My Grandfather's pick-up

He needs to buy a replacement work truck, restore the Jimmy.

 

Oh Andrew, if only you knew how hilarious that statement is...
This is my buddy who owns 8 trucks. All GMC's with the exception of his Wife's truck (which is a Ford diesel used to haul the horse trailer) And they are all in varying stages of repair/restoration. He says he "plans" to restore/hot rod the blue truck, but since most of his other trucks are not really running, or safe to operate on the road it gets most of the "truck" duties.
He has a 78 3/4 ton 4X4 he bought when we were in college 20+ years ago. Was going to have it be a running restoration project. Well, it's not running anymore and it's not restored...
The rest are pretty much the same story. So, he's decided he isn't going to tear into this one until he get's one of the other trucks going again.
Might be another 20 years...

 

That Blue one looks like a ‘71-‘72? Neat truck. I have a style-tone light blue/medium blue ‘71 Ford F-100. Just love that era of truck.

 

He's one of "those" people? Ugh....

 

Yes, I believe it's a 71 or 72. It is a great era of truck indeed. I'd like to see your F-100. But I still haven't seen a photo of the last car I asked you about...

 

Yes, Yes he is.
I found this meme online and shared it with our mutual friends:


Pretty much sums my buddy up. It got a good laugh.

 

Hahahahahaha!

 

You may have heard, or seen the gallery that Hod Rod magazine put out digitally a couple of weeks ago that included pets (mostly dogs) and hot rods/classic cars/muscle cars, etc.
Apparently it got a lot of attention so they asked readers to keep submitting photos of their pets and vehicles.

I figured what the heck, why not? So I sent in a couple photos of Tucker and the F-100 and the Fury.
They just put out the most recent gallery and look who shows up:

 

I had the heater core replaced last year and discovered that in spite of that and the new hoses, that the heater still wasn't working. By that I mean, it would blow air, but it was not even remotely warm. Very quickly I narrowed the problem down to the inline control valve. It was corroded in place and although the control would move the arm, the ball wouldn't move to allow warm water to flow into the heater core. Since it was fall at that point and I was wanting to still drive the truck for a while before the snow arrived I went to the hardware store and bought a brass fitting and stuck it inline so the water would flow through the heater core and I'd have heat. Of course it worked perfectly.

And now it's spring time. And although heat in the morning or evening may be just what the Dr. ordered, some of the warmer days were getting uncomfortable with the heat happily flowing unchecked out of the vents.

So I got a new control valve and this past weekend I installed it.



Didn't take long. I only spilled half a gallon of coolant from the hoses

The new valve works perfectly and I'm happy to be able to control the temperature from in the cab, just like the Good Lord and Mr. Ford intended.

 

Also, this past week as I was driving to work I just happened to look down at the odometer.



I knew it was getting close, but I usually miss it when things like this happen.
It's a little scary to realize that I have put almost six thousand miles on this truck in the short time that I have owned it, but they have all been happy ones. A
And as I always say: They were built to be driven.

 

Yes they are. Because when they sit, they rot.

 

I think Grandpa would be Happy you’re enjoying it. Still a little over a 1000 miles a year ain’t bad.

 

I think you are right on both accounts Mercman.

 

Agreed! They are built to move. I have a little sign in the hall that reads..."YOU REST YOU RUST". It's true for cars/trucks too.

 

I agree.