Ex- Trucks!

[cm5]

how many of you have been out driving nad seen your old truck or car? this past spring i traded in a great 2001 silverado for a 2007 gmt900. 1 week later i was driving to my brothers house (a few towns away from mine) and saw my old girl sitting in someone's driveway!

i knew it was mine cuz i updated all the old basges to the new 2007 badges, the reverse ligths i had on it and the dealer emblem was the same as where i traded her into. it was like seeing someone famous (at least to me!). i felt happy and sad too. this may sound weird but i feel the truck ha a spirit and when you trade in the spririt on your old ride goes into your new one. yea i'm weird like that.

 

just wondering if any of you seen this, and how it feels.

 

also i made deal today (to complete the deal next week upon delivery) to trade in my reg cab silverado for a crew. just wondering if i will see her again someday cruising around!

[svensk]

I dunno, but the guy who got rid my truck was a dumbass. 140K and it just keeps going. I almost have her paid off just under 5K left!

[Zembonez]

All I have to do is go look at Wingnut's profile to see my truck. I think it's pretty cool that he hasn't changed it much at all and it shows he has class too... the way he keeps it in great condition. Way to go Wingnut.

[wages999]

I tried to buy my old S-10 back from the dealer I traded it at. They had it for 5 months and I was trying to buy it back for $3,000 less than they gave me on trade-in. They sold it on ebay the day before I made my offer on-line for exactly what I was offering them. The truck went 400+ miles away so I don't get see it.

[DgBritt8]

My last truck a 91 GMC extended cab is only a couple of blocks away from my home and I sold it to someone that I have known for about 35 yr.s. Before that I had a 94 Silverado that I gave to my son in 2003 for graduation,who is know in college and still maintains it pretty well.

[backwardthreads]

Whenever I trade in a vehicle I hope I never see it again, I always seem to get to attached to them. Luckily every vehicle I have gotten rid of seems to go far away. The only one I sold and saw again was my 1984 black trans am and when I saw it they trashed it bad. I repainted it and had the red light in front like knight rider, I felt sad that day.

I understand what your talking about with the trucks spirit moving from one truck to another. I just thought I was crazy though, at least that was my psychologist says.

[mes]

Whenever I trade in a vehicle I hope I never see it again, I always seem to get to attached to them. Luckily every vehicle I have gotten rid of seems to go far away. The only one I sold and saw again was my 1984 black trans am and when I saw it they trashed it bad. I repainted it and had the red light in front like knight rider, I felt sad that day.

I understand what your talking about with the trucks spirit moving from one truck to another. I just thought I was crazy though, at least that was my psychologist says.

Same goes for the ladies.

[mini1]

I see mine. The guy who purchased it from me loves it and drives it every day! 13 years and 2 owners later it is still on the road every day.

[Zembonez]

I see mine. The guy who purchased it from me loves it and drives it every day! 13 years and 2 owners later it is still on the road every day.

It does make you feel good to see somebody else have pride in your truck like you did when you had it.

[Guest chevydeerhunter]

Not just trucks. My dad had a really nice '57 BelAir with an original 283 Power Pack and column shift 3 speed. He eventually had to sell it. He saw it again a little less than a year later and the guy pulled the 283 for a 502 and back-halfed it with a full cage for drag racing. I can understand taking a beater and doing that to it, but an incredibly maintained classic? I mean it wasn't a show car or even a concours car but it was still nice. The guy just devalued the thing by about $30k.

[Zembonez]

Not just trucks. My dad had a really nice '57 BelAir with an original 283 Power Pack and column shift 3 speed. He eventually had to sell it. He saw it again a little less than a year later and the guy pulled the 283 for a 502 and back-halfed it with a full cage for drag racing. I can understand taking a beater and doing that to it, but an incredibly maintained classic? I mean it wasn't a show car or even a concours car but it was still nice. The guy just devalued the thing by about $30k.

Back in about 99 I watched a neighbor kid who bought his aunt's original 68 Camaro slowly turn it from a well preserved classic into a butchered drag car that eventually ate the wall at San Antonio Raceway. That was a pretty nicely optioned 68 that would have been worth a ton of cash restored. Idiot never knew what he lost... All he did was make all of the other nice Camaros worth a little more money.

[OUMike]

yea we had a 1990 SHO that we sold a while back. I ran into it later on with a fresh paint job and a for sale sign on it.

[todoubled05]

my last truck, a 92 ford f-150 XLT sold it to my buddies dad for 1,300$ lol. he runs a hot shot business. every now and then I see him drivin around and when I go to his sons house he's there sometimes. its kida weird seein my old truck bein drove by someone else.. but yea it makes me miss it when I see it. I just remember all the good times and bad I had in the truck.. at 180K miles it still runnin like a champ.

[Wingnut]

All I have to do is go look at Wingnut's profile to see my truck. I think it's pretty cool that he hasn't changed it much at all and it shows he has class too... the way he keeps it in great condition. Way to go Wingnut.

 

I had to replace the bowtie, and I've added a couple of doodads, but you did such a great job setting it up...Well...That's why I snatched it up when you put it up for sale. It took all of what, less than an hour after you posted the thread? Coming up on a year, and I still love to drive Fred.

 

As for the topic at hand...I've seen my '92 Blazer around, for sale, on a lemon lot about 20 minutes SW of town. They had a $3800 price on the windshield. I stopped to look at it thinking I might buy it back for 2 grand and change less than what I got for it, but when I got close, it looked like somebody drove it through a 8' tall chain link fence right before they jumped railroad tracks with it. It looked horrible.

 

If it's any indication as to how good of shape it was in when I traded it, how many Chevrolet dealers do you see putting a 15 year old truck with 15X,XXX miles on it up on the 20' tall platform in front of the place? I expected them to send it to auction, but nope...It sat out there for about a week before it sold.

 

It upset me a bit to see it in such sad shape.

 

[Norseman]

I had a 89 Bronco. I finally sold it with a little over 200k on her. That was a great truck, never had a lick of trouble out of it. The reason I decided to sell it was the AC died and I didn't fell like switching it over to the new system. Well, I ran in to the guy I sold it to at Kroger a while back the thing had about 300k on it, he fixed the AC and it's still running strong. Man, I should have kept that truck