OT: This probably resonates with the more...mature...members of the pack
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Also the top one is the best looking pickup style in history, particularly the single cab SWB.
With a red interior. When the hell did they quit making red interiors in vehicles?? No wonder the birthrate is plummeting.
I've been tempted to go searching for a decent one, just to have one to tinker with. That was always kind of the dream growing up with all those sport truck magazines of the 90s.
Come on guys. Nothing beats this ole dove
1980 model of pure steel muscle
1980 model of pure steel muscle
I'm never one to kink-shame but this is oddly specific.
Although I bought this red interior equipped gem off the showroom floor just before graduating State and still own it, I prefer the style of my turquoise 58 Apache.
There was a 96ish F150 in front of me the other day with an antique tag. I felt old because that was the truck I rode to work in with my dad during college summers.
yeah, but everyone wants a pound of gold in exchange for one
My neighbor restores those model Chevys as a hobby. I had a 1990 454 SS. Wish I had that one back.
Someone needs a swift kick in the hindquarters for doing this.
Wrecked mine that was almost just like it in the 90's. Used Armor All on the seat and took a left turn too fast... Slid to the passenger door and couldn't control the wheel or reach the pedals.
This was a real issue that no teenager today can comprehend...
Little known fact... The Jamaican bobsled team placed second at the 91' winter games using the bench seat of an an early 80's Chevy truck. Too bad it was banned before the Olympics or Cool Runnings would be up there with Miracle in sports movies of legendary statuses.
I want to strangle the kid behind the wheel the more I see these drive by.
Seeing this makes me kinda okay with life on earth ending. We had a good run.
I recognize that SOB!!! He's always right behind me with those white headlights on high!
My uncle just bought a '99 single cab SWB (red) with 20k miles on it. He paid close to $30k but that thing looks and drives like it's brand new. Even smells new.
Yeah, I drive a 2008 GMC now with 215K on it. Hopefully, will be upgrading pretty soon.
This wasn't my truck, but my first vehicle I drove looked identical. Just needs a gun rack in the back glass.
I saw a similar one about wrestling.
Wrestling 25 years ago in my head:
Wrestling 25 years ago in Reality:
Wrestling 25 years ago in my head:
Wrestling 25 years ago in Reality:
My first car was my pawpaw's 1988 Black Silverado Step-side. I loved that truck.
I had a white 94 Chevy regular cab SWB in high school with buckshot mudders. It stayed brown from all the mud on it. I could go anywhere I wanted to.
The Armor All on floor mats and / or pedals lesson ALMOST cost me a similar fate.
Were y'all hosin down the entire cabs with the stuff? A bottle is meant to last a pretty good while.
I learned to drive on a '64 Ford with 3 speed on the column. The bonus challenge was this piece (bracket that held the shift lever in place) was broke and completely missing. To shift, I would pick the lever up out of the seat, carefully put in the hole in steering column, try to feel shift patterns, then put it back in seat once in 3rd.This wasn't my truck, but my first vehicle I drove looked identical. Just needs a gun rack in the back glass.
Started driving a little mazda pickup with a 5 speed once I turned 16 and it seemed like a cake walk by comparison.
My granddad had an 84 GMC Sierra that he bought new but almost never drove. It had ~30k miles on it when he died in 95. My grandmother kept it but let me and my dad use it for the next few years - it was our backup vehicle if any of ours were in the shop, or whatever. So still didn't get driven all that much. Gave it back to her when I went off to college, then around 2010 when she got too old to drive she sold it to the guy who'd been doing her maintenance work the last few years.
I could not 17'n believe it. No warning or anything - just up & sold it one day. I'd have paid her twice what he did just to keep it in the family after all that time. 25 years old and had maybe 75k miles on it.
I could not 17'n believe it. No warning or anything - just up & sold it one day. I'd have paid her twice what he did just to keep it in the family after all that time. 25 years old and had maybe 75k miles on it.
Thought this tread was going to be about the perception of time as you get older and reminded me of a story from a couple years ago.
There was a 50 year reunion of the 1971 recruiting class before one of the games and a point was made that the players we were about to watch would look at them as they, at the time, would have looked at a similar reunion of the .... 1921 recruiting class. Put that way and given I arrived at State in 1974 it was a bit of a HFS moment.
Yeah. It seems that mentally you don't leave your 20's, other than some wisdom/maturity, hopefully, but at some point, you're just "older" all of a sudden. Kinda like driving I-20 West and suddenly realizing you are in Texas but never noticed crossing the state line...
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