“The old one was so much better.” I’m guilty of saying that sometimes, especially as it relates to cars and honestly, it’s never entirely true. Still, this type of thinking tends to become commonly accepted “truth” and creates myths that drive prices into the stratosphere.
We’ve seen that in recent years with cars like the “Neue Klasse” BMW 2002 and air-cooled Porsche 911s. These will commonly sell for prices close to that of new cars despite being archaic in most ways and, in many cases, just not that much fun to drive as some far less expensive newer rides. It seems a bit absurd to me. However, it’s not as absurd as watching the same thing happen with some pickup trucks. Talk about a product that has improved in leaps and bounds over the last few decades. Why are people asking nearly-new-truck money for thirty-year-old diesel Ford trucks with a design that goes back nearly half a century? Are they idiots, or smarter than the rest of us?
We Don’t Want No Jellybean Trucks
Messing with an icon is one of the most dangerous things anyone can do. Ford did just that in 1997 with their Tenth-Generation F-Series pickups, and the results were certainly polarizing. Personally, I have to agree with Tenth-Gen fan Matt Hardigree: they’re great designs.
These trucks were a bold move to bring Taurus-like aerodynamics to the great American mainstay of the full-sized pickup, honest and forward-thinking designs that suddenly made the GM products seem brick-like. They also made RAM’s mini-semi-trucks appear to be a bit cartoonish; I can hear David Tracy and a million Twister-truck fans with pitchforks right now, but seriously, the fake-big-rig thing was styling, not functionality.
Not everyone shared (or still shares) Matt’s opinion and mine. There are plenty of fans of the previous 1992-96 Ninth-Generation truck that became known as the “OBS”, or old body style. “Old” is the right word; this thing was fundamentally a seventeen-year-old truck when it was finally discontinued in 1996.
Other than the slightly softened front clip and detailing, the Ninth-Gen truck was just a refresh of the 1987-91 Eighth Generation, like our man Jason drives with a FARM USE plate.
That truck was itself a rehash of the Seventh-Gen “Bullnose” trucks that came out for 1980.
These “OBS” aficionados see these last boxy trucks not as anachronisms but instead as a perfected, final edition of an old favorite. As such, they often seek to get one with what they consider to be one of the most durable diesel motors ever put into a Blue Oval: the 7.3-liter Power Stroke.
There was nothing fundamentally wrong with the International Harvester V8 “IDI” (indirect injection) turbo diesels used in Ford pickups up to the early nineties. The problem was a pesky 5.9-liter six-cylinder turbo diesel motor that Cummins made for RAM trucks that appeared in 1989. Sure, the Mopar truck was a liter-and-a-half smaller in displacement and had two fewer cylinders than the 7.3-liter IDI, and at 400 lb-ft of torque (with an automatic, 425 with the manual) it was more than the Ford’s 388 figure, but the numbers alone don’t tell the full story. The RAM produced that power much lower in the rev range and held it steadier, making it the clear choice for hard-core towing.
Midway through the 1994 model year, Ford atoned for this deficit with an all-new computer-controlled, Navistar-made 7.3-liter direct-injection diesel they named Power Stroke. Despite having the same displacement as the earlier IDI, the engines were entirely different, with the Power Stroke pumping out 425 lb-ft of grunt and making it a much better match for the vaunted Cummins. You can read a far better and deeper dive on the Power Stroke by clicking here for Mercedes Streeter’s always excellent posts.
All of this means that the mid-1994 to 1996 editions of the boxy F-Series with the legendary Navistar turbo diesel are desirable trucks to many old-school Ford fans. The question, though, is it really almost as desirable as a new truck? I ask that because that’s where some of the price tags are trending.
Is That Decimal Point In The Right Place?
Sometimes you see an anomaly online and just dismiss it. That’s what I thought when I saw one seemingly astronomical price for a late OBS Power Stroke online. A deeper dive said that ain’t so.
The one that caught me right away was this low-mileage one that sold for damn near six figures:
Good Lord. That’s a nice-looking old truck, but for that kind of money? Take a look inside:
Very clean, but those seats! That upholstery! This was a work truck; it wasn’t even nice when it was new. Actually, it’s a nice change from can’t-get-it-dirty embroidered King Ranch logo leather, but a hundred grand? That has to be a fluke, right? Apparently not. Here’s a similar rig with over 66,000 miles on the clock. Less money, to be sure, but still a huge chunk of change:
Look! Here’s a bargain for barely much more than new Maverick money! Oh, wait, the odometer reads 166,000. Make no mistake, I bet this thing has a lot of life left in it, but at that price?
