My Grandfather's pick-up

I took some photos of the truck and Fury today and then messed with the color on them. Made it look like it was 1969 at my house.

 

Nice photos. Reminds me of Polaroid.

 

nice job on the pics of 2 very tidy rides thanks for sharing

 

Thanks Dennis.
It's been a while since I posted anything about Grandpa's truck.
I had to take photos of the truck to send to our insurance agent to get the truck insured as a "Classic" They require photos of the engine bay, so I shined up the air cleaner and snapped some photos.

 

After the agent called and said we were good to go, I decided to take the boys down to the corner frozen yogurt joint to celebrate! It was a beautiful evening, so of course I decided to take a photo.

 

There was some rust on the tops of the bedrails resulting from the camper Grandpa had on the truck for the last couple of decades. I cleaned it up and then applied a rust inhibitor. The stuff worked real well. It turns all of the treated areas black (that's how you know it's working!)

Bed rail rust




Rust inhibitor



Not the best photo, but it turns black once the rust has been nuetralized.

 

looking good.. i drive a 70 ford truck everyday.. i have owned it for nearly 30 years.. it dont look as good as yours..mine shows plenty of signs of being used..

 

I took the boys to the local library to check out some books. The Library is the original School house for our area and has been converted to Library and Civic center.

After we got the books we went across the street to the little neighborhood park. Looking back through the trees I thought it was a neat scene.

 

Those are some great photos!

 

Great photos! The ones outside the library ooh like post cards.
The truck looks great.:2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

Thanks guys.

 

Wow, I don't know how I missed this thread. Beautiful truck and story. I may be in the minority, but I like it better with the camper. Looks fantastic either way, though.

 

Thanks Eagle. It's a pleasure to own and drive.

 

Down here in the camping vacation capitol of the universe we don't see trucks with campers on them much anymore.
I always thought they were a nice way to be able to tow a small fishing boat but also feared them being top heavy.
Alng with many we just put a topper or "cap" on our trucks.

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Top heaviness is only a problem if the suspension can't handle it. I've seen trucks with air shocks and air bags that carry the largest campers lately, so I don't see any problem. Our camper we had was a '69 F350 Crew Cab Camper Special with single rear wheels and a deluxe Kit camper; as far as I remember, we never had any times the rig ever felt like laying over, but then, Dad's an excellent driver with both civilian farm and military experience.