Has anyone ever owned a pickup that you paid less than $500.00 for? I did she was a 1970 Ford 250 long bed ($300.00). She was a couple shades of blue some running down her sides. The toolbox was white and too small (platform had to be built to attach it to bed). The seats, steering column, and gunracks were red. When we got her; by the way her name was Daisy-Lynn ("Daisy" from Lil Abner comics and "Lynn" from my then girlfriend's now wife's middle name) she did not have a floorboard, maybe she was feet driven when the battery was dead or maybe it was just a way to cool one's feet when going through a creek. Anyway whoever designed the floorboard designed the bed because you could see right through it, hence, the hand crafted plywood liner. What a truck she could go where a corvette, Trans Am, Audi, or Z28 could never dream of going. She was mine and she was paid for. I was just thinking how all those mismatched parts came together to form a remarkable truck. The same is true with all the different and unique people in this forum. We all come from different backgrounds, different parts of the world, have different opinions and beliefs but somehow come together to form one great, happy, hippie family. :grouphug: Peacebe with you!!!
i love old pickups! my boyfriend is OBSESSED!!( a healthy obsession) He bought a '66 ford (i think its an old 150, or even a prototype of one i dunno, im a chick!!) but it is beautiful. has this great vintage blue color, all original interior, the three-on-the-tree (which will be replaced....its a pain. the pin keeps popping out) and sounds great. he got it for a great price, but definately nowhere near $500 or less.
Oh hell yes. Old (beat up) pickup trucks are the backbone of the rural family/small scale farm economy. Namaste, Fedora I don't think anyone has ever put it better. Peace, poor_old_dad
man i've had several! my fav was a beat up old 58' dodge power wagon, had a dump bed, pto winch, picked it up for 300 bucks! next was a 62' f150 stepside short bed,picked it up for 300 too! then there was the 1968 ford f150 with a 390 big block board like 40 over,man that thing would scream! got it for 500! alas, all are gone. (well i guess when things get tight, dads toys should be the first to go!)
my dad drove a 1954 chevrolet pickup. it was green with white accenting, and everything was original. i think he got it for about four hundred. i was very little so i barely remember it. he says it had a clutch travel of about two feet so after even a short drive your leg would ache. also, the three on the tree transmission was a bitch, and it rolled back on hills worse than my mom's 73 super beetle would. when it developed starter problems, he sold it. but now he wishes he hadb't, not only because it was cool and the only one in town, but we occasionally see it now and its terrible-the current owner has given it a modern paint job, all brand new parts, huge tail pipes, and ground effects.
I had a chevy --something from the 60s,I think,and it was real faded red and the shocks in back were shot,making it look like I was out of control most of the time.I was going to LA to live for a awhile,so I decided to "upgrade".I took a paint brush and painted it brown.My kids said "jeez,dad,why didn't you put a better paint job on it?"I told them if I had wanted a better paint job,I would have bought a more expensive brush!It ran great and the freeway drivers gave the old beauty with the Oregon plates plenty of space.
And sunny--those old pick-ups from 49 to 54 sell for big prices now--5 to 10 thousand ,depending on condition.
oh, yeah....daddy had the original slant six engine and three on the tree transmission, both of which the new owner promptly pulled out. it makes us so sad to see the chrome acessories all over it and hear the fiberglass muffler. its another stupid low-rider truck now. everything that was special and characteristic about it is gone. had my dad kept it and fixed the starter problem, it would prob be worth a lot now because everything was original and it looked decent. we also sold the superbeetle, and it would've fetched a good price today. i just hope its new owners (it went to a family in alabama) didn't do a baja conversion. Aaauuugggh! to me, thats a worse crime than making a low-rider, even though there are many more bugs than old chevys. it should be made illegal.
i reallly like old pick-ups. i grew up in them and an old chevy was the first thing i ever drove in my papa richard's back feild. i still have a weird obsession with them and always do a double take when i see a beauty. one time when i was reading a magazine i found a pull-out of one of the most gorgeous chevys i have evr seen. i was actually turned on! (i had hard nipples and evrything else that goes along with being turned on) it was a big black one with a dooly (spell??) and it was going thru like a river bed or something with a bunch of horses running alongside it. i think of thta truck a lot. if i were a truck i would definatly trying picking up that one! but of course just like any good daughter my daddy has the bestest pick-up ever with all his tool boxes and his welding equipment. oh ya, and he is the coolest guy to ever drive one
Here is my pickup (I paid $200 for it about 10 years ago). It is a 1968 International crew cab 4-wheel drive. It has 350,000 miles on it (about 150,000 that I have put on it). It originally had a 6' box, but a friend of mine and I lengthened the frame 2' and put the 8' box on it. It runs great and is literally indestructible. I don't drive it a lot anymore, with the cost of gas what it now is. It only gets 9 miles to the gallon. (304 V-8 and 4-speed standard trans.)
