scatterbunny
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Currently Mark drives a 1993 Ford F150 XLT. It's a single cab, longbed pickup truck.
Hayley is too big to ride in any harnessed seat in the center, so she uses a highback booster outboard and we all three can't fit safely together anymore (because that would put me in the lapbelt spot).
It's not a HUGE deal since my 99 Windstar is our primary family transportation, but there are times (camping especially) that we'd like to use the truck as a family vehicle.
A friend made Mark an offer of $3000 for the truck, and I found a 1992 Ford F350 CREW CAB for $3400, and after talking with the owner he's willing to go as low as $3000 because he needs the $$ for first/last/deposit on a new house.
Gas mileage should be only ever-so-slightly worse; not enough to make a huge difference to us. Both trucks get pretty crummy gas mileage. But it would be a compromise since Mark really wants a truck and I really want a truck that we can all safely ride in together. I'd also like him to have any kind of vehicle with a backseat because then Hayley is safer (than riding in the front in his current vehicle).
But dang--a crew cab longbed pickup is just MAMMOTH. It's SO BIG. I'd never drive it, myself. Plus it's a stick shift so I couldn't drive it anyway.
What are your thoughts? To me, it sounds perfect--but I'm expecting Mark to put up a slight fight just because he's so attached to his current truck.
Hayley is too big to ride in any harnessed seat in the center, so she uses a highback booster outboard and we all three can't fit safely together anymore (because that would put me in the lapbelt spot).
It's not a HUGE deal since my 99 Windstar is our primary family transportation, but there are times (camping especially) that we'd like to use the truck as a family vehicle.
A friend made Mark an offer of $3000 for the truck, and I found a 1992 Ford F350 CREW CAB for $3400, and after talking with the owner he's willing to go as low as $3000 because he needs the $$ for first/last/deposit on a new house.
Gas mileage should be only ever-so-slightly worse; not enough to make a huge difference to us. Both trucks get pretty crummy gas mileage. But it would be a compromise since Mark really wants a truck and I really want a truck that we can all safely ride in together. I'd also like him to have any kind of vehicle with a backseat because then Hayley is safer (than riding in the front in his current vehicle).
But dang--a crew cab longbed pickup is just MAMMOTH. It's SO BIG. I'd never drive it, myself. Plus it's a stick shift so I couldn't drive it anyway.
What are your thoughts? To me, it sounds perfect--but I'm expecting Mark to put up a slight fight just because he's so attached to his current truck.