Yeah, tell me about it!
Last January, when it became apparent that my old Toyota Tacoma that has carried me around since September of 2001, needed a lot of work to continue going, left me with the question. How much money do I put into an old truck that had close to 200,000 thousand miles, some good rust/corrosion issues from 14 winters of its life on the east coast with salt and snow? And to be truthful, didn't really fit me anymore. I wasn't the same parson that I was in 2001 when I bought the truck. The new trucks, with the features I wanted like all the stuff my old 'stripper' truck never had, were damm near the size of a Tundra. Like you say, bigger than the regular pickup trucks of the 60's and even the early 70's!