Well, I did have a couple of lights bolted to the front bumper but they got knocked off when I went through a ditch at the farm. Straight pipes.....I wish I could have 'em, but somehow the State of North Carolina won't pass the truck for inspection if I did have em. I had a friend who had em....he couldn't pass inspection so he had to get a whole new flowmaster system put on.

Weekends? Well, I help Daddy and Granddaddy on the farm, either with the sawmill or with the cattle (Granddaddy just sold the whole herd out, so that's slowin down for us), go campin in the summer and huntin in the winter, and fishin most the other times.

I don't really do too much with my truck as far as hookin up to other people or muddin cause I want to keep my transmission in good shape, and I hate cleaning mud out of places I thought it would never get to! I've still got mud all up inside the front bumper from the last time I was over at a friends farm and had to pull his old Jeep out. That stuff just won't wash away, even with the high pressure nozzles at the self car-wash!

I've embarrassed plenty of Chevys before......seen the boat ramp commmercial? I did something somewhat similar, cept the boat won't at a ramp, it was in his backyard. He had his Z71 hooked up to a 18' fiberglass Bayliner and he got stuck tryin to pull it out from behind his shop in a bottom. I was at my pop's next door and he came and asked me if I could come pull his truck and boat out, he said, I doubt you can do it, I said, we'll just have to see. I hooked up, put it in 4 high and walked outta there with that Chevy and the boat, no problem.

Last time somebody did the car hood thing here, a little girl got killed, run over by an oncoming car.

I have welded up a few homemade accessories in the shop at school. One that I haven't finished yet is a hitch carry-all, I just got to weld in a sheet of expanded metal in it and paint it. I've welded up a bumper out of angle irons for a friend of mine who wanted to put it on the rear of his Bronco. I also intend to weld up some better brackets to put new front lights on so they won't break off as easy. I'm gonna get a set of cab clearance lights and have them put on over Christmas break. Gotta keep my grades up the rest of the year, since I've been accepted to NC State, gonna get into Mechanical Engineering there.

Well, hope I didn't get too long winded. Y'all take care now.

 

Dustin, BigMattXXL's right on the money with bein' a little son of a gun. I was a Star Trek nerd in jr hi, and it held on into HS for a few months until I started liking trucks and playing football. I hit HS with no car and about 5'4" and 165lbs of overweight lower middle class nerdiness. This was at a HS where the average guy was 5'11" to 6', and was upper-class or maybe upper-middle class. Also, conservative ideology was frowned upon.
I started turning my act around though not be changing me, but by being proud of me. By the time I graduated, I was 5'7" and 185lbs, and in somewhat better shape. And I made sure everyone knew I was darn proud of my loud and leaky '74 F-250 and my conservative background. And for seemingly no reason, girls started taking interest in me. It bugged many guys who drove 35,000 dollars of lowered acura and were 6 feet tall to come around the corner and find their girlfriend enjoying a one-on-one conversation with this short, pudgy, poor, conservative, rusty truck drivin' dude. I blame it all on the attitude. I admit, I developed a little jerk in me with guys that are supposed to hold a higher social position, but it has served me well. Nuthin puts a jack-**** popular guy in his place like some no-name kid tellin' him like it is, and the girls love it.
Now I don't guarantee instant success, it took a few years for everyone's image of me as a fat nerd to go away, but it will happen, just be patient.

 

Just imagine how hard it is for him to get glasses or would that be glass?? hummm Anywho At least we know what and where he is looking

 

To MW95F250: Yeah our town only has 300 people and at midnight it's dead, so the car hood thing is pretty safe as long as you hold on. My friend took a roll, but we were in a field, so he came out of it laughin, had me worried though. Otherwise welding homeade accessories has saved me about a 1000 bucks. I made myself a cattle guard better and heavier then anything you could buy, a headache rack w/ expanded metal (mounted 4 of my halagens on top, 5 red lights on top-back, and my 4 foot CB antennas on the base) and I also made myself the same style of tailgate to match (expanded metal, 5 red lights on bottom, and all hooked w/ chains to hold it shut like 1950's style). I also welded in patches where I had rust, never got around to paintin though, got em primed. I put on those custom cab lights too, not that hard of a job, took my about an hour. I couldn't even get around our farm when it rains w/out 4x4 (it's pretty bad) 4x4's a necessity for cuttin wood, coon and coyote huntin too, and there's always playtime. As for the striaght pipes, I don't know of there being any tests around here, unless you get caught by the cops, then you're in trouble, but all you usually get is a fix-it ticket.

Cleanin mud out from under ain't know fun I agree, but it's the price you pay to keep your truck from rustin away. I've never gotten stuck (lots of close calls) but I've pulled a few people out. There been times by my friens house when he buys his truck that he'll be in the mud and I'll be on the gravel w/ my truck and he's buryed that thing so much that I just spin all 4 tires (actually 2 b/c of the diff.), but we've had to go get the tractor. He drives a 76 highboy w/ 35's and a built 390, it just burys itself to the axles if it gets stuck.

