Perspectives Change

[digitS']

These days, I'd be best off with a utility van but we just aren't gonna do it. We took a drive in a 3/4ton one day. DW was almost outta her mind. Too noisy, too difficult for short people to see. Okay.

But anyway, I have just gotta downsize one of these days. I do 99% of the truck driving but, I can see the writing on the wall. Not just for DW; for me.

If I have DD gather her crew and make a selection, it'll probably be a crossover. She has some expertise to call on. ... I wonder if the mini's carry spading forks and shovels okay. Oh, and buckets. Gotta have buckets.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Get a Mini Cooper with a trailer hitch Steve!

I love Mini Coopers. I will always have a truck, but if I didn't I'd have a Mini.

 

[Carol Dee]

These days, I'd be best off with a utility van but we just aren't gonna do it. We took a drive in a 3/4ton one day. DW was almost outta her mind. Too noisy, too difficult for short people to see. Okay.

But anyway, I have just gotta downsize one of these days. I do 99% of the truck driving but, I can see the writing on the wall. Not just for DW; for me.

If I have DD gather her crew and make a selection, it'll probably be a crossover. She has some expertise to call on. ... I wonder if the mini's carry spading forks and shovels okay. Oh, and buckets. Gotta have buckets.

Steve

My Dodge Grand Caravan is great for me. My son calls it my Granny Mobile. I carry everything in it. It is always dirty. LOL

 

[digitS']

Get a Mini Cooper with a trailer hitch Steve!

I love Mini Coopers. I will always have a truck, but if I didn't I'd have a Mini.

Wouldn't that be fun !

My Dodge Grand Caravan is great for me. My son calls it my Granny Mobile. I carry everything in it. It is always dirty. LOL

My neighbor has one. Really likes and takes care of it. Something I would not have expected from a guy who works for Caterpillar.

Steve
who has almost continuously had a pickup for nearly 50 years ...

 

[Beekissed]

My first car was a '68 Dodge Coronet, metallic gold/beige in color, 4 door and a slant 6 under the hood...could have hid several bodies in the trunk. Bought it for $200 of my own hard earned wages and LOVED that car. Sold the engine out of it later for more than I paid for the car. That car would go anywhere and would squat down and boogie when you pressed that pedal.

The cars of the 50s-60s had artistry and beauty, an appealing flair and glitter you don't find now. Don't know about y'all but I really, really miss bench seats, chrome and paint that never rusted ~and resisted dings(can't seem to make any auto paint that does that anymore, can they?), upholstery that was as tough as elephant hide and easy to clean, interiors that were as glossy and tough as the exteriors and parts that were easy to get, repair and maintain.

There's nothing out there currently that I would intentionally buy or even covet of these newer autos. Not to mention they all cost more than my first home.

 

[thistlebloom]

My first vehicle was a 67 Datsun pickup. Bought it from my pre-husband.
He married me just to get it back. He says not, but I know better.

 

[canesisters]

My first, that was really MINE, was a Dodge Raider named Jethro. Oh, how I LOVED that truck.
I saw one JUST like him on craigslist a while back and sent the ad to a 'gearhead' friend. She sent back a long list of what she could see wrong in the photos and a note that said something like "as bad as you treat your cars you have no business looking at something considered an antique. If you want to throw away $5000 so bad, throw it my way."
LOL

 

[Just-Moxie]

Wouldn't that be fun !


My neighbor has one. Really likes and takes care of it. Something I would not have expected from a guy who works for Caterpillar.

Steve
who has almost continuously had a pickup for nearly 50 years ...

Haha...I worked for Caterpillar also. I also have my truck...my trusty manual transmission, made in Tenn 1998 Nissan Frontier.

The engines we built though......military contracts, school bus contracts, big rig engines.....and yacht engines.
It was THE. BEST. JOB. Well..ok. Almost the best job....I ever got paid to do

 

[Nyboy]

I can't wait to get my pick up truck back.

 

[Smart Red]

Me, too, Nyboy. The family hardly remembers that I have a truck. "Loaned" my 2005 F150 (as basic as I could get) to my son in 2007-ish after his was in an accident -- dratted black ice you Southerners wouldn't understand.