Back in the sixties.

[ARTEMIS1759]

Junkman,Check this out!

Nice that's a classic.

[Jim Gibbons]

Philo, sweet 540K! I received that very kit for my 10th birthday in '69. At the time, it was molded in red, and was the hardest kit I had built to that point. The first kit I built totally on my own was the Monogram Ferrari 275P in 1/24 that could be built as a model or a slot car body. Guess it was around '67 I built that one. Here's a 1/48 Renwall '48 Continental I built during summer vacation in '68.

You can still see the glue smear I got on the passenger's side door! Unfortunately, the Bugatti that was part of this two model set (for the huge sum of $1.00...ate up my whole dollar gift for getting a good report card!) didn't survive the decades due to its fragility.

There is one thing I really miss from the '60s; open roofed Ford Good Humor Ice Cream trucks. I HATE the crummy looking vans that come around these days with the electronic music. I just want to hear the "jinga jinga jing" of the Good Humor man, and being able to get a bomb pop or an ice cream sandwich for a dime!

[my80malibu]

I have always been told. "If you can remember the sixties Then you were'nt there"

[highway]

I'm not trying to disagree with you line-by-line, but an example of somthing to consider...

1990 Ford Diesel: 180hp, 345 lbs/ft torque

2008 Ford Diesel: 350hp, 650 lbs/ft torque

The 2008 is a considerably bigger, heavier, and much more capable (tow capacity, interior space, etc. when configured the same bed/cab style) vehicle. Also, it's hard to say the mileage is comparable, or that it's not, since you have 2 different drivers using the vehicles for different things. Obviously, many people use their trucks to do heavy lifting, and it's going to impact the mileage. Plus...shouldn't you do the long division instead of trusting that pesky new-tech computer in your neighbor's truck????

Actually, Mark, both of us do no hauling or towing with either truck, both trucks live an easy live of being just normal back and forth daily drivers. As for driving style, I would say they are driving equally as well, the neighbor is in his upper 60s and does not beat on his, and, even though I'm 34, I've been accused by the better half as driving like an old man. I do, now and then, get into it and send the black smoke out the exhaust, but 95% of the time I drive it like a sane person would. Also, capacity is actually much higher on my truck than the neighbor's, my truck is, by WV DMV standards, actually a low end commerical vehicle because the gross vehicle weight (GVW) of my truck is 12,500 pounds. The neighbor's new truck is rated at only 8,000 GVW, and even though I would never load it that heavy, the gross rear axle weight rating on mine is almost 8,500 pounds. I could put his fully loaded truck (by the legal weights of course) on the back of my truck. Also, I guess one other thing I should have mentioned, my truck is stock as it came from the Ford factory in 1990, execpt for the bed. My truck was built as a chassis cab, and was a tow truck in its former life, the stock Ford dually bed was added by the owner of the towing company I bought it from.

By the way, if I was putting the fuel in the neighbor's truck I'd be doing the long division just like I do on mine and not trusting the pesky computer!