I married my wife in 1979, we didn't buy new vehicles choosing to pay off housing instead. In 1986 I purchased a nice looking 9 year old '77 F-150 (see tbear's Truck) but this past year, upon nearing that time I had promised her I'ld retire, she let me know it was time to look for a truck.
This is a 2007 Ford F-150 FX4 S-cab Flareside that the wife found late Aug '09 while I was distracted by a Raptor (I was just looking) after we had looked at probably 100 trucks as far as 90 miles from home. She just blurted out "There it is" ...
... and I looked over and across a highway over in the used lot was this gem with 27K miles on it.
We both were crazy over it, but what struck me was that she beat me out of the car for a close up look when I pulled into the lot.
That serpentine brick wall around a garden over behind the truck was built by Thomas Jefferson himself. He did it as a form of barter to have an overnigfht rest stop in his travels in this area of "The Shenandoah Valley" of Virginia while traveling on what was then the "Great Wagon Road" or "Valley Pike". The Indians used to travel much the same routing using what they called "The Great Warrior Path". In the early 20th century, it was part of "The Lee Highway" and later Virginia Rt 33, and in the late '20s it became U S Rt 11 and today is paralleled by Interstate 81. This is just south of Staunton, Va.