Nautique in new Ford commercial

Hollywood wrote: Stop now child, you're making less and less sense.

Stop now child, you're making less and less sense.

My Dakota went 200,000+ with few problems. I hauled the boat without trailer brakes, 500 + sg feet of hardwood flooring multiple times, drove it across snow covered lakes for fun, 2000 pounds of sand in the bed once (luckily not far), and then let my teenage have it for the last three years. No need to baby them. Maybe hes just scared.

kenowja wrote:    its not all about how the truck is in shape, its how you drive it...

Its a truck, If you cant beat the crap out of it there is a problem!

Pete, don't take any grief from the guy who bought an Aztec...

Cummins (CMI) is a publicly traded company. I'm not aware of any ownership by Ford.

Guess who owns Cummins?

answer: FORD

kenowja wrote: mdvalant wrote: yea but, they don't go all the way, normally just to about 80k miles right? No, My dad's got a 2003 Dodge 3500 Cummins Diesel, and the only thing that has gone bad was a electrical problem due to a weird broken connection. its over 150,000 Miles on it....

I fail to understand your logic with the milage?? Dodge doesn't make the diesel engine. They have to buy it from Cummins. That should tell you something but it obviously didn't sink in!!???

One of or tool makers here has 385,000 on a Cummins - of course the rest of the Dodge truck is a piece of s*** and falling apart!

I personally have 275,000 on my 1995 GM diesel!

TRBenj wrote: kenowja wrote: Yea but the parent company was Chrysler to begin with, and now that RAM broke off of Dodge, its still a Chrysler vehicle, so i can say DODGE ALL THE WAY if i want , and technically its kind of correct In as much as a Chevy owner can say their truck is a Pontiac, I guess youre right!

Exactly, but i also was talking about any year dodge, or ram... well at least someone agrees with me!

yea but, they don't go all the way, normally just to about 80k miles right?

Giggity.

couldn't have said it better Joel......



john

Doug, that's a beautiful boat. If I was going to do build-a-boat, that's exactly how it would come out.

Alan, thats it. Perfect. 4 years after lake george and my son still comments on your boat as a stand-out.

peter1234 wrote: they say your tastes change as you age , those older ford trucks are starting to look almost cool.   by the way has anyone ever seen a good looking old dodge truck?

Peter, sometimes changes with age, sometimes always there. When I was a poverty stricken grad student, my car died, I bought one of these for $300. Not quite as nice as this one, but roadworthy.




The flat head 6 blew up on me so I replaced it with a junk yard flathead 8. Cool motors, always liked those since then. Actually lasted a little while. I eventually sold it, and of course wish I still had it. Couldnt touch one of these for 20 times that now.

Alan,
Here's something that's slightly more on the HD side! However it won't have the hemi in it.

1955 Dodge truck:



Peter,
You don't like the looks of old Dodge trucks? My very first vehicle was a 1960 Dodge Powerwagon. I got it when I was out living in Montana. Man, chain up all four and that thing would climb!!! 60 was the last year they used a flathead 6 in the 4WD's.

Ok Alan, here's your next quest. You need a Chrysler with a hemi of course to pull that Hurricane!

1955 Imperial:

Somebody said Dodge?

LOL