Pick up truck remembrance !
Bought my first truck off of Smokey Yunick in Daytona , about 1960 or 61 , cost 1,700 dollars , about a years wages for a 16 year old kid . Six cylinder GMC . About 1963 I saw mt first P.U. with an ...
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MitchF150 wrote:
Well, I've been around this earth for 56 years and was drawn to cars and trucks from a very young age. I remember being about 5-6 years old and our neighbor had a 65 or so Dodge 3/4 ton truck. I remember it had push button auto trans too.. It had an Alaska slide in camper that you jacked it up to be able to stand in.
Grandpa had GMC's and Chevy 3/4 ton trucks for his nursery business, so I rode in his trucks all the time on deliveries and such in my "tweens" I would say.
Dad bought his 71 F250 brand new in late 1970, so I was around 7 years old.. I remember when we picked it up and I saw some brand new Mustangs on the lot and asked why we can't get one of those too! :)
The F250 is a Camper Special "Custom". 390, C6, power brakes, but no power steering. It originally came with the 16.5" split rim wheels with tubes in them.. Ran those forever.. We always had old tubes to sled and float in the lake, pool, river with! :)
He still has it to this day and he cleaned it up and new 390 a couple of years ago.. Here is what it looks like now. He had to ditch the split rims because the tires for it cost more than getting the new 16" wheels and new tires.
I didn't get my first truck for a looong time... 2001 when I got a 97 F150 and started my own RV career... I have been camping/Rving since I was a kid and the RV's after we got the 71 F250.. Had slide in campers and trailers from then on!
Mitch
Funny thing about those F250's with 360's and 390's. They got 10mpg city, highway, towing, not towing. We had an RV shop growing up and that's the report I'd always here from the customers. We had one or two in the extended family and that's what they said. Those were a good old rig.