Another one with under 100,000 miles and yet it went for top dollar.
What’s funny is that for the same money, this dealer has a nearly new and much more amusing truck available with lots of new-car warranty left in terms of mileage and time. I want this one!
Sure, I’m not denying that these OBS Power Strokes are appealing old-school things, like a country music song embodied in a vehicle. What I am saying is that these are old pickup trucks, people! Are you insane? The most tragic part of these inflated values is that these aren’t like, say, an old Hispano-Suiza or fifties Ferraris that look great but are pretty useless and unsatisfying to drive anyway; go ahead and drive up the value on those and turn them into inanimate objects. A Power Stroke OBS, on the other hand, is a very usable machine; putting near-six-figure price tags on them seems to kill that utility. What a shame.
You Can Get Better, But You Can’t Get More Expensive
Will this trend continue? If so, what can be learned from this? I’m not entirely sure, but if anything, it says that a certain segment of the population really does miss a simple, boxy, and no-frills pickup.
I don’t blame them. Sure, we need all of the safety equipment that’s required today, along with emissions and fuel economy standards that result in small and complex turbocharged motors. That doesn’t mean we can’t get more of the spirit of the old OBS in the design of our brand-new pickups.
Give us A/C, CarPlay, and power windows, but forget your massaging seats, full-width screens, and insane skyscraper-tall grilles. Give us honesty, functionality, and durability. People seem to put a high value on those qualities – literally.
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Old truck prices are insane. I learned to drive on my dad’s 72 Chevy C-10. Good luck finding one of those in decent shape for a decent price.
I had a 73K10 when I was a kid, I sold it in ’00 when I wanted to buy an LS1 Trans Am. I always figured I’d pick up another one. Not anymore, even rotted out non running projects are going for nearly 5 figures.
Now I’m trying to convince myself to spend around 15K for a similar era Suburban (the “bargain” square), realistically those prices are going nowhere but UP as well. It’s likely a safer bet than keeping the money in the bank.
I had a ’73 Blazer with under 100K on the clock that I bought with a blown motor in like 2003? Replaced the motor and offroaded it and daily drove it for a few years. Even then the ’60s C10s were going up in value, but it didn’t make sense to me to keep it, and the rear fenders were rusting out even though the rest of it was quite clean. Sold it for like $800, I can only imagine what that would be worth now with the rear fenders patched and painted.
I saw a K5 plow truck recently that had a trashed interior and rear quarters that looked like lacy swiss, and it was listed for 6K.
I saw a decent looking GMC variant listed for 12K the other day, my first thought was “what’s wrong with it?”, that seems too good to be true. If it wasn’t 4 hours away I’d probably have gone to check it out.
I still kick myself for selling that K10, but at the time they were just old trucks and still fairly common. I knew 4 other guys that were daily driving them at the time.
Lol right, I saw an early ’80s GMC on marketplace this morning for $6K, and was like that’s too good to be true. And sure enough, 2wd, massive dent on the passenger side door (though otherwise quite clean) and owner says it blows white smoke for a few minutes on startup. Don’t really need one but occasionally I find myself thinking having a pickup around would be kind of useful and I suppose I do have a little bit of a softspot for these.
But yeah those squarebodies were a dime a dozen back then, I suppose it helps that GM sold the same basic body style for like 15 years?
I joined a Squarebody Suburban group on FB a while back to keep an eye on them, earlier today a guy posted pics of a very clean 88 that he was thinking of selling, asking if 12K seemed fair. Most of the comments were people telling him he was crazy, that’s far too low.
I have a suspicion (to the point of this article actually) that the Suburbans are worth less than the Blazers or especially the Trucks? Like they’re kind of designed for tearing up hauling people and stuff? But I get the nostalgia we had two of them growing up, my dad had a white one when I was little that is still one of my earliest car memories.
I had a ’97 XL 4×4 F250 OBS with the Powerstroke. Regret selling that truck every day… was the only year the OBS came with 4 doors and a short bed. Was just a few years ago and everyone said “oh you’re gunna get so much money for that” but in the end I got no bites for anything more than what the same year Chevy or GM were asking. It did have 360,000 miles, but ran great. Oh well…
Whelp I probably will never own a clean first gen 7.3 at this point. I like my 1st Gen Cummins as stupid simple to work on and reliable but I did like how my 7.3 sounded a bit better (yes I know it sounded like a school bus haha)
My Dad owned a non-diesel variant of one of these. It was too fucking big and was akin to driving a school bus. Someone else wanna’ buy this? Go for it.
