Reflective Essay On A Truck

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A few years ago when I first started looking at vehicles I told my dad I want a full sized truck with 4x4. He always said I should buy a car but I insisted on a truck. Finally one day he said to me that he might have found me a truck or two and he said we could go look at them the following weekend. So the next weekend we went looked at them and the first truck was in a field in rough shape, rusted out box, chewed up interior, a rusted out floor pan and it had a manual. Now at this time I didn’t like manuals because I didn’t know how to drive them so I didn’t want this truck. After we looked at that truck we went and looked at the other truck at the Howard County Road Maintenance Shop. This truck was parked in chest high weeds flat tires, little rust, new floor pan and clutch, but still a manual so I didn’t want this as bad either. …show more content…
I told my dad I wanted to go to this auction and maybe buy one, and he said since I still had to buy cattle I could only spend $1,000 on it. Well the day before the auction I went over to the Winneshiek County Road Maintenance Shop were the sale was to look at the trucks that were there. One was a 1993 F-250 4x4 with 7.3L Diesel without a box and the other was the truck I looked at from the Howard County shop. This truck was a 1993 F150 4x4, and I looked it over with my step dad and we decided it would be a good buy so the next day my grandpa and I loaded up and drove over to the

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