"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/04/2014 at 22:40 • Filed to: None
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"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/04/2014 at 22:40 • Filed to: None | 0
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During college, my parents helped me buy my first truck, this '98 S-10 extended cab. It was a V6 auto 2wd, with an open diff. They did this, because Dad made me buy their Oldsmobile as my first car ('89 Toronado Troffeo), which fell apart in grand fashion. It had turned into a huge money pit of a hooptie, so I gave them the Olds back, and an entire summer's pay, and they footed the rest of the bill. The truck was three years old at the time (lease turn-in). It certainly had it's quirks, but I loved that plucky little truck. Many a drunk friend was hauled home in the back (in an incredible stroke of luck, nobody ever puked back there). I moved with it lots of times, hauled lots of tools and construction materials, and it never, ever let me down. How I got through some of those muddy construction sites with an open diff, and the Uniroyal Tiger Paw tires it came with, I'll never understand.
After four years, my dad decided that he needed a new truck for no good reason, so he sold me his '00 Silverado 1500 Extended Cab short bed Z-71. Since I was still in grad school, and he got 0% financing on the new truck, he agreed to take whatever I got for the S-10 as a down-payment, and the rest I could pay him after I finished school, and got a job.
The new truck was better, in every way (except for ease of parking, of course), and so is my current truck, but I can't help but miss that S-10. These pictures were taken right before I sold it. A maintenance guy, about my dad's age or so, who drove a very well cared for first gen S-10 bought it. I wouldn't doubt a bit that he's still driving it, and that makes me feel good. I did shed a couple of tears, when he drove off. After I pulled myself together, I had to catch a bus back home (yuck!) to pick up my new rig.
Sam
> shop-teacher
12/05/2014 at 06:19 |
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I rode in an S10 for the first time 2 weeks ago. The jump seats in the back are not made for full sized adults. It was actually only the second truck I've ever ridden in, the other being my dad's 2008 Tundra. Pretty big difference right there.
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shop-teacher
> Sam
12/05/2014 at 07:19 |
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Very true, those jump seats are TINY.