Posted by mkirsch on February 09, 2012 at 05:57:33 from (64.80.110.75):
In Reply to: Truck Wars posted by Dave in GA on February 08, 2012 at 19:48:46:
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I suspect, just as many as ever...
Nobody bought a truck in the 1960's and 1970's with the intent of keeping it and restoring it 40 years down the line. In fact most of them ended up in junkyards.
People were saying the same kind of thing about tractors back in the 1990's: "Where are these Magnums going to be in 20 years? We'll still be running these old H's and M's, and the Magnums will be in the scrap heap." The fact is there are a lot of first-generation Magnums out there with 10's of thousands of hours on them still going strong 20+ years later.
The truth is, you don't know and more often than not you're dead wrong. By you I mean all of us.
My truck is 9 years old. Some grouchy old man told me they were throwaway trucks when I bought it, wouldn't last 3 years. Here we are nearly a decade and 165,000 miles later. Still looks good, still runs good, still drives good. I have no intention of getting rid of it any time soon. That's saying a lot considering that they coat the road with salt any time a flake of snow falls.
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