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I just signed up here, found the site digging around on the web for some other info and thought it looked pretty cool.
I'm recently retired and own several older Fords and have pretty much owned mostly just Ford trucks over the years starting with my first one, a '56, then a '62, then a '65, a '66, a '68 F250, a few Econolines along the way, then a '74 F100, a '79 F150, two '79 Broncos, an '80 Bronco, two '86 F150s, an '86 F250 Diesel an 87 F150, plus my '89, '92, '94, and '95 Rangers and my current 2003 F250 diesel.. A few I bought new, most were bought used and kept around till the next one came along. My first new one was my '79, sort of, it was bought two years before I could drive it, and it sat in the garage until I got my license. I miss that one the most, with my 80 Bronco with a stick shift 302 being a close second.
If I had the means or the room I'd have kept them all, none had many miles on them when I sold or traded them in with the exception of the '56, which I bought as a teen from a local farmer who had shoe horned in a 460 from a 71 Lincoln MkIII. It was fun but not very useful back when gas was getting expensive to it gave way to the '62 and '66, both with 240ci sixes.
I worked for car dealers for the first 25 years or so, a combination of Ford and heavy truck dealers, as well as several other brands that were in the mix too. It gave me a pretty serious parts stash over the years as well. It was shocking what a dealer would thrown away back then.
I'm recently retired and own several older Fords and have pretty much owned mostly just Ford trucks over the years starting with my first one, a '56, then a '62, then a '65, a '66, a '68 F250, a few Econolines along the way, then a '74 F100, a '79 F150, two '79 Broncos, an '80 Bronco, two '86 F150s, an '86 F250 Diesel an 87 F150, plus my '89, '92, '94, and '95 Rangers and my current 2003 F250 diesel.. A few I bought new, most were bought used and kept around till the next one came along. My first new one was my '79, sort of, it was bought two years before I could drive it, and it sat in the garage until I got my license. I miss that one the most, with my 80 Bronco with a stick shift 302 being a close second.
If I had the means or the room I'd have kept them all, none had many miles on them when I sold or traded them in with the exception of the '56, which I bought as a teen from a local farmer who had shoe horned in a 460 from a 71 Lincoln MkIII. It was fun but not very useful back when gas was getting expensive to it gave way to the '62 and '66, both with 240ci sixes.
I worked for car dealers for the first 25 years or so, a combination of Ford and heavy truck dealers, as well as several other brands that were in the mix too. It gave me a pretty serious parts stash over the years as well. It was shocking what a dealer would thrown away back then.
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I just signed up here, found the site digging around on the web for some other info and thought it looked pretty cool.
I'm recently retired and own several older Fords and have pretty much owned mostly just Ford trucks over the years starting with my first one, a '56, then a '62, then a '65, a '66, a '68 F250, a few Econolines along the way, then a '74 F100, a '79 F150, two '79 Broncos, an '80 Bronco, two '86 F150s, an '86 F250 Diesel an 87 F150, plus my '89, '92, '94, and '95 Rangers and my current 2003 F250 diesel.. A few I bought new, most were bought used and kept around till the next one came along. My first new one was my '79, sort of, it was bought two years before I could drive it, and it sat in the garage until I got my license. I miss that one the most, with my 80 Bronco with a stick shift 302 being a close second.
If I had the means or the room I'd have kept them all, none had many miles on them when I sold or traded them in with the exception of the '56, which I bought as a teen from a local farmer who had shoe horned in a 460 from a 71 Lincoln MkIII. It was fun but not very useful back when gas was getting expensive to it gave way to the '62 and '66, both with 240ci sixes.
I worked for car dealers for the first 25 years or so, a combination of Ford and heavy truck dealers, as well as several other brands that were in the mix too. It gave me a pretty serious parts stash over the years as well. It was shocking what a dealer would thrown away back then.
I'm recently retired and own several older Fords and have pretty much owned mostly just Ford trucks over the years starting with my first one, a '56, then a '62, then a '65, a '66, a '68 F250, a few Econolines along the way, then a '74 F100, a '79 F150, two '79 Broncos, an '80 Bronco, two '86 F150s, an '86 F250 Diesel an 87 F150, plus my '89, '92, '94, and '95 Rangers and my current 2003 F250 diesel.. A few I bought new, most were bought used and kept around till the next one came along. My first new one was my '79, sort of, it was bought two years before I could drive it, and it sat in the garage until I got my license. I miss that one the most, with my 80 Bronco with a stick shift 302 being a close second.
If I had the means or the room I'd have kept them all, none had many miles on them when I sold or traded them in with the exception of the '56, which I bought as a teen from a local farmer who had shoe horned in a 460 from a 71 Lincoln MkIII. It was fun but not very useful back when gas was getting expensive to it gave way to the '62 and '66, both with 240ci sixes.
I worked for car dealers for the first 25 years or so, a combination of Ford and heavy truck dealers, as well as several other brands that were in the mix too. It gave me a pretty serious parts stash over the years as well. It was shocking what a dealer would thrown away back then.
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