latest purchase

[b4uqzme]

I'm posting this here because it should have been an other firearm. Instead it's a new steering shaft for Big Red. I love living in the rust belt. :rolleyes:

[Armybrat]

You got Big Red?

My son got his Old Red running the other day - after it sat in that spot for 10 years:

(hope the picture is right side up)

http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/98325f04e2d701a4b040989792439b5b9ede9a1.jpg

[b4uqzme]

^^^ your son's may be cooler than mine but my big red gots a new shaft... :o

[Bawanna]

Wow!!!! I had an old Red 59. Mine was actually blue mostly. Not an Apache Fleetside and not a big window but still a cool ole truck.

Had a lot of fun in that truck. Had a 6 with 3 on the tree, I put a 327 with a powerglide in it, lot of fun, wish I still had it.

[mr surveyor]

I miss my old Chevy P/U's I had a 52, 56, 67, 68, 69 and 72 (all bought in used to well used condition). Shoulda hung on to the 52 with the flat head 6 as it was really a cool classic. After the 72 Cheyenne I had one Dodge and one Ford, both for very short stints. Been nothing but trouble free Nissans since 1983 :)

Still have many fond memories of the old Chevys though :)


jd


edit to add .... I guess this thread is about old trucks?

[Alfonse]

Old Red is very cool! Glad Big Red has a new shaft...

[Bawanna]

"edit to add .... I guess this thread is about old trucks? "


Or shafts.

[b4uqzme]

^^^ take your pick. :cool:

[b4uqzme]

My first truck was an old Dodge D100 named Big Green. 4 on the floor with a creeper 1st gear. Bought it for about $400 and sold it a dozen years later for $700 IIRC (less than what Big Red's steering shaft cost). Big Red is the lap of luxury = the first truck I've ever owned with air conditioning and an automatic transmission. Color me spoiled. I crank my own windows though. Funny, I've owned scores of cars and never named one of them. Big Red has another name: Charlton Heston = from my cold dead hands...

[Bawanna]

I was a truck guy after high school. Drove a 66 mustang but prefered trucks. Had a 53 Chevy 1 ton that could haul the world, sprung heavy. I think I did haul most of it too. Had a 52 Dodge with the flat head, lot of stories in that truck.
Then my 59 was about the end of my cool ole truck phase. Neighbor down the road a piece has a 66 in drydock at his house, been parked a long long time. Been trying to talk him out of it. Not sure what I'd do with it but I'd sure keep it cleaned up and better looking in my driveway than he does.

[mr surveyor]

my "first" was a '36 Ford, flathead eight. My Dad bought it for $150 and actually drove it home successfully for me to rebuild when I was barely 14 years old. We put it on blocks in the back yard and I derusted and painted everything in the under carriage, found replacement brakes and shocks for it, rebuilt or repaired both running boards and fenders, rebuilt the wood floorboard panels, bought new tires. Never found a replacement gas tank (Dad drove it home using a one gallon Prestone Antifreeze can under the hood for a gas supply), and I never got to drive it. We sold it to a guy for $400 that was into real restoration and I used my part of the proceeds to buy a 2 door '57 Chevy for my first car. Actually, that '57 Chevy is the only "car" I have ever considered my personal vehicle. I drive pick ups :)


jd

[Bawanna]

Always loved the 57 Chevy's, probably my all time favorite. We moved from Bowling Green Missouri to Seattle in a 57 Chevy 4 door with a U haul trailer in tow. I spent most of the trip riding on the back window shelf thingy.

Probably to get away from my two little sisters. Parents had that car until they bought a new 68 chev station wagon. Kept the 57. Now that I ponder it some, I don't recall whatever happened to it. It was gone before I was old enough to drive it.

[mr surveyor]

I really loved my '57 and only had it a bit over a year. An old lady from out of town ran a yield sign and T-boned me .... totaled my beloved '57. Had I been wearing a seat belt at the time, I would have probably suffered some severe injuries myself. Some of my lower back issues may be attributable to that crash.


jd

[Bawanna]

Ours got stuffed twice. Got rebuilt both times. One a lady stopped for ducks on the freeway suddenly and mom rearended her hard, she ended up squishing me up against the passenger door but not hurt.
Other time sitting at a stop sign on a steep uphill slope and a drunk ran off the road and plowed the front end from above. I was in the back seat on that one, dad and a friend sitting up front. Nobody hurt for real.

They had stopped at a grocery store on the way to pick me up and had a box of eggs on top. When we got hit the eggs fell out and the friend sat on them, he felt around and thought he was bleeding out. Kind of funny after a little time.

I was at accordian practice, (if yall tell anybody I'll kill ya) the accordian ended up in my lap, hurt some but nothing really hurt.

[jeepster09]

Ah speaking of 57 Chevy's....saw a few cool ones at races this weekend! Went to Cordova Ill.,IHRA Nitro Nationals.

[b4uqzme]

^^^ is that a blower or a periscope? :rolleyes:

[jeepster09]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUmyZzvIojU

Periscope!