Am I crazy?

[KP1972]

Or just tired?
Sometimes I would just like to trade the old truck for a late '90's GMC Sonoma.

[68 short step]

thats not really moveing up.....id say thats crazy

[CG]

Id say both.

[harrdawg54]

You're crazy. I was driving my rust bucket around today and was thinking.......I love this truck and would not trade it for even a brand new truck. I just feels good to drive it.

[Longhorn Man]

If you are in the daily driver group, i can see where you are coming from. I'd be blowin smoke up your tail pipe if I said I never muttered those words.

[corn]

Thats why I have both. Now I just have to figure out which one I want to tinker on.

[Husker]

Yep, But were all a little crazy now aren't we?
Ron

[Boog]

Originally Posted by KP1972

Or just tired?
Sometimes I would just like to trade the old truck for a late '90's GMC Sonoma.

You can really spend some money on the later models and they can be way more headache than our old ones.

[ccd3]

Just because it's newer doesn't mean you'll sleep better. I just put almost $600 worth of coils on the wife's infiniti. Not a typo... $90x6 coils. I dam near swallowed my tongue when the parts guy told me how much they were.

6 coils.. what the hell? To think what I could put on my '71 with $600.

[EAST SIDE LOW LIFE]

Boog is right and so are all the other guy's that wrote in. Walk away from it for a while if that is possible and come back on a new day. Things always look and feel better on a new day.

esll.

[68C15]

rent or borrow an S10 for a week. you will change your mind.
granted I like the wife's 96 Blazer but my 68 is far better than anything I have ever owned. it starts better, has a good tone to it, shifts nice and firm, stops quicker and with more assurance, steers easier (I could use a broken tooth pick in a parking lot), I can see around me better, has more interior room, plus it can haul and tow more. just getting behind the wheel of "Shrek" is a treat for me.

[El Jay]

I've always been crazy. It keeps me from going insane.
Apologies to Waylon.

My '72 is the current daily driver.
Wouldn't trade it for the world.

But I remember the daze when I had to spend my days off working on the car/truck, just to be able to nurse it back & forth to work for a week; so I could work on it again.
Just to be able to nurse it back & forth to work for a week.

So I REALLY understand the being tired part.

Having said all that, take a break & jump on the truck later.

Just my .02.

El Jay

[wibilly]

i've had them newer fuel injected pos you think you got problems now get one a $17 fuel pump for one of these will cost you$600 for one of them and fail at a much faster rate you do what you want but i'll never fall for that again. i'll pay at the pump rather than have a vehicle that won't get me home

[Frizzle Fry]

I had a late 90's Ranger (same class as an S10/Sonoma IMO) that I traded straight across for my first 67-72; a 69 Short/Step. The 69 needed some work to be a reliable DD but I never regretted that trade. Would never trade the other way.

[suville]

Seems to me fuel cost is minimal for these older trucks when you consider the maintenance costs, payments, and insurance on a newer one that has to go to the shop for most everything And one consolation for me when I dont have money for gas it can sit in the driveway and it costs me zip, just miss a payment or two and its gone! Then youre back lookin for something you can afford. Not to mention the warranty work manditory if you want your warrenty to stay in effect, a friend has a newer burb and the service for warrenty maintainence was $800 that buys a lot of gas.

[70cst]

I think it is natural to occasionally get "burned out".
EAST SIDE LOW LIFE is right when he said to take a break and then come back. To much of a good thing can be bad. If you like ice cream and that's all you ate for six months I would think you would soon get tired of ice cream. You know what they say...absence makes the heart grow fonder.

[airdale94]

I had the local Chevy dealership make me an offer of $18,500 for a new 07 C2500 base model. I just couldn't do it after the problems I had with my 98 C1500 4.3l 5-speed.
I bought my 68 C20 and sold my 98.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by suville

Seems to me fuel cost is minimal for these older trucks when you consider the maintenance costs, payments, and insurance on a newer one that has to go to the shop for most everything And one consolation for me when I dont have money for gas it can sit in the driveway and it costs me zip, just miss a payment or two and its gone! Then youre back lookin for something you can afford. Not to mention the warranty work manditory if you want your warrenty to stay in effect, a friend has a newer burb and the service for warrenty maintainence was $800 that buys a lot of gas.

I keep all this in the back of my mind every time I have a desire for a new car.

However, I used to own a '91 S-10 4x4 extended cab pickup and really wish I still had it. It was so comfortable, reliable, good mpg's, and I could go anywhere in it and not have to worry about bottoming out. I really miss it during snow season.