Show your trucks!

[Phillip Patton]

I didn't want to hijack Matt's thread, but thought it would be nice to share some pics of your truck(s). Also, if you have a good story to go along with it, do tell.

Here's mine. First, our 91 Chevy S10 Tahoe. Rusty but trusty, as they say.

This is it's "good side":

And this one we bought a month or so ago, to replace the Chevy:

We took it to a muffler shop to get it worked on, and the guy there asked if they used it in the "Mad Max" movie.


And here's what I was considering for a hood ornament:

 

[David Loukides]

What the heck is that hood ornament????

 

[Phillip Patton]

What the heck is that hood ornament????

It's the disembodied head of a buck (male goat). The rest of him resides in our freezer in the form of summer sausage.:thumbup:

 

[Jesse Latham]

This is one of my trucks. 1970 El Camino 350ci 330hp crate motor, hooker headers, flowmasters, billet alum brackets & pulleys, 12" tires in the fender wells. Jess

 

[NickWheeler]

Holy crap Phillip! What the heck were they using the Dodge for to need/want that frick'n bumper!?!? I can understand the Mad Max question! LOL

Jess---Nice ride!!!

A friend of mine comes from a family that owns/operates a rock outfit (crushed rock, pea gravel, rip-rap, etc). He says there's always somebody that brings in an El Camino or a Ranchero and wants to fill it with rock. He always says, "Um... you know that's not really what that was made for right???" LOL

 

[tryppyr]

Why are the horns still on the head, rather than on someone's knife handle?

Here's my truck:

 

[Justin.Mercier]

My every day driver 2002 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 regular cab automatic.

my fun drivers (not trucks)
1976 Triumph TR6

1977 Triumph TR7

 

[sunshadow]

My truck doing what shop trucks are supposed to (fetching tools)

and from the better looking angle

Dodge Ram 4x4 club cab with a 5 speed, 318 V8, junkyard cap that originally was made for a Ford and short (6 1/2 foot) bed. She aint pretty but I can load her up with metal and go. Wish it had the 8 foot bed, but for $1800 bucks it was what was available

-Page

 

[Justin.Mercier]

You should have let me know you were in the area Page. Could have caught you for a meal or something. That lathe is a nice one, eeh? If it wasn't too large to fit in the space that I'd had for it, it'd have been mine instead =)

 

[sunshadow]

I didn't want to linger, 13 hours on the road plus load in and into the basement, it was an all-day adventure. I will definitely look you up next time I'm in Mass.

-Page

 

[sunshadow]

It's in the basement now. the cabinet will follow tomorrow. I managed to get it in alone without getting hurt. I used a dodge pickup, an engine crane, a 5 foot plywood board, 20 feet of tow chain and a printing dolly to get it out of the truck, around the corner into the basement stairwell, belay it down the stairs, pivot it off the stairs, and move it to the other side of the basement.
Justin, you didn't tell me it was a gap bed! It actually has a section of the bed rails that comes out so you can turn something on a faceplate that is actually larger than the lathe would normally be capable of.

-Page

 

[Justin.Mercier]

Oh I thought the pictures showed that, Bill's 4th picture you can see the end of the rail on the head stock, yeah it's gap bed, you could use it to true up brake rotors or turn bowls and stuff, because you can turn a much larger end with a gap bed lathe.

 

[indian george]

This was my 2003 X'Mas present to me. It's a 2004 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab.:thumbup: It has 17000 mile on it. Black is my favorite color. My 1947 Indian Chief and my 1985 Harley FXST are Black too.