Admittedly they aren’t making new ones.
If you like the way they drive, or a lot of the qualities of that era vehicle, an old one is the only way to get that.
I don’t see them as intrinsically desirable vehicles, unlike sporty cars. They fall closer to something like a Chevrolet Caprice of the era; a vehicle used for utility and a reminder of how far we’ve come in auto manufacturing.
Then again, I’ve perused used car listings for clean late ’90s/early 2000s economy cars, so I’m not throwing stones from my glass house.
But woof, I could not see myself throwing around that kind of money for one.
What are the buyers doing with these trucks? They’re not low mileage garage queens, but they’re too nice to do real work with at that price.
I tried to make a parallel to Fox bodies since they’ve come up in value due to nostalgia, but lots of people snap up “average” versions so they can be modified, and the really valuable ones at auction are the super low mile cream puffs that nobody will drive. So it’s not the same as these trucks.
Never underestimate the power of hav8ng a diesel you can work on and doesn’t take DEF.
Worth every penny!
OK Moneybags.
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You’re goddamned right!
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Yeah diesel is oh so cheap
Just stick in a Wailing Jennings CD and play till the pain passes away.
I’ll stick to my plug-in hybrid that gets better real world fuel economy and uses much cheaper fuel for daily driving… and then just rent a truck or van the odd time I need it.
It ain’t about power. It’s about being able to fix and maintain the beast.
Modern vehicles like my C-Max are DIY-fixable and maintainable as well.
I’ve done plenty of my own work on it already.
And the parts and how-to videos are widely available as it’s on a common Ford chassis shared with the Escape and other vehicles.
I prefer the old Chilton method myself.
I always found the Chilton manuals to have ALMOST enough info to do a given job and the diagrams inadequate. I prefer watching how-to youtube videos.
Everybody’s got their preference. This is what I am used to.
Agreed.
That much for that truck is either a rich idiot showing off like they used to do by lighting $100 bills to light cigars, or coordinated money laundering so the seller can show the 90 grand came from selling a truck, and not from selling cocaine.
It’s crazy how clean and purposeful trucks used to look. Now they all look like power tools on steroids.
Power tools also used to look clean and purposeful.
When males reach 45 to 50 years old they start paying stupid amounts of money for vehicles they wanted when they were in high school or college and could not afford. So it has been for decades.
I’m 48. High school ended in 1996.
I’m 46 and have no desire to spend stupid money on vehicles I thought we’re cool in the 80s and 90s.
Some people golf. Some people ski. Some people buy boats or airplanes. Some people do hookers and blow. And some people spend way too much money on old cars they think are cool. <shrug> Do what makes you happy.
I can’t fathom spending $100K (and it will be that once you pay sales tax and sundry fees and register the thing) on an ancient diesel truck. But obviously it floated somebody’s boat. And can tow it as a bonus!
Do what makes you happy sure. I’m just surprised that we are still acting surprised about a trend that has held for decades
Exactly.
I just reserve the right to think you are an idiot for doing it. 🙂
Sure, as long as your happiness does not come at the misery of others. Which these dirty, oversized, pedestrian crushing vehicles sometimes do.
As I said, you do you – but I reserve the right to judge you for it.
Ultimately, it’s a free(ish) country.
Nor do I. When we were 25 my wife and I set a goal to retire by 45. That doesn’t leave a lot of budget for overpriced toys.
I’m 52 and I always ask myself “what else could I do with this money?”
And I essentially talk myself out of buying ridiculous vehicles
Same. When early retirement is a goal it makes the choices pretty easy. “If I buy this toy I have to work X more months / years…. ”
I forget what finance book for 20 years ago talked about evaluating purchases in hours of work required to buy that item. That idea just clicked and seemed natural to me.
I don’t get the early retirement thing. But as I said, whatever makes you happy!
I, the other hand, absolutely love what I do. Baffles me that they actually pay me to do it, and pretty damned well at that, so I am going to do it for as long as I am physically able. The raise fairy was good to me again last week too.
