Regarding the thread about Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, etc....
I wanted to focus more on classic cars, classic trucks, that we all remember from back when we were kids! Check out this current eBay Motors auction based out of Tampa, FL. $13,500 is the opening bid on eBay:
1966 Ford F100, inline 6 cylinder, 3 speed (3 on the tree), totally original, red & white color w/ rust. Needs a good body job/repainting, is all I assume. Man, what I wouldn't give to take off from work, fly down to Tampa, FL and outright buy this classic "old school" Ford pickup and drive it all the way back up to Richmond, VA!
Not to long ago that was a 1000 dollar pickup. Nowadays, they spray clear over the rust and call it "patina" and mark it up 5k..... hell, as far as we know that truck Had a perfectly good paint job and they fugged it up on purpose.... seems to be the going trend.
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.
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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!
Id take a 1980 Toyota 4wd pickup over any old Ford/Chevy/Dodge.
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...
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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
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Id take a 1980 Toyota 4wd pickup over any old Ford/Chevy/Dodge.
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.
Owned one that's a twin to that truck. Back in 1977, but it had a , want to say a 283??? Motor was from a 1956 T bird. Wish I had it today, gotta love a 3 on the tree!
292 or 312. The 312 was called the "Thunderbird Special" no matter what platform it was installed in. Very popular with police departments in the late 1950's. Robert Mitchum drove one in "Thunder Road".
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.
Id take a 1980 Toyota 4wd pickup over any old Ford/Chevy/Dodge.
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
Cool truck Dwayne.
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