This is not "the truck" but our old one ton looks a lot like this, but in a lot worse condition.
This is the truck we are currently restoring, a '56 3/4 ton original four wheel drive.
Our original "truck" we bought in Oklahoma when we were very young. I think we paid a hundred dollars or so. Floorboards were so rusted out, you could not set stuff on the floorboards because the holes were so big!
We are driving across Texas, home to our Tex, blistering heat and almost raining, engine heat boiling up through the floorboard holes. I forgot and drop my pocketbook on the floor after fetching some chewing gum. My poketbook ends up scattered along a mile of bubbling hot Texas asphalt. We have to stop, back up, then fetch all my stuff, including about fifty bucks we have between the two of us.
Ran ok, an old six cylinder with a million miles. Leaked a lot of oil but always started up for us. Hot, uncomfortable, top speed about sixty and that is really pushing it. We drove that truck for years, Oklahoma, Texas, California, wherever life took us in search of work and money.
We were very poor back then, extremely poor.
I miss that truck. Kinda wish we still had "the truck" today.
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looks like a neat napco equipped truck. those are rare. mine was also 6 cylinder with a million miles. i gave it to someone around 1985 and thought i saw it still on the road about a year ago. truly a miracle and a testimony to how tough those trucks really were.
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A 1971 2002 BMW. I drove that car for almost ten years, then finally loosened up a bit with money, and bought a junk '75 Corvette for my husband to fix up for me.
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I had a 72 Cheyenne Camper Special, small block 400, 4 barrel Holly...Old Blue, unassuming work truck with ladder racks, until you blow them off the line. I miss that truck. My brother finally killed it when he took it over a twenty foot cliff, landed it on its nose, and got out just before it blew up. Like watching something offa CHiPs. lol.
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they will plow through snow ice and mud if you just leave them in 2nd gear and don't do anything. good gas mileage, almost indestructible. one of the hardest thing i ever did was to replace a clutch without a lift. it took everything i had but once i got the pilot bearing in it wasn't coming back down come hell or high water!
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They just don't make 'em like they used to. Somehow I just can't see anyone ever waxing nostalgic over a Camry.
Had a 1970 Cutlass 442 back in the day, passenger side floor board had a huge hole where you would put your feet, so rusted out it couldn't even hold the seat in, it was just sorta propped up. I'd get a girl in it and inevitably they'd say, "Where am I supposed to put my feet"? I'd say, "On the dashboard where else"? "What are you a primadonna or sumthin"? They'd always comply. They didn't know the seat wasn't bolted in, so as soon as they put their feet up, I'd tap the gas and they'd go flying back. Got a kick out of that every time.
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i redid my 59 el camino and it still drives like trucks of that era. i tell people "its supposed to be a truck not a car", but it never gets to haul anything anymore.
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its amazing what you can do when you have to. i'm glad i didn't know what it weighed before i started tht job. i think i worked it back up on bricks and forced it the last inch or two flat on my back. was out in the country and couldn't afford to pay anyone else to fix it. the good old bad old days.
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i have a lot of the right tools amd some friends that are mechanics who help me with some of the heavier projects. without the cars and the music, life wouldn't be worthwhile ! restoring cars gets in your blood. a good way to get rid of stress!
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This reads very submissive, but I believe a woman is responsible to learn all she can about what her husband does and about what he likes to do. This is important.
Over the years, I jump right in there with him, usually to his annoyance, to learn all about these things he enjoys so he and I can talk and communicate.
Works out well because I can help a lot with the cars. Most important, while he is working on something, maybe working on a rental, I can track down and find needed car parts, even make some simple repairs or tune up. This is good for both of us because we work as a true team.
I think if more men and women took great interest in what each other does and likes, our high divorce rate would lower.
I have a very good man. I could not ask for nor find a better man. I am responsible to keep him happy and to dedicate myself to him, as he does for me.
quote:Originally posted by 66inxs: i have a lot of the right tools amd some friends that are mechanics who help me with some of the heavier projects. without the cars and the music, life wouldn't be worthwhile ! restoring cars gets in your blood. a good way to get rid of stress!
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It's extremely important Purl, your right on the money, over the years, the number one complaint I've heard from guys who wanted a divorce, I'm talking good guys now, "She just wasn't interested in anything I was into."
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