Truckspotters

[Ranger850]

it sits and cranks for ten years or so

I thought it was railroads that don't exist...

My Bad . . . I see the error in my ways. I had trouble disambiguating the two.

 

[Curious Hound]

Saw this nice little beater in the parking lot at the junk yard, this afternoon.

 

[Ranger850]

Saw this nice little beater in the parking lot at the junk yard, this afternoon.

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At the Junk yard, trying to stay OUT of the junkyard

 

[bobbywalter]

the beautiful vehicles i have seen driven into carolina junkyards....it should be considered criminal abandonment.

 

[Curious Hound]

the beautiful vehicles i have seen driven into carolina junkyards....it should be considered criminal abandonment.

That was a customer’s vehicle in active use. Not being sold to the scrapper. But, yeah. There are vehicles in our junk yards that could be easily repaired and driven for thousands of additional miles.

 

[JoshT]

That was a customer’s vehicle in active use. Not being sold to the scrapper.

that's good to hear. When I read the first post I thought you were saying it was in the yard. That thing is in too good of shape. Reminds me of the '90 that dad used to have. It was same color with aluminum version of those wheels, but had the tire rack on back. If I'd known he was planning to sell it I'd have bought it. My uncle got it, fixed the leaking water pump, gave it a respray, and flipped it about 2 years later. Again, wish I knew he was planning to sell, but he was always trading vehicles on a whim.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

 

[Roert42]

Plow = cancer magnet

rip

 

[Rick W]

Plow = cancer magnet

rip

Took me a minute, priceless!

 

[sgtsandman]

Plow = cancer magnet

rip

Plowing snow is hard on a vehicle. I don't see a salt spreader. So that might give it a longer life.

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

I see these on Instagram. You can see my comment. This is the way. Haha

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Unfourantly i couldnt get a pic but...

Yesterday on I75 just north of bowling green i seen a piss yellow Mid 60's ford 3/4 ton CREW CAB 4wd.

It struck me because ive only seen even a few dentside crews in real life...and never any older (fords) that were crew. Ive seen a few 60's early 70's dodges

It was on a trailer behind a super duty. Looked like a solid survivor thats going to be a project. I wish i coulda got a pic or some history on it.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

Unfourantly i couldnt get a pic but...

Yesterday on I75 just north of bowling green i seen a piss yellow Mid 60's ford 3/4 ton CREW CAB 4wd.

It struck me because ive only seen even a few dentside crews in real life...and never any older (fords) that were crew. Ive seen a few 60's early 70's dodges

It was on a trailer behind a super duty. Looked like a solid survivor thats going to be a project. I wish i coulda got a pic or some history on it.

You got me curious, because crew cab Fords before the late 1970s are rare. Found pics of 1965 and 1966 crew cabs online. Turns out that the first year for the Ford factory-built crew cab was 1965 during the 1961–1966 generation, and originally they were limited to the F-250 and F-350. Outside coachbuilders built crew cabs for Ford before that, but survivors have to be pretty scarce.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

You got me curious, because crew cab Fords before the late 1970s are rare. Found pics of 1965 and 1966 crew cabs online. Turns out that the first year for the Ford factory-built crew cab was 1965 during the 1961–1966 generation, and originally they were limited to the F-250 and F-350. Outside coachbuilders built crew cabs for Ford before that, but survivors have to be pretty scarce.

That was my thinking too about rarity. Like i said i never seen one that early before in real life. I wish i coulda got a pic.

It was a shortbed 4wd. IIRC had a ladder rack on it...im guessing it belonged to some sort of construction crew...there was some very faded lettering on the door i couldnt read.

What struck me most was the shape it was in...no way it could of been an ohio truck. It had dings, scratches and dents but no rust i seen anyways

 

[sgtsandman]

Even in the 70's they didn't seem to be all that common. Almost everything I've seen that has survived to today has been old Forestry Service trucks. Occasionally, you'll run across other crew cabs with full length beds instead of the 6 foot bed the FSS trucks had. Most of those were in other government agencies and it seems like most of those were RWD.