You’re quite fortunate in that, most people hate their jobs and consider work a necessary evil. Also with the raise fairy, I do my job so well they gave me my eliminated coworker’s duties as well, and for my efforts the raise fairy pissed in my cornflakes.
I dream about the day I finally retire, and hopefully my body and mind are still functional so I can actually enjoy life and stop dreading 40+ hours a week.
I’ve had a job I hated. I lasted 18 months and was out the door, and vowed never again. And I haven’t. Baffles me that people do that to themselves.
Though looking back on my job before this one, which I loved at the time, I wonder if I was somehow brain-damaged for the nine years I did it. Had a good time, but not nearly enough pay for the amount of work I did. Will be 20 years at this job in February, I am not going anywhere.
I don’t hate my job and some parts of it are interesting but any given day there are things I would rather be doing.
I have known exactly one person that loved their job and kept working long after they could have retired.
Now you know two – I could have retired years ago.
“Your money or your life” is the one I’m familiar with in that space. Pretty popular in the various FIRE communities.
I’m just innately a 57yo cheapskate with fairly modest taste in cars.
I’d probably pay $20K for a REALLY nice ’80s Alfa Spider, but in the grand scheme of things that’s couch cushion money. That’s probably my outer limit for a toy car. It’s not that I can’t afford it, I just don’t wanna. So much as I would love a ’70s 911, for example, I find the prices offensive, so it’s not going to happen absent some unknown relative leaving me a ton of money.
“It’s not that I can’t afford it, I just don’t wanna”
+1
That’s me exactly.
A couple years ago due to some corporate re-structuring and moving offices, I ended up having to return a company car that I had for ~10 years. As unlimited personal usage was allowed, I had no personal vehicle (just motorcycles). I also no longer was expected to travel for work, and tend to ride pretty much everywhere, so I figured I would just get a cheap old truck for the occasional grocery runs, and something that could tow a modestly sized boat (as in, a 1500 class is plenty).
The truck I learned to drive in was a ’93 F150- in upstate NY so it was about 75% rust- with the 300 straight-six and a stick. Now being in Texas, you can find those trucks rust free, and now they’re at least 30 year old trucks, I bet I can find one of those for like $1500 right?
Nuh-uh. Even very high miles, rough conditions gassers- not diesel- people still wanted at least 5-6k for. Cleanish ones you couldn’t touch for under 10k. Of course if it had the diesel now you were looking at at least 15-20k (still usually with super high miles).
I ended up buying a 2000 dodge 1500- the “walker texas ranger” body style of Rams, gas engine, base trim, but clean, rust free, and with “only” 200k miles on it for $1200. Nostalgia wasn’t worth paying a 4x premium for an older, more beat up truck. Now if that truck had been a 2500 cummins, the pricing absurdity applies and that price would easily have an additional 0 at the end, but if they have a gas engine nobody seems to give a shit about them and the prices reflect that.
You did well with that Dodge, I think those are going to be classics as well. They’re my favorite half ton of that era, I love the coil sprung solid front axle suspenion they have, those can be crazy capable offroad builds.
My dad had a 98 that he bought in ’00 or ’01, man I loved that truck.
In a way I understand it: I feel the same way about VW Transporters/busses, where I see the old ones as cool and fun and generally collectible, but the 1990s T4 as the final evolvement and the technical pinnacle, after which they started to decline and have all kinds of modern unwanted stuff on them and be less sturdy…
It’s the same with Porsche 911s. And a lot of other cars, that just kept getting (over-)developed, as well I guess.
That’s a lotta money to sound like you’re driving a school bus.
(Stroke me, stroke me) Could be a winner, boy, you move quite well
(Stroke me, stroke me) Stroke!
(Stroke me, stroke me) You got your number down
(Stroke me, stroke me) Say you’re a winner, but, man, you’re just a sinner now
Dammit, I was gonna put a Billy Squire reference in there but figured nobody would get it.
Too bad. Because when you drop a Squire reference, everybody wants you.
I had a power stroke when I saw that selling price
Brain stroke or hand party stroke?
Wouldn’t you like to know!
Two nuns were sitting on a park bench. A flasher runs up and opens his jacket. One nun had a stroke, the other couldn’t reach.
“Early reports said Jackson died at home from a heart attack, but it has been clarified he died at the children’s hospital having a stroke.”
How I found out Michael Jackson had died, courtesy of my uncle.
Those prices are insane. As for who the hell would pay that much, I’d have to say rich people who want to project workin’ man vibes and rich people who need to turn their crime bucks into normal bucks.
