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When I was a kid, there was a comic strip called “Snuffy Smith” about a bunch of hillbillies/moonshiners. ( not politically correct today and is probably long gone ) In it was a wild boar hog named Ol’ Snort that used to terrorize the town. Someone called my truck that and it just stuck. It is a 1979 F150 Custom, 4x4, 351M, 4-speed manual, long bed that I bought new for $5,800.00 when I was a senior in high-school. Through the eighties I did the normal stuff kids did to their truck back then. Bigger tires, rollbar, lights….blah, blah, blah. I drove it for about 25-years and 191,000-miles. Parked it in 1996 when the kids, ( twin girls ) were born, and it sat on the side of the house slowly returning to the earth. I dodged a lot of bullets over the years from my wife. “ If you would just sell that darn truck, we could buy a new………..”
Anyway, the girls graduated college in 2019 which gave me a huge raise. Now the time has come to bring an old friend back to life. Me and the guys pushed in in the garage in February 2020 and I have been beating and banging on it in the evenings. It went to the paint shop in June of last year and came home in late October.
Step number one. Find an old Ford truck service manual. This is pretty much what I used until I found this website. Thank you all by the way for the tips and doing a lot of my homework for me.
Ol snort reminds me.of a horror movie back in the day called razorback about a boar terrorize a town. Heres a picture of it from that movie.
Ol snort needs one of these plates Ignore the gator its the dude in the bottom frame im talking about.
When I was a kid, there was a comic strip called “Snuffy Smith” about a bunch of hillbillies/moonshiners. ( not politically correct today and is probably long gone ) In it was a wild boar hog named Ol’ Snort that used to terrorize the town. Someone called my truck that and it just stuck.
Fortunately still with us, although it's a different artist doing the strip now. Fred Laswell retired or even might've died.
Snuffy Smith was always my favorite when I was young and read the comics.
Interestingly enough, Snuffy Smith is very popular in Norway!!! They like Jim Reeves too.
Ah yes.... The mystery red button. Has been used to start many conversations. What does it do? The short answer is...NOTHING!. People ask and you can tell them anything. Aft torpedo launcher, sub-woofer, 2-speed rear end.... The most widely believed is that it starts the supercharger like on one on the car Mad Max had. Everyone saw that on T.V., so it must be true. Right?
The long story is I was driving through Illinois headed to the 1985 Indy 500 qualifying and my electric fan quit. I'm on the side of a country road scratching my head and a farmer stopped to give me a hand. He had this switch on an old dead truck sitting in a field and we wired it up to get the fans going. I fixed it correctly when I got home but left the switch just for the heck of it. He and I remained friends for a long time up until he passed away in '92.
nice nice nice, looks like you are out west somewhere and obviously "old snort" has good bones. must have been a fun trip from out west somewhere to indy, no ac either.
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reminds me.of a horror movie back in the day called razorback about a boar terrorize a town. Heres a picture of it from that movie. 
