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I too, will keep fixing my 20+ year old vehicles until I cannot get out of my chair any more. The purchase price is outrageous and if they make it 10 years, the plastic parts have all been replaced, sold off and are now out of stock and the whole thing has to be taken to the junkyard because of a hole in the intake manifold or something equally as idiotic.
the Excursion Work Horse did me well, made 6 trips from Utah to Oklahoma and twice to Georgia, moving stuff from the farm located down at Cleveland, UT some 20ish miles south of Price, UT.
from Price, UT to Dawsonville, GA
From Price, UT to Oologah, OK this pix somewhere in Texas on I-40 during a rest stop, my legs require me to get out and walk every couple hours.
the Kia on the Aluma Trailer just before I headed for home with my sister in tow inside the Excursion.
That 40' Western Star motorhome is now at my home, my son drove it on one of the many trips we made, he flew up and made 3 trips, I enjoyed having his help.
Final Staging, on my very last trip to/from Utah, the 6th trip I made up there to get all of the Details taken care of, I was alone on this last trip, took me six weeks to finalize everything. Court sessions to get the property from her Husband's name into her name. At least he left a Last Will stating everything goes to her.
from left to right, 16 ft Cargo Trailer, 40' motorhome, a big pontoon boat that stayed right there, in front of the house, a 16 ft Cargo Trailer packed with furniture, ready to roll to Oklahoma.
I too, will keep fixing my 20+ year old vehicles until I cannot get out of my chair any more. The purchase price is outrageous and if they make it 10 years, the plastic parts have all been replaced, sold off and are now out of stock and the whole thing has to be taken to the junkyard because of a hole in the intake manifold or something equally as idiotic.
These trucks also are about the last ones made before there became an absolutely ridiculous amount of unwanted electronics, the last ones that can reasonably be found with a manual transmission, and the last ones before emissions regs on diesels became a real expensive nuisance to deal with. I personally like that my '99 has a manual transmission, manual transfer case, manual hubs, no blind spot flashers and dingers, no "traction control" that makes the truck act unpredictably in slick situations, normal gauges with actual needles that are easy to read, no silly backup camera (that just displays a picture of the gravel dust on the lens if I drove the vehicle more than five feet since last washing it), an actual ignition key rather than a proximity fob, the radio and HVAC controls are actual buttons and ***** that pushing or turning them immediately does what you want rather than taking your eyes off the road to go through fifty levels of touchscreen menus to do something simple like change a radio station or bump the HVAC temp down a little, and few to no buttons on the steering wheel to accidentally hit when driving. Do the automakers actually expect people to drive a vehicle or just try to pay as little as attention as possible to driving when they use their cell phone?
These trucks also are about the last ones made before there became an absolutely ridiculous amount of unwanted electronics, the last ones that can reasonably be found with a manual transmission, and the last ones before emissions regs on diesels became a real expensive nuisance to deal with. I personally like that my '99 has a manual transmission, manual transfer case, manual hubs, no blind spot flashers and dingers, no "traction control" that makes the truck act unpredictably in slick situations, normal gauges with actual needles that are easy to read, no silly backup camera (that just displays a picture of the gravel dust on the lens if I drove the vehicle more than five feet since last washing it), an actual ignition key rather than a proximity fob, the radio and HVAC controls are actual buttons and ***** that pushing or turning them immediately does what you want rather than taking your eyes off the road to go through fifty levels of touchscreen menus to do something simple like change a radio station or bump the HVAC temp down a little, and few to no buttons on the steering wheel to accidentally hit when driving. Do the automakers actually expect people to drive a vehicle or just try to pay as little as attention as possible to driving when they use their cell phone?
I have exactly the same setup, too. All manual everything. Yes I have to get out of the driver's seat and lock the front hubs, but then at least I know that they are actually locked!
And I cannot agree more with you on the touch screen/driver distraction issue that the vehicle makers are hell bent on bringing to market.
Every time I hear about how much it costs to replace a turbo on a 6.7 Cummins, or DCR swap a 6.7 Ford, or to do a full delete on any of the newer ones, I’m suddenly not that interested in owning any of them
These trucks also are about the last ones made before there became an absolutely ridiculous amount of unwanted electronics, the last ones that can reasonably be found with a manual transmission, and the last ones before emissions regs on diesels became a real expensive nuisance to deal with. I personally like that my '99 has a manual transmission, manual transfer case, manual hubs, no blind spot flashers and dingers, no "traction control" that makes the truck act unpredictably in slick situations, normal gauges with actual needles that are easy to read, no silly backup camera (that just displays a picture of the gravel dust on the lens if I drove the vehicle more than five feet since last washing it), an actual ignition key rather than a proximity fob, the radio and HVAC controls are actual buttons and ***** that pushing or turning them immediately does what you want rather than taking your eyes off the road to go through fifty levels of touchscreen menus to do something simple like change a radio station or bump the HVAC temp down a little, and few to no buttons on the steering wheel to accidentally hit when driving. Do the automakers actually expect people to drive a vehicle or just try to pay as little as attention as possible to driving when they use their cell phone?
Not sure if you would like or hate my truck. 😂 It's a 99 7.3 manual trans case and hubs. Buuuuut has interior of a 11-16 superduty with all the bells and whistles. lol backup cam. Fancy led cluster. Buttons on the steering wheel. Big touch screen radio.
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