Thoughts on New trucks vs My Old One

I have another 2000 Volvo with 12.7 Detroit and 750k miles that has been sitting in my yard as a spare.

 

Once you've had the famous FLD 120, nothing else compares.

Once you have a simple truck without all the garbage and expensive crapola, nothing else compares.

Nothing can compare to my Freightliner.

That's why you would go to the expense of buying a brand new engine from Cummins.

Nothing like a simple truck that is very inexpensive and easy to get parts for.

 

Thats why im starting to love my lonestar. Aside from the near inescapable emissions and a few exclusive lonestar parts everything is compatable with a prostar and easily swapable for pretty cheap doubly so if i grab used parts. If i could somehow get a lonestar with a cat in it. I think id hang onto that truck till i hung it up.

May still pay to have someone figure out how to put a kitty in this one depending on how the next couple years shake out though ive been eyeballing the HX620s...... Keep my 3.55s swap the 13 for an 18, ploink in a C15 and swap the cheap plastic chrome for real chrome and throw a good paint job at it and i can see this rig lasting till i retire.

Always wanted a 359 though and may still snatch one up if i see one pop up in a couple years when this one is paid off that someone put a e model into.

 

Always dreamed of a 359, love those trucks. I can honestly at this point say if I get rid of my 379 with a c15 and 18spd I am either out of trucking or got a 359 that I had enough time to fix what I wanted on it!

 

If I'm being honest you could park a 359, 379 and 389 side by side and I wouldn't be able to tell them apart.

 

A lot of it is in the hood. The grille, the shape of the sleeper and the cab. But my want for a 359 is more the simplicity of working on one and the interior. The dash on them looks like something out of a scifi movie or a steam punk book depending on your PoV. More of a pie in the sky truck then anything practical. If you handed me a check for any semi i wanted. But i had to make 100% of my income off it as it sat or i would starve to death. Id be torn between an HX620 with a 550 X15 18 and 3.72s or a HX620 with the S13 under the hood. MAYBE a western star

 

I rented a Penske once when I blew the engine on my 99 Classic. It was horrific. Delivered on the gulf coast, Swore I’d quit Trucking before driving one. Guess what I’m doing now? Yep, quitting is in the plan. Just not yet.