My current around town ride. 66 Econoline, 240 6 cyl. 3 on the tree sniper injection and a lot of fun
The 74 is the ride I had in high school around 83,84 the 65 came along a couple of years later started out as a F250 I painted it and installed half tone spindles and rear and had a 352 4 speed,the 74 had a built 390.
79 Power Wagon W200 , locked Dana 60s front and rear , 5 speed NV4500 , NP205 , 4bt Cummins Power . X US Forestry Truck
My daily driver 350/5spd truck has over 430K miles on it ... runs & drives beautiful. Always fun to have a sbc and row through the gears. As soon as I get y Dodge driving reliably, I call it Hound Dog. A beater with a heater, body is rough, has tractor supply paint .... flathead 6, 3 on the tree it should be a decent little driver to get around town. Do truck things like haul groceries, lumber etc.... Then I really want to spend some time on the chebby .... it just needs a bunch of work. Door pins need replaced, need to pull the dash to fix the AC while converting it to modern freon. Needs some rust fixed and new paint ..... no tractor supply paint for this one .... The motor runs well but is a little tired ... not decided if I build one or put a crate in it .... I like it as it is, I just want to freshen it up. For giggles, here is the newest vehicle I own .... the wife 1993 Caravan ... we have had it for years, it was her mothers and dad took good care of it. We just love it and is the only vehicle we own with working AC .... In construction I drove vans and I love trucks ..... I just have no use for a car, have not owned one in over 30 years. And I like vehicles old enough that I can still understand them and work on them.
This was my Grandpa's truck that was handed down to me. I hated to change the title over, it had been in his name for 40 years. I bought this truck off eBay. Drove from Louisiana to Tulsa to get it. Guy said it runs and drives but needed work to be roadworthy. Tow vehicle broke down in McAlester and ended up driving this one back home. Here I'm using my daily driver for one of my favorite activities... buying motorcycles! Bought paint for my camper last summer and still haven't managed to get it painted yet.
@HOTRODNORSKIE, I had a similar 75 Ford with a 390 around the same time in highschool. It got 7 miles to the gallon. No matter how fast you drove. At 55 or 90 or any speed, it got 7 miles to the gallon. You could tell time by the gas gauge, every half hour it used 1/4 tank of fuel!
My dad bought that truck new in 74 I remembered us driving 100 miles east to Bismarck to look at trucks my older brother almost had him talked into a two tone green ranger with a 460 but he brought home that orange explorer I loved the color with the white stripes and talked him into selling it to me when I got my license. I to had bad gas mileage with that 390 until I put a different cam ,4 barrel ,and headers in it then the gas mileage got a whole lot better.
I have a huge assortment of pics. Mostly disorganized to no end. I was able to find a pic of my 77 Dodge crewcab that was my race car tow truck. 440 6 pack short block with truck heads and a 727 trans. Not fast but did the job for many years. The other pic is my 89 Shelby Dakota. I kept if 11 years. It was replaced by a 2000 Dakota Rt that I still own. I can't seem to find a pic of it????
I love Chevy trucks for work vehicles. But a neighbor of mine gave me a ride in his brand new 250 King Ranch the other day...OMG. The leather was incredible and the seats had message like a Benz. I could have sat there all day.
What else is there? I drove a older Ford 1ton work van for 15 years .... got 8mpg uphill, downhill, through the hill .... It never broke down ... unless I wanted the day off. .... I always wished I had a chebby for better fuel mpg.
My 88 F-250 4x4 trailer towing, parts hauler. 7.3 diesel with ATS turbo, ZF-5 manual trans. Inherited from my father. Only 144k miles and zero rust. A recent project, 97 Sonoma with a vortec 350 V8, NV3500 manual trans, 3.73 blazer disc brake rear. Lowered 4/5. New paint and many new parts small repairs. I currently have it for sale. Really fun to drive, but I just prefer my 52 GMC or my 52 Chevy Ute for a smaller truck driver.
