# Should i hold onto my 20 year vehicle **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [June 15, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/should-i-hold-onto-my-20-year-vehicle/200679 "2025-06-15T23:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/should-i-hold-onto-my-20-year-vehicle/200679/9 "2025-06-16T16:00:30Z")
You have to decide what it is worth to you… Next year, I get to register my 2001 Dodge Ram 2500, 4x4, with Virginia Antique Plates… Reduced insurance costs, reduced registration costs, and reduced property Tax… One time $50 cost for plates and it is recouped the first year… You just have to have a second vehicle with a regular registration (not also antique plated…) for daily use… Still have three daily use vehicles… ![IMG_20240215_103021965](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/3/8/385888976b2fd351a86e4d8bd3fb395a56c52a43.jpeg) We also kept our 1985 Toyota Corolla (bought new) for 40-years before donating it to Eggleston Services. > [@Eleanor has gone to a new home…](https://community.cartalk.com/t/eleanor-has-gone-to-a-new-home/198494): > > Eleanor has gone to a new home… We donated our 1985 Toyota Corolla LE (my wife named her “Eleanor”) with 230,000 miles on the odometer. We bought her new back in the summer of '84 for about $7,100 and she had all the bells and whistles offered. She has been a good and faithful car and always got us home… But after 40-years, she was really feeling her age… We only took her out once a month to keep the seals wet and never too far from home… But with four other vehicles an… All the advice of the members is what you need to consider in your circumstance, learn from others experiences and mistakes… Good Luck! --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/should-i-hold-onto-my-20-year-vehicle/200679)._