Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!

[tacticalturnip]

It's not a truck, but I have a 2014 CTS-V coupe that has been amazing. I've replaced the tires twice,the key fob batteries three times, done a wheel alignment and nothing else other than fluids. I'm even using the original battery.

I lusted over your car, and of course the rare wagon. The wagon may have been the previous generation.

Still, excellent taste.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I own 2 pickups… a Ford and a Chevrolet…

Both give good service.

The 91 Chevrolet has the high output 350 and set up to tow my trailers… with A/C, auto and pwr brakes/steering and it does well.

The 30 Ford is more for Home Depot runs… something like a dozen sacks of ready mix concrete… it’s very Spartan… 3 spd manual with no power anything.

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In the salt belt all of our old vehicles have dissolved. And new mixtures of anti-icing will dissolve older vehicles dragged into our environment faster than when they were originally sold as new back in the day because of more advanced de-icing mixtures.

It is all very tragic and sad making me envious of anybody living in warmer places or I'd likely be driving some clapped-out, rat-rodish truck with a brand new, sorta modern, drivetrain with Detroit Locker (now Eaton) differential carriers in Dana axles.

 

[ultrarunner]

In the salt belt all of our old vehicles have dissolved. And new mixtures of anti-icing will dissolve older vehicles dragged into our environment faster than when they were originally sold as new back in the day because of more advanced de-icing mixtures.

It is all very tragic and sad making me envious of anybody living in warmer places or I'd likely be driving some clapped out rat-rodish truck with a brand new, sorta modern, drivetrain with Detroit Locker (now Eaton) differential carriers.

Maybe if we salted the roads in California the legislature would not be working so hard getting older vehicles off the road or emission testing back to 1976…

 

[rontaki]

Maybe if we salted the roads in California the legislature would not be working so hard getting older vehicles off the road or emission testing back to 1976…

Nah, we left-coasties are dumping anything that isn't a Tesla. Except some of us here on TBN.

 

[rontaki]

Or Yugo, it doesn't.

If buying a new Yugo back then, the smart thing to do is get the optional rear-window defroster. Keeps your hands warm in winter as you push it down the road!

 

[Paystar]

Wipers, so hard....

Must be because dealer couldn't even put the arms back on in the right spot parked, LOL

 

[QRTRHRS]

Had one of those, spec'd just as you've listed, for many years, put thousands of trouble-free miles on it. Bought it for $1200 from a friend who used it as a wood-cutting truck. Pickup bed was removed and a flatbed installed, with high wood racks. It WOULD haul a load - I moved several single-wide mobile homes with it for friends. Biggest problem was those split rims - tire dealers didn't want to work on them. I'd probably still be driving that thing but the wife insisted she needed a/c and a bigger cab.....

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I was changing tires at my friend's garage/ gas station one day. No one else in the shop but me when this guy saw me and literally threw a $$$t fit. Split rims are a whole other thread so I don't want to go on and on about it but I was taught well.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Must be because dealer couldn't even put the arms back on in the right spot parked, LOL

The bat-stuff crazy thing is Ford has the easiest system for removing and installing the entire wiper arm in the industry.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Maybe if we salted the roads in California the legislature would not be working so hard getting older vehicles off the road or emission testing back to 1976…

In the salt-belt we have a natural mechanism of old vehicle removal that doesn't require legislation. Which is the say, Dr. Spock, I'm waiting for plastic cars. Smile.

 

[Hay Dude]

I also think a lot of the older, simpler light trucks from the 90’s and early 2000’s were destroyed by the “cash for clunkers” program, which caused a horrific shortage of basic cars & light trucks and also doubled the prices of the ones that remained..