lastchance,

I just ave to add my two cents here. It seems as though in these days & times, where anybody can take a brand new truck; bolt thousands of dollars worth of parts onto it, and call it a restoration. Unfortnately those same "wet behind the ears" individuals have no earthly clue as to what it takes to do a restoration. Basically they are only trying to garner the same amount of attention we as classic owners garner without the effort we put into it. Granted I am 25, but I am working diligently to produce the Shelby that was never built! A 1965 Ford / Shelby GT F-100 Ranger!

I've got to say that will be the sweetest ride I've ever seen when I get through. A restification is what I am calling it.

Let's see somebody put up or shut up against that! I'd like to see that F250 with the thousand dollars worth of tires & wheels, and his little buddies fart can car go up against that at a car show.

Anyway, enough venting for now.


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1965 F-100 (just purchased 1/18/01), SWB, 390, C-6 auto. Dual exhaust, Not much else to do to it.

Can see both below.

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Well I think I need to put a "FEAR THIS" sticker on my bumper of my truck but written backwards it will give the ricers something to think about when they cut me off. I'm sorry but if I was driving in a coffee can car and looked in the rearview mirror and saw the truck I just cutoff coming up behind me at the next light and in my mirror all I saw was a 6"x 1/2" thick well casing bumper and a big blue oval I believe there really might be something to Fear.
But I will stick to saying I have already "MOVE OR BE MOVED"
tends to get their attention also

 

The only stickers I want to see on a car or truck are American flag stickers, and United We Stand stickers. I don't mind the Flowmaster and Nascar stickers, but when you start putting a big Honda H on your back winshield, I mean, come on. Do you really want everyone to know that you drive a little beater toy?

Ryan
1986 F-250 HD 4x4
4.10 gears, C6 trany
351W, Edelbrock 351 Performer intake
Edelbrock Performer 600cfm 4bbl carb
Edelbrock Pro-Flo air cleaner
Extreme 4x4 camshaft
Flowmaster 30 series dual exhaust
Custom headers
3" Warn body lift

 

Ill admit it, I have a HUGE Ford sticker across the back window of my F-150. I also have my Gibson exhaust sticker, k and n sticker, American flag sticker, Dale Earnhardt Sticker, and Jeff Gordon Sticker (no comments please, i like him as a race car driver i wish everyone could just quit cuttin' on him and leave it alone like they do the other drivers lol) I have a 3inch after cat exhaust, which im not sure what it sounds like, this friggen strait six sounds like a big rice burner sometimes, others like a dump trunk lol but i love the engine none the less. 145 thousand and still looks and runs brand new!!!!!.......but anyway, i'll admit I'm 17 and am a die hard truck lover, reflects my southern rock/country personality. and obviously because of my age there are times id rather pay someone who knows what they're doing to do some things on my truck, because i'd just cost myself more money hehehehe, but when i think i know what im doin' i'll do it myself, and i'd love to do more but dont have the space, tools, or knowhow, or guidance I figured i'd add a story about a time i pulled up to good ol' Taco Bell drive through, and the kid asked me why i drive a truck and not a Honda Civil like him. I told him flat out cus Honda's are a piece of............. Hope he didn't spit in my food. Peace Ya'll and remember SKYNYRD RULES!!!!!!! Everyone at school makes fun of me cus of my "hick" truck. I just say it's got 3x's the Cubes as your POS. Well they don't know Cubes Only liters which they don't understand the concept of either, because they don't know a liter from a whole in their head. and they're all getting "turbos" and "cold air intakes"...........howcome in a honda it's a "cold air intake" and in a truck it's just a better designed intake.........guess ya gotta give it a cool name so ya can charge more.....

93' 4x4 300 I-6 145,000 miles

 

Right On Truckfreak69. Truck Power all the way! Don't let the riceburner driving dweebs get ya down. They're just fallin into that peer pressure, do what everyone else is doing, thing. Better to be an individual. I got my first truck when I turned 20 (and never looked back), but should have done it when I was 16, but for several hand me down cars that I beat on first. Why'd I want a truck--they are practical. You can crawl under them and work on them, you can get over curbs and other obstacles, you can haul stuff, you can see the road better, etc.

INLINE SIX POWER!
https://www.ford-trucks.com/dcforum/User_files/TallPaul/3bd090f91fd9e18d.jpg
300 Cubic Inches of Low RPM Truck Torque!

 

You guys should check out the web site that 1970f2504x4 mentioned in a previous post:

www.beaterz.com

My favorite vehicles on that site are a 1999 or 2000 C#$#$y Silverado Pickup with 8 exhaust tips sticking out the back, a hummer with pokemon figures painted on it (what a way to ruin a good off-road vehicle), and some kind of 4-door riceburner with a huge (possibly 6 inches or larger in diameter) exhaust tip sticking out the back. The exhaust tip looks almost like an afterburner on a fighter jet. There are also several pictures of honda civics with the typical fart mufflers, cheesy stickers, and oversized, ugly wings on them. It's a hilarious website.

 

hello people.
i may be new here but from what i have read on this subject is disturbing.i agree with you all on the rice burners. but we are not all stupid teenagers with mommy and daddies money ( granted most of the kids with rice burners get them for christmas or some dumb present). iam 21 i bought my truck on my own 3 years ago. i do all the work no body drives or works on my truck. some of us younger guys were brought up. pardon the expression old school. my truck a f100 with a 292 and a 3 speed cruiseo "kyla" is a symbol of my abilitie and ingenuity to accomplish what i want. to hear all younger guys stereo typed as not having a clue is insulting. iam not saying you all do it but some have. i am glad to find this site. i enjoy reading all publications put up i just ask that the younger guys being wrench trained be given a break.

