Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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Me after all the turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin roll and beer....
10 minutes after that
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So, as soon as you eat that Turkey day dinner, it’s officially Christmas season, so I’ll start with an old classic Christmas song.
The following is my opinion based on my experiences.Owned a 68 f-100 with the 3 on the column. It was wonderful.Truck would go totally black (Lights out interior and exterior/no headlights) while night driving. Quite without warning. Three on the tree gave it the pulling power of a worn out Volkswagen. Traded it for a large load of hay. Hay turned out bad, nothing would eat it. Fellow who got the truck complained that it burned oil. (Duh, we told you it burned oil, are you DEAF!). Gave the hay away to a fellow in the paving business to put out in the ditches of the roads he was repairing. That was the best part of the entire deal, cleared out room in my barn for good hay.
Next owned a 71 3/4 ton with a 360 and 4speed. Had to wear seat belts when driving or one would get knocked out from your head hitting the steel roof of the cab. Rode that bad, bounced that good. Got rid of the split rims in favor of the popular steel white rims that everyone craved during the 70’s. Possibly the best of our Fords, but a bearing was going bad. Traded it off for an 8N Ford Tractor. Told the fellow about the bearing. Still, he got the better part of the deal. Tractor turned out to be a really bad deal. To get one days work out of it, you had to work ON IT for a day. Nearly killed me. Learned the true value of a roll bar. (A quarter more turn as that tractor was turning over and I would be a grease spot at the tender age of 28.). That would have been wonderful, survived Vietnam; killed by a tractor turning over.
Final Ford was a 81 3/4 ton with the 300 six. Another bad deal. Dealer told more lies than hiden biden. It ran ok, used it for years, spent a fair amount of money upgrading the items that were supposed to be upgraded when we purchased it. Still it was struggling to get over 150,000.
Next purchased a used 1990 1/2 ton Suburban. Pulled boats with it for years. Nice truck. Got almost 300,000 out of it. Next was a used 2000 3/4 ton Suburban in 2008. Got close to 300,000 on it now. Been all over the country in it. No longer our main transportation, but still useful.
Guess if you like Ford trucks, great, enjoy your Ford trucks, I’m sticking with GMC. (And John Deere)
I was below what y'all would call a poor back then, and still a poor today. I only had V8s, no 6's figured into this equation.
65-72 were the best (toughest) Fords, 73-79 were a step down but still pretty good and had stuff like AC. 1980 and up absolute shit IMO. That 72 was the best truck I ever owned until the late 80's/early 90's GMs came out.
My 72 was a glossy green/gold metal flake and looked good compared to most fords of the day. After the transmission fiasco in Tx, I put a Borg Warner granny 4 speed, a 3.54 limited slip 8-lug Dana 60 with 9.00-16 multimile super traction tires. Wound up getting 18 mpg and plenty of power for my uses out of a 360 with points ignition. Yes it had 8 lugs on the rear and 5 lugs on the front.
Now I have a 03 Chevrolet1500 HD with a 6.0 and I don't need/want anything else long as I don't wreck it or a pulse disables all the electronics.
I had that Tonka set as a kid, minus the tractor
I love the Small Town Titans. This song sounds awesome on my surround sound. I think the neighbors like it too.
Probably the most money ever spent on modifying a Nagant.
So, is the only part of that that is original, the action?
For you OCD folks. Happy Thanksgiving.
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