Before purchasing a car, you need to be very cautious about everything related to automobiles. Most importantly, when you plan to buy something good enough, you need to go through a laborious market research. Car dealers are millions in numbers but the honest and the right one is as rare as a Dodo.

In Buy Chevy Truck the end selling the Saturn retail brand could be the biggest mistake of all for General Motors. The retail network would open a ready-made floodgate for a host of new foreign competition to its current market position. Think China and India. All they lack is a solid dealer network in America where they can distribute, sell and service their wares, as the cars are already in the works.

Very dumb move. When you're Chevy Truck Deal with another culture you're not familiar with, the safest thing to do is be ultra-conservative especially where the women are concerned. In many cultures, you should not speak directly to the woman or make eye contact or touch her in any way.

The Ford Flex stands out because it offers minivan like room for seven yet it isn't one. It also isn't really a wagon or an SUV. Who cares what it is because all that matters is what it can do. The Flex has a versatile, well built and stylish interior. It is also available with the same 3.5 liter 346 horsepower Ecoboost motor from the Taurus SHO. That makes the Flex the muscle car of this grouping.

Realize the bidders for Saturn could care less about the Vue, the Sky or any other GM vehicle. They want to tap into the proven way of gaining customers who would never darken a GM dealer's door. Furthermore, they will win over new customers besides those that already have shown disdain for stepping into a chevy truck types deal, no matter how good the commercials or the cars become.

In those days, I knew a young man, older than me, who drove a white 1957 Chevrolet that had power-pack heads with a four barrel carburetor, dual exhausts, and automatic, all housed in a four door hardtop body painted white. If I remember correctly, his name was Kenneth King.

On Part 4 of our series of articles about truck restorations I will talk about more lessons learned the hard way during the restoration of my 1954 Chevy truck.