re: People selling their cars at ridiculous prices on FB Marketplace

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Someone would probably pay that for a pristine 1995 truck. There’s a lot of nostalgia for 90s pickups.

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It’s not just nostalgia. They are better trucks. I’ve got a Chevy a little older than a ‘95 and get multiple calls per year from friends, co -workers, exwives, etc. stuck on the side of the road somewhere who know that my reliable old Chevy truck with its decent 6 won’t even strain to tow their abominations to a dealer or repair shop. Got two calls on one day from a girlfriend whose modern Mercedes died in BR and I towed to dealership. After about 4 hours got a second call from her, as her Nazi abomination crapped out again in traffic only 3 blocks from the dealership. The story she got from the Vietnamese shop I towed her to for the second tow of the day said that it appeared that te manufacturer had saved a dollar or so by putting her windshield washer and carburetor on the same chip; when her windshield washer ran out of fluid it interpreted this as a sigal that the carb was not getting gas.
As far as I know, my Chevy doesn’t have any chips as just about all of recent car models do. I listen to complaints from te incapacitated vehicle owners that I generously tow for the price of a beer to the effect that my exhaust emits a lot of oily smoke. I explain. that this is a good thing, since it ells me that I still have oil, and that it is not. time. for me to dump my annual 2 or 3 quarts of oil into the engine.