Hey guys, I'm from North Carolina by way of Northwest Georgia and New Orleans and Memphis. Now I live out in the boonies south of Charlotte. In my twenties I drove a '74 F100 Ranger XLT black with all the chrome, 390 with a C6, wore out three motors in that truck, good times. That one bit the dust with family and things. Now my kids are (almost) all out of the house and I'm starting over. I'm starting over (very small) with trucks that I like.

I graduated high school in 83 and remembered the 87 model Ford as a good one. First year for EFI and serpentine belt drive. Likes unleaded gas, unlike my '74. Two years ago I picked up the red & grey '87 XL longbed from Craig's list. Father bought the truck new and son sold it to me with the original key fob from the dealer. Typical rust issues but such an excellent maintained truck. I saw the care they put in it and it needed a good home and it found me. In working with this truck for two years I loved it. SO LOW TO THE GROUND - HEY YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE THE TRUCK LIKE A TRUCK.

I've put less than 5000 miles on this truck, got about 171k on it now. Its my yard truck and take out the garbage truck and go to Lowe's or Home Depot truck. That low bed is great. When I got stuck in my low yard a couple of times I put a new set of shoes on her and a Spartan Locker. I like the clicking...

A few months ago I found another '87 XL longbed on Craig's list, the blue and white truck. A $1500 truck that had problems as you would expect, but the driveline was there. 300 big six with only 138k. Motor sounded great and tranny shifted great. This one was a higher grade than the red truck - chrome grille, intermittent wipers, tilt wheel, air conditioning - none of which worked of course. This made me glad the first truck - the red one - didn't have all this crap. But I am sold on the intermittent wipers and I am going to add that to the red truck. And guess what - you guys have a thread here on that!
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/8...onversion.html

I went through fuel delivery problems on the blue truck and I used this forum to figure out how to fix it, so I joined the forum. You actually had a post about that damn fuel reservoir! You guys got a good forum here. Thanks for the help you provided me.

So that's me - two '87 XL longbeds so I'm: 87-XL-Squared
I don't guess I'll buy a third one, and I'll never sell these two.

 

Glad to hear! I am also a fan of USABLE trucks. The old 79' F100 I had sat at a very usable height and I was still able to fit a decent 31"x10.5" tire under it.

I often find myself laughing at the "trucks" that have a tailgate several feet off of the ground that you couldn't use if your life depended on it. What is even funnier is watching people trying to climb into the trucks.

 

Welcome to the forum. Congrats on your truck.

 

Hello and Welcome!