More my style, but CP, sez I.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/06/2019 at 14:10 • Filed to: None

The pictures are in this artsy-fartsy “portrait” mode because the sun was bright and I was wearing sunglasses and there’s all this crap on the screen for me to fat-finger... But this would be the medium truck for me with the minimal bed and more-or-less straight, but this one is less straight... Looks like a 350 engine, but I’m no expert. Sign says $2,000, but I’d be a buyer at more like $500. I don’t know if it runs; if I can decipher the number on the faded For Sale sign, I may text the guy.

DISCUSSION (19)

Aremmes > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/05/2019 at 19:32

Those signs look plenty faded, suggesting that the truck has been sitting for sale for a long time. Offer $500 and see if the seller bites. It certainly will need some work, tires and fluids at least.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Aremmes
05/05/2019 at 19:36

Truck tires... Yes, sitting there more than a minute. Want is fun, but I’ll stick with Rusty.

lone_liberal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/05/2019 at 19:50

Here you go. Just what you need. A 1959 Ford ramp truck that’s a mile long and has a later 460 in it. https://spokane.craigslist.org/cto/d/coeur-alene-1959-f350-ford-ramp-truck/6881289859.html

Kinja'd!!!

Tristan > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/06/2019 at 14:23

I dig the anti-theft chain!

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/06/2019 at 14:52

Haven’t these sellers ever heard of Craigslist,Kijiji or other car selling sites?

Every vehicle I’ve sold NEVER involved sticking a for sale sign anywhere.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
05/06/2019 at 14:55

That thing would be fun to bounce around in.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/06/2019 at 15:16

That’s really cool!

Scrap value is probably over $500 for that beast.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher
05/06/2019 at 15:22

Yeah. That one is kind of rough, too. The hood looks like it’s been jumped on.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/06/2019 at 15:29

1975, means it still needs to be smogged. The good news is it passed it’s last test. The bad news is that it was 17 years ago.

https://www.bar.ca.gov/pubwebquery/Vehicle/PubTstQry.aspx

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
05/06/2019 at 15:33

I thought ‘75 was the last year of no smog. I guess I had it backward.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
05/06/2019 at 15:34

And, like I said: $500. Maybe. If it runs.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/06/2019 at 15:59

Edit: 1975 DOESN'T need smog!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/06/2019 at 16:10

Cool truck, but yeah, I think $500 would be about top dollar for it.

I also feel bad for that 350. I can’t imagine that thing made more than about 175 HP, and just imagine it struggling with a truck that big.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/06/2019 at 16:48

With a 10:1 gear ratio...

I’d love to drive around in something like that.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/06/2019 at 16:55

Very good point. Ultra low gears are fun!

I used to have an 01 Ram with the Cummins diese l (which I think was like 250 HP/500 ft-lbs ) and 6 speed - 5.38:1 first gear, and it had 4:10 rears! It was also a 4x4 and had a 2.72:1 low -range. That works out to a 60:1 effective gear ratio in 1st/ low. I also seem to recall that it would do like 5 MPH at redline in that configuration .

My buddy decided it would be fun to put it in 1st /low and do a clutch dump from ~ 28 00 rpms. He chewed up 4x 18" long sections of pavement in his driveway.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/06/2019 at 17:17

When I was in the Army, we had these old “5-ton” trucks with all wheel drive and some kind of super-low transfer case. I have zero idea what the gear ratios might have been. A guy with a wrecker put the thing in AWD and low range and tried to move a tank with it in the motor pool on concrete and sheared off a driveshaft.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/06/2019 at 17:33

That made me lol

We never had anything fun like that, but w e used to abuse the hell out of motorpool vehicles. I once hauled several 2+ ton pallets in an F-150. It had a permanent 2" sag in the rear after that. Burnouts in the F-350 SuperCrew with the Triton V-10 were practically a daily occurance. We had a GEM electric cart we figured out how to defeat the governer on. W e’d take it up this huge hill to the chow hall and on the way back we’d get that rickety plastic piece of shit up over 45 MPH.

But my favorite were the weapons tractors. They were these little yellow diesel tugs used to haul torpedo carts around. Most of them had old Cummins 4.5L engines (Q series, I think) , but one had a 4BT turbo diesel. You could foot brake it while you ran it up to about 1500 rpm, that would stall the coverter but also get the turbo spooled . Then just side-step the brake and it would pop the front wheels almost a foot off the ground... which is scary as hell in a vehicle with only about a 5 foot wheelbase!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/06/2019 at 17:44

I was on active duty in Germany late 80s when the Army fielded its first HumVees. A friend of mine drove one off a loading dock. Four foot drop at a good clip. Sadly, I was not there to witness the event, but the HumVee was none the worse for wear, he claims, though I think he seriously banged his shin under the dash when it landed. Melvin Anderson. Lunatic.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/06/2019 at 17:46

And to be precise, it wasn’t a tank that the guy tried to move, but an M-88 recovery vehicle, which is heavier than the M-60 tanks we had. Well, we didn’t have them, we only worked on them. 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Polk, Louisiana, 1984-87.