I can’t help but think people using these trucks as investments, like people have done with 1960s muscle cars for the last few decades, will take a big loss on them when values inevitably go back down on them (assuming they do, since the inflated values on classic cars are beginning to soften as owners and would-be owners age out).
There are two people in my town, about eight houses away from each other on the same street, trying to capitalize on the inflated values of old diesel trucks. One is a 1995 Ram 3500 with the 12V Cummins and 400,000 miles on it. It has the manual, every body panel is dented and bent, and none of the interior plastics are in one piece. Of course, he wants $20k for the truck (down from the $25k it was initially listed at). The other is a 1996 F350 crewcab with the Power stroke in that sort of odd cream/pink color. It also has like 275,000 miles on it, but overall looks pretty nice, but not the $30k nice the owner is asking. I’m also not the least bit surprised that both trucks are still sitting with For Sale signs on them after nearly a year, because I can’t think of anyone with that kind of money that wouldn’t just buy a newer, vastly more powerful new diesel if they were actually towing stuff.
That’s the real kicker right there. My 2026 Turbomax 4 banger is making bigger numbers than these older trucks. The new diesels and V8s are making over double.
If you need to do serious work and have that kind of money you go modern.
This. My brother keeps talking about replacing his GMT900 3500HD farm truck, which has like 400hp and 800lb/ft, with an older Cummins to escape having to deal with emissions equipment failure. But then the reality that hauling his livestock with half that power up and down the mountain passes that encircle his ranch just isn’t something he would want to do – especially since engine power is only one part of the towing equation that has improved with newer trucks.
Why? People did serious work with these trucks. Nobody died of old age because they went up a hill 10mph slower. Heck, my folks dragged around campers the size of small ranch homes with mid-80s NON-turbo diesels, all over the country. 130hp, and acceleration measurable via sundail.
It’s really gotten quite ridiculous, and is mostly a dick-waving contest at this point.
Of course they did. My point was if old trucks are going to be priced similar to new ones why on earth would you get an old one? You’ll still be chasing typical old car issues like worn out rubber and plastic components that fail over time, a transmission that probably needs some love, not to mention the typical wear items that may or may not have been replaced like wheel bearings, water pump and so on. Dealing with stuff like that is fine if the vehicle was cheap, but not at these prices.
A new truck is more complex sure but you get a warranty, modern safety equipment, and more power.
You get the old one because it literally saves you tens of thousands in repair bills on the powertrain. Newer is DEFINITELY not better in this particular instance.
People didn’t get killed going uphill slower, but they did coming down. Modern trucks don’t just have more power, but better chassis, brakes, and engine/transmission controls for towing. I remember the transition between the old GMT400 trucks to the GMT800 trucks and the brake upgrades were night and day better when towing. Being able to downshift on a grade, using compression braking to control speed, was also a vast improvement on the newer trucks. It’s nice to think modern trucks, as big and silly as they have become, are just the same as the old ones but with more power and grills, but that simply isn’t true.
So upgrade the old one. Trucks are not rocket science. And drive within the capability of the vehicle, rather than like a moron.
Modern trucks just mostly let the idiots kill themselves at higher speeds.
Trouble is, you buy a newer used diesel like my neighbor did and you end up spending $30K in a couple years keeping the POS on the road. That added power costs a STUPID amount more in maintenance and repairs, and it seems like ALL of them from all three Detroit brands have big issues in the emission-controlled diesel era. I can DEFINITELY see a nice one of these being worth rather more than an equivalent condition 6.0L Powerstroke. But $100K is absurd to me.
Having had the old diesels, I can tell you the cost savings over newer trucks are more perception than reality now that the old trucks are, well, old. The old trucks don’t have the emissions equipment to deal with, but they still have issues like high pressure fuel pump and injector failures (especially the older trucks that have lubricity issues with ULSD) and, now, age-related fatigue of components both engine and chassis related.
The smart move is just use a relatively new gas truck and skip the modern diesel bullshit all-together. Not that they are perfect either, but they are a HELL of a lot cheaper to fix when they go BANG, and at this point you sure as hell are not saving anything on fuel. As I have said on here, my cousin the fleet manager for my hometown has completely given up on diesel school buses and medium-duty trucks. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze anymore.
But if I felt I needed diesel, especially if I was using it to make a living, for damned sure I would find the lowest miles, best condition, pre-emissions truck I could find and hold my nose while digging out my wallet.
