I've spent untold hours working on my Fords... but I love them just the same. Little compares to the pride when you can say what all you've done to one (especially when it roars to life after a motor change/swap).
Any brand of vehicle is either the best thing you've ever owned or the worst pos you've ever owned - depending on whether it's behaving nicely or costing you money. The best vehicle is one that never costs you money, and since they haven't invented those yet, I'll stick to my Fords.
I've only ever sold one that I've bought, and that was an 89 Bronco II Eddie Bauer. I wish I wouldn't have sold it. I bought it from a junkyard (almost literally from the jaws of the car crusher). It had somewhere around 200,000 miles on it and wouldn't run when I bought it for $250 (got the title transfered from the P.O. so it was clean - the junkyard was just going to crush it till I spotted it two days before it was to be squashed, bought it the day it was supposed to be crushed). Replaced the fuel relay then traced the problem to the fuel tank before I ran out of time and someone came out of the junkyard to talk with me just before I called for a tow truck (they put it in the dirt parking area across from the yard). Got to talking with the guy then he said to come back Monday (it was a Saturday) and they'd pull it in the shop and see what's up. I told him that the office told me it had to be out of there that day and he said not to worry. I didn't know it till a week or so later that I had been talking with the owner of the yard!
Pulled it in the shop, threw it up on a lift and began messing around with fighting rust to get the gas tank off when I discovered that someone cut a hole in the floor above the tank. Lowered it down, opened the hatch, pulled the pump and found the problem - someone replaced the pump and used crimp-on splices (which where laying at the bottom of the tank). Couple drops of solder and I was back in business. Then I did a full tune-up (and boy did it ever need it - had motorcraft plugs and wires in it!). Poor thing coughed and sputtered for a full 5 minutes on the shop floor (we though I had killed the poor truck), then it started to smooth out and started idling so beautifully (I have never heard a 2.9 run so nice). I ran it for almost 3 years before selling it to one of my professors for his kid, then got hired to finish fixing the few things I hadn't got around to yet. When I was done fixing it, I took it for a test drive and then I knew I shouldn't have sold it, it ran and drove like a new truck - even with around 240,000 miles....
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