A twofer. Dodge trucks here. Lots of them through the years. They were work trucks for the most part. The blue 78 (with an 82 nose) in the background was a work horse. I bought it from a friend for $150 in about 1995. The truck was a farm truck that had extra leaf springs added at all 4 corners. The farmer that owned it had 4 farms back to back, and this truck was used to distribute all the seed corn to all 4 farms during planting season and pull the grain wagons back to the main farm in the fall. It had a butt load of miles on it then, and the 360 had burnt valves on both heads. I grabbed a couple of heads out of my parts pile, turned then upside down and filled the combustion chambers with water to make sure the valves were good, then slapped the heads on the motor. It came without a bed, I swapped out a slightly crunched bed on a customer's truck, and installed the crunched bed on the blue truck, that bed was gold color. The truck looked goofy, but I had a moving 3/4 ton 4x4 for around $250. I moved the snow plow from my old truck and installed it on this one. In this picture the blue truck had been used to pull the car trailer, plow snow, and haul lots of stuff for about 10 years. My buddy and I guesstimate the truck had over 300,000 miles on it by the time I quit using it. The last thing it did was haul the replacement roof for my garage home from Menards. That was the entire roof, plywood, felt paper, shingles, nails, a 10' x 30' rubber roof membrane, in one load. After that, the red oxide truck replaced it and the blue truck got junked. The red oxide is a 50 Dodge cab & 52 front sheet metal mounted on an 80 4x4 chassis. The truck got the snow plow off the blue truck, and basically replaced the blue truck. It did end up getting painted (farm implement blue paint) and it served me for 12 years before it got totaled in a had on crash. This is the red oxide truck in work gear. It did get another face lift shortly before it got killed. Here is the 50 getting ready to bringing home my 48 Plymouth coupe.
Another twofer (sort of). You can just see the back end of the 75 Dodge truck. This one was a 3/4 ton 2 wd with a 318, 727. I bought this one from my dad when he bought a newer Dodge truck. Dad ran a jackhammer service. He had a 4 cylinder enclosed air compressor trailer mounted in the back of this truck. The cab on the trailer is the cab and front sheet metal for the red oxide 50 in my post above. At one time, the poor trailer had 4 of the white spoke wheels on it, but by this time it already had over 150,000 road miles on it. Before I opened my welding shop, I used that trailer to haul cars across the country for about a year and a half. That was an interesting experience until the 73 D 350 (1 ton single wheel rear) extended cab 440 727 gave up the ship at around 200K miles. Before I get in trouble about the stuff in the background, this picture was taken at the building I rented for my welding shop. The red building (on the right side) in the background was a scrap yard/parts for sale place (most of what you see belonged to him). The gray building (Microswitch plant #2) was a local factory with their employee parking lot and a State Highway (IL Rt 75) passing through town between my trailer and that building. Nothing in the background had any connection to me. The building I was renting in that area would have been directly behind the trailer (the truck and trailer are lined up with my shop's garage door), across the abandoned street. The time frame on this was about 1996. I rented this building from 94 to 96, then rented a much larger building that was on the right side of the red building. The 50 got built in the next larger building, so the expectation was there I would be in the larger building soon.
My 2000 F350 7.3, I love the comfort of the brand new trucks, but can't justify spending that kind of money, when this has plenty of life still in it.
I like a Ford Ranger and I love a Ford big block you just made the most awesome ranger ever. To bad I live in California where this is a smog truck or I would daily something like this.
Here’s mine. This was once my daily driver and I never sold it. It’s basically 97.4% stock. I keep replacing and repairing when the mood strikes me. Front bumper/winch is an “old” Warn unit.
My hauler. '85 F350 Crew Cab / DRW. 7.3 IDI oil burner, Turbo, Cam, and 90cc pump. T19 4 speed with 2 spd range splitter overdrive. Currently serving as my daily driver until I can come up with something else....
Well all new clutch , pressure plate , release bearing , pilot bearing , all back to blowin smoke , good to go
Here’s my 76 k10 had one like it in high school. 6” suspension lift 3” body lift 400/400 turbo NP205 transfer case 8 lug Dana 60 front with an 8 lug corporate 14bolt full floater in the rear with 33” tall tires. work in progress-
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