A late night snack!
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A late night snack!
On the way home from work, 2245 tonight, I merge into light traffic on IH 35 north in San Antonio. I notice cab lights over in the center lane and a lifted Chevy regular cab daully rolls up along side. The passenger points at my front fender and says something to the driver. No Duramax badge on his truck, so no telling if it's a 6.0 or an 8.1. I slowly overtake him and take notice of the boy racer blue headlights and so called billet grill.
Then the Chevy roars and begins to surge along side. Could the owner of a 6 liter be so brazen? I'm thinking this must be an 8.1 wanting to play. But who knows? Tow/haul is activated with a simultanious jab of the throttle. The V10 growls. The Chevy begins to fade away over my left shoulder, then appears in my rear view mirror. Oh he tries to keep up, but the truck lengths grow until it's clear that he's lost.
As I watch in my mirror the power drops. I look down and notice that in that short amount of time I've hit the 96 mph mark that Ford engineers have decided to shut my fuel off at. Well, the challenge was accepted and the V10 had a tasty Chevy snack for the night. Oddly enough it was my first Chevy challenge.
Yessir life is good with a 6.8 liter Triton V10 under the hood. And I havent even modded it (yet!).
Then the Chevy roars and begins to surge along side. Could the owner of a 6 liter be so brazen? I'm thinking this must be an 8.1 wanting to play. But who knows? Tow/haul is activated with a simultanious jab of the throttle. The V10 growls. The Chevy begins to fade away over my left shoulder, then appears in my rear view mirror. Oh he tries to keep up, but the truck lengths grow until it's clear that he's lost.
As I watch in my mirror the power drops. I look down and notice that in that short amount of time I've hit the 96 mph mark that Ford engineers have decided to shut my fuel off at. Well, the challenge was accepted and the V10 had a tasty Chevy snack for the night. Oddly enough it was my first Chevy challenge.
Yessir life is good with a 6.8 liter Triton V10 under the hood. And I havent even modded it (yet!).
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Originally Posted by JKBrad
On the way home from work, 2245 tonight, I merge into light traffic on IH 35 north in San Antonio. I notice cab lights over in the center lane and a lifted Chevy regular cab daully rolls up along side. The passenger points at my front fender and says something to the driver. No Duramax badge on his truck, so no telling if it's a 6.0 or an 8.1. I slowly overtake him and take notice of the boy racer blue headlights and so called billet grill.
Then the Chevy roars and begins to surge along side. Could the owner of a 6 liter be so brazen? I'm thinking this must be an 8.1 wanting to play. But who knows? Tow/haul is activated with a simultanious jab of the throttle. The V10 growls. The Chevy begins to fade away over my left shoulder, then appears in my rear view mirror. Oh he tries to keep up, but the truck lengths grow until it's clear that he's lost.
As I watch in my mirror the power drops. I look down and notice that in that short amount of time I've hit the 96 mph mark that Ford engineers have decided to shut my fuel off at. Well, the challenge was accepted and the V10 had a tasty Chevy snack for the night. Oddly enough it was my first Chevy challenge.
Yessir life is good with a 6.8 liter Triton V10 under the hood. And I havent even modded it (yet!).
Then the Chevy roars and begins to surge along side. Could the owner of a 6 liter be so brazen? I'm thinking this must be an 8.1 wanting to play. But who knows? Tow/haul is activated with a simultanious jab of the throttle. The V10 growls. The Chevy begins to fade away over my left shoulder, then appears in my rear view mirror. Oh he tries to keep up, but the truck lengths grow until it's clear that he's lost.
As I watch in my mirror the power drops. I look down and notice that in that short amount of time I've hit the 96 mph mark that Ford engineers have decided to shut my fuel off at. Well, the challenge was accepted and the V10 had a tasty Chevy snack for the night. Oddly enough it was my first Chevy challenge.
Yessir life is good with a 6.8 liter Triton V10 under the hood. And I havent even modded it (yet!).
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JKBrad, Great post, and yes life is good when your driving the best vehicle on the planet with the best engine ever put in any vehicle put together by the hands of man.
Forgive me, hallelooyah ( pretty sure I screwed up the spelling )
Take care brother, and forgive the poor GMC owners, they know nothing of the V10 magic and let us pray for these poor misinformed fools but at the same time acknowledge that they are not as stupid as Dodge owners. I go in peace.
Forgive me, hallelooyah ( pretty sure I screwed up the spelling )
Take care brother, and forgive the poor GMC owners, they know nothing of the V10 magic and let us pray for these poor misinformed fools but at the same time acknowledge that they are not as stupid as Dodge owners. I go in peace.
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It is an even better story when you know what JKBrad does for a living but I will keep his secret!
My smallish town and area has the V10 powered F350 White King Ranch very well known and I don't get challenged at lights any more.. he said with a impish pout
I know how the rest of JKBrads ride to the House was. BSEG all the way, and his wife had a napkin already cuz she is used to wiping the drool off his chin before the "welcome home kiss"
Life is good with a V10 powered SuperDuty Ford truck!
My smallish town and area has the V10 powered F350 White King Ranch very well known and I don't get challenged at lights any more.. he said with a impish pout
I know how the rest of JKBrads ride to the House was. BSEG all the way, and his wife had a napkin already cuz she is used to wiping the drool off his chin before the "welcome home kiss"
Life is good with a V10 powered SuperDuty Ford truck!
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fred do mean he should know better? comeing home at that hour means grave yard shift of ?
but we need to get him some gmc decals for his door kind of like my rams heads
but we need to get him some gmc decals for his door kind of like my rams heads
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Lets see now, I would need 3 rams heads, a 6.0 PSD logo, a Chevy logo and a Honda logo (yeah, a kid with a fart pipe tried to take me on once). Man, I'm 40 and I feel like when I was 17 in my '69 Buick GS. Cool ain't it!
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4 rams, 2, 8.1's, no psd's thats a ford .1 cumapart, fart can kids i just love as they are still sitting on their brains,
69 grand sport o man. got one running around near me. 455 ram air type with the spoiler on the trunk white and gold with a black inside , the cars has to be a body off it's just toooo perfect.and rare.
69 grand sport o man. got one running around near me. 455 ram air type with the spoiler on the trunk white and gold with a black inside , the cars has to be a body off it's just toooo perfect.and rare.
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Once in a great while those of us that own the V10 gets to drop the jaw of another off-brand truck - those unfortunate enough not to have learned of such raw power. It's true that Fords are tough, can haul the ugly off Rosanne Barr and make it as sweet as mama's homemade pie. And it's true that we don't see as much downtime as the others...but that don't mean we ain't got what it takes to punch a hole in a gut when the time comes.
Congrats, JKBrad, and give 'em no quarter!
Congrats, JKBrad, and give 'em no quarter!
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Originally Posted by ken04
YEA BABY !!!!!