Redneck-Cowboy

 

Except in rare occurrances - females seldom aqcuire brain cells until later in life. I originally estimated approximately thirty five years of age, it seemed to be the length of time required for sheltered, stupid, pig-headed ladies with stars in their eyes and a confused view of the world as it actually was to GET A LIFE, or failing to do so - find someone who had.

Beware of weak ladies. They will use you.

It is unfortunate but very true that many females in the world today are doted upon, coddled, and suffered even if they have nothing whatsoever to offer but sex and decoration. GET OVER THAT! You aren't getting into a relationship with a manikin - if you were: You could stand it up in your front window and just say:
"Yep! That'n is mine!"

The last thing on earth I would wish on any man is an idiot that you married out of desperation.

(RANT ENDS)

PPS: I expect fully that this post will draw fire from the Ladies here. Bring it on, I'd be happy to discuss it...

 

MW95F250 + redneck cowboy - too bad we all dont live closer, i bet we could have some good times raisin' hell.

im gonna be puttin a lightbar on the top of the cab of my truck with 4 kc hilites daylighters, 33" bfgs, 3 inch body lift, a dixie horn and ill be gettin my pipes done in the next few weeks.

im a true redneck and proud of it.

 

...Dustin,
Stop thinking inside the box.....Build a harley (2 or 3 wheeler)...It will change your life more than you could ever imagine....
At the least it will broaden your perspective.....

 

Dont feel too bad about not getting girls in high school at all, it really dosnt have anything to do with who you are, or what you look like.

Might sound concieted saying, but i'm a very good looking guy. However in high school, i never had one date, or even a girfriend. Why?

Well because i wasnt really popular, i didnt play any hs sports, didnt like all the popular guys. I'd like to say i was kind of a loner....but that isnt really true. I guess the biggest flaw i had was i hung out with the biggest dorks in the school.

So....hs girls will only go out with someone who their friends approve of. I had some very popular and attractive girls flirt with me for a few days, then they'd flat out stop talking to me when their friends found out about it and ragged on them.

So...i dunno. Dont take hs very seriously. I've been out of it for 5 years, and i clean house in the female department now.

 

High school is not the end all be all of your life. You need to know that there are people out there that will like you for who you are and not what you look like. I myself was the fat/nerd kid in school that people would pick on. I did not have a GF until I was in college and that was fine with me, because I was not big on spending money on people that are there only for a free meal.

I met my wife in college and she (a band nerd) is a very good looking woman. When we got married I weighted 370 lbs and was only 6’1” . She has seen me through fat and now she is seeing me through the lean. I have dropped 100 lbs and I am still going.

We have two kids and a great life. I teach high school and know how shallow some “girls” can be, but remember this one statement. Beauty fades with the hands of time, but intelligence and class will remain forever. Just ask people that have gone to a 20 year class reunion, because most, if not all, of the nerds are very nice people that are good looking and have their lives together. The school “studs” have gained 100 pounds and have dead-end job.

Life is not a race to who ends it first, but who has the most fun on the journey. Keep your chin up.

 

I tried to tell ya -

High School wenches are dumber than a box of rocks.

Why would you want anything to do with 'em?

Hell - for that matter look into older ladies!

 

Hey Greywolf, I know this is off topic, but I saw a truck the other day that had Greywolf and Associates painted on it, apparently they are some kind of contractors out of Raleigh, NC.

 

To rebel_ford4x4: I kinda wanted one of those dixie horns but they are a little over priced.

Redneck-Cowboy

 

rebel_ford4x4
Redneck-Cowboy
MW95F250

Hot damn, all rednecks must drive ford i live in Wyoming, although my dad dont farm he runs a tractor dealership, and instead of the riden on the hood down mainstreet trick we cut the top off a 80's cavelear and sink it in the lake i am glad theres more people out there like me, and beleive me, i have dug my highboy clear to china, course its a 3/4 ton and i had some real bald tires on it, i now have bigger not pictured in gallery. so far all i have hicked out on it is the rebel flag headliner and the head ache rack, also not pictured. But just remember, chicks dig big trucks and rednecks

 

Man this thread got long before I could read it all
But anyways, highschool sucks
I found out that some of the more popular girls actually had a crush on me during highschool but didnt say anything
I wasn't all that popular but I was known well enougn.
Big names won't lead you to anything... WOrk hard and keep your self respect and you'll find the girl you've been looking for is right under your nose

 

hmm im a senior in highschool this year and ive never dated or had a girlfriend througout all of hs. will this change by the end of the year? i dunno. i didn't go to junior prom because i didn't care to, getting dressed up, eating dinner then dancing ain't exactly my cup of tea. sort of same situation your in dustin. thought im actually friends with alot of the girls at my school, guess it has somethign to do with the fact that im nice and don't try to be "cool" like other guys by making fun of the nerds. im about average looking. could i probably get a girlfriend if i really wanted to? answer is probably yea. why dont' i? because i think that if your gonna get a girlfriend you should actually be interested in starting a relationship with her, not for "looks". i haven't quite found the right girl yet. well that and im shy. er sort of im starting to break that wall down, slowly but surely. i look at it this way, you will find the girl thats right for you eventually, until then have fun doing stuff you enjoy most.