Truck is an 89, fairly old, but only 124K on it and it had a paint job,
my favorite part is that there really isn't much rust on the
undercarriage, hardly any at all.  I know that this kind of rust is
mostly superficial, but considering how much work I do on my vehicles
it makes a huge difference to not have to take rust chips/flakes in the
eye every time I do something :)  The turbo i was referring to is the
tranny, the th400, commonly called a turbo in the muscle car era.  but
man would i love to supercharge this bad boy :)   The 454 is great,
only gets about 8mpg but I really don't drive it much, only put 1K on
it in the last 3 months, but man those things are pretty bulletproof,
only thing I need to do on that is to replace rear main seal and oil
pan gasket, should be fun since the engine has to come out and up 3
inches... 35 dollars in parts, 3 days of work :)

As far as towing, here's a direct quote from the kia service dept.
"well technically it's rated to tow 3500 but if you tow that much i can
almost guarantee you'll break something"  what a vote of confidence :)
on that note, i cancelled any plans to put a hitch on it....