well wednsday the roads here were to say the least a travesty and extremely slick and nasty . on the worst county road on my route which twists turns and up and down and crowned like mad i made it two miles from the end and ended up in a ditch . weellllll .... i think it was preordained . as after the owner and myself had some words for some postal employees lack of caring for human life , and lack of knowledge about conditions , it was agreed i would go to lincoln ill to go around to the last stop till weather breaks { way outta my way but the safest } and lo and behold when i went up wed afternoon i found me a running , the owner was moving it around in the yard , red like my old one , 55 f350 !!!! this one is a flatbed where mine was a car hauler but ............ if and when i get there to continue the " discussion " well .... when i go home i'll be a dead man soon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! d--ned addiction is worse than anything i've ever beaten , and i dont want to become " clean " in this case !!!! oh yeah it's a y block ............

 

I quit smoking-cold turkey but I'll never quit old trucks/cars. Good luck on the truck
Mike

 

Good luck with it Kevin. Be safe now that we've thawed out, and avoid the floods. Stu

 

im digging out my truck water wings now stu , and got my hip waders out ..... .i may need mullens no. from you again as is my norm i seem to have misplaced it .... i would use the old age excuse , but hades im only in the mid 40's . i called about that 54 wrecker in p-town too ... the person i yakked at , not the ol' man , said it was still there safe gaurding the tree it was leaning on , and sounds like it might be had cheap , no title for one . so stu you up for adopting some orphaned fords when she kills me ?????? LOL!!!!!!!

 

I've got his number if you want to call me. Unless you've had brain fade there too and lost my number!!! I'm still on the down sizing mode so am gonna sit tight for now on the wrecker. Maybe in the spring when I've clean out the barn better. Stu

 

You can't get away with this excuse too many times, but it is good for a couple trucks, I have told my wife that "at least I'm not buying little red convertibles and getting girl friends". (reference to middle age crisis for you younger guys) You have to know when to play that card but it does work! If that fails, trying breaking the news in front of another guy that she has respect for. It may soften the blow! I view every truck purchase as a rescue!!

 

Now's the perfect time of the year! bury them in a snowbank, and when Spring comes around, she sees it, asks what's that, and you say, " Don't you remember? I've had that for years!"

 

well it does resemble the old 55 quite a bit havi so that might work .... but honey it's been there all this time !!!!!!!!!!...........

 

If we can stick together and use every else's tricks, think how many trucks we can end up with! We can rule the world. Or at least the back yard for a little while!

 

Keep on buying them old trucks.....is my motto!!
Why chop em up and distort them.....just buy em and make them look pretty and on to the next. The more trucks I have --the less amount get cut up!! KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
Bill

 

well bill , if i could get it done ,that is buy all of 'em i've found lately , the 56 3/4 ton that i'm still workin' on the kid , the 54 , the 55 , and now i have found another red 55 f350 in decatur , running in a trialer park , well ................ you guys just make sure the 53 takes me to my grave LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yeah any of you need the stainless custom cab trim off the dash only from that 55 i been stealin' parts off of ? it was good so it came home with me too .

 

That a Boy!

 

Hello, my name is Del and I'm a Ford truckoholic.

She'll kill me if I drag any more home. She gets even by going to the jewelry store and coming home with new bling if I drag home a project. That way it costs me double. That has almost been a cure, but it doesn't keep me from looking. Just Saturday I saw a '70's something crewcab with a step side bed parked beside a shed that looked like it needed a new home. It was red, so may have been a firetruck at some time in it's life. I do need to check it out. LOL

 

Can't have enough old trucks! Tell her you don't complain about how many shoes she has!

 

I think it was at truck number 5 or 6 that my wife said" Ididn't know I was married to a collector?". I said" Well you do now", and hoped that I acted cute enough so that I didn't get hit!