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I must say I have never run a true rust bucket. But I came to call all my former vehicles this toward the end of their lives.

This is because I believe in running cars into the ground mechanically. This has always occurred before I had any significant rust (on the body).

Once you start talking smack on your car, they will start failing mechanically against you in retaliation. This is a proven fact.

Moral of the story:
Do not ever talk smack on your car unless you really want a newer one.
 
I apologize to all ahead of time for this post:

I thought Ryan's post 99 was hilarious. I laughed out loud.

(I guess I am glad, however, that not all vehicles do this.)

 
Call me superstitious, but I agree with you Jack.

I've owned a few rust buckets. They can be a lot of fun if you are young, broke, and like working on rust buckets. But the second date ratio goes to shart.

Later in life, I typically got rid of vehicles before they got too bad, or they had mechanical issues before the body rotted too badly.

In 2016 I bought a 2007 F-150. It does have some rust, but not a lot. So it is still far from being a rust bucket. I think it had about 93K miles on it at the time.

I've had a few weird things go wrong with it mechanically the first year I owned it, but nothing major. It's a very basic truck, so less things to go wrong.

The other day I jumped in it and noticed the odometer said 111111.5 miles.

I love my farm truck, and that is coming from a guy who has driven new stuff for quite awhile. I've done without a truck for way too long.

 
funny, the chevy went pretty much all at once, there were some small spots I had touched up over the years, and I always kept the truck clean and maintained, and then in the course of about a year, it dissolved before my eyes!! Damn road salt!!
 
bikerfish wrote:
funny, the chevy went pretty much all at once, there were some small spots I had touched up over the years, and I always kept the truck clean and maintained, and then in the course of about a year, it dissolved before my eyes!! Damn road salt!!
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Same thing is happening to my friends Silverado. I think it is about a 2004 give or take a couple years. It has about 270K miles on it.

I suspect this will happen to my F-150. I can see where it is spreading. I got a quote on repair and repaint shortly after I bought it, but the guy advised that buying new fenders is cheaper than repair.

I may touch it up this summer, then again, maybe I won't. Afterall, it is just a farm truck, and this is Ohio.

 
The saying amongst hillbillies is that a Chevy Truck will run poorly longer than another vehicle will run, period. I want to get at least 300k on mine, mostly because it would cost too damn much to replace. I don't even want to know what a top-of-the-line offroad-package Suburban costs new in 2018. I got mine (2004) in fall of 2008 when gas was nearly $4.00/gallon. It sold new for $51k. It listed at $35k, but they couldn't give them away with gas prices being what they were. I bought it with 45k miles for $18k. Once gas prices came back down, I looked like a genius.
 
SurfCowboyXX wrote:
The saying amongst hillbillies is that a Chevy Truck will run poorly longer than another vehicle will run, period. I want to get at least 300k on mine, mostly because it would cost too damn much to replace. I don't even want to know what a top-of-the-line offroad-package Suburban costs new in 2018. I got mine (2004) in fall of 2008 when gas was nearly $4.00/gallon. It sold new for $51k. It listed at $35k, but they couldn't give them away with gas prices being what they were. I bought it with 45k miles for $18k. Once gas prices came back down, I looked like a genius.
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Here is the current cost of a new one. :roll: As long as it runs well, keep it; until that point when you need to put big bucks in it to keep it on the road.
 
$70k? Maybe I'll try for 400,000 miles on mine...
 

A thread rarely ends without a idiot down grading fishing with spin gear or bait fishing all the pure white glovers came out of the there moms slit with a fly rod.
 
I'm not sure if you found your way onto this site by accident, but if you check your www at the top, you'll see it's paflyfish.com, not paspinfish.com or pabaitfish.com. I'd imagine you could cruise on over to such a site if it exists and you'll find plenty of people denigrating flyfishermen for being elitist. It's like going to pornhub and complaining there aren't any videos of people abstaining.
 
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A thread rarely ends without a idiot down grading fishing with spin gear or bait fishing all the pure white glovers came out of the there moms slit with a fly rod.
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Agreed, cant we all just unite and hate the dirty spinners?
 
I don't give a rats *** what the www is cowgirl I don't degrade other fisherman for their styles. I don't spin fish or bait fish but Im not going to bash them for how they choose to fish. It's like bow hunting with a compound bow or hunting with a cross bow or a gun. Everyone has their own thing
 
Well no one wants to deny your opportunity to be holier than thou about others being holier than thou.
 

Tom are you saying your the pivot man for a circle jerk?
 
I don't care what anyone else says, that's funny.

I have nothing against any form of fishing, even trolling. ;-)
 
Hook_Jaw wrote:

A thread rarely ends without a idiot down grading fishing with spin gear or bait fishing all the pure white glovers came out of the there moms slit with a fly rod.
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Don’t let the yakkers and dog walkers off the proverbial treble hook here either. Just as bad, and at times worse, than the spincasters or master baiters.

Spills into Trout streams and rollin’ coal aren’t the enemy of us FFers here. Keep our eye on the ball fellas.
 


Im hoping you guys make it up to penns creek to see the feathered hook launch the stealth craft raft that barely fits into the stream and see how you feel when that thing rolls by you when your trying to fish.
 
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Im hoping you guys make it up to penns creek to see the feathered hook launch the stealth craft raft that barely fits into the stream and see how you feel when that thing rolls by you when your trying to fish.
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Much better HJ.
 

Ty I appreciate that Swat.
 
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