or Ram 1500 that is rolling coal.

I dont normally respond to myself, but there is a pretty good documentary on the creators of Oregon Trail - well worth the 23 minutes.

This is true - once the vehicle is written off and the claim paid, it becomes a total loss and even if recovered later with no damage, the total loss status remains.

I thought it handled GREAT!

Everyone knows that you have to caulk the wagon first.

Parts availability is still a significant contributing factor. Not knowing when the parts will show up (if ever) has insurers taking the path of totalling an otherwise repairable vehicle because they dont want the risk of having to pay for a rental for a potentially very long time.

Worst falling overboard from a cruise ship.

Tie me kangaroo down, sport.

“The (brand new) Camry interior actually fell apart on us while we were evaluating it. Like...parts that shouldn’t fall off came off in our hands while just doing tactile evaluation on the awful hard plastic the dash was made up of.”

Hell yeah! As a kid I was constantly in airports due to my fathers and grandfathers work and was obsessed with airport service vehicles and am old enough to remember some of these things.  Cleveland Power and Performance is resurrecting an old Jetway.

The idle and run time on the motor have to be huge. 39K miles on the tarmac where the speed limit is 20 mph max.

Cant wait until the FSD (Full Self Drinking) beta turns into a Fcuking Spillage Disaster.

I dont have any serious regrets myself, but one of my dad’s swaps pains me to this day. When the gas crisit hit in the early 70's - he went from a 1969 Chevelle SS to a Vega wagon.

My 2011 Ram decided after 210K that it needed a new camshaft. To replace the truck with a basically equivalent new one was 55K. Sales tax alone would have been $5100. Nope.

I think I know what you meant but this stopped my uncaffeinated brain dead in it’s tracks:

Most RVs are built in and around Elkhart Indiana and there are a lot of Amish employed by these manufacturers. There are also a lot of non Amish there and both segments build them to the quality standards the manufacturer will accept.

But don’t buy one without having it inspected.  The very reason why you said buy used is the very reason why you should have an independent inspector look at the thing.  We looked at more than one that looked good initially but were found to have bandaids over hidden gunshot wounds.

Wife just sent me this with “probably about the same build quality as a real one” https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/producers-pride-camper-tractor-chicken-coop-8-bird-capacity