And Now for Something Completely Different.......

[taskswap]

I Hear Ya!!!

I'm a Chad, but not a Pregnant Chad or Dangling Chad just so we're clear!

When I was younger we never named our cars, they usually just had different colors so we'd say "let's take the red car." For decades that was enough but I guess I've gotten sentimental (or too clever for my own good) in my dotage. So now I have:

Rocky - The kind and curious but also accident-prone (and very squirrely!) '81 F-250

Bullwinkle - Rocky's lovable and somewhat slow "moose" of a (camper) friend

Mr. Peabody - Everything you'd expect a 2021 RAM 2500 Mega Cab to be - expensive education and taste, well groomed, and a bit too high-brow for the kinds of adventures Rocky and Bullwinkle get into...

It's the perfect cast of characters.

[Gary Lewis]

I'm a Chad, but not a Pregnant Chad or Dangling Chad just so we're clear!

When I was younger we never named our cars, they usually just had different colors so we'd say "let's take the red car." For decades that was enough but I guess I've gotten sentimental (or too clever for my own good) in my dotage. So now I have:

Rocky - The kind and curious but also accident-prone (and very squirrely!) '81 F-250

Bullwinkle - Rocky's lovable and somewhat slow "moose" of a (camper) friend

Mr. Peabody - Everything you'd expect a 2021 RAM 2500 Mega Cab to be - expensive education and taste, well groomed, and a bit too high-brow for the kinds of adventures Rocky and Bullwinkle get into...

It's the perfect cast of characters.

LOL! Ok, I'll play.

My name is obvious, but as I've been on a whole lot of forums, like lathe/Mercedes/Full Sized Bronco/MOPAR/etc, I decided to use my real name for my handle so I didn't have to remember anything.

As for truck names, my first Bullnose was an Explorer so it was the Explorer. I bought an '83 pile of junk out of a yard that was brown, so he was Brownie - and many parts are labeled that. Then I bought the '82 that had lots of surface rust so he was Rusty, although he had a lot of "stuff" all over his frame and running gear so maybe should have been Crusty. Bought a '90 half-truck, meaning from the back of the cab forward so he became Huck. Oh, and I forgot Dad's truck, but that should be obvious.

Then came the first "Big Blue", which is the 2015 F150. But when we got the '85 F250 home it was both blue and bigger than the 2015 F150, so it became Big Blue and the 2015 got demoted to Blue. Which was prophetic as with the D60 and SD springs he's now 2" higher than he was.

[85lebaront2]

LOL! Ok, I'll play.

My name is obvious, but as I've been on a whole lot of forums, like lathe/Mercedes/Full Sized Bronco/MOPAR/etc, I decided to use my real name for my handle so I didn't have to remember anything.

As for truck names, my first Bullnose was an Explorer so it was the Explorer. I bought an '83 pile of junk out of a yard that was brown, so he was Brownie - and many parts are labeled that. Then I bought the '82 that had lots of surface rust so he was Rusty, although he had a lot of "stuff" all over his frame and running gear so maybe should have been Crusty. Bought a '90 half-truck, meaning from the back of the cab forward so he became Huck. Oh, and I forgot Dad's truck, but that should be obvious.

Then came the first "Big Blue", which is the 2015 F150. But when we got the '85 F250 home it was both blue and bigger than the 2015 F150, so it became Big Blue and the 2015 got demoted to Blue. Which was prophetic as with the D60 and SD springs he's now 2" higher than he was.

My name (the printable versions) William Alan, family calls me Alan, as dad was William Fowler and was called Bill, friends mostly know me as Bill. Screen name was arrived at when I needed one for eBay and was bidding on a Garret turbocharger for a 1989 2.2L Chrysler, it stands for the car 1985 LeBaron, and the turbo II engine. Avatar is the VA license plate for it, means Turbo 2 K Car as the 1982-86 LeBaron convertibles are K-cars.

First two trucks I had weren't named, first was a 1958 F100, originally a 223 6cyl, but after my neighbor found that the 1957 Ranchero he had acquired had terminal frame rot, he offered me the 312 and 3 speed OD Borg-Warner transmission in return for getting his 1965 F100 straightened out.

Second was a 1977 F150, originally a 300 6cyl and C4, I had a pickup camper I had been given that needed an 8' bed, 58 was a 6' styleside. I had looked into extending the frame and finding an 8' bed, but the 77 was reasonably priced. 300 hauled the camper, but wasn't happy and I didn't trust the C4. Fellow at work needed some work on his 1978 F100, a heater core replaced on an AC model and offered me some 390s in pieces, one of which was a Camper Special engine. That and a C6 went into the 77 along with an AC system.

Third truck is the 1986 F350, named Darth Vader by my son and a group of his friends. As purchased, between the grille guard and Lund visor, he looks like Darth Vader.

[BigBrother-84]

Hi,

Wanna have fun, US friends? Just exercise to pronounce my name:

Jean-François Parent.

So, you'll provably prefer my nickname Jeff (comes from J-F).

My ID is the name of my old restored friend, explained in my signature.

[rcarlisle]

Hi,

Wanna have fun, US friends? Just exercise to pronounce my name:

Jean-François Parent.

So, you'll provably prefer my nickname Jeff (comes from J-F).

My ID is the name of my old restored friend, explained in my signature.

I'm Randy and the truck is Walter. No real reason for Walter other than truck is old enough to be a Walter. The doors say OPA'S GARAGE. My grandson calls me Opa because it is different (I took German in college and Opa was better than GroBVater. pronounced GrossFahter [grandfather]).

Opa isn't to be confused with Opie - I live in Mt Airy NC, which has a Mayberry connection and lots of folks think it's Opie. But I run into people at cruise ins that know me because of the truck.

[farmboy60]

I'm Randy and the truck is Walter. No real reason for Walter other than truck is old enough to be a Walter. The doors say OPA'S GARAGE. My grandson calls me Opa because it is different (I took German in college and Opa was better than GroBVater. pronounced GrossFahter [grandfather]).

Opa isn't to be confused with Opie - I live in Mt Airy NC, which has a Mayberry connection and lots of folks think it's Opie. But I run into people at cruise ins that know me because of the truck.

name is bruce and my truck, a piece a ###### lol the orange crate