I tried to get rid of my old pickup for 400 bucks back on Friday.
It had been hit late last year and totaled out. The most valuable parts on it were the wheels and tires. I wasn't real sure what to do with it, and didn't have the heart to scrap it, nor the time to fix it up, and so it sat.
During the weekend's blizzard, I managed to get my Magnum R/T AWD stuck in snow drifts twice, and just barely made it back to the farm. I needed to leave again to meet my girlfriend for Sunday dinner, and road conditions were getting worse by the minute. The only choice left was my crashed up '86 Dodge Pickup.
In sub-zero temperatures with a choke that didn't work, that piece of crap old truck slowly cranked to life! First it ran on a couple cylinders, then another, then another, and finally all eight were firing!
Parked axle deep in a snow drift, I yanked the right stick into 4-high, then clunked the shifter on the NP435 into the non-syncro'd granny 1st gear. It seemed like every system in the truck was howling, clicking, or groaning in complaint from being woken up. Slowly but surely, it clawed its way out of the drift and off we went down the road.
It performed flawlessly the rest of the day leaving me with a new appreciation for my old Dodge.