Our latest purchase for our land is a 2003 Dodge Ram 2500. We quickly realized after a couple of weekends working on the land that we really needed to invest in a truck. We talked about it quite a bit and had decided to put it off when an opportunity came along that we couldn't pass up. Brian's employer has a "bulletin board" where people post things for sale and last Thursday someone posted a truck for sale. It had belonged to his father who had recently passed away. While it's a 2003, it has less than 33,000 miles on it. It has four doors which usually means you get a shorter bed but this one has an extended truck bed so we can put all sorts of stuff back there. It has a regular tow hitch as well as the ability to tow a 5th wheel trailer which will definitely come in handy down the road. It also has one of those tool boxes in the bed and a bed liner already. It's also a diesel which means better gas mileage. I'm sure Brian can go more into the specifics of the engine and it's capabilities but that's the limit of what I know. The greatest part is that it seats 6 so as the boys get older, we can all ride up to the land in the truck!! Oh yeah, Brian's favorite part has to be that it's red!!! Maybe we should call it Big Red. I got the chance to drive it last night to the grocery store and while it's definitely the largest vehicle I've ever driven, it wasn't difficult in any way. It handles beautifully.Yeah, the turn radius is quite large but it was super easy. Here are some photos I took yesterday although I'm sure Brian will want me to post some after it's had a good wash and wax.
Oh, for those of you wondering, we sold Brian's Mazda 3. I highly recommend AutoTrader.com. We usually sell our vehicles to CarMax but they gave us a really low offer so we decided to try to sell it on our own. Brian got 2 calls based on his Auto Trader ad Monday and Tuesday we signed the title over and collected our check. We spent less than $40 to list it online and made $2100 more than CarMax offered us.
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