Good Morning AlphaRomeo!
A nice cool 59° with high clouds this morning, warming quickly toward the mid 80s.
Well, I bought the truck I looked at yesterday. It's a really nice little '01 S-10 ZR2 extended cab 4X4. The owner is a retiree who used it as a daily driver until he retired when he contracted colon cancer in 2017 which he obviously beat. Since then, they started doing the snowbird thing, and the truck sat nestled in his heated garage over the winter while they were in Florida. It's been well maintained, with oil changes religiously every 3K miles. Mechanically the only thing it needs is a blower motor resister that I can get @ AutoZone for about $20. It's got the same motor as the van I've been driving, so fuel economy will be about the same, and I can live with that easier than the 2500HD I was considering that only gets 13MPG. It was also $1500 cheaper to buy than the big truck, and it has fewer miles on it. The tires on it have at least another year or two left in 'em, compared to the big truck that would need new rubber before winter.
I'm going to pick it up this afternoon, and I'll post pics tomorrow.
A nice cool 59° with high clouds this morning, warming quickly toward the mid 80s.
Well, I bought the truck I looked at yesterday. It's a really nice little '01 S-10 ZR2 extended cab 4X4. The owner is a retiree who used it as a daily driver until he retired when he contracted colon cancer in 2017 which he obviously beat. Since then, they started doing the snowbird thing, and the truck sat nestled in his heated garage over the winter while they were in Florida. It's been well maintained, with oil changes religiously every 3K miles. Mechanically the only thing it needs is a blower motor resister that I can get @ AutoZone for about $20. It's got the same motor as the van I've been driving, so fuel economy will be about the same, and I can live with that easier than the 2500HD I was considering that only gets 13MPG. It was also $1500 cheaper to buy than the big truck, and it has fewer miles on it. The tires on it have at least another year or two left in 'em, compared to the big truck that would need new rubber before winter.
I'm going to pick it up this afternoon, and I'll post pics tomorrow.
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