Hey all, I'm Drew, I'm 19 and I'm From Minnesota. I was raised up during the summers working on my grandfather's farm and so I'm a mix between a city-slicker and country boy, but I prefer say I'm me. Haha.

Anyway, my grandpa had a 1947 Ford 1 and a half ton truck with a grain dump bed that he bought brand new in 1947. He used that truck for anything and everything and even used it for trucking and the body we think literally has over a million miles on it because he wore through so many engines hauling things for his trucking company. The stories I heard about this truck and what my grandfather could make it do really stuck with me.

My family has always driven Fords. My dad had a 1977 Ford LTD Landau with every single option you could have on it, he also had a '78 LTD that really wasn't the greatest taken care of, but when he needed a truck he either had the '47 Ford, a 1976(I think, I'm not sure) Ford F700 or his first pickup, a 1974 Ford F100 XLT Ranger. I've always loved Ford trucks, and currently, my dad share a 1996 Ford F150 XLT with an extended cab and the 8 ft box (long but trusty old truck) with 217,000 miles and some change. This truck has never, ever left me or my dad sit on the side of the road except once, while I was driving one of the wheels (the standard five-spoke directional wheel. Had a chrome face and was actually held together by a regular steel wheel behind it), had actually rotted away from the out rim of the whole wheel and left me sitting on the side of the road. That was a first, I will have to admit. But we got used, solid aluminum replacements for all four sides and I have to admit, the aluminum ones have grown on me to where the original wheels didn't look as good as these on this truck.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, just thought I'd introduce myself! I'll be found mostly in the old trucks section with the '47 Ford truck talk and all that.

Have a nice day!

 

Hi Drew That's quite the history with that old 47 and your family's association with the Ford trucks and looks like you have caught the bug too. all good in my books.

Fell free to ramble away lord knows there is nothing wrong with a good story as I am sure you will see while your here at FTE there are a lot of people with similar story of how they got associated with Ford and why they love em.

You should definitely check out the forums for your year of truck but do go and join the chapter for MN, who knows you may see someone you know or at the very least get to know some of you MN brethren from around the state that also are Ford fans and owners.

Hope your enjoy FTE and welcome aboard!

 

Welcome to the site

 

Drew, welcome to the forum.

 

Wow, thanks guys! Will do, Pocketlint! Yeah I definitely have the bug. Haven't found a Ford truck where a task was too big to tackle.

I'm not in any way bad mouthing the other companies, but I work for a farmer doing odd jobs around his farm place and he's one of those guys who's a bow-tie guy, and he needed me to haul a flatbed trailer with a smaller model skid-steer and a full-size pallet of quickrete or some sort of concrete mix in individual bags and he gave me they keys to a brand new, fully decked out, top of the line 3500 HD with the Duramax and Allison trans. and all the good stuff. I thought this haul was going to be a cake-walk, I mean the truck is brand new, what could go on? I get about halfway to my destination and the truck was hauling flawlessly, but it had its usual quirks like the biggest being, you could tell you werent in a Ford. But along the way I have this pretty mild incline where if I wasn't hauling anything, the truck wouldn't even downshift. Anyway, I get halfway up this mild incline and I can start to hear the engine kick in a little more power, but then the most awful grinding noise I ever heard, followed by the engine revving way up like I had just dumped it in to neutral scared the heck out of me. I try to give it juice but it just revs and revs. So longer story shortened: Some sort of factory defect.

I convinced the guy I work for to just go and try out a brand new 6.7 powerstroke and the next time I come out there to work, he's got a brand new either F-450 or 350 dually King Ranch, all decked out, sitting there and he has me delivering a trailer of hay about 150 miles away with it. Not a single hitch goes on. Smooth sailing, mor epower than I could imagine, couldn't even feel the truck shift gears. I fell in love with that truck straight away. Haha