Re: Re: Truck prices are insane!!!!!

Posted by G-MAN on June 07, 2004 at 13:57:03 from (67.52.48.10):

In Reply to: Re: Truck prices are insane!!!!! posted by buickanddeere on June 01, 2004 at 13:31:55:

I guess that depends on how you define what you're getting in a truck. I would disagree. What I want is stone-axe reliability and something I can repair myself if it breaks down in the middle of the night out in the middle of nowhere. I have no use for a button I can push that connects me with some operator in God knows where if I lock my keys in the truck. I keep a spare under the hood since I can actually OPEN the hood from outside the cab. I can remember splicing together the headlight harness on a '70 Chevy I used to drive in pitch darkness one night just by feel. You aren't going to do that with anything new. I'd rather replace the mechanical fuel pump hanging on the side of my 350 than drop the fuel tank out of a newer truck to replace an electric one - and I've done both. I never had a DVD player or video games in any vehicle I rode long distances in when I was a kid, and I don't think I suffered because of it. I had books and magazines, and instead of learning how to get to level 37 of Super-Mario Whatever, I actually learned things worth knowing by reading. That's most of the problem with kids these days. They're overentertained so much by rooms full of toys, fourteen cartoon channels, and everything else that when put in a situation where they can't be doing those things, they freak out. Heck, sometimes I even TALKED TO MY PARENTS of all things. God forbid any kid today should have to do that, or any parent have to actually talk to their kid for that matter. Sure, you may get more bells and whistles in a 2004 Chevy than you did in a 1980 Chevy, but I don't think you should be locked into getting those bells and whistles just because one segment of the truck-buying public wants them. I've seen countless '89 and up Chevys that are rusting out worse than my '72. Newer doesn't always mean better.

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