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Never had a 'daily driver' Dodge product that went 28 years of hard service as my 'beater' 95 Dakota. Usually never kept a daily that long but man, this thing is like a Dodge Dart. Hard to kill and keeps on ticking. Have to admit that it does need at least new plugs and stuff like VC gaskets and the like but geez.....who would have thunk it!? I've had several Dakota pickups and none have been bad but the only thing that's been a hassle on the 95 is the wiper linkage. It's been a royal pain for years lolI will never forget the night in 1986 when Bob Miller invited me to his mom's place for dinner, and asked me how Baby Blue was running, three years after I'd purchased the car from him. When I answered, "Great!" he returned with a shoe box. It was filled to the top with time cards from his years of running the car down the quarter mile at Capitol Raceway in Maryland. The only engine work that car had during that time was valve seals changed at 80,000. Great testimony to the strength of a stock 440. That engine still runs great with 120,000 miles.