Back when I was in my late teens, I used to hang out with a bunch of guys who drove trucks. They were all into putting aftermarket truck accessories on those trucks. Imagine a truck that is painted all primer and has chrome accessories on it, and you can pretty much envision the crowd I ran with back then!
Anyway, one day I was driving in a neighborhood near where I worked, and I saw a truck for sale in a field. It was a Toyota pickup truck from the 1980s, and it was painted all primer. I liked the fact that it was 4-wheel drive and sat up high, and the fender flares and roll bar gave it a slightly aggressive look. With some Hella lights mounted on that roll bar, and a push bar in front with some driving lights mounted on it, I knew that truck would have looked really great!
Technically, I actually did buy the truck — for a few hours, at least. I paid $1200 and drove away — only to have its battery die due to an alternator problem a couple of hours later. When I looked under the hood, I noticed that when hot the engine leaked like a sieve — and this after the seller had told me how he’d recently replaced ALL the seals and gaskets in the engine!
Perhaps thanks to the lemon law, when I called the seller to complain, he agreed to take the car back and refund all of my money. As much as I liked that truck and how it looked, I am glad I didn’t end up having to keep a car that would need that much work!
