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Since I recently turned 74, I that found very enjoyable! lol.

 

I guess I’m dyslexic too!

 

I wish we could turn back the hands of time to say like 1969 & keep it there. All these new cars are JUNK. There is not one new car I would buy today. It kills me to say that cause I have been a GM guy since I first saw cars..

 

What you don't want a new GM truck that seizes the motor at 4 miles? Then have multiple replacements fail. If you somehow win that lottery, then your 10 speed auto will need a valve body. The 5.3 and 6.2 still have failing lifters. Go 3L Duramax you say, good bye thrust bearing. The only engine and trans worth buying is the 2.7 Turbomax 4cyl and 8 speed auto, which only took a decade to get right. Ford has a ridiculous amount of recalls on nearly everything. Dodge is better but they pissed off everyone by dropping the Hemi which finally stopped eating lifters. I just priced out a 2026 Dodge Charger SO, $65,000 Canadian. Not in a hurry for another 7 years of $750 a month payments. Something is majorly wrong with Toyota and Honda are even having major failures. China is sitting back smiling unfortunately.

 

Even if a new pickup truck is mechanically sound they rot out quick. The only thing that rots quicker than a Ford is a Dodge, GM doesn't seem much better. I generally don't see cars rot out so quickly.

 

New cars like almost everything else is made new today are ****. More expensive and made like junk.
Yea, I am down to finding low milage, well maintain classics. I like the 1980's cars and have a few. Replacing all the normal maintain stuff. Plus door rubbers etc. Now they are just like new car. But would take 1970 Buick GS 350. Like the one my parents let me drive at 16 years old. Loved that car!

2008 Toyota Tacoma in beautiful Speedway Blue Metallic. Good riding, but brakes were ****!

2019 Toyota Avalon LE. Not a bad car, but tight for a big guy like me.

2022 Toyota Camry SE was a lemon, return in a month, Last Toyota ever for me.

2022 Tesla Y mad fast!!! But after 3 years it was having some problems. They had to replace the computer, a sign of what's to come. Constant computer updates a normal thing! Self driving could not detect concrete barriers parallel to the car. Or see a shiny yellow line that was hit just right by the glaree of the sun in the morning.

 

Been a mostly GM car person from the start! Once I started buying new cars it was GM all the way. Pretty much no issues at all but during the Obama Motors years, things at GM changed IMO. Last two GM cars both had a 3800 V6 in them and were awesome cars (1998 Grand Prix GT and a 2003 Monte Carlo SS)! The Oldsmobile line went away and then the PONTIAC line left us with Chevy and Buick. IMO, PONTIAC should have stayed and Buick should have disappeared. We would have bought a new PONTIAC but since that option was going away and we had a young English Mastiff puppy, we traded the Monte SS for a RAV4 to haul her around in. We now have two English Mastiffs and we just bought a new 2025 RAV 4 Limited and the Mastiffs aren't allowed in that car. I kept the old RAV 4 as my daily driver and as the Mastiff Mover. The female is 156 and the male is 205 and they both fit but it's tight. So mine smells a bit like dogs but the older RAV has 150,000 miles and going just fine. The 2025 should be the last new car we'll ever buy!
For me, getting rid of the 3800 engine was a stupid move by GM. GM has changed too much for me. I never thought I'd ever buy a new foreign car but here I am. I have my 72 Cutlass 442 and my 1976 Corvette to remind me of the old days! But, I'm getting old and suspect in the next couple years the Vette will get sold and sooner than I thought, the 442 may get sold as we downsize. The times and circumstances change. I don't see, hear or drive as well as I used to so I'm keeping and eye on me and am monitoring my ch-ch-ch changes!! But no more GM for me! But, at least I got to grow up/live in some of the best of times!

 

which part of the Ford truck do you see rot on?

 

Curious also about the aluminum Ford trucks, seem to hold up better than some. That wax coated BS GM does on a bare metal frame is a joke and doesn't do squat to keep rust at bay.