What might I get for a 6.5, complete engine, 209kkm on it, running great? What for the tranny, 4l80E, same mileage?

I'm asking because I might get more for my truck if I sell it in parts than selling it as a whole truck here :( It would really hurt if I had to take it apart, but I've no good idea what I could do with it because of that darn road tax issue -:t

Road tax, is that to pay for the Autobahn?

Sell the engine and tranny and spend all your spare time developing veicular levitation so you don't require the road anymore.

I thought the autobahn was hitler's idea? supposed to be for landing planes and such when airbases got bombed out.

Road tax is tax that has to be payed each year for vehicles being run on public roads.

The autobahn has been invented by Hitler --- it's said that the idea was to be able to move troups quickly around the country. Airplanes probably haven't been considered much at that time.

There is yet no designated fee for autobahn usage for vehicles with a GVWR of less than 12000kg in Germany, but I'm afraid it will be invented sooner or later. The introduction of the fee has resulted in that the vehicles having to pay it use other roads where ever they reasonably can.

In many other European countries, there is a fee for autobahn usage for all vehicles, at varying prices. For example, you simply cannot use those roads in France because it is too expensive --- instead, you have to go over very small and bumpy roads and through all the towns they come along. France must be a very poor country, having no decent roads ... It takes you about 2--3 days instead of one to drive through France because they don't have decent roads --- but it's much cheaper to smoke about a tankfill of Diesel more than you otherwise would to get through than is paying the fees.

Spain is different in that the fees are not that high, and you can always use other, very good roads free of charge. In Italy, even what they call autobahn and take fees for, have lanes too tight half a meter at each side. But the fees in Italy are not as high as to make them unusable. Sweden claims to have 138kkm of public roads, and except for the two bridges you can take to get there from here, they are free to use. Denmark is free, though one of those bridges may belong to Denmark. Norway takes fees on some tunnels and such that were extremely expensive to build and are extremely expensive to maintain. Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Andorra are free (Andorra is even too small to have an autobahn). Austria and Switzerland take some fees. I've been told that Poland doesn't have an autobahn, but I've never been there. England is also free, but fuel there is too expensive to go there. Ireland is probably also free, but I don't know. Finnland is free.

Sell the engine and tranny and spend all your spare time developing veicular levitation so you don't require the road anymore.
That's a great idea :) One can do that with a hovercraft, but I don't think that they would allow them on public roads. And if someone were to develop antigravitation or something like that to make vehicles levitate, they would probably come up with a new kind of road tax for levitating vehicles which would be extraordinarily high.

It's just that they are very serious in taking this country down. I think I shouldn't say that they are inventive, since probably a great deal of what's taking the country down has come up in side effects which they didn't think of due to incompetence --- or they did but dare not to admit. Yet we wonder anyway what they are so overly payed for ...


PS: I definitely have to sell, be it in parts or as a whole :( The only good news is that I seem to have more time for it than expected, and I might be able to make a better deal than.

You might want to try selling it on ebay. I see them in europe every now and then listed there.

Yes, I've been thinking about that, too; it would be worth a try.

Lee, thanks for all the info. We all ***** about our countries and I have relatives in Canada as well as the U.S. so I hear it form both sides how the government sucks. It is kind of nice though to know your own country is not the only one that is bleeding out it's citizens though taxes :(