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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 30-Dec-01 AT 00:48 AM (EST)]Howdy all! I recently acquired a 78 F100 (story to follow), and went about the web today looking for places catering to my new truck. Found you guys, so I just thought I'd introduce myself (and my truck).
Short story: Dad gave my wife and I his truck for christmas. Cool. End of Del's story, move along :-)
Long story:
I was born at a very early age... Nope, wrong story. Okay. My wife and I are expecting a kid in April. My current vehicle is a '73 Datsun 240Z, with no room for a childseat. So, I was going to purchase a '67 Volks Squareback for my wife for christmas (at $450, with a beautifully straight body. Still kinda want the VW hehe). My brother and mother were going to pitch in on it, and my wife would have a car suitable for carting a kid around. The Sunday before christmas my dad says to me that he doesn't like the idea of that VW (probably because it'd take just as much work as the Z to keep going), and that, Merry Christmas, he's giving us the truck! He says since there's no airbag, there's no reason to _need_ a rear seat to put the baby seat in.
So, a little more about the truck. In '88 or '89 dad's boss at the time gave him the company's gopher truck, a British Racing Green '78 F100 Custom, with the short stepside bed (was it a flareside in '78?) and the 351M, as a christmas bonus. Right at 100,000 miles we put a new Kragen shortblock in it. Dad ran it for a while, then let me use it when I turned 16 (around '91) and I drove it to high school. When my brother turned 16 he used it as his ride too. A few times it had bodywork and paint done, and at some point dad installed an MSD ignition. When bro and I were'nt using it, it did general duty as the family truck. For several years it had old American Racing daisy wheels, 15x8 front and 15x10 rear, but my bro hit a curb (rather than the Camaro coming towards him in the wrong lane) and ruined two wheels. It's back on the 15x7-ish stockers which have been powder coated black. Now at 222,000 miles, it's mine *grin*
The rear main seal is hurt, and it leaves a 3" diameter puddle in the parking lot after a day. The left taillight has some funkiness in which the high filament circuit quits working at a whim (and comes back as soon as I threaten it with a multimeter). There's quite a lag on takeoff from a stoplight too.
If the weather clears up (drizzly rain in SoCal), and I finish the current round o' work on the Z, I'll dig up the virtual camera and post a few snapshots of the truck sometime this weekend.
Okay, that's the end of my blathering for now. Thanks for reading.
Short story: Dad gave my wife and I his truck for christmas. Cool. End of Del's story, move along :-)
Long story:
I was born at a very early age... Nope, wrong story. Okay. My wife and I are expecting a kid in April. My current vehicle is a '73 Datsun 240Z, with no room for a childseat. So, I was going to purchase a '67 Volks Squareback for my wife for christmas (at $450, with a beautifully straight body. Still kinda want the VW hehe). My brother and mother were going to pitch in on it, and my wife would have a car suitable for carting a kid around. The Sunday before christmas my dad says to me that he doesn't like the idea of that VW (probably because it'd take just as much work as the Z to keep going), and that, Merry Christmas, he's giving us the truck! He says since there's no airbag, there's no reason to _need_ a rear seat to put the baby seat in.
So, a little more about the truck. In '88 or '89 dad's boss at the time gave him the company's gopher truck, a British Racing Green '78 F100 Custom, with the short stepside bed (was it a flareside in '78?) and the 351M, as a christmas bonus. Right at 100,000 miles we put a new Kragen shortblock in it. Dad ran it for a while, then let me use it when I turned 16 (around '91) and I drove it to high school. When my brother turned 16 he used it as his ride too. A few times it had bodywork and paint done, and at some point dad installed an MSD ignition. When bro and I were'nt using it, it did general duty as the family truck. For several years it had old American Racing daisy wheels, 15x8 front and 15x10 rear, but my bro hit a curb (rather than the Camaro coming towards him in the wrong lane) and ruined two wheels. It's back on the 15x7-ish stockers which have been powder coated black. Now at 222,000 miles, it's mine *grin*
The rear main seal is hurt, and it leaves a 3" diameter puddle in the parking lot after a day. The left taillight has some funkiness in which the high filament circuit quits working at a whim (and comes back as soon as I threaten it with a multimeter). There's quite a lag on takeoff from a stoplight too.
If the weather clears up (drizzly rain in SoCal), and I finish the current round o' work on the Z, I'll dig up the virtual camera and post a few snapshots of the truck sometime this weekend.
Okay, that's the end of my blathering for now. Thanks for reading.
