Brush scratches on new truck

[Kowsrule30]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

It's a truck.... I don't live in it.... And it's my work horse..... (we do have 4 trucks though)  To be honest my house and shop are pretty nice.... Well maintaned and kept up..... Trucks are "taken care of"....... Pretty well in road worthy type I guess I would say....... Don't drive any of our cars on the road much.... (60's-70's GM's) The gas milage is way better in the trucks.... And very comparable to the rollbacks....

[JimmyHoffa]

You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

Depends on items.  For something like a house/lawn, mostly try to keep it nice (unless trying to annoy neighbors).  But a truck...haven't washed it in years.  I will wash underneath it and wash the engine when working on it, but I focus vehicle energy on keeping it working like I like, dents/scratches won't keep me out of the woods.
Cars, different story--wash/wax a lot.  But they aren't really used off the pavement. 
Guns--I like stainless/synthetic.  Can assemble them before the season, and when season is over, disassemble and clean them.  If not stainless--just take steel wool to it to clean off the rust--I don't mind if the bluing is shot as long as it shoots where I want it to.

[runningboard]

MS, I agree and while working fires a few years back I ordered the supply unit workers to lower the tailgate on personal rigs being contracted to haul gear and load 'em from the back only.
for myself I used to own a beautiful early F-250 and spazzed on my wife when she brought it home all scratched up. sold it and bought a older Dodge 12 valve Cummins and we even call it "big-ugly" I wash it when it gets bloody to be PC for the nonhunters but otherwise it only gets washed when the dust and mud prevent me from seeing out of it.
had friend who drove his custom-painted OLD Studebaker to a ballgame on under construction road and got mud all over it, he was unconcerned and just told the kids looking at it not to touch the mud as he would "float" it off later. use lots of water first before touching it with wash cloth/brush/whatever, and don't let kids write "wash me" in the dirt since that will scratch it too.

[Bean Counter]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

Very good question, MS. I held out in denial a long time before I sold my newer one and bought the older one. I care about keeping some things nice. Family heirlooms, firearms, optics--things I know will last the rest of my life. But the truck is a depreciating asset. Even if you NEVER drive it, it will loose value, and still degrade. Besides, who wants to park at the far end of the parking lot at Safeway just because you're afraid of a door ding? Door dings, punk kids keying, and rock chips are a dammed fact of life--even if YOU are careful. It is so much more freeing of stress (which I have too much of already) to buy a cheaper truck, not get too bent out of shape when it takes on a new character scratch, and have the cash on hand to replace it when the time comes.  I still polish my truck and vacuum the interior. But I don't have to go ape sh*t because the wind blew a shopping cart into the tailgate or my two year old spilled x, y, or z mystery liquid on the back seat.

Besides, even if I were lucky and careful and nothing ever went wrong with it, its still a bad financial investment to buy a newer vehicle. I'm looking at anywhere from $200-800 for emissions before next year but even if I have to fix a problem like that every six months, its still far better economics to buy a $5,000 truck than to have a five year loan, shelling out $600 a month.

[Austrian Hunter]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

I hear ya.  I got to this great Country in December 1997.  I wish I had $10 back than because I was starving.  Within one month I was working on Fort Lewis, making pizza for our GI's.  Today I am a CEO of a company and believe me, all I have I worked for.  So I am very touchy about my stuff.  House, car and everything else I worked for. 

[Alpine Mojo]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

No one said "who cares".  Some just understand what trucks are designed to do.  If you want a showpiece, buy a car and take it out on sunny days.

[MuleySniper]

Lol. Yeah ok



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[6x6in6]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

No one said "who cares".  Some just understand what trucks are designed to do.  If you want a showpiece, buy a car and take it out on sunny days.

 

Car on the left, truck on the right.

[Johnb317]

Couldn't afford a truck, and my daughter took the old 98 explorer.
So my wife lets me use her rig when I go hunting.... (No we bought it used for a good price)
Great for duck and pheasant hunting.... worked out well last year for Elk too!
RX 330  26 mpg on the open road too.

[PlateauNDN]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

No one said "who cares".  Some just understand what trucks are designed to do.  If you want a showpiece, buy a car and take it out on sunny days.

 

Car on the left, truck on the right.

   Got a workhorse (my truck) and a showpony (wifes), obviously the pony is the wife's.  Not that I don't care either, I'm not being reckless with it just love to keep it dirty on the outside and decent on the inside. 

[6x6in6]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

No one said "who cares".  Some just understand what trucks are designed to do.  If you want a showpiece, buy a car and take it out on sunny days.

 

Car on the left, truck on the right.

   Got a workhorse (my truck) and a showpony (wifes), obviously the pony is the wife's.  Not that I don't care either, I'm not being reckless with it just love to keep it dirty on the outside and decent on the inside.

Technically, the "car" is hers.  The truck is mine.  At least that's what the titles say.  In this state, they are mostly both hers though. 

[Johnb317]

     I'm the king of my castle as long as it's ok with my wife.
Happy wife, happy man

[copasj]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

Cars/Trucks will always depreciate and things will always happen.  Be it rocks on the freeway or being clipped by a drunk drivers mirror or rear ended at a stoplight.  All those have happened to my truck.  But as long as it doesn't rust out and it still runs good I couldn't care less if it was pretty.  Especially when I can put the money saved into something useful, like more ammo to feed the guns.

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[Miles]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

Cars/Trucks will always depreciate and things will always happen. 

Please find me a 66 chevelle that's in running order and cheaper than the day it rolled off the lot.   

[toothfangclaw]

So myself I don't come from a rich family so everything I have I worked for and bought myself. I like to keep stuff "nice" not necessarily perfect. I plan on keeping a lot of my things for a long time and then perhaps if and when I decide to sell, its been well taken care of so I generally get a nice return for it. My last toyota tacoma I drove for 5 or 6 years. Took great care of it and sold it for about three grand less than I paid for it. You guys with the "who cares" mentality, do you speak the same when it comes to other belongings? Your home? Guns? etc.? Just curious.
MS

Cars/Trucks will always depreciate and things will always happen. 

Please find me a 66 chevelle that's in running order and cheaper than the day it rolled off the lot.   

Well adjusted for inflation. You can buy a pretty decent 66 chevelle for $19,000.