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Beautiful… 👆

My wife's daily driver for years.

Now it sits unused in the shop.

I've always been partial to the 67-72 GM's. I've posted my 72 K10 on here before...

That's beautiful - hopefully mine will look that nice someday.

Yup, and a gallon of milk $2, a case of beer $8, and a steak dinner was $15. Shame how much value our dollar has lost.

My uncle just restored a 65 Ford and added a few customizations. It h it s a beautiful Carolina Blue with approximately 500 HP. He ha a 64 coming up next. I can’t wait to see the results!

I had a 64 f100 with under dash AC that would frost the metal vents... 292 and 3 on the tree... man I wish I had that truck back.

Kent

For my bud's 55th anniversary, the family had a ground-up, total restoration of his dads '55 chev. Purty cool deal....

jackmountain;
Good evening to you sir, I trust the weekend was at least tolerable for you and this finds you well.

Way back in the day, when there were few domestic 4x4 pickups up here, this was the second 4x4 Toyota in the south valley here. It was an '80 that I bought off a chap who didn't like making the payments part way through '81. To this day it's the newest truck I ever owned.



We took that thing in the back country in 4 western provinces including goat hunts up in the Stikine, all over Vancouver Island, the Kootenays and up into Haida Gwaii. When I sold it to a buddy, I'd painted the whole thing once and some of it for the 3rd time repairing the rust. It had a 22R in it by then out of an '85? He threw the box away and put a logger box on it, new floor from a road sign and jobber door skins and front fenders. He had it for years but where it went after that I'm not sure.

For domestic pickups, my second "car" when I turned 16 was a '62 Chev Long Box step side with a 292?? and a 3 on the tree. I had a mildly built 283 ready to go into it, but life got in the way and I sold it.

One of our farm trucks was a '74 GMC with a 350 with 10.5:1 pistons, a bit of a cam and headers with dual exhaust, the theory being better fuel economy. It sounded pretty good and mostly we all just drove it like we stole it.

Another oddball truck for you folks' side of the medicine line was a '67 Mercury with a 352 V8 and a 3 on the tree. It only had about 3' of exhaust pipe off each manifold, so it didn't get driven on the fields much past seeding because of the risk of fire.

There were many more pickups some certainly better than others, but indeed on balance the only one I'd be interested in owning and driving again would be another early Toyota - providing the body was okay...

All the best and good hunting.

Dwayne

My 1972 Chevy Cheyenne. 350 auto , 2wd long bed. 3rd owner, just over 100 k on the odometer

48 ford i wish i still had , a unibody cab and box joined,ford should still have that but after i rolled and flipped it , not much left. i know where there are 10 or 12 older ford pu,s .

norm

Overall I would as well. The exception may be the Ford 300 I-6 from the early 80's. Those give the Toyota 4cyl trucks a run for their money in reliability and were more efficient and had far more torque but in build quality Toyota is still superior.

There were two body styles produced in '55. The older t grilled '54 looking one and the newer style 55-57 with two headlights.

This , nicknamed the "Y" block.

Had several in 56 F-100's and a 56 Crown Vic... still kicking my ass for selling that one.

+1 I love the old first gen 4x4 Toyota Pickups, post some pics please!

Cool truck Dwayne.