I get a ton of complements on my 2002 F250 Powerstroke 4X4, oddly enough. Its 100% stock down to the exhaust and the FX4 decals on the bed. Its the truck everyone wants, a crew cab short bed Lariat package, and its super duper duper clean, coming from Florida and never seeing salt before last winter. Its rare to see a super clean older Powerstroke in Wisconsin, most of them rust out on the door bottoms, rear fenders, and cab corners or are used as work trucks. The fact that my truck is pure white, no lower stripe, accentuates how clean it is.
"How many miles on that?" (expecting some super low number, but its got 250k)
"Is that your grandpa's?" (nope, mine, paid cash)
"Anything done to it?" (nope, gotta have one reliable car)
"Thats a Seven Three, isnt it? Those are great motors!" (yep, last full year of the 7.3)
"Wanna sell it?" (everything is for sale, no one likes my price)
Usually comments come from other guys at the diesel pumps, once in a while from customers or other vendors.
The Corvette gets some complements, but not as many as the truck. Maybe C5s are still too common. Get the usual kids asking me if I want to race once they hear the exhaust (long tubes, no cats, SLP Powerflo so it barks nice) but I don't do that on the street. Give them a rev once in a while if there is no one behind me.
