How about working next to old Ford Trucks - I was doing penitence

If I had been turned a little more to the side you wouldn't have been able to see me - The Truck was my Dad's current Shop Truck, 6 cyl three on the tree, 1st gear you could climb up the side of a building and you could burn rubber taking of in 3rd gear - We built a camper on the back of it a year or so later.
The car on the left was my 40 Pontiac flathead str8 8 - It was my Dad's shop truck/snow plow for awhile - I got it when I was 14 -- Put everything back together cleaned it up and drove the hell out of it, it had Gangster doors and room for 2 or 3 to wrestle in the back seat

 

Thats a great picture Dick!

Thanks for sharing it
Bobby

 

Yep, that is a great picture! Were you cutting up a stump with an axe? Looks like work.

 

I trimmed out that tree and the one behind me with a one boy buck saw, cut the one down that I was working on, dug out the stump and was chopping it into manageable pieces - The one behind me is next in line - I had gotten caught doing a B&E by a cop that knew my Dad - He turned me over to my Dad instead of charging me - I did 90 days of hard labor - I also dug a sewer and water line about 4.5 ft deep and 100 ft long - That incident grew some brain matter and connected it up.

 

That is a hard way to learn, but a surefire way! I bet you never did another B&E.

 

Dick,
That was hard lesson. I'll be you learned it well though

That kind of "justice" is lacking in the modern world.

Bobby

 

Our "Gang" has a get together every few years - Three years ago the last of the cops form our youth died, up until then there was at least one of them at the get togethers, we never invited them, they just showed up - They used to laugh at what they caught us doing and the simple hell raiseing they let us get away with - They like to catch us doing something dumb on a Friday night then take us to lockup - We couldn't see the Judge until Monday then got a 15-20 dollar fine and time served
I still did dumb stuff but I did have a solid line that I never went over again

 

We had a county deputy sheriff that was so cool like that. Ahh the story's I could tell.
What the heck ever happened to the old country beat cops? They seemed to be on the
same line of thinking as my teachers and my folks. Yet we got away with a lot.
They was hard times in a way but so much better than what my kids and grand kids
have to go through.
I really wish I could somehow take them back and show them so they would understand.
Today's school and community has them so turned around they will never understand.

 

There is an Old Ford Working Truck story in this besides my Dads Truck - Three of us went together and bought a Monkey Face, not sure what exact year it was, Skip, the oldest had it in his name - We used it as a work Truck, did clean outs, yard work, hauled trash , anything to make a dime - We also used it as a tow/push Truck for our race cars - I was the the mechanic, Skip was the body guy and Johnny, well he stood around a lot - It kept us in gas and cigarette money, maybe a few beers - We had 5 or 6 gas stations that we clean out the oil can bins on - Behind every gas station there was a walled off area that they threw the empty oil cans in - We used to clean them out, we built a scupper that we sat the cans in stacked upside down and let them drain into a holding pan - We would empty that into 2 gallon cans and sell it to a truck repair shop and I always kept a can or 2 for my old chebby beater - It was a 59 6 with the oval cyl.
I could write a book about those years - I would name it "Everything I've ever said is a lie"

 

Don't think these are Fords, probably Chevies I guess, but it's a neat old transporter picture. Swiped this off the Smokstak site. Stu

 

This was taken yesterday.Sister to my welding truck, still in service.And not for sale, they say it's the only truck that starts at -30.

 

Great counterweights on the front

Thats a pretty neat old truck (so is your welding truck)

Bobby

 

That's cool What do they use it for? Looks like your welding Truck needs to have some pictures posted also

 

Check this hauler out;

 

At that little welding shop they build firetubes. They are 180 mitered pipe which go inside oil tanks to separate water/oil.This truck is for moving them around the yard.