"PyramidHat" (pyramidhat)
07/18/2016 at 23:02 • Filed to: None
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"PyramidHat" (pyramidhat)
07/18/2016 at 23:02 • Filed to: None | 5
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Right, then...
I just sold my Taco, but it’s not as nasty as it sounds. My 1st Gen 4x4 Taco had been rolled into semi-retirement after I bought the XC70 (The Taco is a great truck, but the Pretty Swedish Girl is so much better for commuting). After over a year of sitting more than driving, I decided that it was time to sell...that, of course, was 1.5 years ago. Yesterday, I took it out to get it moving and got it washed. When I came back, the housemate asked if I was still thinking about selling it, as a buddy of his was looking for something (his Ranger just died)...and that was that. I figure, even if the guy didn’t buy it, it at least got me to get all of my shit out of it (truck cabs tend to accumulate shit for me - stuff for the boat, tools, random camping stuff that I forgot to take out).
Bittersweet, as I’ve had this for 16 years after I bought it from my brother in 2000 (he leased it for the first 2 years for work, and I bought it when the lease ran out). Part of the sadness is that there were times when this was the only reliable thing I had in my life, after my career and my relationship catastrophically failed. While I will miss it, I am happy knowing that it will enjoy daily service again for many many miles (240K is nothing for these).
Yes, this is a mechanical object (I get this way about the motorcycle as well) but still...we’re all Jalopniks, here, so I figure some of you would understand.
OK, blubbering is over. Carry on...
BayAreaMiataBoi
> PyramidHat
07/19/2016 at 00:01 |
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It's hard to let go of a reliable friendship, even if it is with an inanimate object. . .
BoulderZ
> PyramidHat
07/19/2016 at 02:01 |
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That’s just not an easy thing for anyone who appreciates good cars, trucks, and machines. My truck had gotten to the point where it was “rebuild or replace”. The money was no issue, I could have bought any new truck, loaded and modified any way I wanted. I rebuilt mine, and still have it. There’s a good case to be made either way, keeping or selling. I’m not sure there’s a “right” decision, but the individual case can sure sway it either way. 25 years of ownership on mine, I’m fairly sure I’ll keep mine for another couple hundred thousand miles. Unless my son wants it. Maybe. He’ll have to make a really good case in another 13 years or so.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> PyramidHat
07/19/2016 at 08:44 |
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I understand. My wife doesn’t. My poor old truck has been in my care since 1996. I put it into occasionally driven status two years ago. The pressure from my wife to get it is... intense. Yesterday, she found a note on the windshield and strongly suggested I give them a call.
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PyramidHat
> TheRealBicycleBuck
07/19/2016 at 09:24 |
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What does she expect you to do,with the money? Regardless, good luck with whichever decision you make...
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> PyramidHat
07/19/2016 at 10:09 |
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She doesn’t care about the money. It’s about getting the “junker” off her driveway. Her mother’s family is all about appearance - anything that makes you look poor in their eyes must be eliminated. My father-in-law had to move his project boat to a storage unit so it wouldn’t make their house look trashy. Now that the project is done and the boat looks brand-new, he still can’t park it in the side yard for the same reasons. This is why he never started his dream muscle-car project. She won’t even let him build a two-car garage on the back of their property even though it would hide his “junk”. Her family is that way because they grew up dirt-poor. Seriously, her parents were migrant workers and she spent many seasons picking cotton as a child.
My wife is a bit more tolerant now that she realizes her own father never realized his dream because of her mom’s intolerance.
Sorry for the rant. It’s been on my mind for a while.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> PyramidHat
07/19/2016 at 14:05 |
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It’s always a little bit sad selling something that you’ve made lots of memories with. In other news, your screen name is awesome and I need to watch that movie again sometime.
