Posted on 11/07/2023 2:37:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Because you definitely needed one more argument to buy a Porsche 911 or Toyota Tacoma.
Already have my Porsche 911!
It does everything except carry lumber.
I actually prefer the later models as I like comfort vs the race track.
I read the average payment for a new F-150 is over $900/mo. Who can afford that?
I recently saw a You Tube video of a hot shot driver who put a million miles on his 7.3 diesel F250.
He spent most of the video swearing by BG products. It’s like he was shilling for BG.
But he certainly was on to something. Better than regular maintenance and quality products will make an engine last 1,000,000 miles.
I used to have an uncle who told me one time that he changed the oil in his Buick 455 ci every one thousand miles.
I said; “you’re kidding!” Nope. He said the car may rust away, but the engine will not die.
“My Hondas have been very dependable.”
Actually Honda has always been above average in dependability and uncomplicated design. Japanese Toyota, Honda, Datsun/Nissan have always been top notch in simplicity and dependability.
Here is an interesting factoid for you. The old Toyota land cruiser 4x4 rigs had a Chevy 235 inline 6 casted engine but was bored and threaded to metric standards. You can take a Chevy 6 and it will bolt right up in those.
And of course the Chevy inline 6 was one of the most dependable engines still built to date. The others were the Ford 300 inline, and the old AMC inline that eventually evolved into the Studebaker and then into the Jeep 4.0 up until 2002 I think.
In the 50s and 60s the Japanese kind of reverse engineered our stuff.
Great, I got a similar story. Buddy in high school had the most beautiful black 61 Galaxie Starliner with a 390 with 375 ‘rated’ horses. It was the Daytona model for the year, they had to build 50 of them. With 3 on the tree and OD of all things. I had a 59 vette, 283, with plenty of upgrades, .336 gears (I think) at the time. I had blown my .411. We got into to it on a highway at 70, and were stuck together like glue. Vette had a 160mph speedometer and it was bouncing around 135 and I was done. He was beside me, pulling forward a little, dropping back, coming up again. Couldn’t get past me. Afterward, I said, “What were you doing?” He said “I was trying to get the damn thing into overdrive so I could get by you and it was wrapped up too high and wouldn’t shift!”
Oh, and I have friend who restored a 429 Torino, 71 or 2, gorgeous. Never drives it.
Only the Audi A7 is on that list. I have a 2017 A4. It has been rock solid through 118k miles. Best car I've ever owned.
Don't all BMWs have two wheels? :-)
I bought my car for $5,000 ten years ago. It’s still worth $5,000. Even Porsche can’t beat that.
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My dad knows a very wealthy guy who bought one of those mint near perfect 60s muscle cars at a classic car auction. A Dodge I think.
90k and it never leaves the garage. Too concerned about something will happen to it.
Classic Top Gear demonstrated at least once about super cars really losing value.
Probably because there is very little demand for a used supercar or high end luxury car. If you have big bucks, you want a NEW car and don’t care about the price. You don’t want someone else’s last year trade-in.
Yep, every generation has them. A guy I knew as a teenager had 1924 ‘Something’ in a barn. Had it covered with a parachute. Drove it once a year or so in a parade. It looked very cool. It seemed so ancient. The equivalent age today would 1984.
ONLY two wheels, as in motorcycle.
I have a 20 year old Tundra that is worth more than $10k.
“but it still gets from A to B”
that’s all that matters ...
Toyotas hold their value, that’s for sure.
“429 Torino, 71 or 2”
Probably a 70 or 71 then, my Cuz had one. Those were fantastic engines, they put those in Grand Marques station wagons too. Basically an LTD station wagon. They only had one simple design flaw that caused them to stop using them. In their infinite wisdom engineers decided to save a couple cents per bearing in the assembly line and put “split” cam bearings in those instead of solid one piece full ring bearings. So they would “spin” cam bearings and lose oil pressure causing the whole engine to fail from lack of oil pressure.
Did I mention I hate engineers?
Anyhow, they now make aftermarket bearings for the 429 that are normal drive in solid full ring bearings to eliminate that issue. They are one of those unknown about “Square” engines that have street racing dominance when built right. Square means same stroke length as the bore diameter. Every solid fast and dependable engine for racing through all makes is a “square” engine. Your friend has a keeper there. Mention the cam bearing issue to him. :)
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