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 air conditioner , musta been a rich man as they added about $400 to the price !Hung down under the hard metal dash board .
Some of you older gentlemen will remember when ya saw your fist four door truck , maybe 1968 or so and in Florida mostly belonged to the state or county . Now if we see a two door truck we point it out.
Remember when a spare tire and a back bumper were an option ?
Oil change at 1,000 miles then Chrysler came out with a 3,000 mile oil change , all PU tires were 16 inch until some fool started putting 16.5 tires on em . Tires sizes like 600x16 , 650 x16 , now we gotta be a mathematician to figger out what they mean .
In those days we regularly put 2,500 or 3,000 lbs on a half ton PU and no one on the internet scolded us . Six or seven flats a year was about normal , pinched a tube !
Now I drive my Ram Tradesman 70,000 and buy another set of Michelin's, never having a flat , kinda takes all the fun out of it .
No fancy trailer hitches , we stuck a ball on the step bumper and strung wires allover the place . My first trailer brake was hand operated by a big long handle strapped on to the column !
What do you guys remember ?
About 1963 I saw mt first P.U. with an air conditioner , musta been a rich man as they added about $400 to the price !Hung down under the hard metal dash board .
Some of you older gentlemen will remember when ya saw your fist four door truck , maybe 1968 or so and in Florida mostly belonged to the state or county . Now if we see a two door truck we point it out.
Remember when a spare tire and a back bumper were an option ?
Oil change at 1,000 miles then Chrysler came out with a 3,000 mile oil change , all PU tires were 16 inch until some fool started putting 16.5 tires on em . Tires sizes like 600x16 , 650 x16 , now we gotta be a mathematician to figger out what they mean .
In those days we regularly put 2,500 or 3,000 lbs on a half ton PU and no one on the internet scolded us . Six or seven flats a year was about normal , pinched a tube !
Now I drive my Ram Tradesman 70,000 and buy another set of Michelin's, never having a flat , kinda takes all the fun out of it .
No fancy trailer hitches , we stuck a ball on the step bumper and strung wires allover the place . My first trailer brake was hand operated by a big long handle strapped on to the column !
What do you guys remember ?
