I was a Ford guy for many years, loved the horse power and torque of the 430 cu.inch Lincoln engines, first one was in a 39' Chevy coupe, then a 1953 Studebaker, that one did a number on a 64' 409, 425 hp Chevy, after that I put the 430 in a couple of different 57' Fords and the last one was a 51' Ford pickup, that one was the baddest of all, it whipped a 340 six pack Mopar and a Corvette. Just before and after getting married I built a 289 and put it in two different 62' Fairlanes, later bought a 78' Courier pickup, four banger went bad so I installed a 260, it ran great but DW and I hated the cramped space inside, so it got sold. Then we bought a 78' Bronco with a crappy low powered 351, dropped a 429 in it, that one was a real gas hog, last Ford was a 89' F-250 SC diesel 4X4, everyone I talked to that owned them were getting over 200,000 miles out of them, ours died at just over 100,000, oil in the coolent, it would have cost use $6,000 to $14,000 to get another 7.3 to replace the engine and on top of that I had no garage to do the work in and on top of that we had just bought a 2005 Toyota Sienna to replace an 89' Windstar that the transmission went south on us, at 172,000 miles the used Sienna ended up being 100% better than the Windstar, so considering this we decided to look to Toyota for a pickup and that ended up being a 2007 Double Cab with 244,000 miles, just this year I had loaned the truck to our son and while he was parked on the street in Grants Pass while he was in a kitchen supply store a young man side swiped the truck hard enough to push the driver side wheel up on the sidewalk, insurance company totaled the truck, over $12,000 in damage and we only paid $9,000 for the truck, we took the $9,000, added $1,000 and bought a 2008 TRD DC with 232,000 miles, both of these 200,000+ mile trucks ran like new, so now we have become Toyota fans not to mention the 5.7 V-8 with duel pipes sounds great, thus fulfilling a bucket list item of owning a V-8 powered vehicle, originally I was kind of wanting a Mustang GT, but a pickup is far more useable, but then Tundra is no slouch for get up and go and at my age and world situations, it will probably be the last vehicle we'll ever buy. And just so you all know that I'm not against GM products, before we got the Tundra, I was looking at a very nice GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 extended cab with a 454 engine, wife said no, she was very pleased with Toyotas' quality and wanted to stick with that brand.
