DarkMan
Elite Idiot Stocker
- Joined
- August 8, 2000
- Messages
- 437
- Reaction score
- 0
- City, State
- DFW, Texas
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '11 Taco TRD/OR
Darkman regrets to inform you that I am no longer part of the "Colorado Contingent". The tech sector crash has forced me back to Texas. I'm now in the Austin area (La Grange to be exact). My wife, Tammy, will follow in a few weeks.
Obviously, our current situation is not conducive to spending resources on going wheeling. In fact, with Austin an hour from our front door, gas mileage and reliability have jumped to the top of the priority list. I am opening the table to a discussion on the merits of trading my beleaguered '94 on something more commuter-minded. Parting with BamBam would be like putting my first born up for adoption, but desperate times etc., etc.
My mind is torn over the fact that my truck has ruined rocker panels, horrible paint scrapes, and 162,000 hard fought miles. The alignment is most easily described by it's lack of it. And, to tie it all up with a pretty bow, it gets 13 miles to the gallon with a tail wind. So with all these great selling points, only an Explorer zealot like myself would even think of BUYING the thing. Still, I must find something that I can afford to drive 100 miles a day, five days a week. If it weren't for the fact that I still owe on it, I'd just park the dang thing and buy a third vehicle (Stupid refinance deals).
God help me!
Obviously, our current situation is not conducive to spending resources on going wheeling. In fact, with Austin an hour from our front door, gas mileage and reliability have jumped to the top of the priority list. I am opening the table to a discussion on the merits of trading my beleaguered '94 on something more commuter-minded. Parting with BamBam would be like putting my first born up for adoption, but desperate times etc., etc.
My mind is torn over the fact that my truck has ruined rocker panels, horrible paint scrapes, and 162,000 hard fought miles. The alignment is most easily described by it's lack of it. And, to tie it all up with a pretty bow, it gets 13 miles to the gallon with a tail wind. So with all these great selling points, only an Explorer zealot like myself would even think of BUYING the thing. Still, I must find something that I can afford to drive 100 miles a day, five days a week. If it weren't for the fact that I still owe on it, I'd just park the dang thing and buy a third vehicle (Stupid refinance deals).
God help me!
