OK haters, here's some red meat for you...

I've got two 387 Pete's left and I had a handful if Columbias. I will say if that's all you've spent in 850k your #### lucky. I have put injectors in all of them at least twice and I have the overhead ran every 100k and the back of the engines are almost impossible to get to on those models. I've had a fuel fitting on the back of the engine go bad and we just about had to pull the engine to change it. That Bill right there on my 389 was 50 dollars on parts and my drivers changed it themselves on a 379. When it happened on.a 387 it had to be done in a shop as they couldn't get to it and that bill was 2200 dollars when it finally got done. Drive what you want but don't knock someone else's choice either. It all comes down to what you like and after owning both I'll stick to a hood.

 

T600's are easy to get at anything under the hood. You do have to pull the air filter canister off for overhead adjustments but that takes all of 10 minutes and there's plenty of room otherwise.

 

They did ok , but they were hard to get a driver to stay in them. They rattle worse and are generally louder than the others and with do much off road work the interiors fell apart worse than a Pete. They were cheaper to but and made just we much money as the hoods but they wore out sooner and sold for a lot less. As far as fuel mileage they didn't do any better than the hoods.

 

I'm not trying to excite an argument here, but if they wore out sooner and sold for less did they make you as much money as the hoods? I don't ever pick on a mans ride we all like different things. Some don't even care about like but function I can certainly see that to.

 

Attachment keeps my 359 around, I don't believe in yard ornaments they gotta earn there keep. I agree till you replace a truck and figure it's total cost verse profit while owned it's hard to say about more or less revenue. I think an old truck will break you if you don't do most of the upkeep yourself, I have never used outside labor so I can't say for sure but I know if I woulda handed me a bill a few times this truckin habit woulda broke me

 

Buy cheap, sell cheap. Buy expensive, sell expensive. It WAS a pretty easy concept to get your head around.
That was until a buddy of mine spec'd out a Crapcadia and it came to the same price as a "premium" truck! Not sure if it was just his spec's or not, but it came to the same price of a Star, Pete, etc. Crazy.

Martin

 

What they are getting for any new truck these days is just insane.

 

is that the same truck, if so , it gets better every time I see it. Very nice