alright, so i'm young and the only real thing of value i have is my trucks. after a close friend passed away last year at 23 (my current age). she had no will or even told anyone her wishes before she passed. this made me think that maybe i should make my wishes known to my family god forbid something happens to me.

flash foreword to yesterday, i was listening to the radio and a song came on. i'm a country music lover so if you dont like country the sum of the song is driving a friend/loved ones truck after they passed. i have expressed that i did not want my trucks sold and to keep them..i dont know why but the thought of somebody else with my truck bothers me. even though it wont really matter if it ever happened


heres the song, i really like it.


so all that being said, have any of you expressed your wishes of what should happen to your truck if again..god forbid something happened to you?

 

Russ, I'm a tad older than you, so my choice is easy. My daughter and son (23 yrs and 20 yrs old) will get my vehicles.

Stewart

 

I've thought about this a lot over the years. I have a good friend that knows what my vehicles and their parts installed are worth and can liquidate those for me I have TONS of parts for different cars and trucks I used to own that I keep for sale on other sites that he can take care of for me

 

Several years ago my wife and I bought life insurance for each other as a wedding anniversary gift. A couple of years ago as an "extra" gift to my wife at Christmas, I gave her a detailed plan of what to do if something were to happen to me. I do all the bills so it included account numbers, minimum payments, addresses, pay-off amounts, and how to manage the insurance money. It also included what to do with my stuff including the Excursion. I actually put instructions in there for her to get on here to get help selling it. (She doesn't really like driving it and wouldn't need it anyway.)

 

I didn't quite get that video, who was that woman and why did he hand her the keys.
Also, I don't care what happens to the ex, if I did I would be depressed about all the other 50 vehicles I owned..............it's just a truck.

In fact I probably am better off not seeing all the creeps driving my old cars......lol

 

When you die, it really doesn't matter what becomes of your material things.

What does matter is to make the decisions easier for your family--don't make them have to decide for you. They will have a hard enough time as it is. Make a 'letter of particulars' and tell them what you would like done with your stuff. Keep it simple and reasonable. If you owe money on trucks, houses, etc., keep in mind that selling is the best way to go--maybe even an auction to get it over with quickly.

 

I'm guessing she was the girlfriend/Wife of the guy who died?

It's a nice thought that someone would own my bikes, cars, trucks etc that would realise the time effort and money that's gone into them.....................but in all honesty (and I am older than the OP, I'm 33) I would want my Wife to just get the best possible prices so her and the kids could have the cash from them

Oh and I love country too (most people here can't stand it ) but I'm not feeling that song or video..........it's a bit 'Brokeback Mountain'

 

Sorry but that song was funny.... Best part of the song/video is that he is driving a Ford!

 

My wife loves our ex and pretty sure it would stay in the family as long as possible. I am in the "auto" industry and have more than enough contacts and close friends that can do any or all of the maintenance it would need as I always do most of my own repairs.

My 14 year old is starting to develop a desire for it as well. He has always said he wants something fuel efficient so he doesn't have to drain mom and dad for gas money...

However, last year we were on the way to go skiing and came across some kids that overestimated the traction of their tires and punted there Saturn about 20 feet down into a nasty ditch.. We hooked up 2 ******'em straps and walked them right out. Pretty sure that sealed the deal for him.

 

As I'm a lot older then the OP (66), I will leave my son the F250 and the wife can sell the X. The wife will have no need for either truck when I'm gone as they're primary use is towing my boat and hauling people to the fishing grounds.

 

At this point in my life (same age), I'm not sure what would happen nor do I really want to think about it. Most of the stuff I have, my parents wouldn't have any desire to keep. I'm just trying to enjoy the most time out of it that I can and hopefully that turns out to be many decades. I want to be that guy who occasionally shows up to car shows with a nice original looking car who has had it (or had it in the family) since new.

While I do like many of the mods I've done to it, I've also kept every single original part as well. As was noted with the GM Futureliners of the '50s, I've kept all the original tires from it in case I do ever want the factory spec some day (for show purposes). I'm like that with trailers too. I'm in hopes that some day I'll find our very first trailer again, and I kept a complete set of the original style tires from our car trailer to use on that should I want the factory look. No, I'd never tow it far on the road with those, but the key part is that they exist. Eventually storing all this stuff will be a problem though.

It was a really tough thing to sell my other Excursion. I'm glad it seemed to go to a decent home, but since I was far from the original owner, I didn't feel completely connected to it. Now the '05, I remember driving it with 200 some miles on it, and I don't want to fathom someone else driving it. I really shouldn't, but I give my parents a hard enough time about driving it.

One thing that I probably haven't made clear but firmly believe in is during the funeral process, I don't want to be buried with anything significant to me. For example, set of truck keys, trailer stuff, etc. No. I like to hope that someone out there in the future would have the same or more appreciation than I, and there's no need for it to waste away for the world not to enjoy.

Case in point: My uncle passed away in 1994. My dad bought a '71 Mustang fastback off the Ford employee B lot when it was a year or so old. He sold it to my uncle (his brother) after a year or two because he needed a car. During that time, my dad did all the work to make it a fake Mach 1- hood, decals, etc. My uncle absolutely loved the car and cherished it, even if he wasn't into the mechanical stuff at all like my dad. After driving it for probably 10 years, it ended up parked in his garage in Ohio and wasn't used. At some point in 1993, my dad and grandpa (the same one who has helped on my project) drove down to Ohio, put it on the trailer, locked brakes and all, and brought it back up here to restore it for my uncle. It wasn't bad, but it did have some major rust going on underneath like all Mustangs do. They both worked quickly to get it restored because my uncle had been diagnosed with cancer. They weren't able to get it finished before he died, but they did get it running and the brakes unlocked to take it back down to Ohio on the trailer so he could sit in it one last time. My grandpa got it finished the following spring and gave it to my cousin. He drove it to high school occasionally, used it as his wedding car in '08, and still has it to this day. Now to my point. When my uncle died, my grandpa felt compelled to remove one of the little hubcaps, which was red to match the paint color of the car, and put it in the casket. In the process of restoring the car, he never did find another red hubcap like that, only a black one. So the car has three red hubcaps and one black one. A small detail, but a critical one nonetheless if someone were to show it some day. I would never, ever want something of mine sacrificed like that.

It really is never too early to start thinking about your wishes though. Just last week, a relative came home from work, passed out on the garage floor and died right there, probably from a heart attack. He was 51. His wife was panicking because he never discussed any of his wishes like this with her, so she had to make all the tough decisions. It would have been much easier on her if they planned it out, but you just never know when your time has come.

 

A hubcap in the casket? There is so much more to life than material things. It was all about what I had and what I could get when I was younger but that isn't where it's at......69 years old.

 

Seeing if i die the family would only need a 7 passenger vehicle, i predict i'll not be cold before she 's sold it and has a 'new' more appropriate vehicle,

 

youll probably die in the excursion going to fast on ice russ so i dont think it matter much, the rest are just cheapies u got anyhow.

 

What happens is really family dependent.
Do any of the family want/need that vehicle.
I am attached to my vehicles, but never thought about when i'm gone beyond my wife knowing it has lots of mods.
My bro drives our dad's car, my sister has our mom's car. It is actually very touching to realize
those cars remind us daily of our parents.