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[3930dave]

I love my '93 f150,300-6...especially now. Bush hogging I saw this huge maple limb broken off down in the spring. It was as big as maple trees in the yard. I went down with logging chains and in 4x4 low pulled it out easily, then uphill to brush pile where I'll cut it for firewood. First gear it's like a walking speed...but never spun.View attachment 569385View attachment 569386

THAT is a great example of why I like 4L in a work truck...... being able to choose that type of gearing off road can make the difference between doing the job, or not....... getting stuck, or not....... tearing up the lawn, or not.....

Showed the young lads I used to work with a pic like this one..... they got a kick out of it:

'Mogs take it to a whole other level of crazy......

But H and L are a whole lot better just H !

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

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That farmer knew he was getting a good truck with your Cheyanne.

Recently got the 54 Chevy out the barn. Frame off full resto in progress. Put a 76 El Camino rear-end in it and will completely rebuild the straight 6 for power.
Abrasive blasted, Acid etched primed, imron on frame and rear-end. All new hubs and disc on the front. Might even put a vintage-air system in it for AC. New bolt kit, and new wiring harness. Put a SS battery box below the cab and master Cyl on the frame.
All told, total restoration of this work horse will cost about 16k. New trucks can't compete. I'll be driving this new old-stock Chevy when most the news ones are long gone.

Imron ! Today, that's pretty Olde School right there ! Cool project.

There are PLENTY of people on here who would love to see a build-thread on your truck.... Doesn't need to be anything fancy, a few pics here and there would do. Esp. interesting to me is the 6 build.

Rgds, D.

 

[MossRoad]

THAT is a great example of why I like 4L in a work truck...... being able to choose that type of gearing off road can make the difference between doing the job, or not....... getting stuck, or not....... tearing up the lawn, or not.....

Showed the young lads I used to work with a pic like this one..... they got a kick out of it:

View attachment 569388 'Mogs take it to a whole other level of crazy......

But H and L are a whole lot better just H !

Rgds, D.

That picture reminds me of this... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....

 

[Deleted member 314313]

Amazing what old trucks command in the market these days...

Brother has been looking for a 50's something Chevrolet and what a wake up call... either rust buckets or vehicles priced very high...

Nice Barn by the way!

Got many friends who have stashed their old pickups away. One has prob 10 or more. Guess they are waiting for the right time to fix em up or unload em when the time is right. We like ours on the road. Barn need some work, like everything else.

 

[3930dave]

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Well after the 55 2D HT and 68 Camaro which is on and off the road due to my Electrical and Mechanical Engineer off-spring repeated upgrades, the truck will be a flash. He just completed rebuilding the rear-end as well as rebuilding the 350SB. They were also frame off resto's. However, the maro has many performance upgrades.

Busy, and big fun !

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Preaching to the choir, I know....

Tech to blame for ever-growing repair costs, AAA says - Roadshow

Probably no accident, but the next article on that page is about running the Baja 1000 (present day) in a 1970 Bug.....

Not pickups per se (sorry Fuddy)......just more of the complexity-reducing-lifespan disease.....

Rgds, D.

 

[Jstpssng]

But they aren't talking about maintenance they are referring to collision repairs. And as has been pointed out before; you can get a vehicle without all of the fancy crap they are talking about; people just choose to buy it.

 

[3930dave]

Bling, yes, but what concerns me more is lack of choice with fundamental features....

Not sure I can still buy an F150 or 1/2 ton Chev with crank windows (could be wrong.....). F250, yes I can still get cranks.

Transmissions, I can get a Dodge 3/4ton+ with a manual trani,, but that's about it today. Not as easy to find stick amongst the Japanese trucks anymore either.

Price out a "window regulator" on a late model Ram (it's a whole cartridge/carrier panel), or a staked U joint drive-shaft (Ford, Honda)......

I'll gladly order something and delete all the electronic bling that I can (harder to accomplish now...) but I still need driveshafts and windows......

As cost of ownership scales up (mtce or repair), many people just move on...... scary percentage of people cited (I think in that article, might have been something else I read last night) in the USA who could not afford an emergency $500 repair.....

Rgds, D.

 

[Jstpssng]

Your two main points go hand in hand. Many people buy and finance a much more vehicle than they need, only to find that those bells and whistles don't make the car last any longer. So when they are upside down on an auto that is starting to go to pieces they find a dealer who will simply roll their current debt into a new car and out the door they go again. That jacks the prices up for everybody. I believe that our current auto loan situation will cause the next financial crisis.
The real reason that it's hard to find a stripped down version is because the dealers don't keep them in stock; and most people A) don't want to wait 6 months for their new car and B) really think that they "need" that automatic braking so that they don't need to pay attention to their driving.
It's been my general observation that no matter how much or how little I put for a down payment; that's what the vehicle will be worth by the time I pay it off.

 

[DieselBound]

Jstpssng, good points.

I don't think the auto loan industry is going to be the straw that breaks the camels back (economic woes to come), but it'll be one of the straws.

It's mainly the bells and whistles that are things that differentiate one model year over another, so those are the things that get pushed ad nauseum- people, through marketing, are programmed to be attracted to them.