Unlike that Camaro which needs $35000 to make it presentable.

All I can say is “hell no”. At least the Monza is unmolested and an Ohio Camaro?? You’ll only get about 80% of it home.

Many “custom built” vehicles assembled in a private garage are of much higher quality, build-wize, than what comes out of a “factory”

You are one cheep b   .

Doesn’t sound smart to me. I BOUGHT a pretty much loaded 2014 SUV for less than that 2 years ago ( in Canadian Pesos). The effective interst rate was about 1.5 or 2% (what I would have gotten in interest if I left the money in the bank)

I haven’t paid $15 in interest in the last 20 years. My house is paid for and worth about 10 times what I paid for it -my 25 year old pickup has 376000 km on it (and was paid for when I picked it up 9 years ago) - my wife’s 7 year old SUV was also paid for in cash when we bought it 2 years ago and I buy almost…

Depends how long it takes to put on 3000 miles - and how long the trips are. a 1 mile trip to the grocery store once a week takes 4 years to put on 3000 miles - I’ve bought a few of those “creampuffs” - and believe me, even with 3000 kile changes they were NOT PRETTY!!!!

I only use the clutch for about half my shifts, and I know truckers who only use the clutch to pull away from a stop and occasionally when coming to a stop.

Bullship - pardon my French. There is a definite place for SeaFoam in vehicle maintenance. Particularly in “seasonal” engines - or engines going into or coming out of storageor in engines with a “spotty maintenance history” or where fuel quality is questionable. Same with products like Marvel Mystery Oil. (and BG…

Having installed hundreds of AC units on 80's econoboxes I call you on that. The AC clutch generally is disabled when cranking - at least on factory supplied dealer add-on packages from Toyota

If you need to drive slow take the back roads, not the throughway.

I daily a 25 year old - but it’s a Ford, not a GM, and it’s got 375000km+ on the clock. My ‘95 TranSport had 375000Km on the original engine and 10000 on the factory replacement. Age and mileage don’t worry me - lack of maintenance does - and this one looks like it’s been maintained

Virtually every car built before 1990 was more dangerous with the possible exception of a Volvo or a Rover 2ooo. Unless you are in the habit of getting into crashes I think you are making a big mountain out of an anthill.

I had a 1995 TranSport with the “plastic Vantastic body and the 3800. Even with the 3800's quirks I think it was slightly better than the 3400. That said, at $2000 you are almost paying for the tranny rebuild - and as much as I WANTED to love mine, yet hated it for all the little niggly problems, at that price it’s a…

If you want to replace the frame  every few years. They rotted something AWFULL here in Ontario (steering boxes fell off the frame)

Most had the bottoms totally rusted out of them before they hit 15 years up here - with the doors and rockers usually well perforated by about 6 years.

Only after replacing EVERY Russian bearing with a “real” one.

The old Merc was definitely a tough unit - and the 404 Peugeot did yeoman duty in Africa and the middle east for decades as well but THEY fell apart quickly in North America

The question is do you want to be DRIVING the thing, or FIXING it. Yes, the Jeep is easier and cheaper to fix when it breaks - but it breaks a lot oftener than a ‘Yota

Or a Mitsubishi Mighty Max (Dodge D50).  Toyota has the others beat by a small but obvious margin. (at least in the Hilux production years in North America)