Hi, I'm Bryan. I live in Casper, WY but have lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Misery in my earlier years. Came out to Wyoming for the hunting and never left 22+ years ago so I don't think the mailman misses me at my old address anymore.

 

Welcome Brian.

 

Cool! More Wyomingites...

 

Wyoming:
500,000 people
1,000,000 Ford trucks

Seems about right to me. Super Duty's seem to be a pretty popular ride around here.

Bryan

 

Howdy, My name is Dan I currently live in Billings 35 yrs old happilly divorced. Just got moved back to Montana after a 16 year absents spent the previous 8 years in Wyo Gillette for 1 year and 7 in Cheyenne. But originally from north west of Great Falls.

Currently rebuilding my 78 F-150 custom 4x4 mechanically only I have no intentions of doing any body work I personally like the ugly truck look on the old girl and dont wanna make my SD jealous by having another good looker in the drive.

 

lol... I like that philosophy!

Welcome to the forum!

 

Howdy all... finally took the time to see who the High Plains Drifters are, and looks like I'm one too. My name is Rob, I'm 36 and I live in Helena, MT with my wife and 2 little kids.

I grew up in a Ford family in southwestern Pennsylvania. I learned to drive in my dad's 75 F250 4x4 and have been hooked on them ever since. He bought that truck new and drove it until 1993 when everything had turned to rust.

I headed west to Ohio for college, lived in Colorado for about 10 years after that and have been in Montana about 4 years now. I'm a software developer and lately have found myself wishing I chose something different for a life's work!

I was stunned when I arrived in the west and discovered so many old Ford trucks still alive and well. I've owned a 73 4x2, a 76 4x4, a 78 4x4, and now a 76 4x2 Supercab. I just can't seem to get away from the 70's Fords. My daily driver is an 01 F150 Supercrew 4x4. I'm
'mechanically challenged' when it comes to anything beyond the basic tune up, but I like trying to figure out problems. I probably would have at least 3 old Fords in the driveway if my wife would tolerate it... someday there will be a nice 30 x 30 garage/shop out back that will be all mine!

I love living in Montana. I enjoy fly fishing on the Missouri river in the summers, and usually hit the ski slopes in the winter.

Guess that's it for this guy. Glad to find y'all!

 

Welcome Rob! Glad to see others are still finding us!

 

well so far it seems like i am the only iowan here im chris from burlington ia but i grew up in il

 

We have lots of guys from I'wa, join the crowd.

welcome to FTE, & the High Plains Drifters....

 

Hey Matt...found the intro part...

anyway...i'm michael...born'n'raised in kalispell, tho i've moved out a couple times, i just get sucked right back in...i'm 23 in june, got some after-market schooling under my belt, and tryin to get back in, but it's sooooo friggin spendy...i'm planning to go back to school for mechanics, but i'm not real sure where i want to go, or what part exactly that i want to get into...

i love the outdoors, from hiking and fishing to hunting and camping...mtn biking, 4 wheelin...i got into bow hunting last year, and love it...guns are good, too...last summer, i bought a weatherby vanguard synthetic chambered for 7mm rem mag. it's an awesome gun...shoots real well, and for a synthetic, doesn't kick all that much...i pegged a squirrel opening day last year with it, just to see what it would do...probably wasn't a nice thing to do...this year, i want to try and get a ruger single action .44 mag to carry during bow season, as i hunt some pretty thick griz country, sometimes...

in order to pay bills, i work for a local fence company, building anything from chain link to vinyl to wood privacy to split rail cedar...it's not the greatest job, but it provides me with enough to pay my bills and have a little fun on the side (unless something breaks on my truck)...but as i said, i want to go back to school for mechanics, down the road...

anyway, enough about me for now...talk later...have a happy easter, ya'll...

Michael

 

Welcome Mike.

I have to work today but only for five hours

 

Welcome to the Drifters...even if we are on the west side of the Rockys..I guess we can stick with em...at least for a while longer. Since the Flathead Valley has always been it's own clique, even within the state, we may have to have the moderators form us a NW Mt Drifters or something. lol.

OK now that you are an official "drifter", get busy and get some pix taken of your ride so us local yokels can at least wave at ya sometime in passing.

 

Fordlover...if you saw me goin down the street you wouldn't wave...you'd try and hide so i didn't see you...my truck's in rough shape...at least for now...lol...it's an 84 f-150 4x4 grn w/ white mid-stripe down the sides, headache rack, tool box, all sortsa oil bottles in the back end (gotta empty that out again soon), and a white grill guard...factory, i think...ya know them cheap bumper-hook-up jobbies...it pops and snaps and sounds like a busted manifold, when in truth it's just an over-fueling carbeurator and a missing heat-riser valve in the manifold, leaving a 9/16" hole in the back side to figger how to plug up...but i'm gonna rebuild a carb for it, and put a new exhaust/intake manifold on it that i have in my possession, and call it good...also want to put a straight axle front end under it sometime soon, to replace the twin i-beam IFS system that ford thought was so great....thanks...i'll take a little bumpier ride over a buncha moving parts that are a pain in the tail feathers to fix when they break...

Michael

i'll work on gittin some pics, tho...

 

Michael, your truck sounds like an honest work truck. You never need to apologize for that. A couple of mine are beaters too, but they keep churning along. I'll watch for you around town. Do you work for the fence co out north of town on 93 next to Countryside vet clinic?

Also wondering when/if you took bowhunter ed? I teach it so we might already know each other.........I always teach the March class.

I'm the pastor at Stillwater Lutheran Church on Church Dr. west of Majestic arena. Easter was awesome this year!

I know a couple of guys who have gone thru UTI in Phoenix for mechanic training. Might be interesting to get their perspective on programs out there.
Later,