Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Had a Red Dodge Ram W250 roll across the car deck the other day. Being a 1st Gen fan I walked over to check it out and talk with the owner. The Guy said he had bought it about a year or so ago it's been great truck. As we're talking I notice a repair on the glove box just like the repair I had to make when my first wife broke it the first day I had the truck. Ya can't over stuff those old Glove boxes with napkins , They tend to crack and bend... At first I was like wow someone else had the same issue... Then I noticed a few other things on this truck that were unique to my old truck... Holy sh@t this was my old truck that I sold 17 years ago!
I asked the guy if he'd mind if I looked over the truck. Granted someone has lifted it and converted it back to a single rear wheel and painted all the chrome black and replaced the bed.
I asked the guy if he knew how many miles were on it... He said around 200k did his jaw drop when I told him it had well over 500,000 hard towing miles on it 17 years ago when I sold it to Boat Finder boat haulers. I asked about oil consumption he said there was none. It still runs well. Someone along the way had done another injection pump and a very different turbo and changed the steering linkage but the big stuff was all original. I twas nice to see my "OLD FRIEND" still alive and doing what it was designed to do after all these years. I owned that truck for 11 years it was my best friend for those 11 years. As I watched it drive away I had a tear in my eye, must have been from that puff of smoke when the guy lit it off....
Later that night when I hopped in to my 2013 with all it's computer stuff and had to deal with the computer not turning the radio on again I remembered how the neighbors would run out their houses when I'd drive through the neighborhood in the early morning thinking I was the garbage man... I had to laugh... My 13 is nice and quiet but given the chance I'd go back in time and own that old truck in a heart beat.......
Long Live the First Gen Trucks!!!
I asked the guy if he'd mind if I looked over the truck. Granted someone has lifted it and converted it back to a single rear wheel and painted all the chrome black and replaced the bed.
I asked the guy if he knew how many miles were on it... He said around 200k did his jaw drop when I told him it had well over 500,000 hard towing miles on it 17 years ago when I sold it to Boat Finder boat haulers. I asked about oil consumption he said there was none. It still runs well. Someone along the way had done another injection pump and a very different turbo and changed the steering linkage but the big stuff was all original. I twas nice to see my "OLD FRIEND" still alive and doing what it was designed to do after all these years. I owned that truck for 11 years it was my best friend for those 11 years. As I watched it drive away I had a tear in my eye, must have been from that puff of smoke when the guy lit it off....
Later that night when I hopped in to my 2013 with all it's computer stuff and had to deal with the computer not turning the radio on again I remembered how the neighbors would run out their houses when I'd drive through the neighborhood in the early morning thinking I was the garbage man... I had to laugh... My 13 is nice and quiet but given the chance I'd go back in time and own that old truck in a heart beat.......
Long Live the First Gen Trucks!!!
