I keep telling my son, learn from my mistakes and avoid them. Go make your own mistakes. Repeating mine is boring...

Does he listen?

Well... sometimes.

I could do most of what I've done to my truck cheaper, more or less. Much of what I tried to save money on, I spent the same money twice making it right. I did start out learning from those here who had tried this-n-that, so that was good. That was after I also did a bunch of dead-end stuff on Red Chili I though.

Something fun though: I talked a buddy (not a wheeler, but a Texan truck-lover with a flippin' Ph.D. who needs to indulge his underindulged redneck side) into buying a neighbor's '88 truck with a smashed bed and rod-knockin' 22RE for $600. His light rod knock seems to have gone away, and EB's cam makes it run smartly. It will be flatbedded on the cheap by Mr. Bill's Welding Emporium for barley pop, wire and argon. We may do a USMC rattlecan paintjob on it. Should be very entertaining for him to show up at the Baptist Seminary in it.

I thought the stakesides should be signed, "Dr. Don's Traveling Theological Consulting and Redneck Hauling, Inc.". Or something. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> He is strangely mute on his appraisal of the idea.

For some reason he does want some longhorn long horns on the hood... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I suppose that beats spinners.

Kinda fun to help someone do stuff cheaper with the same end quality and functionality...