I cant control my wife and come one its a Porsche besides i never said i wasnt a hypocrite

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Finally dying is it? Congrats!!!

It's dying at 9 years old?

I hope you live in a really extreme area, or that's totally unjustified. My dad's Civic has never had any real work done on it... he forgets to service it, it never got used for months at a time... 10 years old and it always starts on the first turn of the key... 185,000kms later!

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'01 American Deluxe HSS Strat.
'87 Japan HSS Strat.
'11 Custom Shop FMT HSS Strat.

"Without music, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines and dates by which bills must be paid."

Good cars those Civics. I sold one about 4 years ago that had 225000kms on it and the guy is still driving it every day without a problem.

fully restored or not its still going to be a chore lol

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Yup... we have a family of them... observe!



From left to right... green, 185,000kms, original exhaust, original clutch. Cleaned once every decade so far. Silver one, 96,000kms, all original (as you'd expect at that mileage). Black one (mine ), 144,000kms, all original as well. All start immediately, all have never broken down. The black one's actually quite a nice car to drive too. What more could you want?

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'01 American Deluxe HSS Strat.
'87 Japan HSS Strat.
'11 Custom Shop FMT HSS Strat.

"Without music, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines and dates by which bills must be paid."

We went out today on a truck hunt and found a couple of bargains an '05 Dodge Dakota 4.7lt. V8 fully loaded 4X4 crew cab and an '07 GMC Canyon Ext. Cab 4X4 with just air and radio as the only good options.

They are both the same price but we're leaning towards the GMC because we went online to consumer chat rooms and read reviews that almost all condemned the Dakota's,suspension components,running gear and brakes while the Canyons had few complaints.Anyway we had a lot of trouble with our last Chrysler product and had to replace the transmission twice in the short time that we held on to it.

My sister has an '05 Canyon with lots of miles on it and they haven't had a hitch with it yet a brother in law had a Dakota that was plagued with problems.If I could be guaranteed that the Dakota would be trouble free I'd have it in a heartbeat because it's just a beautiful truck but looking on the practical side the Canyon seems the way to go.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

I'll give a lowball offer because the dumb $@! put rims on it.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Toyota designed that little 4-banger as the 22-R, arguably one of the most indestructible automotive power plants ever built. It was successfully marketed in cars and light trucks, they Evan used it in some medium trucks like the popular Toyota Dolphin motor Camper.
----Danny,

I hope the same can be said for my Tacoma one of these days....

We sure like our new Taco......





Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

Edit:double post.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

I love the colour of your truck Arjay,I'd love to have a Strat or Tele that colour and a truck too of course.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Thanks, GS. Toyota calls it "Speedway Blue".

But of course to me it's Lake Placid Blue.



Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

Arjay,how's this for a coincidence? I got on the Kijiji website this morning for St. John's NL and low and behold but what should be on it but a Speedway Blue '06 Tacoma Ext. Cab 4X4 with 130.000km for only $9,000.The guy says that he's selling it so cheap because his ex wants 1/2.From the pix she appears to be in near showroom condition-I left him a message to get back to me asap because this is was better that the Dakota or the Canyon given the Toyota's better longevity and reliability.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.