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Mar 3, 2010 | 11:28 PM

#106

sdg0080

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hey i'll never trade off the ol girl. i can hop in her and drive it any where i want, and yeah the rust holes do take place of the a/c...lol i had the pleasure of having to yank an excursion that was buried to the headlights out of a ditch a couple weeks back. 2 broken tow straps later the old girl had proved her worth when the largest suv on the road was back on the road. i'll be posting pics as i yank all the old rusty parts off and put nice rust free parts back on...lol

Mar 4, 2010 | 09:44 AM

#107

Pickupmanx2

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From: Near Yosemite CA

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Amen brotha!!

Mar 4, 2010 | 09:52 AM

#108

ford141

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From: Backwoods of western Pa

Here is my '79 F350 a few weeks ago right after we got pounded with 20" of snow. It isn't stuck in this picture, but it was shortly after when I tried to back out of this (but it got out on its own after a little digging).

Here is a pic from last fall when I was hauling gravel to fill in drainage ditches on my land. Nothing like muddin' with 4000lbs of gravel in the bed...

Pic of the old '77 F150 after a little wheeling. After it died it donated wheels/tires, hood, and bed to the '79 F350.

Mar 4, 2010 | 04:23 PM

#109

sdg0080

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i did some snow wheelin not too long ago, we thought the drift was only 3-4foot high maybe 8 feet long when we looked at it...once the headlights crested it, i realized we were very very very wrong...yeah we got the 3-4 foot high right, however it was over 30 feet deep. its a bad feeling when you feel the truck lift all 4 wheels off the ground. luckly we had a school bus and a long rope...

Mar 4, 2010 | 04:32 PM

#110

460/5

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From: Rock Springs, WY, USA

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Originally Posted by sdg0080

that sucks man... i hate that feelin when your truckin it through some drifts and deep snow, movin along at a good clip... and everything just comes to a complete halt. at that point, i just get out and hook up my tow chain and wait for my buddies to show up...

Mar 4, 2010 | 08:10 PM

#111

wyckedcombo17

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Here is my '79 F350

I love that Ram-Air and the louvres! Did you custom fab those?

Mar 4, 2010 | 08:19 PM

#112

ford141

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From: Backwoods of western Pa

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I love that Ram-Air and the louvres! Did you custom fab those?

No, the scoop is a factory scoop for an early '80s Mustang GT, a buddy of mine was going to throw it away but it ended up on my old '77 instead. I painted the center of the hood satin black to match. It is non-functional but I could cut a hole in the hood to make it functional. The louvers are old school style plastic louvers that came on my '79 F350. The previous owner installed them back in the '80s when he built the truck up. He also installed the GTS-style blacked out headlight covers, which I still have. I put the covers on when I go to the truck pulls just to complete the old-school look.

I also have a set of old-school 16.5x10 5-slot aluminum wheels that came with the '79. They are pretty rough looking, but I'll be sending them out to be blasted and CNC-polished soon, then installing some new 35x12.5 BFGs on them for the truck pulls this season.