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Originally Posted by 60sIron
Our K20 Suburban was our family daily driver for 10 years. Logged over 100,000 miles. Getting ready to do it again. Two thing to remember. First is maintenance, once every month or two I'd have to check thinks out bumper to bumper. If I didn't reliability suffered. This isn't an issue for most on the site as we tend to work on our own stuff. New cars just put gas in'm and drive, change the oil when it tells you. Second, is safety, sorry, a 40 year old car or truck isn't as safe as a new one. I can hear the screaming now. I was a paid Fireman for 30 years. Just because the old stuff is made of real steel does not mean it's safer. The newer cars and truck are designed to keep you safe in a collision. Air bags, seat belts and better designed structural members work. That's my 2 cents.......
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true, new vehicles ARE much safer, but driving an older truck also gives you "the bigger hammer effect" safety net over most cars nowadays. while you are going to have big problems if you crash over 50mph, in most lower speed accidents, that extra steel does give you an advantage.
twice it has happened to us, wife was driving my '68, guy went threw a stop & was going under the truck till the front corner caught the rear wheel & spun my wife into a light pole. whole front of guys mazda was wasted, written off, his face was cut up, my wife had not a scratch & $1500 bucks later my '68 was back on the road
4 yrs ago lady ran a red as i was lefting, mercury topaz vs my '85 crew with 38's. drove RIGHT OVER her car, from dr front corner right across her hood, up her windshield onto the roof & dropped off her car by the rear door. her car was dead, killed, wasted, whatever you want to call it, for me it was even less this time- $1200, back on the road, i literally felt nothing, she was in big time shock, i guess when you see a 7600 lb big hammer driving over your 3000 lb topaz....