Class A Gas or Diesel

Kayteg1 wrote:

427435 wrote:
Lots of misinformation and slanted views in this thread-------------same old gas vs diesel stuff.

First a little background. I spent much of my career engineering and operating off highway equipment with diesel engines..

I can't get it how a member can make such entrance and follow with arguments on kinder-garden level.
With such education you should be able to come with balance sheet showing cost of use include purchase price, money spend on fuel and depreciation at the time of selling.
Sure for DP purchase, especially when you buy higher quality you have to give up some of your collectible cars, but when you buy gasser don't you have to sell you collection to get fuel money?
What you do at the end when hit with huge depreciation on gasser?

Where's your balance sheet showing I'm wrong?? You don't need to be a rocket engineer to know that diesels are more expensive to maintain or that diesel fuel is about 25% higher today (and likely for the foreseeable future).

Depreciation is usually a % of purchase price------gas or diesel. Thus an expensive diesel WILL have more annual depreciation than a lower cost gasser. My depreciation over over 10 years is around $2500 per year with my gasser. What's yours?

Oh yes, my gasser is ready to roll reliably anywhere you want to go, despite being 15 years old-------------so don't talk to me about the "better" reliability of a DP. It's the house stuff that is the problem with either.