The FORD Lounge

Yesterday it was a Bowie anthology.
In honor of Apollo.

Today I've got 60+ doors to run through the SCMI panel sander, so it's loud and I need to keep up.

Old school drum heavy metal/thrash (D.R.I., Sepultura) and early punk/industrial from Danzig (Misfits) to Killing Joke.

Today I passed this guy on the Alpharetta Autobahn:



It’s a worn-looking but still solid 80-81 F-100 Custom.  And I give it full credit, it was holding its own on one of the fastest highways in America.

I see the missing taillight, but what's going on with the black stripes on the gate?

Sorry, I'm on a phone.

Both taillights are there...it's not a great picture, I took it on my phone at ~80mph.  Don't tell my mom.

That black stripe is actually a patch of rust on the tailgate - not sure how it ended up like that, whether it was a previous attempt at repair gone wrong or what.  I know it's a F-100 Custom because it still has the fender badge on the passenger side (he passed me while I was getting off the highway a couple of exits later).  It also has the letters on the hood, but a later grille.

Sightings are cool.

I saw a guy in a resprayed '85 or '86, white with blue stripe stopped at the rail crossing in Glenbrook the other day.

As they say "pic's or it didn't happen"

ArdWrknTrk wrote

Sightings are cool.

Do we need a 'sightings' thread somewhere?  

We already have THIS thread.
It's supposed to be a catch-all.

Just do like I did and change the title, post, and edit it back.

Scene, Seen, Spotted, Sightings, whatever you like

There are 3 bullnoses sitting in a company parking lot just down the street from my customers office. One guy onsite drive a pretty decent looking bricknose. And down the street at a transmission parts warehouse are two daily driven bullnoses.

The ones behind the fence, two are swb 4x4s and one is a long bed 2wd. The others down the street are all long bed 2wds.

I could mention the camo-painted Bullnose I saw in the hardware store's parking lot this morning, but I don't have a pic so it didn't happen.  

And, when I went back later to get a garbage disposal it was gone.  (Have you ever seen a disposal crack in several places in the housing?)  Maybe it was a fig newton of my amalgamation?

Gary Lewis wrote

And, when I went back later to get a garbage disposal it was gone.  (Have you ever seen a disposal crack in several places in the housing?)  Maybe it was a fig newton of my amalgamation?

I've never seen one crack in 'several' places...but ours did crack in one place in the housing a couple months ago, and I'd never seen such a thing before.

There were three cracks that I could get my thumbnail into.  And all three leaked.  

Nothing we can figure out to explain why it cracked.  In fact, it hasn't been used much of late.

My garbage disposal is a rusty pile of junk that I have capped off until I can get in and convert that side of the sink back to a normal drain.

Out of curiosity, what got you guys into Ford trucks?

My dad always had Ford trucks when I was growing up, and I can blame him since they're all I know.

He had:

1979 F350 4x4
1991 F150 4x2
1995 F150 4x2
1979 F150 4x2
1987 F150 4x2
1994 F150 4x4

All of those before I turned 18.

My favorite was his 79 F350, it was the only truck that was really my style (4x4). Unfortunately he sold it not long after he brought it to Florida in 1991, and it was wrecked by the teenager whose parents bought it for him.

salans7 wrote

Out of curiosity, what got you guys into Ford trucks?

My dad always had Ford trucks when I was growing up, and I can blame him since they're all I know.

My current truck was my grandfather's truck, and he always bought Ford.  He bought this truck when I was 10, but I can remember two trucks of his before that - one was orange, and one was light blue.  The orange one might have been a '77, and the blue a '74?  I don't recall exactly, but he bought them every three years or so.

We also had one Ford truck at home when I was young - we had a '57 Dodge truck for a while, but sometime in the mid 1980s my dad replaced that with a '73 F-100.  It was a real POS to look at (someone had scratched the outline of a unicorn into the outside of the bed), but with the 400 engine in it was pretty fun to drive.  The dentsides are actually my favorite Fords of all time, I really wish I had that one now.

