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Bumpside
I have noticed that it is popular to call the 1967 through 1972 Ford light trucks "Bumpsides". I can't tell you why, but that irritates the crap out of me. It just sound like lazy slang to me. I know where it comes from. I respect these trucks more than that and call them what they are; A great classic F100 Ford pickup. Sorry I can't be more positive, but I am repeating a conversation I had recently at a car show.
Anyway, keep posting the great advice as I am going to need all I can get restoring my 67 F100. Not really going to be a show truck, just a good clean truck to drive and enjoy.
Anyway, keep posting the great advice as I am going to need all I can get restoring my 67 F100. Not really going to be a show truck, just a good clean truck to drive and enjoy.
Laughing Gas
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From: The Hotel California
David W McCarroll It 's same thing for me when people call those side by sides aka roxors Jeeps. When clearly they are Not Jeeps. Even the current ad that is put out by roxor they call them side by sides which they are. But man when I put that comment on a you-tube video the hate that was sent my way wow.
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From: Harrisburg
Sorry that bothers you so much. It doesn't bother me at all. It's like referring to your Grandmother as Grams or Nana. It's a cute nick name that's meant with respect.
Now if they referred to the truck as "that POS Ford" I might agree with you. I don't think it takes away from the respect, just a convenient way to differentiate between 2 similar generations of truck.
We can all agree the trucks are great, no matter what we call them. I'm sure we have called our trucks much worse at some point - just for a moment.
Now if they referred to the truck as "that POS Ford" I might agree with you. I don't think it takes away from the respect, just a convenient way to differentiate between 2 similar generations of truck.
We can all agree the trucks are great, no matter what we call them. I'm sure we have called our trucks much worse at some point - just for a moment.
Tuned
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From: mid-nowhere AZ desert
Sorry Gents, but that's how it goes at my place. Its the only way my wife can know which truck we are taking. "Let's take the bump today" , instead of "lets take the awesome classic 69 F100 ford truck" If I said it that way she would probably go sit in the 97 F350 CC 4x4 or the 88 xcab ranger (mid-size) 4x4, or maybe even the Silverado - she might even get in the Honda. I say bump and she knows exactly which truck I'm talking about (for the last 38 years we've had the truck). But then I call her "my girl", and I guess she probably hasn't been a girl for.... lets say a few years at least. Old habits are hard to break so try not to get offended. I am sure your trucks would out class mine anyway, feel free to call mine a bump...
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From: On the Edge of the Desert
They're called bumpside because of the bumped out body line that goes down the side. 73-79 are dent side
61-66 are slick because they don't have anything
There are names for every generation, and they're nothing new.
61-66 are slick because they don't have anything
There are names for every generation, and they're nothing new.
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More Turbo
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Wonder what the nicknames are for 80-86, 87-91, 92-96. etc
https://www.joecottonford.com/history-ford-f150/
https://www.joecottonford.com/history-ford-f150/
Fleet Mechanic
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From: Charleston, SC
I try not to call Bessy names, she's a pretty good old gal after all. But I definitely understand. 
Tuned
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From: Harrisburg, PA
Chill out, there's pet names for everything! When the Chrysler crowd is discussing their Hemi's, what are they referring to? Is it their motors or their hemorrhoids? Some old farmer may refer to his aging Massey Ferguson which broke down in the field as, "you MF"!
I love my old 1972 Ford F100 short bed style side, which I call "Forest Bump". There's been times poor Forest has been called P.O.S., especially when I drag my hand or arm over the "MF cheese cutter power steering cooler"! When someone says "Nice Old Bump", I grin from ear to ear!
There's no room in my life for Politically Correct speech. Now, if I can only find that girl who said, "Nice Baked Potato"
I love my old 1972 Ford F100 short bed style side, which I call "Forest Bump". There's been times poor Forest has been called P.O.S., especially when I drag my hand or arm over the "MF cheese cutter power steering cooler"! When someone says "Nice Old Bump", I grin from ear to ear!
There's no room in my life for Politically Correct speech. Now, if I can only find that girl who said, "Nice Baked Potato"
Fleet Mechanic
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From: Charleston, SC
There's a ton of fun nicknames in car culture:
Deuce, Flattie, zoomies, four-on-the-floor, three-on-the -tree, highboy (a nickname given to cars, trucks and a certain type of antique dresser), Hot Rod (for pity's sake!) etc, etc.
In the end, nicknames are just a convenient way to refer to something - a way of summing up the character of a thing in a word or short phrase. This is the job of any word and it's why we name things.
If I say 'capitalism,' most people will know what I'm talking about - I don't have to launch into a five minute lecture about economic theory. 'Bumpside' works the same way: instead of saying 'it's a 1967 Ford truck" or '1967 to 1972 body style' or 'fifth generation F-series,' I can get the idea across in a single word.