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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Bedlam wrote:I would bet a lot of us would fall into that category. I've changed motors, transmissions along with other maintenance.
My family did not have trucks or RV's. It wasn't until late '82 I got my first truck. Dad worked on his own vehicles not because he enjoyed it but because he could not afford a mechanic. I learned to wrench on bicycles and motorcycles because that was all I could afford until I had a full time job.
Last year I seen something I had not seen in many years some teenagers were changing a motor in a truck in a driveway. The last motor I changed was a Dodge truck I bought with a bad motor from work back in the eighties. Bought a used low mileage 318 from a wrecked truck. Then sold the truck.
