Smoke 'em while you can boys, cause the times they are a changin'. There are already lots of mid 80's GM's that you can't buy parts for. There is even less incentive to keep the old iron on the road these days. I will agree that in the past vehicles could be patched together until the wheels fell off. But junkyards have fallen by the wayside, and in their place are salvage yards that remove the hot selling parts and crush the rest. It is scarey to see what the big yards crush per day. And for the full coverage insurance types, if your car's accident repair bill creeps too close to it's book value, it's gone. By allowing the manufacturer's to computerize and over complicate our vehicles we have forced obsolesence on ourselves.
A few more bucks into the F-150
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I've got 276K on my 97 Subaru Outback. Going for 1000000 miles! I've got my own parts car and there's plenty of these cars around. Also their like legos even parts from different models are interchangable.
CAJUNLAWYER
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CaptianSteve I hear you.
1999 Suburban with 291,000 miles on it. I pay a "car note" in repairs about once a year. I actually took delievery in June of 1999 abd I thought I would be able to get to 300k by the 10 year anniversery but it looks like I may not quite make it. Slowed down a lot on the travel when the kids got out of sailing and went off to college. I'm afraid to give it to my son because I just Know it wouldn't last another 10k miles. I know that thing and it's pecadillos like I know my "
". She is perfect on the outside except for that bit of "Mexican pinstriping" she got on my vacation a couple of years ago. She can tow my whaler and is my rolling office/mobile tackle box/storage facility, etc. I'm keeping her till she dies cause she will be the last one I can justify buying.
1999 Suburban with 291,000 miles on it. I pay a "car note" in repairs about once a year. I actually took delievery in June of 1999 abd I thought I would be able to get to 300k by the 10 year anniversery but it looks like I may not quite make it. Slowed down a lot on the travel when the kids got out of sailing and went off to college. I'm afraid to give it to my son because I just Know it wouldn't last another 10k miles. I know that thing and it's pecadillos like I know my "
Andy Taylor
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My '82 Suburban that I have had 10 years and two weeks isn't going to leave my possession as long as parts can be found. I have had to have the carb rebuilt and replaced the alternator in the 75K miles I have driven it. The odo shows 66K, but I really have no idea how many times it has gone around.
rge1066
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My wife has been driving a '93 Volvo 850 for over 5 years now. Paid a couple grand for it and put about that back into it over 5 years. It has about 168k on it and it's at the point where it's not pretty, leaks some oil and the A/C never did work. The previous owners neglected it pretty well though... We're replacing it with a newer used Volvo soon, however we'll give this one over to my brother and he can use it as a commuter and hopefully get a couple more years out of it.
+1 on the Volvo pickup truck! The next-best thing is when I see people at the Home Depot filling up their old '80s 240 with 1,000 pounds of lumber and mulch. Volvo's are the original SUV (Swedish Utility Vehicle)...
=1 ON THOSE CITROEN HYDRAULICS ... been there with a BX - never again...
If y'all want a Volvo pick-up why don't make one?
I've seen all sort of cars made into pick-ups and a Volvo would be a good "donor"...
Must be someone who's done it - just need a gas axe and mig welder...
how much money do you want to spend?
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