The truck enthusiast crowd collectively lost their minds years ago. First when they readily accepted the need to deploy a foldable staircase to reach into the bed and finally when aftermarket wheels with massive ruinous negative offset became their go-to. It all exudes such a toxic “look at me!” showy social media masculinity that every time I see one I hear Tim Allen grunt in my head. I’ll stick to trucks where I don’t have to climb anything to get my toolbox out of the back.
Exactly. If I can’t reach over the side and pick something off the bed I am not interested. I borrowed my neighbor’s fancy GMC to move a washer and dryer and it completely sucked getting them in and out of up there. Thankfully, this year I have my foot and a half lower to the ground utility trailer when I need to bring them back to the house in a few weeks. Towed more than adequately by my BMW convertible.
There’s a similar thing with semi trucks if I remember rightly.
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If you want diesel and you don’t want DEF and all the complexity of modern engines, I can see the appeal.
DPF started in 2008 and DEF in 2010. Diesels stayed simple and got much more powerful than this 1997 before aftertreatment systems were required.
Maybe it was just harder to roll coal?
If I were still driving and somebody tried to put me in in that Peterbilt I’d say no.. I value myself too much to get the crap knocked out of me.
GM just introduced a 510 ci turbodiesel and a 400 ci V8.
You’ll pry my massaging seats from my cold dead ass cheeks.
You’d think they’d be warm and vivacious after a vigorous massage.
COTD right here
These old diesel trucks all had massaging seats and the only way to turn the massage function off was to turn the engine off. Noise, vibration and harshness? Yes to all three!
I thought massaging seats were a gimmick until I got some. If I’m in the car longer than 30 minutes it’s a bet I’m getting a massage.
I’d like to try them out, but I imagine they’d be hard to give up.
I don’t have chronic back pain, but being closer to 40 than 30 I certainly take advantage of seat heaters as soon as the weather permits.
There’s a massaging seat followed by a Power Stroke joke here someplace, but that seems illegal in most states even if it makes people happy in the end.
“You’ll pry my massaging seats from my cold dead ass cheeks.”
Okay softie…
Discomfort as a proxy for manliness is wild.
It’s a joke. And it’s funny because so many DO equate discomfort as a proxy for manliness.
Yeah have never understood it.
I’m baffled by shit like this. I know these trucks are purely collectors items now, but the number of people out there who have $100,000 to drop on a collectors car and want that car to be a late 90’s diesel truck has to be vanishingly small, right?
One would hope. I am still shocked at the number of people who crap on paying for college but have no problem with $200+K debt for the truck, flat bed and a couple of side by sides for their weekend hobby.
So is the supply of $100K trucks, so it all balances out.
But you would be SHOCKED how many people have real serious disposable money these days, especially with the stock market flying high. I’m of the age where many in my circle of friends have reached the age of penalty-free 401K withdrawals, inheritances (one friend just bought a vacation condo in Key West with inherited money) and they are doing just that. When your retirement account is in the $4-5M range, what’s pulling out a hundred K now for this or that fun toy? Might as well do it now before the inevitable coming “correction”. Plus just being post/no-kids and paid off mortgage and peak of career for us aging duffers does wonders for the disposable income. It wasn’t some kid who bought that truck.
Not everyone is poor and suffering, even if many are.
“Are they idiots, or just smarter than the rest of us?”
This is not necessarily an either/or proposition.
Call me crazy, but if motorbike drivers can have no airbags, there has got to be some segment of HD trucks that has equivelant safety requirements.
Airbags are not required above 8,500 GVWR.
The kind of people paying this kind of money for these things, they’re not normal people. Anything new is worse, if it isn’t simple then it’s too complicated for its own good, number go up is always more gooder unless it requires the use of the word “sophisticated.”
I can draw a close parallel to a political bias, but I won’t because while I’m certain the Venn diagram has a lot of overlap, it won’t be 100% and they screech like monkeys while pointing at the exceptions.
I say this while knowing that I own and daily a truck that turns 40 next year, and would place an extremely high dollar value on it, and that’s where I start to think about some of the valuation. How many of these rigs are coming from the original owner? You’d have to really, really tempt me with serious coin before I considered selling my truck.
Um nope, old trucks are great but not worth new truck money. I would rather take the old 7.3 IDI with a Banks kit over the “newer” 7.3 DI.