Almost wagonless now.......

So anybody who drove a Bronco, Blazer or Ramcharger and used it for not only going offroad to have fun, but to do work (I once hauled a Ford 400 engine, cherry picker and tools in my '89 Eddie Bauer Bronco I used to have), is considered milk toast?

 

Those were fightin' words, Sir.

 

ModelT1 said: ↑

Real trucks have an eight foot bed. Not many real trucks left. Just soccor dad trucks with a short trunk with no trunk lid.

To all of the above..............NO! I did not call anyone Milk Toast or Milquetoast. In reality most of them own a truck to impress the Jone's and feel they fit in with other milanianittes.

Most late model trucks, with or without fourwheel drive, ever get off highways and in the woods, mud, or hills. OMG they'd get them dirty and maybe scratched! Besides their GPS tells them "you're off route."
The male drivers are simply the manly soccor mom in a Cadillaxized fancy pick up truck with a bed no larger than a wheel barrow. Adding to the unmanlyness, they now have bedside tool storage and automatic tailgates so the man of the house can open it while texting and carrying his kid's soccor stuff.

I once or twice hauled a complete Model T engine-transmision unit, later a Chevy 350 engine, cherry picker and tools in my 1972 Gran Torino wagon. That still didn't make it a truck or me a soccor dad.
The only thing that made the Bronco famous was some rich murderer riding in a white one on a paved interstate slower than grandma drives, now worth over a million dollars and probably never been off major highways.

Now back to wagonless Tedy.

 

Here we go again. Looks like the ball is in Silvertwinkiehobo's court, once again.

 

Haha, that it is. That 400 I told you about? After pulling it with the cherry picker, I hauled it out of the Pull-a-Part, down one hill and up the other, in a wheelbarrow. It's like what Michael Caine's character said in 'Austin Powers: Goldmember:'

"It's not the size of it, mate, it's how you use it."

I had picked the engine up in my Colony Park, but I had to transload it to my Bronco because it was banging around in back, and it dented the storage doors to a fair-thee-well.

 

Du bist wirklich eine extra besondere Art von ??????, nicht wahr, Hanz?

 

At least, your Google translator can spell.

Does this look like a milktoast truck?!:

 

No but it's also not a soccer mom and dad pick up truck. It doesn't even have a truck bed. We call big trucks "tractors", part of a tractor / trailer pair.
I'm guessing this tractor does not even pull trailers. It's designed to haul mobil homes to trailer parks for trailer trash.
On the plus side most mobil homes have a toaster in the kitchen so making milk toast is possible.

Notice the wider mirror mounts and bumper brackets for adding the WIDE LOAD sign?

 

That tractor would make such a gnarly wheelstand drag truck!

 

It would probably flip over backward.
We lived a short distance off the west side of Florida's 4-lane highway. I-75 goes down the middle and that''s where most tourists travel.
There were a number of mobile home dealerships so several times a week we'd see trucks like that pulling half of a double wide down the highway. The tractor mirrors extended beyond the 14' to 16' half home width and was led and followed by a spotter vehicle with a tall poll to guage overhead clearance. As much as I'd hate to drive a modern car hauler, I can't imagine pulling half a wide long house on some of the narrower county and country roads. Some of the double wides now have a third section and the length is bigger than some houses.

 

Is it a 65? Looks like a great truck!
I think the steelies and factory dog dishes would look perfect on this truck. Now I'm hoping you get it!

 

The grille points to 1966 . I have had 2 of these .

 

Looks can be deceiving. Shortly after I bought my 1977 Ford truck I saw photos of the new 1978 and liked the front view. I decided to order the '78 grille, headlight buckets, etc.
Having karma on my side, my new '77 Ford truck got hit head on when a drunk on glare ice came across the median and wiped out my grill and a fender.
I took cash from the insurance and ordered the not out yet replacement nose parts for a 1978 Ford truck.
After I had it all changed and each time I'd go to the Ford garage for oil change or work, they couldn't find my 1977 Ford truck.
Compare a '77 and '78 to see the big difference.

 

You should've waited...the '78 MY trucks were a mid-'77 introduction, as my big brother Fred had bought one just after their introduction when he returned from a year in Korea in May or June of that year, round headlights and all. Sadly, it met its demise in a swamp in North Carolina.

 

78 were round headlights and 79 were square but same grille . 77 had a different grille and headlights like Model T changed . When I bought a new 78 my neighbors on both sides of me one had a77 and the other bought a 79 all three were dark jade green .