At 10:23 AM 1/15/99 -0500, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
>Sorry Phillip, gotta disagree.
>
>You asked how reliable a ten year old Totyota was?  I drove my '86
>Toyota van for 150K until I sold it to help pay for my Westy, my sister
>drove her '85 Toyota Van to 200K till she parked it (the interior was
>trashed and she wanted a sportier car), and a good friend is still
>driving her '85 at 250K, and here's the catch . . . all with NO MAJOR
>ENGINE PROBLEMS.

Add my 1985 Toyota pick-up to the list.  165,000 km and so far I've had to
put in a clutch and a muffler.  Other than that - nada.  Now, let me tell
you about my 1982 Westy, 142,000 km.  Just did an engine job.  $3,100.  I
could buy another Toyota for that.  Why don't I?  Same as everyone else.
The Westy is more comfortable to sleep in, and the propane stove is safer
than a bonfire in the box of the pick-up.  But reliability?  No contest.