Shaun - that is/was definitely a good looking 79.
My grandpa and dad would be to blame. Born in 85 and up until I left for college, all we had for trucks was a 79 F250 and 3 F250 bullnoses for both farm use and daily drivers.
The red truck below started it all for me and now safe to say it's an [unhealthy?] addiction. Although I keep telling my wife they are investments but she's not buying it.
My grandpa's truck (taken just now):


Current bullpen minus those at my place (taken this weekend when I was swapping out some door glass for Camano):

salans7 wrote

Out of curiosity, what got you guys into Ford trucks?

It is all Dad's fault.  

Mom collected brick.  (The plural of "brick" is "brick", according the International Brick Collectors Association, of which she was a founding member.)  But I never thought they were very useful, although my brother made a small brick wall out of very small portion of her collection.

Dad retired from the railroad and sat down, thinking he had nothing to do.  So I vowed to have something in the works when I retired.

And, Dad had this 1981 4wd F150.  He wasn't the first owner, but he loved the truck and drove it everywhere.  And when I drove it a few times I really liked it.  So, I decided that I wanted into Ford trucks.

I was always a chevy guy. When I lived near Gary there in OK I was broke as a joke. These 80-86 trucks are cheap as dirt. So I bought one. Then, while searching forums to diagnose an issue, I found Gary on FTE, and learned he was only 20 minutes from me. Gary invited me over and ive been a bullnose guy ever since.

Ray Cecil wrote

I was always a chevy guy.

Although my dad only owned Ford trucks, he was more of a GM guy when it came to cars aside from the two Mustangs he owned. I can't even count on my fingers and toes how many GM cars he owned. Mostly mid to late 70's Camaros, Monte Carlos, Novas, Cutlass', etc but he dabbled in Corsicas and Cavaliers as well in later years.

salans7 wrote

Out of curiosity, what got you guys into Ford trucks?

I more or less grew up around them, so Fords were sort of the defacto standard. My old man had a 1978 F150 4x4 while I was growing up. It was a regular cab long box with a 400/4spd, and blue with a white top of the cab. He skipped right over the Bullnoses and his next truck was a 1988 F250 4x4 with 5.0/5spd, also in blue...I think it was that Regatta Blue or whatever it is called. My grandfather had two Bullnoses and the poor bugger actually died in the 2nd one (heart attack while driving, around 1991). I don't remember what year it was specifically, but it was a silver F250 4x4 with a 351 in it.

Due to my age, I was never allowed to drive any of them...haha. I was too young to drive the '78 F150 4x4, and when I finally got my licence in 1988, the newly purchased '88 F150 4x4 was too new to let me drive, although I did get to drive it a little bit when I had my learner's permit (with the old man in the passenger seat).

When I got my licence, I started with a hand me down...my mom's bright red 1980 Pinto that she had purchased brand new. Then it was an '85 2dr Ford Escort, and then an '84 Ford Ranger...a plain Jane green 4cyl 4spd radio delete model.

In the early 1990's, I bought a 1980 F100 Custom with a 351 2bbl and NP435 4spd. It had been painted already and the bed floor had been replaced. It was originally a 300/6 truck but had been swapped over to a 351 some years before. It was a bit beat up, but it worked really really well...I drove that thing like you'd drive a Mustang GT. It had a funky spoiler on the back of the roof, as well as other unique features like a red bench seat, and no passenger side mirror...lol.




I don't have much for pictures. I had that truck for a couple years and really didn't do anything to it to speak of. Changed the starter a couple times, and installed new shocks and brakes.

I went without a Ford for a while, and later bought a 1995 F150 4x4 with 300/6 and auto in 1999. I didn't really like that truck, and at the time what I really needed was something easy on gas for commuting, so I sold it pretty quickly.

In any case, that old 1980 blue Flareside burned a spot in my memory that I was never able to shake and I always wanted another one, so here I am...lol.