November 2021 Truck Of The Month

Congratulations Larry, your 84 F-150 is our November 2021 Truck Of The Month!!!

Congrat's Larry!

By the way, have you named it yet?  If not, how 'bout Phoenix?  

Thanks!

No name. None of my vehicles have really had names (at least in the positive sense!).

Pheonix does come to mind... although it's not my first collision resurrection.

(Off topic story time!)

My first ranger (1995 3.0, similar to what I currently own) was a lesser case... when bozo here hit black ice at 70mph at 1AM trying to get home so I wouldn't miss class or an IEEE meeting (I was the chairman of the student branch back then):







(reviewing these pics are making me queasy... I still smell the kerploded airbag!!!)

Even then, I didn't repaint anything; that truck was a clown truck...






...through the day two years later when my wife wrecked it again, this time a lot harder into the back of a 4Runner:





In the second case the damage was on par with what the F150 received other than the seat top popping the back window out. Only Rangers aren't that hard to find, and that the core support and inner fenders are a welded mess integrated with the cab structure:





(that's from the teardown after the first wreck)

Hence why I opted to find another ranger of similar features and move my mods and the like over.

Since that truck has since been crushed (was scrapped after I pulled any parts I needed/wanted), I guess the "title" is still available?

I'll think about it...

Ouch!  You've had your share of accidents.  

Congrats!

You don't say?

Some other of my wrecks:

2004 Saab 9-5 (the vehicle that the F150 replaced in the fleet), lost two months after purchase and a week after project completion:



T-boned a 1 year old F150 that cut in front of me. I was also a raged lead foot at that moment which didn't help matters!

1999 Dodge Durango (what the first ranger replaced):



(I can still smell the weird grease puked from the shattered outer CV joint)

Found out why one shouldn't left on yellow in the snow!  I did rebuild it partially (replaced a twisted upper control arm/ball joint, bent shock, and busted CV axle, clearanced the smashed fender, and rehung the door). The rockers and inner fenders were swiss cheese, the eletric seat kept breaking on me (thanks in no part to my fat backside!), the fuel economy wasn't great relative to the performance and storage space, it nickel and dimed on repairs a lot, and the insurance was pretty expensive (due to the rollover risk and my age combined); hence why I traded it for my first Ford, the first Ranger! Been addicted ever since!

And my wife's had a few bad wrecks too... to include a 2002 Saab 9-5 (nearly identical to the 2004, brother in law backed into it and later my wife took out a deer), a 2003 Taurus (hit a guard rail at 70mph and shredded the nose of the car off, a long ways from home no less ), and the worst of all, a crumpled 1999 Toyota Camry:



(yes, that's a very early version of Ranger #1 in the background)

That was before we were married on her second attempt to drive to where I lived 3 hours from her. Found out why No U-Turn on the interstate doesn't mean "U-turn here!". Suffice to say insurance wasn't too cheap for either one of us for a number of years.

You've had waaaaaay too many accidents.  Glad I'm not paying your insurance bills.  

Knock on wood things have been better in recent years. Aside from hitting the deer with the F150, the 2004 Saab was the most recent major incident nearly 3 years ago, and that one was ruled the other guy's fault.