What’s Your Favorite Truck?
I am currently without a truck and without a RV. High Schoolers life, I got a Senior and a Freshmen in school. No time or $$ to camp. One in Band and one in football. Best years of my life, but it...
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I've only owned Ford trucks.
First is probably my favorite - 1985 Ford Ranger, 2wd, manual, 4cyl, absolutely stripped base model. It just ran, never let me down, only thing I did to it was add helper springs to the rear so I could load more on it. Went 111,000 miles on the original clutch when I sold it, and the guy who bought it ran it for years without doing anything to it. I saw him later, and he said it was probably the best vehicle he had ever owned.
1987 F350 Heavy Duty. It is the truck in my profile picture. Beast, 460ci V8 with 4 speed manual with 1st gear a creeper gear, combined with 4.10 rear end, it could drag an aircraft carrier. 7.5 mpg under all conditions - empty, towing, loaded, uphill or downhill, windy or not.
1988 F150. Good truck. Snowplowed with it - at 5 years old, when I was T-boned at an intersection, rust was beginning to show up all over the place.
1993 Ranger. Snowplowed with this truck, great for driveways. Never had a problem with this truck, after 13 years it just was rotted out from rust. Snowplowing is hell on frames and bodywork.
2000 F250 with 7.3 diesel. Good truck. Ended up trading it in for a larger "family" truck.
2008 F250 - which I have now. Great truck. Crewcab. Has options for towing which are great - built in brake controller, extra switches in the dash for whatever you want, heated and power folding side mirrors, etc. Have 95,000 miles on it, and it is running great. Looking to keep this for a while longer, as the cost of new trucks is breathtaking.
So there is my truck biography!
First is probably my favorite - 1985 Ford Ranger, 2wd, manual, 4cyl, absolutely stripped base model. It just ran, never let me down, only thing I did to it was add helper springs to the rear so I could load more on it. Went 111,000 miles on the original clutch when I sold it, and the guy who bought it ran it for years without doing anything to it. I saw him later, and he said it was probably the best vehicle he had ever owned.
1987 F350 Heavy Duty. It is the truck in my profile picture. Beast, 460ci V8 with 4 speed manual with 1st gear a creeper gear, combined with 4.10 rear end, it could drag an aircraft carrier. 7.5 mpg under all conditions - empty, towing, loaded, uphill or downhill, windy or not.
1988 F150. Good truck. Snowplowed with it - at 5 years old, when I was T-boned at an intersection, rust was beginning to show up all over the place.
1993 Ranger. Snowplowed with this truck, great for driveways. Never had a problem with this truck, after 13 years it just was rotted out from rust. Snowplowing is hell on frames and bodywork.
2000 F250 with 7.3 diesel. Good truck. Ended up trading it in for a larger "family" truck.
2008 F250 - which I have now. Great truck. Crewcab. Has options for towing which are great - built in brake controller, extra switches in the dash for whatever you want, heated and power folding side mirrors, etc. Have 95,000 miles on it, and it is running great. Looking to keep this for a while longer, as the cost of new trucks is breathtaking.
So there is my truck biography!
