Daily observations of my simple life.

Little Red Truck:

I was working in San Jose, California at the time, driving my good and fairly new white Subaru. I decided to check out the Toyota dealership one day at lunch time and walked out without my paid for white Subaru and with a red kingcab Toyota pickup truck and of course payments. That was 1991, it was a good truck, and saw me through a lot of memories.  It had about 250,000 miles on it. No major work but several starters for some reason. One day last Spring I was watering my trees with a load of water on board, driving from tree to tree. I stopped to water a tree and couldn't start it again. So there it sat, month after month, put in a new starter, had it looked at by several shade tree mechanics. Finally I called a mechanic who came out and told me it was the timing belt. He said he'd probably be able to do it for $1000.  I wasn't expecting that and not too sure if I was being lied to. So last week I stopped at a shop where I had watched who I thought was the owner do business. I was very impressed as this man spent 45 minutes helping a poor couple who had very little money diagnose their auto problem for free. Honest man, I thought, I'll do business here. I stopped in, he wasn't there but I asked the man behind the counter if they towed.  He said they would and I gave them my address.  When I got home from town the little red truck was gone. I called a couple days later and was told the timing belt went out and it would cost $2000. or more. I asked if I could sleep on it. I talked to my daughter and son-in-law and they sugested I put in a rebuilt engine instead of just a timing belt.  It was thought that would be comparable labor wise. So I called the shop and was told that would be about $3500.

More over night let's sleep on this. Next day I had decided. I would not put any more money in the truck, I didn't need it.  I put an ad on the Bargains spot and a gentleman called, we made a deal and he'll keep it and fix it. Tomorrow morning I'll go in and finish it all up.  Bye little red truck. 

Posted by: cactusandquail at 23:30 | link | comments (1)

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#1  27 July 2006 - 23:50

 

nothing like a toyota, i've driven 2 into the ground. glad to read Sage got her manicure!

rustymadgal

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