Story of three bumps

[CNM67]

I have written the story of how I got introduced to the bumpside ford, but it is very long and I'm unclear if that would be inappropriate to post here. So if it's ok to post I will, if not I'll post it to my tumbler and attach a link so anyone here who is interested in reading it can, and comments can be posted on this thread.

[MrMajestyk]

I always enjoy a Great Bump story

[CNM67]

Here it is its the 1 page abridged version.

[CNM67]

The story begins in the early to mid 90's, my father, a hard working family man got drawn into the bump scene by a friend and purchased a 70 CS. He bought the truck as more of a project then a daily driver, and spent every extra minute working on his new truck. A few weeks later he found an exact clone to his truck parked in the desert located behind our house. Not wanting to mess with the truck in case it was stolen, he spoke to the son of our neighbor
(A Los Angeles county sheriff) and asked if he would run the tags to check the status of the truck. A few days after that the truck was still sitting in the desert and the neighbors son came back to his mom’s for a visit, so dad walk over and asked if he had a chance to look into the truck, and he said yes he had and it came up clean and his thoughts were that it was abandoned. So dad asked if he thought it was ok to pull some parts from it to use on his tuck, and the sheriff said that should be fine. So here’s where dad made his first mistake, he pulled the truck over to the house so it would be easier to work on. After he took what he needed he put the truck right back where he got it from. Not long after, the local sheriff’s department came to the house with a complaint that dad was running a chop shop and if they could look and his truck and his registration, of course dad let them. The problem was he had put the doors from the other truck on his truck seeing that were in much better shape, well he didn’t change the vin tags so they didn’t match and so the cops took his truck to the impound. Many restless days later and even more angry phone calls to the impound, the sheriffs called and said it was fine to come on down and pick up his truck. So a friend dropped him off and the first thing they said to him was “thanks for coming down Mr. Mann, can you please put your hands behind your back you are under arrest for receiving stolen property.” I can remember a very different dad that night after mom went and bailed him out. I don’t think he knew weather to be mad or depressed about the whole situation. Mad because he was arrested fo something he didn’t even know he did or sad because he lost his truck in the process. The next few weeks went by and things seemed to be back to normal dad dismissed the dream of having a nice old ford truck, until his friend (the same one who sparked his interest in the first place) told him about a 72 CS that he had looked at but thought the frame was bent. Dad being a Union Ironworker for 20 years at that point decided to look for himself. After seeing the truck in person he decided the for $300 it was too good a deal to pass up, and guess what the frame was slightly bent but only in front of the motor mounts, but what gave to illusion of a junked frame was the fact the cab was twisted on the frame. He fixed the frame and replaced the fender with a green one off a pick-a-part special and was in business, but the truck was tired and now he really had the itch, so it was time to pull out the tired 390 & C6 and it was off to the machine shop. With the tranny rebuilt and the machine work done to the motor it was time to put the new 390 together. With the help of a good friend he put the motor together to spec using mostly stock parts a RV cam, headers and the .30 over bore were the only mod’s on the motor and I’ll tell you from firsthand experience that motor would scream. And so it was, weeks went by and dad drove his truck and hunted the pick-a-parts until he found the rest of the yellow body pats he needed and the truck was finished, but he found the big block was far too expensive to commute back and forth to work. So he financed a 98 f150, but mom didn’t like the fact that he had two trucks and deemed that one had to go. So not wanting to have to sell the new truck being that it was financed he sold the bump . Years have gone by since dad owned his bumpside fords and I recently had the option to buy a 67 f100 so I did. Now every time we go out to work on my 67 I see a little smile creep to the corner of mouth and that makes owning my bump all the more gratifying.

[no_treble]

Good story.

[CNM67]

Good story.

Thanks man there is more to it but i kept it short but now I think I'm going to branch off and tell all the little side story's.

[MrMajestyk]

Thanks for taking the time to share your 'bump' story

[CNM67]

Thanks for taking the time to share your 'bump' story

Thanks

[Mancar1]

Very good read. Thanks.

[CNM67]

Very good read. Thanks.

Thanks for taking the time to read it

[Joshpow]

good stories. thanks for sharing.

[CNM67]

Thanks guys more stories to come