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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Just as a reference point, I bought my '88 five or six years ago. Paid $2700, and got $1100 for my old '84 (carb) that I couldn't get to pass smog in this county. Still going strong (though I did have to replace a radiator cap this year :-(), so the heir thing applies to me too.
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I thought about going for a much older truck as well, but I needed it to be trustworthy and comfortable enough for the 85 mile (one way!) commute I still need to do once a week. I decided to kill all of the birds I needed killed at the time with just one stone, and that meant getting a newer truck. Looking back on that decision I may not have made the best one. Time will tell.
EDIT: Then again I'm at a point in my life where I can play a bit as far as vehicles are concerned. It may be just me but used Japanese luxury cars look like a fire sale to me these days; Lexuses (Lexi?), Acuras and Infinitis with bulletproof reliability and reputations for going multiple 100's of thousands of miles, cost $75K new loaded up with everything imaginable, and you can find them all day under $20K with under 100K miles. Heck, you can even be fussy about colors and trim levels in most cases. Tempting...