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Howdy!
Jim here, no guesses as to why!
Just this afternoon I bought myself a 2004 Chevy Silverado 1500 Extended Cab with the mighty 5.3 Liter Vortec V8 to replace my old worn out 1999 Dodge Dakota which had (amongst many other things) developed an electrical fault with the fuel system causing it to sometimes give the motor gas and sometimes not.
I bought that old girl in 2002 so it was kind of sad to see her go but this Chevy is so much better, both in condition and power.
I paid $6,000 for her with 155K miles on the odometer. Got the price down from $7,000 by trading the guy my old Dodge which he and his son will fix up. Not a bad deal, that Dodge was barely worth a hundred Bucks let alone a Thousand so I got me a good deal and his 14 year old son some experience fixing vehicles. Win win.
The Chevy will be used on the farm for hauling trailers around, hauling junk in the bed, and general driving around in the dirt lanes etc getting to my fields (the four wheel drive on my Dodge died two years ago but the Silverado's works great) and it will also be used for general use driving around town.
That's it for the truck.
Me? I'm 75 years old, live in the house on my ranch which I was born in, as was my father, maintain all the grounds with my own hands and make a livin' from it. You couldn't pay me to be on an office 9-5, I couldn't stand it.
Nothing gives me greater pleasure than workin' up a sweat doin' some hard work and relaxin' afterwords with a Camel unfiltered and an ice cool beer.
With the treatment I give my trucks I think I'll be on here regularly asking for help fixin' her up, but what else are trucks for? They sure as hell aren't for polishin' - they're for workin' to within an inch of their lives, repairing, then doing it all over again until they can't be repaired no more.
Yee-haw.
Just this afternoon I bought myself a 2004 Chevy Silverado 1500 Extended Cab with the mighty 5.3 Liter Vortec V8 to replace my old worn out 1999 Dodge Dakota which had (amongst many other things) developed an electrical fault with the fuel system causing it to sometimes give the motor gas and sometimes not.
I bought that old girl in 2002 so it was kind of sad to see her go but this Chevy is so much better, both in condition and power.
I paid $6,000 for her with 155K miles on the odometer. Got the price down from $7,000 by trading the guy my old Dodge which he and his son will fix up. Not a bad deal, that Dodge was barely worth a hundred Bucks let alone a Thousand so I got me a good deal and his 14 year old son some experience fixing vehicles. Win win.
The Chevy will be used on the farm for hauling trailers around, hauling junk in the bed, and general driving around in the dirt lanes etc getting to my fields (the four wheel drive on my Dodge died two years ago but the Silverado's works great) and it will also be used for general use driving around town.
That's it for the truck.
Me? I'm 75 years old, live in the house on my ranch which I was born in, as was my father, maintain all the grounds with my own hands and make a livin' from it. You couldn't pay me to be on an office 9-5, I couldn't stand it.
Nothing gives me greater pleasure than workin' up a sweat doin' some hard work and relaxin' afterwords with a Camel unfiltered and an ice cool beer.
With the treatment I give my trucks I think I'll be on here regularly asking for help fixin' her up, but what else are trucks for? They sure as hell aren't for polishin' - they're for workin' to within an inch of their lives, repairing, then doing it all over again until they can't be repaired no more.
Yee-haw.
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