HEY! Does anybody need a goddamn expensive truck? Well, here it is!!!
My first house, with a big dam lot, was $27000.
I bought a second house, with a big dam lot, for my daughter and her 3 year old sons to live in, for $105,000.
Now you're telling me a GODDAMN TRUCK is $105,000???
Fuck that.
You seem to miss the fact that they aren't the same dollars.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens when you convert the dollars of the time of the $27,000 first house to todays dollars?
You are comparing apples to beef jerky when you compare old dollars to the dollar of today.
So true.
DeleteAPMEX.com folks.
Spend about 10k a month with them. Actually, juuuuust under that (guess where the trigger is for large transaction reports?)
Your federal reserve notes ain't gonna be worth a shit in a few.
Sheeeeit.
ReplyDeleteLook up what they want for the new Ford Raptor....
I can't thank God enough for allowing me to get my 93 Dodge 3/4 ton 4WD.
$3500 cash and another $2K to get the front seals and axle U joints replaced.
I think total I'm into it under $6K and I drive it every day.
That might be enough for a set of new tires on that Raptor.
If someone gave me a new truck I would sell it immediately and put $20K into the Dodge.
It's a real truck.
Yup. Husband is in the market for a replacement truck. His 2001 F350 diesel 4x4 is rusting out badly. He saw an 2019 similar truck listed at $129,000. What the actual fuck?! We didn’t pay that much for our two first properties.
DeleteI have been looking at used trucks for purchase. I think I have decided to put money into my old dakota instead. Maybe a new motor and transmission. These prices are just crazy for used vehicles.
DeleteIt seems pretty common for boys with too much money to put a bunch of custom crap into a factory ride and then expect to get every dollar out of their testosterone signaling bullshit when they sell it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, as much as a house. A house that not only depreciates, but can be totalled from some uninsured a$$hole driving their POS vehicle. A 100,000 or 20,000 valued vehicle that does the exact same job. Its all ego.
ReplyDeleteGet on Bring a trailer auction site. Surprisingly you can find decent trucks- some are hot rodded, some are as-is, and everything in between.
ReplyDeleteI used them to sell mine.(plus you can see a whole bunch of other vehicles too)
My first and only new truck was a '76 Dodge 4/x4 w/440 automatic trans. $7200 and I thought that was crazy. Traded in my '70 340 Dart and got $3200 for that. The old '76 is still here though not running and every once in a while I look at it and think about bring the old beast back to life.
ReplyDeleteMy grandson bought a 76 dodge pickup, and it is sitting in my driveway. We are slowly, very slowly, getting it back to where I hope to be able to drive it to the store.
DeleteMy 1st truck was a '76 Dodge Adventurer w/ 318 engine. You didn't drive it, just sort of pointed it and the long wheel base made it a comfortable ride. It was purchased used with 72,000 in 1983 and I sold it in 1998 with 314,000 miles. Still original engine - transmission and other major components, but it was on its last legs.
ReplyDeleteI like Dodge. They are good trucks.
DeleteThose 318's are good motors-easy to work on and last forever if you take care of them.
DeleteFor my money 318 is as good as it gets.
DeleteYou ain't lyin' Fred. And as far as it goes, the small block Chevy-being the great-uncle of the 318-is a pretty good way to go also. I actually replaced the timing chain, intake manifold and carburetor on a 67 Dodge with a 318 using the shop manual for a '71 Chevy small block, since I couldn't find one for the small block Chrysler motor and everything worked out fine. I'd take just about any '60's motor ahead of most of the weirdo stuff they put in new cars today. One exception to that might be is the diesel VW/Audi TDI motors, but you can't get those new any more anyway.
DeleteDon't need a pickup, can't afford a pickup even if I wanted one. If I could go back in time I'd rebuy my 1972 VW Beetle for $1,800. Got me from point A to point B for 10 years
ReplyDeleteShould our dear old turbo diesel every poop out, we'll most likely find a 3/4 ton with a carbureted 460 in it, fix what needs to be fixed and call it a day. Seems like the newer a truck is the more likely a catastrophic failure is anyhow. I say catastrophic failure is it cost more than 2g's and can't be fixed in the driveway.
ReplyDeleteIt is a sad commentary on vehicles that we need a $5000 scan tool just to work on them. In the old days we could adjust points with a feeler gauge and be good to go. No more.
DeleteYep.
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