So much for trading off the old truck. . .

Hope my son likes black, he's getting my truck in 9 years. Now to save up enough money to buy a Diesel to pull the WC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvnohA-sdNo

I'm all choked up!

TC

Heh. Kinda neat. I bought a new car in 1988...a 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. My two older sons were 4 and 5 at the time. I told them both when I pulled up in the driveway that they would learn to drive in this car. And sure enough, both of them got their license in it. And the middle son drove it for another year after he got his license. It was finally totaled in 2004 when someone hit my son in a parking lot. What a great car.

Yeah, bought my truck with 25 miles on it with every intention to hand it down. the thought of trading it off had me a little un easy these last 3 weeks, now I keep it. Hoping to win the lottery to afford my Duramax!

Maybe shouldn't admit this, but watching that video brought tears to my eyes!

The way things are goin in the near future it wont be the repair bill that keeps you from runnin a classic it will be some legislaters law taxing it to death...

Just read a story that in my home state some pea brain is wanting to charge a premium on insuring registering or otherwards owning any vehicle that does not meet the criteria!Dont know what that is....

wont fly here in Maine!

Along these same lines, my Grandfather gave me his beloved T.O. 20 tractor when he died. It sits along side of our MF40 tractor. A guy stopped and asked if it was for sale. I told him Bill Gates did not have enough money to buy that tractor.

I told him Bill Gates did not have enough money to buy that tractor.

Sentimental value is priceless. Some people will never understand that and believe that everything has a price. Glad to see you aren't one of them.

When we look back, we think about all the stuff we should have kept. The 58 Chevy convertible, for instance...... really miss that car.

Scruffy and Tater wrote:When we look back, we think about all the stuff we should have kept. The 58 Chevy convertible, for instance...... really miss that car.

Exactly;

I had a 1970 Mustang Mach1 428scj, 4spd, shaker hood scoop, wing, etc. etc. When we married in 1972, I traded the Mustang for a truck and camper, because I wanted to be more "responsible"... Mistake...Since I learned from my mistake,,, I will be keeping our 1960 Ford Falcon, till I die. Also the 240Z and the Vette. Might sell the 240Z.

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I don't know whether they are showing this commercial to the rest of the country, but we've been seeing a 21st Century Insurance commercial that has what looks like a 1980's Caddy pulling into a very small parking space between two modern SUV's (can you say Japanese). Of course what the Caddy does is back into the one behind, push it back, then pull into the one in front and push it forward. This goes on for a couple of cycles until the Caddy is parked. Rear bumper of front SUV falls off and the front bumper of the rear SUV falls off.

THE CADDY HAS NO DAMAGE AT ALL!

Gosh they don't build them like that used to.

Scruffy and Tater wrote:When we look back, we think about all the stuff we should have kept. The 58 Chevy convertible, for instance...... really miss that car.

My '59 Chevy El Camino.........had it when Connie and I got married, then had a rugrat...away it went for a grocery getter. I use to haul 2 ton of baled hay on it. Mighty tuff to pull a horse trailer with a grocery getter, heh..Course the one I really am sick about was my '34 Ford 5-window.....not a runner, as just body/frame but solid no dings/rust, etc... sold it for ..............$25 !!!!! I needed beer money at the time I think...heh...

schrowang wrote:I don't know whether they are showing this commercial to the rest of the country, but we've been seeing a 21st Century Insurance commercial that has what looks like a 1980's Caddy pulling into a very small parking space between two modern SUV's (can you say Japanese). Of course what the Caddy does is back into the one behind, push it back, then pull into the one in front and push it forward. This goes on for a couple of cycles until the Caddy is parked. Rear bumper of front SUV falls off and the front bumper of the rear SUV falls off.

THE CADDY HAS NO DAMAGE AT ALL!

Gosh they don't build them like that used to.

Yes, we've seen that commercial. Years ago we had a 1972 Ford LTD - it was built like a tank. You're right, they sure don't build them like that anymore. BTW, that's the car in the photo in our signature.

Tater

Scruffy and Tater wrote:

schrowang wrote:I don't know whether they are showing this commercial to the rest of the country, but we've been seeing a 21st Century Insurance commercial that has what looks like a 1980's Caddy pulling into a very small parking space between two modern SUV's (can you say Japanese). Of course what the Caddy does is back into the one behind, push it back, then pull into the one in front and push it forward. This goes on for a couple of cycles until the Caddy is parked. Rear bumper of front SUV falls off and the front bumper of the rear SUV falls off.

THE CADDY HAS NO DAMAGE AT ALL!

Gosh they don't build them like that used to.

Yes, we've seen that commercial. Years ago we had a 1972 Ford LTD - it was built like a tank. You're right, they sure don't build them like that anymore. BTW, that's the car in the photo in our signature.

Tater

One good thing about a 72 Ford LTD is if you got into a two car crash, most of the time the other guy looses.

speaking about hangin onto the old stuff...

I bugged the previous owner to sell me this 1941 WC1/2 ton (weapons carrier not wildcat) for almost 10 years....

I watched a maple sapling grow into a maple tree in the back of its bed...I had to cut it down to get it home...

I told my kids I want my Urn to ride in the back of it someday,so its not goin anywhere!

Think about all the history its seen...

Nice! That seat looks very uncomfortable. I imagine it heard quite a bit of bad language for that reason alone.

Very nice... I hope you take it out and enjoy it's ability to take you anywhere you want to go.

THEHIWAYMAN (aka Tim) wrote:

speaking about hangin onto the old stuff...

I bugged the previous owner to sell me this 1941 WC1/2 ton (weapons carrier not wildcat) for almost 10 years....

I watched a maple sapling grow into a maple tree in the back of its bed...I had to cut it down to get it home...

I told my kids I want my Urn to ride in the back of it someday,so its not goin anywhere!

Think about all the history its seen...

Have not seen a 3/4 ton for years. Rides like a tank.

Ya I have a boat cushion that I sit on...those seats are not the way it came it was pretty extensively modified by the old wood cuttter that owned it...the seats flip up and there is beer (errr I mean tool) storage underneath...ya ya thats it tool storage...

its a 1/2 ton though not a 3/4... I dont think the 3/4 came out until 42, but you are so right it rides like a tank.

and talk about a granny gear.

Has anyone ever seen the move "the gods must be crazy" the man jumps out of a moving land rover runs up and opens the gate to let it go through?
Kinda like that....

I plan on restoring it some day when I win the megabucks, I'd love to be able to drive it on the roads...

During the last season he was on "Trucks", Stacey David was gonna restore a 3/4 ton WC. After the restoration he was gonna hang a 5.9L Cummins Turbo Diesel on the tranny. I believe the one he had was a 1942 Dodge. Both Studebaker and Dodge manufactured these brutes, but as I remember, he said his was a Dodge brothers vehicle.