 

I was brought up the same way as you regarding cars. When I asked about getting a car, my father said "If you want a car, you will have to buy it, register it, insure it and maintain it yourself." I paid $300 for my first car and it was probably off the road more than it was on the road (either awaiting time or money to get fixed). I think the car gave me more, however. I think it taught me more about responsibility and it gave me a better sense of independence. It kinda prepared me for more things that I'll have to pay on my own... apartment... food... etc. I learned about budgeting my meager wage to balance money between the car and going out on friday/saturday nights. I think if parents hand their kids the keys to a new car that the kid is missing out on learning alot of values and lessons in life. I know when I have kids a few years down the road... even if I can afford to buy them a brand new car of their dreams... I won't. I think they'll get alot more out of buying one on their own as I did.

James Kern
1970 F250 4x4

 

Now you've gotten onto the "new car must mean daddy's money" subject. I must say that when i was in high school I did get a brand new ford ranger xlt (93 model). after I worked and saved up enough down payment to satisfy my dad $1500, he went and bought the truck in his name and gave it to me. I had to make all the payments, insurance, and maintenance myself. this was not easy to do working at winn-dixie for $4.15/hour part time. some of the ppl you see may be paying for their own vehicle and may be proud of that and want to show it off. It did make me realize the value of a dollar and made me learn to maintain things or fix it when it breaks.

just my 2 cents.

 

Ricers are ricers because all the "mods" they do actually increase their RHP "Rice Horse Power"

1. Why bother the hassle and cost of getting an aftermarket part when slapping on a sticker does the same thing for less?

2. Any "Type-R" sticker is worth 20RHP.

3. Every 1" diameter you add to a fart pipe gives it an additional 10RHP, so a 6" fart pipe will be worth 60RHP

4. A "Powered by..." sticker or banner is as good as a super or turbocharger, giving your engine more RHP than the engines without.

5. A Ford Probe with "Powered by Ford" sticker or banner gains even more power as Probes came with Mazda engines and putting the banner will really make it a Ford engine (yeah, yeah, I know Ford bought Mazda). Same with Dodge minivans with Mitsubish engine withs "Buy American" bumper sticker in the back.

6. Price dictates RHP. So a $2500 1.8L VTEC engine will have more RHP than a $1100 460 big block (price based on rebuilt engines).

7. Ricers don't know what a torque is and since the world is evolves around them, it really doesn't matter.

8. More pistons mean more weight, thus the reason why a V-8 will make less RHP than a 4 banger. That's why ricers mod their exhausts to make it sound like lawn mower engines as they come with 1 cylinder engins with globs of RHP and that's why the ricers want everyone else to think that they actually do have a lawn mower enigne in their car.

9. Lowering a ricer so that it'll be .5" off the ground will improve the areodynamics, thus affectively raising the max speed from 85MPH to 90MPH.

10. We all know that racing is more about tactics than pure power. So if you are going to race a mustang, wait until there is a minivan infront of the mustang at the stop light. Rev your engine so he'll know that you mean business. When the light turns green, take off. When the mustang passes the minivan and starts to catch up, turn on your flashers to signify that you won the race and take the next turn even if it's the wrong way.

 

in my post i said that most kids. not all i bought my own car on my own money to but almost every person i graduated with had their cars all brand new trucks and rice burners given to them that is what iam refering to i did not mean to imply that all of the kids that have nice cars didnt earn them.

 

Ahhhh rice. If only Uncle Ben knew he coulda gotten on marketing the long grain type, he coulda been a heck of alot richer. I go to school at Northeastern University in Boston, and let me tell you, when you see a 22 year old kid in his Aeropostal or Gap clothes and slicked back hair, driving around in a brand new Dodge Viper, I think it's safe to say daddy bought it. Well, a bunch of us confronted this kid and asked him what someone his age was doing with it. He replyed in saying his dad was the owner of a Dodge dealership around here and pulled some strings, paid real cheap money for it, and gave it to the kid as a graduation present from highschool. Gee, I'd say that's spoiling the kid, wouldn't you? We just kinda laughed and said that he was dumb, he shoulda gotten a real sports car, if he was looking for speed and sport, and gone with the Mustang Cobra type R, or maybe a Saleen. Speaking of spoiled, there's a kid in my town who's dad bought him a Mustang for a graduation present. Well, he didn't like the color. So dad bought him a new one, silver. Well, he was an idiot, went out sloshed one night, wrapped it around a telephone pole. So what does dad do? Buys the kid a brand new Chitty Craparo RS. That's spoiled rotten.

Ryan

 

You know what gets me? The people who pay for installations on their trucks/cars instead of building it themselves. I mean, some of my friends won't even install their own stereo head unit! You little wuss, it takes like an hour and you save yourself 50 bucks. DUMB!
I have put on headers, p/l, alarm, speakers, hood lock, and I had fun!

My stupid friend won't even take the gay looking pink-splash sticker off his s10..... I am going to threaten to bring my ma's hairdryer over to his house next time I see him!

Matt

 

You know what is real fun?
Next time they start talking about all of the stuff they are going (or, already have) added. Just start asking very simple, pointed questions. Examples:

"So, just exactly how does your cold air intake work?"
"Explain to me how a gold anoidized pressure plate will effect the operation of your clutch?"
"What are your skid pad numbers now that you have installed the low profile tires?"

And my all time favorite question:
"Where's the dyno report?"

Usually, all you get is the dear in the headlights look.

Roger