High Mileage tow vehicle question
I found myself in need of an extra vehicle and found an old grampa truck (93 GMC 1/2t ext cab 4x4) it was cheap and well taken care of by the previous owner who had owned it almost 20 years. It has 21...
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Agree with Grit...but this is such a personal values thing...there is no one size fits all...
Example is my 1980 C10 Silverado. Dad bought it for his'n moms small grocery/butcher shop. Horrible year...1980's was the early years of significant SMOG changes in Calif, but this truck is more emotional than anything else. It NEVER ran right...just good enough
Dad gave it to me in the 90's and was my girls first car...know at their high school as: "The Truck".
Well...finally donated it (sorry, if knew one of my buddies here on this forum wanted it...would have been free to him) and bought a 2007 Nissan Frontier SE long bed (all 6'2" of it) with 84K miles on it. Am going to keep it a loong time...am 70 and maybe one of my last vehicles. Decision to donate started looking at full sized, then Ridgeline (too much like a car), then Taco (too expensive for what it is)...Datsun has always been my preference over Toyota and Honda (have an Odyssey and owned many Toyota's)...Mechanic was fixing up this Frontier as his shop truck and asked me if I wanted after we talked...didn't ask, but since he asked...sure thing...paid him $4.5K for it
Back to the OP's question...it all depends on many things. Like do you a GearHead and like to work on your own, or gotta pay a mechanic? Can you fix it out there on the road or not? These are the key decision points as others have stated...and again, Grit has it on the mark...a lot depends on the condition of it
Example is my 1980 C10 Silverado. Dad bought it for his'n moms small grocery/butcher shop. Horrible year...1980's was the early years of significant SMOG changes in Calif, but this truck is more emotional than anything else. It NEVER ran right...just good enough
Dad gave it to me in the 90's and was my girls first car...know at their high school as: "The Truck".
Well...finally donated it (sorry, if knew one of my buddies here on this forum wanted it...would have been free to him) and bought a 2007 Nissan Frontier SE long bed (all 6'2" of it) with 84K miles on it. Am going to keep it a loong time...am 70 and maybe one of my last vehicles. Decision to donate started looking at full sized, then Ridgeline (too much like a car), then Taco (too expensive for what it is)...Datsun has always been my preference over Toyota and Honda (have an Odyssey and owned many Toyota's)...Mechanic was fixing up this Frontier as his shop truck and asked me if I wanted after we talked...didn't ask, but since he asked...sure thing...paid him $4.5K for it
Back to the OP's question...it all depends on many things. Like do you a GearHead and like to work on your own, or gotta pay a mechanic? Can you fix it out there on the road or not? These are the key decision points as others have stated...and again, Grit has it on the mark...a lot depends on the condition of it
