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offroad-list Digest Sat, 25 Mar 2000 Volume: 2000 Issue: 033

In This Issue:
heres the whole story
Re: Found this in seattle...(anybody want a 'checkout'
Need parts -- body
Re: Need parts -- body
Re: Need parts -- body

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From: Rebel4dMan aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 00:03:47 EST
Subject: heres the whole story


<< Well, this was one killer night. Probably one of the best I've ever
had.
Only lasted about an hour but definitely awesome. It started off with 15
people piling into 5 trucks which go like this from biggest to smallest:

-late 70's Ch*vy 1 ton; 39" Super Swamper TSL's; driven by "Lucky"
-late 70's Ch*vy 1 ton; 35" Super Swamper Thornbirds; driven by "Daytona"
-early 80's Ch*vy 3/4 ton; 35" Goodyear Wrangler MT's; driven by "Wet Willy"
a.k.a "Junior"

-early 80's Ch*vy 1/2 ton; 32" Goodyear's; driven by "Stick"
-95' Ford F-150; 31" Goodyear Wrangler MT's; driven by "Jason"; (I'm here of
course)

It's been raining all day today (Sat.) and off and on yesterday. So we all
jump in the trucks to make a run we call the "loop" jus' cuz it makes a fun
kinda circle of mud roads. Well, we hit the first road, 94th and get down
it
without a hitch until we get to "P road" where "Daytona" is goin' to fast to
make the turn and hits the ditch. But this is no problem because "Wet
Willy"
has him pulled out in no time. But, "Stick" has taken off ahead of everyone
else by quit a ways. So now he's lost.

Well, we figured we'd catch up with them eventually. We head on down "P"
road, across 110th and up to 118th. This is were it gets hairy, but not the
4 wheelin' part. "Lucky" and "Wet Willy" are missing. We get half way down
118th, "Daytona" and us (in the Ford) stop and talk about what we're gonna
do. We decide we'll continue the "loop" and then do it over again and
hopefully find them somewhere on the way. This is just fine but Sam,
another
guy riding with us in the Ford decides he's gonna get out of the truck and
literally run back to "P" road to find "Lucky" and "Wet Willy". And being
as
dumb as we are, we let him go by himself.

We get back to the beginning of the "loop" and head down "P" road once
again.
At the top of the first hill we find "Stick". We decide that he will head
back to the house and we'll continue on to look for "Lucky" and "Wet Willy".

We get to 118th again and about a 1/4 of the way down the road, we see
lights, but these are the last lights we expected to see, red and blue
flashers (and yes this is on the mud road)

Both of the trucks stop and the drivers go talk to the cop for a little bit,
and then 3 more sets (yes 3) of red and blue cherries show up. So now we're
parked on a mud road talking to about 7 cops. In case you were wondering, 2
Dodge pickup cops, 1 Ford pickup cop, and a Crown Vic (he stopped at the end
of the road where it was gravel). They took our licenses and ran checks on
everybody. Then they (the cops who had picked him up shortly after we left
him) returned Sam back to the truck from witch he should have been in. They
did a minor search on the vehicles, gave the drivers a lecture and set us on
our way. They informed us that there is an ordinance in Jackson County,
Kansas that says "any vehicle may not be on any low maintenance road during
wet conditions". If we had indeed known this before we went wheelin' we
would have not gone into Jackson County.

After leaving 118th we hit a gravel road on our way back to Shawnee County.
This is where we found "Wet Willy" goin' the other direction. So we told
him
that it would not be a good idea to go that way. We went back to
"Daytona's"
house where "Stick" is and there, we also found "Lucky". We then got the
scoop on "Lucky" and "Wet Willy". "Wet Willy" had ran a stop sign on a
gravel road and one of the cops stopped him them. They were good enough
only
to give him a warning. "Lucky", who was behind "Wet Willy" when he ran the
stop sign, saw the cop before he too ran the sign. Since it wasn't a "low
maintenance road" and he did stop at the sign, the cops didn't stop him and
he headed on back to "Daytona's" house.

The point of this is to hopefully inform some of you out there that there
are
ordinances about 4 wheelin' on county roads and they DO have the cop "cars"
to pull you over. Take my advice and check on those laws. Also, don't be
dumba**'s like us and leave somebody by themselves on a mud road at 10:30 at
night in 30 degree weather.
>>

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From: "Terry" ticnet.com>
Subject: Re: Found this in seattle...(anybody want a 'checkout'
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 23:58:58 -0600

'74 *wasn't* a good year for bodies, and such, but $350 could buy lots of go
od parts, tires/ rims etc.

I found this statement somewhat odd....The 73-77 bodies were identical with
exception to cosmetics. What would make the `74 not as good as the other
years. After some helpful improvements of the `67-72 bodies, the `73-77's
seemed to be pretty darn solid. I have seen many of the same years rust
through and just as many solid as new. I owned many of these year models and
didnt see that any year was noticably inferior to the others. Please
enlighten me on this.


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From: Scrangler83aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 21:10:55 EST
Subject: Need parts -- body

Does anyone have a white hood and/or tailgate that would fit a 1988 F-350 for
sale? The hood has a bullet hole, and the tailgate got left up with the
gooseneck unhooked (not me i promise, previous owner)
I have all of the hardware and everything, typical scratches dings ect are
ok, just as long as they function well and clean up real nice that is all
that really matters. The truck is completely rust free and would like to keep
it that way (inside of tailgate doesnt really matter)

Thanks
Tom

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From: JUMPINFORDaol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 21:15:15 EST
Subject: Re: Need parts -- body

Cant help ya, but Id love to hear the explanation on the bullet hole! Had a
buddy used to shoot his 81 F-250 on a regular basis. Someone did a botch 460
install, never really ran right.

Darrell Duggan
74 F-350 "Tweety"

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From: Scrangler83aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:02:41 EST
Subject: Re: Need parts -- body

The lady i bought the truck from was on a hunting trip, a fella saw a "huge"
Elk that he had to have as soon as he got into his tree stand, he grabbed the
gun by the scope and shot. Little did he notice that the scope was pointing
about 2 inches off to the right by the time he grabbed it up, thus, a bullet
went thru the hood, into the windshield washer reservoir and down into the
ground, and that is the story of how my truck got a bullet hole in it :o)

Tom

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