Buy truck...drive to work every day, same truck...retire...

That's awesome. I would've thought he'd spend a ton on maintenance, but apparently not. Good for him. I have a 1994 GMC Sonoma with similar plans. 224,000 now, starts every time. I just worry about the transmission. A good running truck is worth more to me than the trade-in value. Maybe I can get it to last till my 12 year old gets a license.

At first I thought you were selling it, Tom!
 
Agreed. My drive is only 6 miles each way, and I only drive the old truck in favorable weather. Might go a while longer, or the body might rust out before the engine dies. Fingers crossed.
 
Bango Skank said:
Think he's friends with the guy at the inspection station? ;)
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@Bango Skank No vehicle inspections in MN

Never been a mechanical inspection, there was an exhaust pollution sniffer test for a number of years. After time the state looked at the data that had been collected. What they found was that the amount of tailpipe emissions had decreased and flat-lined. The environmental analysis was completed to see how much air pollution was coming from cars at that point in time.The conclusion was that cars weren't the culprits. The system was shut down. Something that makes sense to Minnesota's legislatures and residents is that programs that don't work go away. The state had been making a nice attention getting profit too. Makes no dif... shut it down. Government does work for the people.
 
That sounds nice, that would make my parked one legal! It is way more environmentally correct to send a rusty running old car to the crusher and buy a new one full of Chinese electronic crap, or cheating German emission electronics....
 
Before the tailpipe sniffer program was stopped in MN there was a lot of statistical studying. The conclusion was that over time the older, more polluting vehicles died and wet out of circulation. There was never a state buy out of older vehicles that I recall. Also, out of tune vehicles were repaired. Third, the newer engine control systems did a better job and they were much more dependable and long lasting than their predecessors
 
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