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On 26 Jun 2006 11:41:25 -0700, wrote:

My old Nissan truck with 300,000 miles has you beat all to hell. It
can go anywhere, speedo is broke so I dont worry about goin fast, it
hauls all my sailin crap and I dont worry about the spilled used oil
from my boats diesel in back. I can go thu the woods on any rutted
path bouncin offa trees and I dont worry about scratches. It hasnt had
AC in 10 years so it helps me get used to the heat here. It has a
simple engine cuz all the pollution crap rusted away and fell off.
You have a stereo in your veeeehicle? My gawd, thats for girls and
wine sippin wimps. You gotta be able to lissen to all the machines
noises to tell what its doing. Who needs a built in movie system? My
kids take turns countin all the stuff on my truck that doesnt work. My
daughter is convinced that when it finally dies (although I believe in
automotive immoratlity) that it will go to Old Truck Paradise on Dog
Island where it'll share stories of its adventures with all the other
old trucks there slowly being covered with vines and drifting dunes.
If that ever happens, I'll rig up a player to a small solar cell and
battery to randomely serenade the old trucks with Neil Young's "Long
May You Run"

Brings a tear to my eye. My 1976 Datsun (that was Nissan before they
figured out it was also a silly looking dog in English) Pickup truck
finally died several years back. I don't know how many miles, speedo
broke, I never fixed it. Never had air. It had an early and feeble
attempt at emission control but I left it all off when I changed a
head gasket and the truck was much more efficient without it. Japs
actually thought that people in the U. S. wanted trucks that could
haul so they geared them very low and it would go anywhere and pull
anything.

Only got rid of it because stuff started rusting off. Minor things
like hood hinge brackets and such. For me it was an excuse to buy a
welding machine, however, better half convinced me the welding machine
was worth more than the truck. Sold it to a kid who roached it out
within six months. I miss it. Wish I had bought that welding
machine.

Steereo. Are you kidding me. There is no sound system in the world
that you would be able to hear when that low geared dude was pitching
about 3.5K RPM just to cruise at 65.

Seems like I paid about $2800 for it brand new. Sold it for $600.
Let's see that would be about eighty bucks a year depreciation
expense.

Frank