On Oct 3, 11:31 am, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:25:20 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

OMFG, I just did the calc for a Toyota Tundra with about 20,000 miles
costing about $20,000. Even paying $9000 down it will cost over 300/
month. Good God am I living in the past. I had no idea vehicles were
so dang expensive these days.
I think the old '88 dodge Ramcharger can run a while longer.

We put a rebuilt motor in a Lincoln Navigator with 175 000 miles on
it. Everything has always worked, the body is perfect, the interior
excellant. When it developed a bad valve guide, expensive to fix, we
went with a new motor, since it should last another 100 000 easy.
All it has ever needed is brakes, tires, fluids. Nothing has ever
broken on it. We change the brake fluid and glycol regularly, not just
the oil and transmission fluid.

Casady

Shopping for trucks, it helps to look like a bum. Walked into
dealership wearing shorts, dirty t-shirt, nasty deck shoes driving my
ancient Nissan. Nobody paid me any attention but after awhile one
salesman decided to take a chance on me. He very clearly steered me
away from the expensive stuff and toward used. he didnt want to spend
any time with me but told me of a guy who buys at auction where I may
get a "good deal".
It now occurrs to me that I may be able to get something close to what
I want, a simple truck with no crappy electrical windows or weird
light electronics that think they are smarter than me by buying a
truck with about 70K miles for less than $10,000.