old vs. new
...it “perfect”, then that older pickup is the way to go. Anyone who owns a new or newer vehicle will tell you just how easy it is to fix something on one. It’s nearly impossible for anyone to do one their own. Everything is computerized. When you look under the hood of a new pickup, you don’t see an engine, you see wires running everywhere and smog parts. Newer vehicles have computers on them to control how the engine runs, it controls everything needed to make it run, it knows what to do to make it run with the information it gets from the million sensors that are placed all over the vehicle. With a million parts required for the vehicle to run right, there are a million things to go wrong. So what is the problem and how do these vehicles get fixed? The owners send it in to a shop to get fixed, where not only do you get charged outrageous prices for the parts, but around sixty four dollars an hour for the time it takes to fix. Under that hood of the old pickup there is an engine that is visible, without all of the garbage that makes them impossible to work on. So when something does go wrong, which seems to happen a little more often on the old pickups, the owners don’t have to pay for the hours it take to sometimes fix. And the problems are usually obvious since things are simple and there are not a lot of different things to go wrong. Anything built before 1973 does not have to pass a smog test. The older truck can make a better project truck not having to pass smog because you don’t have to worry about things that you put in the engine being smog legal. Things like headers, cams, intake, or mufflers. If you were to put a higher output cam in a newer vehicle then you would without a doubt not pass smog and would not be legal to drive it on any road. This makes the older trucks nice for lifting and putting those big tires you see on because you can beef up the motor a little bit to get the extra power needed to turn the wheels. I have seen an accident where a seventies model Chevy smashed into a newer Honda Civic. The grill on the old Chevy was broken a little bit, but the body was it fairly good shape. The newer Honda Civic on the other hand looked like an aluminum can after being put in one of those crushers that most every one has on their garage walls. The bodies on the old pickups are built just about like a tank. They are thick and less susceptible to those little dents that are caused by people leaning up against it or that rude person who doesn’t car...