I'll just go with the Dak's I've owned since I have no clue what happened with the S-10 I traded in on my first R/T.
Ordered my first R/T direct from factory the way I wanted it in 1999('99 model). Owned it for four years when I totaled it "showing off" for family. Was on a twisty road, hit some loose gravel trying to slow down for a corer and took out some railroad ties with the front end. Tried hard to not have it totaled, but they did it anyways. Bought it back from insurance for $2K and parted it out. I know where most of the parts went to. The cab is living well on my friends '00 R/T that he totaled and re-built using my cab. The bed and most of the frame is sitting in my driveway converted into a trailer. The short block and crank are in my current R/T, bored .030 with everything else being new and improved. Heads got trashed since they had the infamous cracks on the back two cylinders. The tranny was given to a "friend" on a payment plan agreement since he was having problems with his stock tranny. He gave me one payment, and then I never got anything else from him. Have no idea what ever happened to the
tranny and it wasn't worth my time/money to try to get it back. Most of the smaller parts are scattered around the country of different R/Ts. I got 120K miles out of it before I screwed up.
Brian Cropp
---- Mike Sykes <mikesykes@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >>I'm just happy to hear that the truck is still alive & kicking, in
> good shape, and has a good home.<<
>
> okay, I'm comin' out of lurk mode for this.. =)
>
> I rolled by the shop the purchased my Premag to find that it has rotted away
> and is now reduced to a shell of it's former self. Now that I'm on my 3rd
> Dak I thought I'd start a thread about this: Anyone know where their old
> truck might be? Have you seen it lately? is it running?
>
> I'll start it off.
>
> After my Premag I got a 2001 R/T CC. It was okay... lease return, had some
> big All Terrain tires on it, but I saw the potential. Once I signed the
> dotted line (they approved my credit?! I'll TAKE IT!) and got it home, I
> started the project. Got some new BFG G-force T/A's, spent a day at the
> detail shop gettin' her buffed and sanded, removed the emblems. She was
> lookin' good. Then I noticed the taillights were different... one wasn't
> Mopar... hmmm...
>
> Several weeks later it started pullin' hard to one side... odd... tie rods
> were gone. No biggie, repaired under warranty... 4 weeks later, tie rods
> were gone again... hmmm.. this is odd... replaced under warranty again.
> Suspicious, I go to the local body shop to have them check the frame (it's
> good to know people with laser frame machines)... yup... frame tweaked bad.
> You could see the welds on it! yipe! It's too late to return this thing to
> the dealer where I got it (6 months by now) and the body shop says that this
> vehicle should have been totalled. Had a clean CarFax tho... booo CarFax.
>
> So here is where I learn a very important lesson. Upon investigating, I
> learned that a leased vehicle is owned by, and the responsibility of, the
> bank who pens the lease. This particular truck had been hit... hard...
> $27,000 damage. The bank would not allow their underwriter to total the
> vehicle since they saw it as a $36k investment... so, they valiantly tried
> to repair the vehicle. Once I learned this, I dumped that truck fast. Traded
> it in on a 2000 R/T CC that is now known as the Red Monster. 13.92@98 mph
> and a hoot!.... so, where is the Silver 2001 Lemon? The dealership sold it
> at a loss to a local Navy guy. It was re-totalled 3 months later when he was
> rear-ended by a drunk driver. The owner of the lemon was ok tho =) I saw it
> a few times before it's demise. I really wanted to tell the guy what he had
> gotten himself into, but everytime I pulled up next to him he thought I
> wanted to race. I'm sure my tailgate was delightful to look at. That Lemon
> was doomed.. jinxed.. I'm pretty superstitious, so I'm glad I got rid of
> that truck before it got totalled with me in it.
>
> anyone else got a story?
>
> -Miggity
> 00' R/T CC... a mod or two or 9 =)
>
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