Do you recall this?
Post Fiend
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From: Metro Detroit (Redford)
Do you recall this?
Ah the good old days. My first new pickp was a '77 F100 for $3500. Rubber floor mats, crank windows, no air, no power steering, no power brakes, mechanical clutch linkage, no radio--bare bones.
INLINE SIX POWER!
300 Cubic Inches of Low RPM Truck Torque! And twin-I-beams too!
"Drive a stick young man! There'll be time for automatics when you're old and unable."
INLINE SIX POWER!
300 Cubic Inches of Low RPM Truck Torque! And twin-I-beams too!
"Drive a stick young man! There'll be time for automatics when you're old and unable."
Junior User
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Do you recall this?
If you do then your getting old.
I remember in 1960 we purchased a new pickup and it cost $1,900.00. This was before pickups became popular. Pickups back then were just work trucks. They came with rubber floor mats and no radio and heater was optional, and no air conditioning and no power anything. Just try parking a pickup that has no power steering on a hot summer day. You got your daily exercise.
And you would sit on the gas tank under the seat or it was behind the drivers back, inside the cab. Real safe place for it, right.
I also purchased a 1970 Ford 500 Galaxie all power and it cost $2,300.00. It was a V-8.
Gassoline was about 120 octane and cost about twenty cents a gallon. And it came from American oil wells, and not imported from terrorist countries like now.
Remember "Put a tiger in your tank", commercials? Or, "Fire Chief"?
Driving down the "Mother Road" Route 66 a two lane black top all the way to California and back. And you could always count on any big rig trucker to stop and help you if you were stuck. They were refered to as the "Knights of the Roads".
Posting Guru
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From: Bryan/College Station
Do you recall this?
about ten years ago i was run off the road during a snowstorm in maine. i finally extricated myself from yhe car and stood in the clear lane with a road flare. to my amasement, vehicles would rather drive through six inches of snow than stop to help a motorist in trouble. after two hours in the cold a canadian trucker(from nova scotia which is where my dad was born and raised)stopped his rig to try and help me. he broke two tiedown straps trying to pull me out of the ditch. then he sat with me for three hours waiting for the police and a wrecker to show. this good samaritan was already an hour and a half behind due tue to already stopping for another stranded motorist. if it wasn't for him i could of frozen to death. he lost god knows how much for a late load and wouldn't take a dime from me. god bless the good hearted truckers that still drive our roads.
not sure where i came up with this thought but for some reason this thread triggered this memory and i felt the need to share it.
proud to be of canadian descent
BROKEBRONCO
not sure where i came up with this thought but for some reason this thread triggered this memory and i felt the need to share it.
proud to be of canadian descent
BROKEBRONCO
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