Ok,

Why is it that I'm drawn to looking at less capable trucks then what I own? I find myself looking back at trucks I've owned or wanted to and looking to own them again. I'm just stuck asking why? Simplicity or looks?

Thoughts?

 

I would gather or completely just guess you---like me---view such things as being of a more simple time where life seemed so much better and less complicated than we're living today?

For myself looking back across my decades I'm very frequently drawn to reminiscence about halycon days when I mistakenly thought I had life by the short and curlies.

Today's vehicles offer or require almost too many challenges for DIY repair and maintenance back long ago our "shade tree" mechanic skills worked to near perfection.

 

I think you may be onto it. My skills in the early days had much room for improvement. My challenges in some cases were steep, but I came out on top, I 🤔. I miss the color of my 78 ranger explorer. I miss the dash board of my 94. I would love another 300 inline or redoing the wood bed of my 63 shortbox stepside.

I want a project but I'm afraid it won't fill the hole. My god, I sound like in mid life man-o-pause or something. Oh well, the musings of a cold almost winter day.

 

I miss chasing women and having them chase me, some of us actually caught one another!

So, so many of those memories warm up even the coldest of days---oh how I miss my youth!

 

Other then my health problems, I like my 50's better then my 20's. Yes when i was in my 20's I could pick up railroad ties and walk with them around my house, but my 50's are so much better with my understanding of the world. Oddly enough, some of my health problems stem from the railroad ties.....who would have thought......

 

For over a dozen years when I was young and mostly broke, I drove a 1979 Chevy LUV longbed. I put over 300K miles on it. (Hard to say exactly, ran a few years without a speedometer cable). Bench seat, 4 speed, manual steering. 4 cylinder, points ignition, rusty, crusty and ugly.

But parts were cheap. I could fix it without a computer or even a code reader. It'd get 25 MPG on a good day.
It was rugged, underpowered and about as thrilling as a moped with 2 flat tires, but sometimes I do wish I still had one.

 

I hear you. There is so much I do miss. My new Ford is superior in so many ways, but what i would give for my 78 F150 back, all its issues aside.

 

Fresh out of the USMC and back home in 1973 I bought a 1963 VW "bug" where the previous owner had installed a gasoline heater. That car was probably the absolute best in terms of easy repairs and dependability, would plow through snow without missing a beat. I cannot remember another vehicle so much fun, cheap and dependable--would cost me a whopping $2.60 a week to drive.

 

I had a couple of small cars that were fun.... 1978 Chevy chevette. Loved that nash 4 cylinder. I drove a 78 datsun 510, that was fun but clutch cylinders were always an issue. My most fun small car was a 1993 Ford Festiva...No joke. 50 mpg and no issues, none. I bought it for 5656.91 out the door. The worst small car was my 2006 Aveo. You name it, it broke. My 100,000 mile mpg was 39.96! but man did it love parts.

 

for me it was a tossup. either the 49 L-190 international single axle road tractor i drove for 7 years as a teenager, or the 66 W300 dodge powerwagon that replaced the international.
that dodge would go anywhere.
the international, well that was my first truck.

 

It is amazing how things can endear themselves to us.

 

In the mid-80s I had a couple of Ramchargers...one fancied up '85 and one bare bones '84 that I plowed with for years. I keep my eyes open for another one, but I'm afraid that it'll have to come from out west, where the only salt that it was exposed to came from perspiration...

 

I would love a 78 bronco....

 

I want another 80-86 Flareside F-150 with the 300.

 

how far do you want to go to get one?
my father has one, Arizona truck, have to see exactly what year it is, it is 4X4