I get about 17MPG overall empty. 12 MPG towing a 24' enclosed trailer. 22 MPG Highway empty.

 

Mine is an 08 F-250 crew cab with the 6.4L diesel. I had an 05 F-250 with a 6.0L and traded it after the third EGR cooler meltdown. I live in a very mountainous up-and-down, curvy road type place. About the best I can get on wide open highway driving is 17 or 18 mpg with the cruise control set. I never got anywhere close to 28 mpg with my 05. (Did you notice the latest post-release crap advertisement above that is advertising the EGR delete kit for those 6.0's?)

 

I have been thinking the same thing these past few months...I turned 62 on my last birthday and started to think about how much time and effort I wanted to expend finishing projects. I have a 56 F100 that I am wrapping up soon (heard that before!) and a 50 Merc leadsled coupe that is waiting in the wings. There are a few more projects in the "barn" but I am finding myself not thinking about them in terms of completed vehicles. I only have room for so many cars/trucks so I am considering where they would go even if they were completed. For me I am about ready to get out of the garage and hit the road!

 

That's funny you all should mention this. My buddy stopped in yesterday while I was in the shop. He's old like me, his comment was "do you think you'll gett'er up an runnin' before yer times up?"....ha ha. He's much like me ...' older than dirt'. Anyways, we just grabbed a ccouple cold ones and had a good chin wagging session. We have to do this hobby because it is like a calling. And, if we don't gett'er done some one else will have a good start on their dream project. Remember 'The Grateful Dead' and Jerry's song Keep on truckin'.

 

My projects keep me out of trouble.

As with many of you, my projects are never ending. I start one project, then move to another, and then back to the first. I get one vehicle half way done, and start working on yet another.

I start driving one, and then take it apart!!!

If I didnt have a welder/torch/or hammer in my hand, things would get ugly!

 

THANKS AX! I guess it takes one to know one - and we're all one! Joe

 

My life expectancy is between 1 second and 30 years _ At least one of my three current projects will still need to be put on the road yet - I know that there will be more additions - Hopefully up until 1 second before I go Toes Up

 

Many people have said that my luck with my truck comes from 2 things. 1. 6 Spd manual tranny 2. no shift on the fly 4 wheel drive. Mine has manual 4 wheel (with REAL lockouts that say "Lock and Free" Not lock and auto like 99.9% of the rest of them) As for the EGR delete kit, I have a HUGE problem trusting that considering I know how my truck ran when mine went out (Hint: poured tons of smoke and didn't go anywhere) Sorry for not talking fat fenders here, but my 04 kind of meets the fat fenders since being a dually gives her a fat butt :-P

 

Do you work too? I don't have that much going on, but am doing my 52, redoing my house (slowly), about to start on a BMW KS100 restoration that hardly has any miles on it but has sat for 17 years without being run or even rolled around, and run my own small cabinet/furniture shop (only me and an occasional helper). I also play tennis whenever I get a chance and my knees aren't hurting too badly. And, of course, honey do's for my wife too. And I do find time to brew my own beer sometimes and drink it.

 

Ditto. When I started this "last" project I said it had to get it done before Saint Peter came a callin. It should be done in the Fall, I hope he reads the forum. I'll have pictures and cookies when its done.

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46 Ford Tudor - Street Rod
48 Ford F1 - Darkside

" We only have control over quality not quantity of Life"

 

I guess I'm lucky... I get a truck, work and work and work on it, work some more and everyone else in my life thinks I'm obsessesd because I am and then when it's all done it sits in the overflow space in my shed, then I have to have something else and I sell one of the others that's done. It's an endless cycle, but then I have to find something else. What I'm saying is I only do one at a time and get it done. I always say "this is the one... my dream truck... I will never sell it." Then I do and someone gets my life's dream truck with my heart poured in it and then I'm on craigslist like a fiend and Hooking up my trailer and the cycle continues. Been 30 years like that......Driving home tonight from a jobsite I counted 16 trucks like that.........God Bless my family.

 

Yes, I work as well. I do cabinetry, landscaping and part time automotive tech a little bit on the side. Being fairly young does help sometimes, but most days feel twice my age with aches and pains. Played hockey growing up and developed a bad back and knee from doing that as well as racing 1/4 midgets. All the vehicles of my own are a full-time job in themselves while trying to spend time with the wife and daughter. I always find time to build my 1/24 scale model cars as well, Only have 167 left to build I think my wife would like to divorce me sometimes for my car habits

 

other than wanting the 53 done the way i want it too enjoy it before my lil' helper inherits it ( says when she's 16 she's coming to get HER truck ! ) they will never be done , and i seem to find more of them as time passes . i've already outlived my own life expectancy , as i figured between the race cars and other things i'd be lucky to make 40 so ...... i got the 53 , the 52 customline i want to restore ( kinda hard to do when i'm running the hades out of it daily and grinning ear to ear ! ) , and that 95 bird i want to make into a sleeper , a 76 mustang 2 i don't know what i'm doing with , and seen a couple of other interesting old pieces of iron i want too look at , so i'll probably be neck deep in projects when it does come my turn to go irritate the man above instead of my wife .................

 

Ran into an interesting thread on the HAMB related to this.... Project Completion Rate: - THE H.A.M.B.

"A friend of mine was telling me that at one of the SEMA seminars he attended a few years ago, one of the subjects that came up was that only 10-15 percent of all Hot Rods, restorations, Muscle Cars etc. ever get completed and see the road. That would mean that 85-90 percent of all projects never get done. I started thinking about everyone that I know who has a project car, and out of 10 that I thought of right off the bat, I can think of one of them that actually does run."

The more I think about it, the closer it sounds to the truth....

 

I read that thread also and I agree that 10-15 percent is probably accurate. I see a lot of people get a project and with great enthusiasm, tear it down which is the easy part and then years go by without any real progress. I see projects for sale all the time on craigslist where the owner did a tear down and then after sitting in the garage for years, they finally decide that it needs to become a project for someone else.

My 55 is a great example of this type of build. I got it in the mid 80's and today it is still not finished. In my defense I will say that I've acquired a lot of other projects during that time that have been finished and are now gone, but it is still waaaaaay too long to look at the same vehicle collecting dust. If I could just get rid of some other hobbies such as fishing, camping, motorcycle riding, woodworking, well......you get the picture. I'm not going to make anymore predictions on finish date, but I have made a lot of progress since I retired. Being a darksider, if I could just stop thinking up new things to do I might get through a little quicker. I'm 64 and I feel a little more urgent to get things finished. My grandson is in the lineup to finish it if I don't make it.