My brother currently drives a 1991 Buick Park avenue. It only has 118K miles but is not without flaws. It has about 6 codes stored, not sure what they all are but currently the only drive-ability issue is it likes to shut off at random. Its not without warning though, it normally happens when you are at a stop or when you have been coasting (foot off gas). The idle also will jump up and down before it stalls out. He will be getting a 1981 Chevy C10 from our grandfather in a couple months and he wants to take the Buick off the insurance and put the pickup on it to use as his primary car. He feels the truck will be "more reliable transportation". In my opinion he should just fix the Buick as it has one of the most reliable drivetrains GM has put out and it only has 118K miles. He is worried that the stalling out issue is caused by the ECM and will cost$$. I told him its probably something simple like a fuel filter or similar but he doesn't seem to want to believe that. A little background info on the truck, it has the 250 straight 6 and a 3 speed manual. Its sitting around 180K currently and as far as I know doesn't have any glaring issues. It has some rust, oil leaks etc. I noticed once that it took a couple tries to start (not sure if that would be anything major, but worth mentioning). Anyway, there is a vast store of knowledge on this forum, and he wanted me to post this to get the opinions of the BITOG members on which car should be his daily, and ultimately which should be less of a money pit. I already have my opinion on which one he should use but he wanted me to ask the BITOG community. So shoot!