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DH bought one of the very first Ford Explorers -- a 1991 2-door Sport, 4WD, manual transmission. He got it in the fall of 1990. He had always driven Fords before that, but sedans. (He loved his '77 gray T-Bird, which I used to call "The Battleship.")
We still have the Explorer Sport, though five years ago he finally bought a used 2005 "big" Explorer as his everyday vehicle. Our home garage/driveway situation isn't great for a third vehicle, so we started keeping the '91 Explorer in the carport of our beach condo, under a canvas cover.
It was rusting pretty badly but had only 105,000 miles on it, so a couple years ago he sprang for exterior restoration. It looks terrific! But then we couldn't bear to keep it out in the salt air, even under cover, so now we rent a storage space for it. It is driven about 200 miles a year. I don't even want to know what the insurance or storage costs. He loves that vehicle and it makes him so happy to know it's still with him. And it's handy to be able to haul stuff at the beach once in a while.
I'm looking forward to buying him the Classic Car license plate. It's getting close now -- I have to look and see if it's 25 years from purchase or 25 years from the nominal model year.
My brother kept an old Chrysler convertible that he didn't need for quite a while as nobody would pay him his asking price. Most of the time the car was just parked but occasionally (no more than once a year at most) his mother-in-law would use it during her visits from overseas.
I "inherited" a 98 Explorer from my son. He bought a new car and moved on. The truck is exceedingly clean so when it needed a new transmission @160K I didn't hesitate. Yes, financially it probably did not make sense but I just could not see it end up in a junkyard and dismembered. Now that is on the road again I can't let it go for the price people are willing to pay. So I am keeping it. It adds a little bit to my insurance but I figure an extra SUV in the household should come handy now an then.
Done something similar in the past - after about a year my wife at the time pushed me to basically give it away. That was a mistake in retrospect as it was a super fun 4x4 vehicle to drive, it ran fine and I enjoyed working on it, lastly it didn't cost much to keep either. I feel like I at least learned something from that experience and won't ever do something like that again. My recommendation: keep the truck if you like it, have the space, and have the money to keep it plated and insured for potential use. Sell it or give it away when ready and not a moment sooner.
Yep. I bought a truck within the past year but kept my (paid off) Jeep Wrangler. I don't NEED two vehicles, but the Jeep is paid for, decent in the snow, and fun to drive off road here in Colorado.
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