View from a seasoned owner

[ChevLoRay]

I always drove "old" cars. My first one was a 10-yr old '54 Ford 2-dr, V8, stick, dual exhaust, nosed, decked, bar grille and '56 Olds taillight lenses. It had a set of Lancer 4-bars and "Double-Eagle" Port-A-Walls. It was painted '56 Dodge Royal Lancer Blue Metallic and it was the love of my high school senior lifestyle. Crazy thing is my dad had to co-sign for me to buy it for the princely sum of $225! He said, "Well, I guess that anything worth driving is gonna be worth at least $200". Wow. I can't think of taking $2000 for my '96 and that won't even touch my '69! Heck, the wifes' Lexus is now a 12-yr old, born in '98. With only 178K on the clock, it's starting to be broken in, while my '96GMC is the low-mileage vehicle at 145K, unless the '69 odometer is showing 13K on top of once around, i.e., 113K. Starting to think it might be right.