I was SUPER tempted to buy a 2008 Ram 1500 because of this, and the fact that they were nearly giving them away. It wasn’t unheard of to find a Quad Cab 2wd SLT with most of the fixin’s and a Hemi for around 18 large.

18 grand for a quad cab loaded big V8 truck WITH a lifetime powertrain warranty.  I’d have jumped on…

Shit, I thought the same thing!  HAHAHAAH!

Believe me, I know! I suppose I forgot to mention in the main reply that one of the cars in our stable here is a 2006 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer. It has the 4.6L 3V engine, along with the really good 6R60 automatic.

But I too, still get to change wheel bearings here and there. In fact, the very first thing I did to…

Don’t be sorry - that’s called “calling it like you see it.”

I’ve bought a lot of shit out of yards and made nice cars out of them, but Christ......

I wouldn’t give a squirt of piss anything I saw there. Call the junkman, cash it in on weight. Even if you DID want to screw around with this, by the time you got done,…

That’s a pretty good point, and in normal times, my sentiment would hold true. However, these days, tough call.

Fact is, I think this car is overpriced, but my price barometer is tuned for a more normal market situation.  

I’d steer clear, for two reasons, as I work on shit like this all the time.

1. The 5R55 transmission sucks. They blow up at the drop of a hat.

2. These, and their Explorer brethren eat rear wheel bearings like Skittles, and they are a bitch (read expensive) to replace.

The engine is brilliant, and the rest of the car…

And Bradley Brownell has the balls to rip on me for my F150, which is even a FFV model! 

God damn right!

Everything truly IS for sale. This is what I tell those lucky hopefuls trying to clip me of something I’m not ready to turn loose of yet:

The number it might take might be unattainable, and far above market value, but everything IS for sale for the right price. If your idea of right price, and my idea of right price do…

This is very true. Way back in the day, I worked security at a horse track. In the money room. I kept a watchful eye over tens of MILLIONS of dollars in small bills dumped on a table from the tellers.

Let me tell you, whoever said the best smell in the world is money, sure as shit didn’t spend any time in that room. …

What was once “To Serve and Protect” has become “To Harass and Collect.”

I’ll see myself out now. 

Hahahaaha, HAHAAHAHAAHHA!

You’ve gotta be shitting me, right? I didn’t click on any of the links, but c’mon Lawrence.....you’re fucking with me, right?

God damn, Uncle Jesse said it best. The whole world done gone ignernt!

Just for the sake of comparison, for that ask, I could buy a mint 2002 Mustang GT like the one I…

Heh, someone else remembers! 

I love BRAND NEW rent cars too.

“I’mma break this bitch in for ya GOOD.”

I tried explaining that fact to Avis corporate. They said, and I quote, “Oh, they’d just call us and it’d be all right. They’d have let you go.”

That may be so, but the car would be impounded, I’d have gone to jail while they sorted that out, and if I had any business clients in the car, they’d have gone with!

“Yeah,…

Well, to be fair, I was looking for a proper balance, however, if you would like to progress onto the nuclear option, by all means!

When I picked up the car, I did note that the license plate did not match the contract. As I was a corporate customer, I never saw the desk. It just went to my app, here’s your car, red Camry, license plate blah-blah.

I even ASKED at the exit, hey, do I have the right car? Plate doesn’t match my contract. They assured…

Avis blows balls.

They once rented me a Camry that THEY had switched out the license plates with another vehicle. As the story goes, the Camry had its license plates stolen, but they had just sold a Ford Expedition that they still had the plates for. So, they threw the plates from the Expedition onto the Camry, and…

“You musn’t fuck with the Department of Motor Vehicles, Mr. Anderson. We can make your life a living hell.”