I agree with Schamran...Great advice and an excellent way of looking at things!! Makes all the money I'm spending on RAE right now not seem so bad.

 

Actually we spent 2 weeks in Israel from day before Christmas into Jan...Wonderful time but way too short. Next time it's Europe and then the Med with a side trip back to Israel.

Ah retirement.....
Wonderful....

 

Great stories all,

If you have the $$ and want to pay cash for a new truck then by all means... But there is definitely the satisfaction and peace of mind that comes with building your own rig. You take pride in it and know that the time and $ spent into it was well worth it.

 

exactly man. as soon as you drive a new vehicle off the lot you loose (dont quote me here, im guessing) like 5000 bucks in value or so. this is like what im doing. rebuilding mine from the ground up. then ya know what you got and you saved a ton of money haha

 

Great job explaining what I wish our gov't would explain to everyone..

I agree building/modifying something yourself is great and sure does make one feel great when you can step back and see what you did..

I love my old truck..

 

Great story. And it is all true. I never really thought about it that way either. I like my 1st gen more than any other truck and would put it up against any other. I love the old school looks and simplicity.

 

This thread struck me when I read it last year and I just made the decision to follow its advice over a late model rig when I finally pulled the trigger on getting back into a diesel.

Just picked up a straight '93 2wd Dually this weekend. Badly sunfaded exterior but a one owner completely leak free and rust free 112K runner.

Mapping out the 600/month plan starting with fresh tires all around, brakes (disks, pads, and flush), all the fluids and AC work (okay a but over 600 this first month).

Next month calls for tint and a 3.07 gear swap (4.10's not very highway friendly)

I've been quoting this thread to the wife since I read it last year and looking forward to seeing how it pans out over the next couple of years.

 

Great thread! I missed it the first time but have been living by BK's advice for over 4 years myself. (it was my dad's advice also when I bought my first car, but what did he know?) Too bad I didn't catch on 30 years earlier.

 

Amen to the buy what everyone else calls old crap but it won't die and come back next year and smoke all them with a old farm truck turned into a rig of beauty! and I like the 600 a month idea and will pass this on to any one thinking of buying a new rig

 

There's always another flaw with buying new that I learned the hard way.
I wrecked my truck last summer. It was a 07 ram 1500 QC 4x4 nice truck. I bought it brand new at the of 07. I had it for just over 21/2 years. When I wrecked my insurance gave 18grand for it (which is the price it woulda cost to buy one like that at that time). Well since I financed it over 84 month which like the only way to get a decent payment amount I still owed 27grand on it.
Which in the end I still owed the bank 9 grand. Now its a year later and guess what. I'm still paying off that truck that I have no even had for a year.
Needless to say I'm never gonna buy new again. You just never know what can happen

 

Hey Pat where you from?

 

Southern ontario

 

Myself, i figure if you have to finance a vehicle for that long it's to expensive to start with.

 

Cool man I am out on the prairies

 

We still need "those fella's" to buy them new trucks or WE won't have any old trucks to buy 20 yrs later, I do know that I'll never be one of "those fella's"