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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:10 am
by CaptainPioneer
My Cuz had a K5 Blazer that had about 140k when he bought it ... Only made it to 160k... He lifted it 3" and threw some larger tires on it... The engine started to knock and then out of know where it threw a piston.
He just threw it away.... TOO bad the body was in perfect shape... I'm sure someone snatched it up and threw a new motor in it.
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:04 am
by Tim
MobileAudio219 wrote:My sisters 95 explorer is creeping up on 300,000 miles, original motor and trans, no rebuilds...
dude you aint even kidding. At my previous job, route salesman, we had a bunch of Ford trucks F-350-F-450's. One of the F-350's had like 200,000 on it when I took it over by the time I was done with it, it had 285,000. So yeah those older ones are built like tanks, not putting the new ones down by any means, I just have personal experience with the older ones.
tim
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:07 am
by Bwcad1
GF's dad has a 73 Chevy pickup with well over 400,000
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:48 pm
by MobileAudio219
Bwcad1 wrote:GF's dad has a 73 Chevy pickup with well over 400,000
My buddy has a early 90's ram (cummins) that has around 750,000 miles.
Of course he's the orginal owner, it's all hwy miles (he owns an escorting business/big trucks), and he's replaced pretty much the who truck part by part more than a few times...
I actually painted it back when I was 17-18 y.o's, it was my first full paint job. I had painted a bunch of fenders and such for my buddies little dealer ship that I worked for, but never a complete vehicle. Didnt turn out to bad. Of course he's put about a million miles on it since then (back in '01), but he still pretty pleased with it.