Are you receiving what you want from your truck?

[towtruckerfour]

I have gotten everything I have asked from my trucks. One was my dads and the other was my grandfathers which has been swapped into a 4x4. They have done everything I have asked of them. They will always need money put in them but that don't matter to my wife and me. They will never be show trucks but i want them to look good. We took our 70 F250 to Boise Friday to pickup some of the pavers for our backyard. Its about 40 minutes one way. We picked up 168 pavers and brought them home. The truck sat down quite a bit so we did 55 coming home so I didn't push it. We got home and weighed a paver for curiousity. It weighed 15 lbs. That meant I put 2520 lbs in the bed. No wonder the truck sat down! Thank god for the overloads. So yeah, I'm receiving everthing out of my trucks.

[NM5K]

Mine has always been a work truck. So I've always been a lot more worried about it
being reliable, than I have about making a show truck.
And with mine having a utility bed, and the rear of the frame shortened some, it's
not really worth trying to stick a stock bed on it. So I've pretty much resigned it to
always being a work truck.
As far as the mechanicals, yep, I pretty much have done what I needed to.
Rebuilt long block about 10 years ago. New clutch, plate, and bearing. Brakes
overhauled. Rebuilt the front end, with new kingpins and all steering links and
bushings. New radiator, water pump, and recently new master cyl..
Well.. you get the idea.. But it needs a paint job bad, and the rust is starting
to creep in more the last couple of years, cuz it sits in the rain all the time.
It runs good, and is reliable. All I really need, but a paint job would be nice if I
could get off my differential. So much work involved getting it ready to paint.
The actual painting is the easy part.. :|

[1970 Hi-Boy]

My truck even at it's worst would still start and do everything I asked of it. It's drove all over the country, even coast to coast. Always with a load or towing another vehicle or sometimes both. It gets looks wherever I go and even the up and coming generations seem to like it. I can not even begin to count how many people tried to buy it from me over the years, my response was always the same, $40,000 is what it'll take to get it from me, when asked why so much, cause that's how much a new one costs that might do, what this one will do, no one ever disagreed with my logic, or cough up that kind of dough; perfect. I could never complain of having to fix this or that over the years, as I seem to owe more to the truck than it owes me. I would however like to get back the the original vision I had when I purchased the truck all those years ago, to have a pop up camper on the back to take out on a hunting or fishing trip to wherever. Then life/work/reality happened and got in the way. Think if I ever get rolling again, I'll go buy a one ton bump or dent to do all the work chores and give the Hi-boy a well deserved break. Then look for a camper, so before I get too old to do so, I can enjoy it the way I originally wanted.

[colnago]

My biggest requirement was (and is) that it had to be running, licensed, and road-worthy. I knew that if I had to get it on the road, it would never move again, but if it ran, I could "pick at it" on the weekends, and have something to get me to work on Monday. We've got a long way to go to make her picture-perfect, but I'm having a blast getting there. Just picked up a new engine block and C6 transmission that I want to rebuild, then I can do the "big swap" over a weekend, and keep on driving!

Yes, she's given me everything I've asked of her.

Joseph

[Chickenhawk368]

The answer is yes, but I've only had it 2 days.

I was looking for a project that wouldn't take a lot of time or money. I payed next to nothing for this truck and it won't need much, light body work, paint, dash pad, seat cover, head liner, heater core, also replacing all belts, hoses, and fluids just for peace of mind. For about $2500 I'll have a pickup that looks dang good, will haul my camp trailer when I want, bikes when I need, and all the other things you need a pickup for.

It also has all the things I need and none of the crap I don't want. The windows roll down, it's got power steering and brakes, AM radio works and so does the heater (but it does drip coolent).



The real problem is now I don't want to hook up my ugly new trailer to it. It would look sooo much better hauling a nice restored Airstream.

[67 CD]

I would have to say yes . bought truck 10/82 and five years ago started frame off.that was fun in many ways 390 c6 tubed did it old school. looks great. thanks to ALL on FORDification it went a lot easer for me. hope to get pics up soon.its not many that can say they still have the 2nd vehicle thay ever bought.