Because these trucks dont suck!

 

+1 on that... even at 10% over market value, I aint sell'n my 2nd Gen.
Hell, even at 100% over market value I wouldn't sell... market value of my 2nd Gen is ~$3,000 ($2k for a trade)... so no, I wouldn't sell it for $6,000.

 

First for the Ram today, made it a full week back and forth to work on 1 tank of gas! Normally lucky to get 4 1/2 trips.

Over 300 miles on I95 traffic, filled up Monday had 1/2 tank and pump issue gave me premium only so I wonder if half 87 and 93 equals midgrade.

Quite impressed with that mileage, still have 1/4 tank left too!

 

When I worked in Mt. Morris Illinois I was driving 40.8 miles one way. That's 81.6 miles a day or 408 miles for a typical week but I worked a lot of weekends too so it could be 489.6 or even 571.2 miles in a week.

I was driving a '90 Mazda Protégé with a 1.8 four cylinder in it. It had air conditioning and power disk brakes and power steering but that was about all.

Most weeks even if I worked the whole weekend I rarely had to get gas until Sunday. The tank held 11.4 gallons when empty. I finally junked the car when I was rotating the tires one weekend and the rear bumper fell off when I jacked the car up.

You did not use the bumpers to jack the car up there was a notch in front of the rear tires to jack the back up and another behind the front tire to jack up the front. I was really surprised when the bumper fell off and decided to investigate more.

I discovered that pretty much anywhere on the floor pan I could easily poke a screw driver through the metal. I wired the bumper back on and drove the car for the rest of the week to burn the gas out of it, then boned it.

I really miss that car.

 

Stupid little '97 Corolla we used to have didn't even get mileage that good and it had the 1.6L but only a 3spd, no overdrive.

Was lucky to get 3 1/2 trips out of that car.

 

3 speed? What is this, the 70s?

 

Stewie, at least with a Corolla, you can do an engine swap for a carton of beer (at least it use to be like that in Oz) and 8hrs work.
They were as common as, and you could go to a wrecker and pull an engine for a carton of beer... it would take another carton for yourself to swap it into your vehicle.
I did this many times, putting Corolla engines into an old 69 Hilux... it was cheaper and easier to put multiple wrecker engines in than it was to actually rebuild an engine.

 

Automatic, 3spd, no overdrive.

Stupid I know....

 

If anyone bothers to know

 

My Mazda had the 3 speed automatic but it did have overdrive.

I originally bought the car because my kid was about to get her drivers license. My younger sister had the car and only wanted $400.00.

It had just under 100,000 miles on it when I bought it and just a shade over 200,400 on it when I boned it 6 years later. It still started and ran quite well, even with all those miles on it, it did not use much oil between changes.

I had the usual problems with the front anti sway bar hardware and had to replace the passengers side half shaft.

I put a set of rear struts in it and replaced the brakes but really other than oil changes and a set of plugs, wires, points, and distributor cap I never did have to do much with it.

I did change the air conditioning to R-134a when you could no longer get R-12.