Doug Winterburn writes:


Picked up an '87 F150 with the insurance money plus a few hundred. It
wasn't in the pristine shape of my '83, but it's just getting broken in
with 125,000 miles on it. This one is a 5.0L V8 with an automatic and
only gets about 16MPG

Neither had/has a speck of rust and both were/are tight and rattle free.


Yabbut, don't I recall you being in Aridzona? You have to park IN your swimming
pool to form rust on things there, or so I'm told.

Charlie Self

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same
function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of
things." Sir Winston Churchill