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Truck of The Month / Year - 2024


Jim Oaks

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N/A
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235 75 15
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What is a TOTM? Anybody
 

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Hey. The front half of the passenger side is still relatively original and dent-free.
The front half of your truck or the front half of the half you haven't removed yet?

What is a TOTM? Anybody
Truck
Of
The
Month

I will nominate @BlackBII. Despite not being a first gen I really like his truck.



 
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rusty ol ranger

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177 CID
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A legend to the old man, a hero to the child...
Ah hell why not....

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Just to scratch my own ass....Rusty #1 was reigning champ of the long defunct ugly truck of the month.

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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are different.

ericbphoto

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My credo
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are different.
What is a TOTM? Anybody
1. Take Over The Moon
2. Tomato of The Month Club
3. Taco of The Month club
4. Trip Over The Monkey
5. Tricked Out Tubas Month
6. Tiptoe On The Merry-go-round
7. Tipped Over Trucks Mondays

or, Jim’s favorite, Truck Of The Month
 

dvdswan

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Keep your mind like an umbrella, it only works if its open... Continually learning.
Here's my shameless plug.

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I have been looking for a 90-94 Explorer Sport for sometime now. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a decent one soon.
 

Jim Oaks

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6-inches
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33x12.50x15
It's better when people have a thread about their truck they can link to. Especially when they win TOTM and I link to their thread.
 

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Toonces drives a Ranger . . . . just not very well.
Here's my shameless plug.

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I have been looking for a 90-94 Explorer Sport for sometime now. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a decent one soon.
That's a nice looking truck; I like that the lower color and stripe on the white. And it has the best looking wheels ever put on RBVs, IMHO.

Don't get discouraged. I looked for about 3 years before I found the white first Explorer Sport, but I was specifically looking for 2WD with a manual, and I had to buy it from out of state. When the second green one popped up about 4 years later, and somewhat locally (90 miles away), I jumped on it like a duck on a junebug.

Keep looking, and good luck on finding the right one.
 

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Keep your mind like an umbrella, it only works if its open... Continually learning.
That's a nice looking truck; I like that the lower color and stripe on the white. And it has the best looking wheels ever put on RBVs, IMHO.

Don't get discouraged. I looked for about 3 years before I found the white first Explorer Sport, but I was specifically looking for 2WD with a manual, and I had to buy it from out of state. When the second green one popped up about 4 years later, and somewhat locally (90 miles away), I jumped on it like a duck on a junebug.

Keep looking, and good luck on finding the right one.
This one just appeared on CL 4.0L 5SP

Hopefully it will be there this weekend.

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The pictures are great, but y'all do realize Jim said January nominations begin in Decenber. Right?
 

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Perhaps I'm looking at this wrong...

But I feel like a nomination for TOTM should come from members nominating other members trucks. Not a member nominating their own truck.

Am I wrong... maybe. But I'm thinking that is the intent.

Also... as ericbphoto stated... nominations begin in December and probably not in this thread.

I certainly have a couple (few) trucks I think are worthy of nomination... a couple have already been posted... but I will just wait and simply vote for the first month because of the nomination that was made by another member for the first month.
 

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It's better when people have a thread about their truck they can link to. Especially when they win TOTM and I link to their thread.
The pictures are great, but y'all do realize Jim said January nominations begin in Decenber. Right?
Also... as ericbphoto stated... nominations begin in December and probably not in this thread.

With all due respect, it is the sacred duty of all of us rank and file peons to tirelessly and mercilessly side-track all meaningful and important threads.

. . .

With that being said, I vote for Miss February.
 

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