drsteve wrote:
Back in the day, IF a vehicle made it to 100,000 miles, you were lucky, and it was more than likely ready for the junk yard.
That depends on how well you take care of your vehicle, how much money you want to put into it and even where you live.
Here is my buddy's Burb that I just ended up painting for him about 2 months ago. The body work took over a year to do working every now and then on it.
It has a newer Vortec in it with a GM built 700R4 and a stock 12 bolt. It also has huge power disk brakes in the front and big drums in the back along with a 35 gallon custom tank so we can drive a long time before refilling.
This thing is far from ready for the junk yard. It was made in the Oakland Ca factory in 1966 and has been in Ca all of it's life so there was very little rust to deal with.
We towed with this Burb for over 15 years taking a 3 hour drive to the race track and another 3 hours home. I will put this Burb up against ANY new truck for reliability. Comfort? Nope, I will take a new truck. Even then this over 50 YO Burb rides and drives pretty nice.
New tires and rims are going on this year and AC is going in for next year. It needs about another 6 months of work and then it will be ready for another 25 years of hard towing work.
Here is a before and after.
