got it. Nice and loud, a mandatory thing for trucks here...they better be heard...want a roar not a purr
2nd vehicle...not really a truck as more of an SUV. It was my first and is currently kind of a project/screw around vehicle. 89 Ford Bronco II XLT 4x4. At 294,000 miles its had a long hard life...owned it for the last 4 years. Body, frame, paint is all in insane condition. No rust :shock: Just a few minor dents and a couple spots where paints chipped. Fully rebuilt front a back brakes, been worked over pretty well and still have some to go. Even has a new fuel tank as the old one had a huge hole I found one day when I came out of school and found about 15 gallons of my gas on the ground :x But that was in 2005...no longer in school. Its seen its days but long as its kept up it will go another 300K. But not with me. Once a few more minor fixes...mainly interior, drivers door needs a new handle and a new gear for the window motor. Kind of a pain when you have to force the window down by hand and reach out to open the door
The latch on the hatch broke a couple weeks ago...so going to fix it too. Get a couple really small fixes to the engine and will be selling it in a couple months. Time for someone else to put some miles on it :?
Only had a couple other trucks. One a couple years ago...91 Ford F-150...piece of junk, paid only $500 for it though, blew the engine 2 months after I bought it. Scrapped it out.
Another one...my baby...94 Chevy Silverado 1/2 ton 4x4 standard cab long bed. Paid $3000 for it...Put well over $5000 into it, new black paint, pretty much gutted and put a new gray interior in it. Originally was red with a red interior which I hated to death and it wasn't in the greatest shape, but it only had 75,000 miles on it with a very strong engine. True dual exhaust that had a great low pitched rumble. It was the best truck I've ever owned. Had it for a year, put about 15,000 miles on it. Then late one night coming home from work, down a country road, it was raining, and pushing my speed a little bit more then I should have givin the weather. Came up over a hill and slammed a very large buck at 65mph, hood flew up, lost control, rolled a couple times, and finally came to rest in a ditch. Woke up a couple hours later in the hospital where I found out I had 3 broken ribs, shattered 3 fingers on my right hand, broke my right leg, and had a lot of cuts and bruises :oops:
Probably keep the 92 awhile...or might look into something a little newer when I get taxes back. I wont go brand new...a 98 is about my top year. Don't need all the fancy electronic crap, sensors etc...just more junk to go wrong. Just want a basic truck, not pressure sensors telling me when tires are low, oil needs changed, compass, outside temp....its all this junk I see in new trucks that to me is useless. Something goes wrong with some of those computer controls and it pretty much has to go to a shop. Do away with that junk and I can do pretty much all the work myself for much cheaper. Need a truck can haul...not tell me its 30°F outside.
