Most people say an old truck will last a looong time with care.is this true for you? Do you do self repairs?
The British television show Top Gear had an excellent segment in which they tried to 'kill' an older Toyota diesel pickupEfforts included smacking the truck into a variety of walls, knocking it around with a wrecking ball, dropping a pop-up camper on it from a crane, submerging it in seawater for several hours, setting it on fire, and placing it on the roof of a building several stories high, which was subsequently demolished by implosionIn each instance, a mechanic was able to repair the truck using simple hand tools and without replacing any partsThe truck was not only able to start but move under it's own power I had a Toyota 22R pickup that did not see these types of abuse, but nonetheless ran very well for over 200,000 miles.
