"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
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"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
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But when I do, I always stumble upon a great one like this. I now have a wonderful appreciation of simple trucks. I dont particularly get trucks since I dont have a need for one but this example of something that simply doesnt exist anymore is so intriguing to me. RCR antics aside, this video is excellent. My favorite youtube video of all time is still powerthirst though so hence why RCR tickles my fancy every once in a while:
jminer
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/11/2020 at 00:56 |
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I will always have a soft spot for 80-96 ford pickups. I’ve owned 4 (I think) and regularly driven at least 5 or 6 more owned be relatives. They were all loud, spartan and unabashedly trucks.
These trucks are wonderful in their simplicity, they will break down fairly often, but are also pretty simple to fix or jerry rig back into operation.
I can’t blame you for not being into trucks, more people should be like you. I grew up in a small farming town in rural Missouri 20+ years ago and a lot of people drove trucks but they also used them as trucks. For me they were used for hauling firewood, hauling dirt bikes, towing a boat, on occasion livestock and deer season. That being said while I’ve owned a couple small trucks these last 5 years my needs are best suited by a SUV and a small trailer. It’s easier to load than a pickup and I get better gas mileage and can carry more people when needed.
One day when I find a fairly rust free one I’d love for another of these trucks find a place in my garage. I’m most partial to the 80-86 body style, but they were almost all carbureted and at the height of complicated smog restrictions. You can bolt the front end onto any other truck 80-96 though with minimal modifications. I did it with an 89 that I rear ended another vehicle with, pulled parts from an 84 out of a junk yard and put my 89 back together looking like the previous gen truck.
Thank you for attending my rambling musings on this generation Ford truck.
Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/11/2020 at 01:38 |
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I have my own personal thoughts on pickups.
I previously owned a ‘08 GMC 2500 SLE1 Duramax [LMM] and I really liked it. It was more work truck grade with plastic fantastic dash
, cloth seats, vinyl floor but it was still really comfy. It was a bit bouncy unloaded but rode well otherwise. I didn’t even find parking that hard, just had to angle it correctly. It was fun to get on it and have the turbo whistling
away.
Really you have to own one to understand them these days. I liken the 1/2 tonnes and HD to modern ‘yank tanks’. Like the Buick, Lincoln, Cadillac, Imperial dad/granddad had back in the day with the trunks that could hold 6 bodies... Everyone wants to wag a finger if the owners aren’t doing truck stuff but they’re pretty damn good at just being a full size luxury vehicle with the refinement and interior materials on the higher trims. The prices certainly reflect it these days.
One of pictures I took when selling:
flatisflat
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/11/2020 at 01:40 |
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Oh, how I had forgotten about powerthirst!!
duurtlang
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/11/2020 at 04:07 |
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The whole truck thing is a bit foreign to me. What did surprise me though was the huge visible amount of soot this truck produces. Is this normal for these trucks, or is this a sign of poor maintenance. The (European) diesel vehicles from that era I still see don’t visibly soot like that.
Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/11/2020 at 05:19 |
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MENERGY
killed me lol
Shoop
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/11/2020 at 05:51 |
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Powerthirst... That word has deep meaning in my psyche.
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/11/2020 at 08:59 |
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Required.
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JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> duurtlang
10/11/2020 at 09:18 |
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This engine is barely a full step removed from a tractor engine. It smoked under load when it was brand new. There's a chance that someone turned up the fuel delivery a little, or messed with the injection timing, or maybe the pump is just a bit sloppy with age, as this one does smoke a little more than I would expect... But International Harvester was best known for their tractors.
GLiddy
> jminer
10/11/2020 at 15:33 |
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That’s the damn truth. People used them for trucks...not cars. My mom came from an Arkanasa farming family and without exception, all of the men were farmers and they all had Ford farm trucks. It was rare that any of them took the farm truck into the city unless they were picking up parts or seed or something. They were solely work vehicles. When they needed to do anything else like family stuff, or things with the wife, they had a car.
One Uncle liked Buick cars, but Ford trucks. Another drove Ford and then Mercury cars, and Ford trucks. The third farmer/uncle always had station wagons for the family car, first a Chevy Kingswood and later Ford Estate wagons and of course, Ford trucks. And not a one of them ever bought a 4 wheel drive. They were flat-land farmers and a truck with a posi rear end (yeah, that’s a GM term, but its like Xerox or Kleenex) and mud grip tires would get them out of 90% of the trouble they could get into, and when they found themselves in the 10% trouble that they couldn’t get out of, they had a tractor and a snatch rope to get out of that.
I’d love to have a real truck, but darn it, I don’t have use for one!
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jminer
> GLiddy
10/11/2020 at 15:53 |
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The last one I had was an 87 F150 with the 300 a 4 speed with granny low and 4x4. It was single cab and long bed and would haul a shit ton of stuff. The thing had 3 wheels in the junk yard but got used exclusively for truck stuff: hauling firewood, towing, deer season. I only used it a couple months a year though and it always broke down so I finally scrapped it.
I’d love to have another, but just don’t have enough use for it to justify it anymore.
Spasoje
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/11/2020 at 19:20 |
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I’m sure you’d have a need for a truck if you worked at
RINALDI AND KLINE, SERVING ALL FIVE BOROUGHS. YOU NEED A HOLE? WE’LL DIG YOU A HOLE. WHAT GOES IN IT, eyy, that's up to you.
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
10/11/2020 at 22:38 |
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Your kids will run so fast they get deported back to KENYA
Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
10/12/2020 at 01:28 |
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Yeah, this was definitely one of their best videos