Kids are making buying a used diesel truck a chore..

[falconbrother]

Kids buying diesel trucks, jacking them way up, fartin around under the hood, hanging a set of huevos off of the bumper, is making finding a nice used diesel truck a real chore. Every dealership that sells trucks has these abominations in the lot. Where does a high schooler find $30,000.00 to drop on a truck?

[midnightsadie]

X2 you can find great trucks just look where the money isn,t.

[vacuumbed]

I’d consider going out of state to find a good used diesel truck that hasn’t been screwed with. Just don’t go north to the rust belt.

[Lessmore]

Mike LeClair wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:
Around here, the oilfields.

You can make $75-100k straight out of high school if you are willing to work two weeks on/one week off, bustin' ass work out in the middle of nowhere, twelve hour shifts, and the threat of being laid off every few years when the market goes bust.

Oilfield is paying better then when I worked derricks

$.85/hr flipping burgers OR $6.36/hr working derrick

Wasn't too tough of a decision.

Rent was $65/month and paid cash for my 1968 Charger and my 1966 Triumph

Lots of 'hot rodded' cars, trucks back in those days too

Just curious - was that '68 Charger equipped with the 360, 383 or, by chance a 440 CID with that delightful Hurst 4 speed quick shifter? Awesome memories I rekindle from time to time about my '69 Road Runner with the 440 6pack. SIGH! grumble grumble.

Cheers!

Mike

Mike,

With the '68 Charger, think your thinking about the 318 rather than the 360. Think the 360 didn't come out till about '74 or so.

That '69 Roadrunner with the A12 440-6 pak would of been a very nice muscle car. I bet you regret not having it anymore. 🙂

Les

[Mike_LeClair]

Old-Biscuit wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:
Around here, the oilfields.

You can make $75-100k straight out of high school if you are willing to work two weeks on/one week off, bustin' ass work out in the middle of nowhere, twelve hour shifts, and the threat of being laid off every few years when the market goes bust.

Oilfield is paying better then when I worked derricks

$.85/hr flipping burgers OR $6.36/hr working derrick

Wasn't too tough of a decision.

Rent was $65/month and paid cash for my 1968 Charger and my 1966 Triumph

Lots of 'hot rodded' cars, trucks back in those days too

Just curious - was that '68 Charger equipped with the 360, 383 or, by chance a 440 CID with that delightful Hurst 4 speed quick shifter? Awesome memories I rekindle from time to time about my '69 Road Runner with the 440 6pack. SIGH! grumble grumble.

Cheers!

Mike

[azdryheat]

This is good news as my Duramax might be worth something when we go to sell it in a year or two.

[Old-Biscuit]

ShinerBock wrote:
Around here, the oilfields.

You can make $75-100k straight out of high school if you are willing to work two weeks on/one week off, bustin' ass work out in the middle of nowhere, twelve hour shifts, and the threat of being laid off every few years when the market goes bust.

Oilfield is paying better then when I worked derricks

$.85/hr flipping burgers OR $6.36/hr working derrick

Wasn't too tough of a decision.

Rent was $65/month and paid cash for my 1968 Charger and my 1966 Triumph

Lots of 'hot rodded' cars, trucks back in those days too

[soren]

ShinerBock wrote:
Around here, the oilfields.

You can make $75-100k straight out of high school if you are willing to work two weeks on/one week off, bustin' ass work out in the middle of nowhere, twelve hour shifts, and the threat of being laid off every few years when the market goes bust.

And boy do slightly used toys get real cheap when oil prices collapse. Everything from four wheelers to bro-dozer diesel trucks are for sale everywhere, and stupid cheap. It will happen again, and banks will be choking on $50K one ton diesels, and other needless trinkets.

[soren]

Jeeps suffer from the same silliness. My kid bought a new one, did a lift and new tire/rims. He then sold the thing 2-3 years later, for seven hundred bucks less than he paid for it new. I guess you can't fix stupid.

[ScottG]

At least you can easily tell what trucks not to buy when they're junked up like that.

[kerrlakeRoo]

"Get off my lawn"
I was thinkin more like Clint Eastwood from Gran Torino.

[falconbrother]

Grit dog wrote:
Get off my lawn.......
Headed to get some more geritol...

Just call me Walter.

[jerem0621]

Just buy a gasser. Problem solved 🙂

[Grit_dog]

Get off my lawn.......
Headed to get some more geritol...

[ShinerBock]

Around here, the oilfields.

You can make $75-100k straight out of high school if you are willing to work two weeks on/one week off, bustin' ass work out in the middle of nowhere, twelve hour shifts, and the threat of being laid off every few years when the market goes bust.

[wildtoad]

Daddy