I know we have "Show Trucks" and "Daily Drivers" and "Hot Rods" and "Rat Rods" and everything in between here. I just wonder what everyone actually does with their trucks (those of us that are fortunate enough to already have them on the road) Or what do you plan to use it for?
This is what I did two weeks ago (before the still unresolved valve issue I was talking about this week)
A little around the house landscape work:
Made 4 or 5 trips to pick up mulch from the side of the highway where a road is being widened and the mulch is free!

 

well my 59 still shop clutter. but when it gets done it will be my daily driver for hauling parts for other parts, driveing to school(assuming i get it done before i gradute) and work. then the weekend crusing. i know my trucks gonna get scratched and dented but i built it to drive not look pretty in 10 years

 

My 56 is a hot rod, daily driver, working truck and tow rig. I figure that's enough for it to do. I'd add more to the list, but I think that would make it amphibian.

 

Hmm.. mine also is garage art at the moment.

 

Mine has already paid the price as a work truck. Now it is like a champion race horse put out to pasture.

I just like to go cruising in it and let it "run" once in awhile.

 

Mine is presently making sure that my shop floor doesn't get too much sun. It'll be a really nice daily driver when I'm finished, though... Doubt it'll get a load of mulch in it, but who knows.

 

I will probably take in a few cruise nights and also take part in a few vintage auto shows.
It is getting real close now.
Don

 

Drive her to work every day, haul junk, bikes, go karts...

 

mine is a hotrod,shop truck,stess releaver

 

Its my daily driver and hauler. Wonder why the inside of the bed is all scratched up and its the lean'in post on cruis'in nites.

 

SHOW & GO!
my 58 merc panel is used for long haul trips to shows, and is equipped with bed, sink & icebox, and of coarse a lighter plug in back fo rthe tv/vcr combo, it also has a "shady boy" brand awning originally desiged for westfalias which provides great shade @ shows this is attached onto rivnuts and thumbscrews on the roof also coming this year will be a few more rivnuts on the roof for a set of roofracks which will hold our kayaks & mountain bikes. this truck has been built with a major trip in mind which is out west to BC down the west coast to cali, then back home on route 66, hopefully this will take place in the summer of 09.
my other truck (64 econo) is also built for show & go
it was our main truck two summers ago when we built our new home which was unfortunately only 2 yrs after a major rebuild needless to say with the wear & tear of all that hauling left it's share of scars which will require a complete repaint over the next winter or so... also gotta awful bearing noise in the rearend incurred by bringing massive loads of hardwood flooring and ceramic ties from the city.
it also often gets loaded up with our whitewater kayak gear and takes us into some pretty wicked put in and take out roads, thank goodness for pressure washers and acrylic urethane enamel
iffin' it gets scratched up goin in narrow bushroads it easily machine polishes up again, and is ready by the next weekend to show
can ever see me becoming one of those people who won't take a vehice out if there is even a hint of ran in the air or to a show and right back directly into the garage again following a complete clean & detail, these are trucks....built ford tuff and seem to take any abuse i can throw at em......ain't nuthin can't be fixed replaced when needed to.

mikie
near ottawa canada
58 merc panel 64 econo p/u

 

I've only had mine 3 months, and most of that a-- deep in snow, but I plan for the following:
Physical Fitness Machine(working on it, improving it, shining it up, etc.)
Toolin around town on pretty days
Memorial Day Parade
Going to shows, swap meets
Excess cash eliminator
Hauling an occasional load of firewood

 

Mine do everything they were made to do, and then some, at the end of the day they'll get there attention but they were made to work, with afresh coat of paint or not, I don't need a garage queen taking up space.

 

Hot Rod, it's for cruising

 

My 53 is my daily driver.