My car is a 2007 and I've kept it around for similar reasons. The one thing that scares me the most about having a car that old is safety. Newer cars are a lot

My car is a 2007 and I've kept it around for similar reasons. The one thing that scares me the most about having a car that old is safety. Newer cars are a lot heavier and stiffer, so even cars that are considerably smaller could annihilate mine in an accident. It's not quite to this extreme, but IIHS did a test (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxd27jlZ_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxd27jlZ_g) a while back that showed the difference in safety standards between a 1959 Bel Air and a 2009 Malibu. The Bel Air is about 5% heavier. Probably less of a worry in a 3/4-ton truck though.