Having mentioned car dealerships reminds me of a very unpleasant task
I have to work on, looking for a newer truck. My old Nissan (1985)
has 320,000 miles and I really think she is just about at the end.
The diff is making some odd noise and that is a sign to put her down.
My real tow vehicle is a 1988 Dodge Ram with only 140,000 miles. Her
problem is that the interior is falling apart faster than I can buy
tubes of carpenters glue to stick her back together. Problem is that
I loathe gadgetry and all that automatic crap on new vehicles. WHEN I
TURN OFF THE DAMN LIGHTS I WANT EM OFF, not some time maybe in the
next 5 minutes or maybe not until the battery runs down. I dotn want
to have to read a damn manual to figger out to unlock the doors or
roll down the windows. I want windows that ROLL down, not some stupid
motor that fails after 200,000 miles.
Even worse, I have not had vehicle payments in over 18 years so you
can imagine how I feel about paying HOW MUCH FOR 6 EFFING YEARS, ARE
YOU NUTS?
So.............I was looking at old, and I do mean OLD trucks on the
internet, like 50s era 1.5 ton trucks that have been almost restored.
These things are simple. I can fix everything on them. They have
actual engines instead of something from Area 51 designed by aliens.
Sure, they burn lots of gas but do you realize what insurance costs on
a new truck? I dont need AC, my strategy in summer is that my truck
is hotter than anywhere else I go so I always feel ok no matter hot it
is out. What do y'all think of this plan. BTW, a bonus is that my
wife would never want to drive such a thing.

wrote in message
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Having mentioned car dealerships reminds me of a very unpleasant task
I have to work on, looking for a newer truck. My old Nissan (1985)
has 320,000 miles and I really think she is just about at the end.
The diff is making some odd noise and that is a sign to put her down.
My real tow vehicle is a 1988 Dodge Ram with only 140,000 miles. Her
problem is that the interior is falling apart faster than I can buy
tubes of carpenters glue to stick her back together. Problem is that
I loathe gadgetry and all that automatic crap on new vehicles. WHEN I
TURN OFF THE DAMN LIGHTS I WANT EM OFF, not some time maybe in the
next 5 minutes or maybe not until the battery runs down. I dotn want
to have to read a damn manual to figger out to unlock the doors or
roll down the windows. I want windows that ROLL down, not some stupid
motor that fails after 200,000 miles.
Even worse, I have not had vehicle payments in over 18 years so you
can imagine how I feel about paying HOW MUCH FOR 6 EFFING YEARS, ARE
YOU NUTS?
So.............I was looking at old, and I do mean OLD trucks on the
internet, like 50s era 1.5 ton trucks that have been almost restored.
These things are simple. I can fix everything on them. They have
actual engines instead of something from Area 51 designed by aliens.
Sure, they burn lots of gas but do you realize what insurance costs on
a new truck? I dont need AC, my strategy in summer is that my truck
is hotter than anywhere else I go so I always feel ok no matter hot it
is out. What do y'all think of this plan. BTW, a bonus is that my
wife would never want to drive such a thing.

Too late. Had one for you.

http://www.eisboch.com/fordcrop.jpg

Eisboch

I'm happy...
http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth/page1.htm
JR
don't need no steeeeenking new truck....


On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:21:33 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

Having mentioned car dealerships reminds me of a very unpleasant task
I have to work on, looking for a newer truck. My old Nissan (1985)
has 320,000 miles and I really think she is just about at the end.
The diff is making some odd noise and that is a sign to put her down.
My real tow vehicle is a 1988 Dodge Ram with only 140,000 miles. Her
problem is that the interior is falling apart faster than I can buy
tubes of carpenters glue to stick her back together. Problem is that
I loathe gadgetry and all that automatic crap on new vehicles. WHEN I
TURN OFF THE DAMN LIGHTS I WANT EM OFF, not some time maybe in the
next 5 minutes or maybe not until the battery runs down. I dotn want
to have to read a damn manual to figger out to unlock the doors or
roll down the windows. I want windows that ROLL down, not some stupid
motor that fails after 200,000 miles.
Even worse, I have not had vehicle payments in over 18 years so you
can imagine how I feel about paying HOW MUCH FOR 6 EFFING YEARS, ARE
YOU NUTS?
So.............I was looking at old, and I do mean OLD trucks on the
internet, like 50s era 1.5 ton trucks that have been almost restored.
These things are simple. I can fix everything on them. They have
actual engines instead of something from Area 51 designed by aliens.
Sure, they burn lots of gas but do you realize what insurance costs on
a new truck? I dont need AC, my strategy in summer is that my truck
is hotter than anywhere else I go so I always feel ok no matter hot it
is out. What do y'all think of this plan. BTW, a bonus is that my
wife would never want to drive such a thing.
HOME PAGE:
http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth
--------------------------------------------------

On Aug 12, 10:01 pm, JR North wrote:
I'm happy...http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth/page1.htm
JR
don't need no steeeeenking new truck....

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:21:33 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:



Having mentioned car dealerships reminds me of a very unpleasant task
I have to work on, looking for a newer truck. My old Nissan (1985)
has 320,000 miles and I really think she is just about at the end.
The diff is making some odd noise and that is a sign to put her down.
My real tow vehicle is a 1988 Dodge Ram with only 140,000 miles. Her
problem is that the interior is falling apart faster than I can buy
tubes of carpenters glue to stick her back together. Problem is that
I loathe gadgetry and all that automatic crap on new vehicles. WHEN I
TURN OFF THE DAMN LIGHTS I WANT EM OFF, not some time maybe in the
next 5 minutes or maybe not until the battery runs down. I dotn want
to have to read a damn manual to figger out to unlock the doors or
roll down the windows. I want windows that ROLL down, not some stupid
motor that fails after 200,000 miles.
Even worse, I have not had vehicle payments in over 18 years so you
can imagine how I feel about paying HOW MUCH FOR 6 EFFING YEARS, ARE
YOU NUTS?
So.............I was looking at old, and I do mean OLD trucks on the
internet, like 50s era 1.5 ton trucks that have been almost restored.
These things are simple. I can fix everything on them. They have
actual engines instead of something from Area 51 designed by aliens.
Sure, they burn lots of gas but do you realize what insurance costs on
a new truck? I dont need AC, my strategy in summer is that my truck
is hotter than anywhere else I go so I always feel ok no matter hot it
is out. What do y'all think of this plan. BTW, a bonus is that my
wife would never want to drive such a thing.

HOME PAGE:http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth
--------------------------------------------------

JR, that is a real shame. I hope you get her fixed up cuz its a nice
car. I had a friend who had a really early one and he couldnt get
parts, this was in 1979, he actually had brake cyls made from brass.

Oh, you mean the Roadster? It's getting there...
JR

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:05:30 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Aug 12, 10:01 pm, JR North wrote:
I'm happy...http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth/page1.htm
JR
don't need no steeeeenking new truck....

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:21:33 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:



Having mentioned car dealerships reminds me of a very unpleasant task
I have to work on, looking for a newer truck. My old Nissan (1985)
has 320,000 miles and I really think she is just about at the end.
The diff is making some odd noise and that is a sign to put her down.
My real tow vehicle is a 1988 Dodge Ram with only 140,000 miles. Her
problem is that the interior is falling apart faster than I can buy
tubes of carpenters glue to stick her back together. Problem is that
I loathe gadgetry and all that automatic crap on new vehicles. WHEN I
TURN OFF THE DAMN LIGHTS I WANT EM OFF, not some time maybe in the
next 5 minutes or maybe not until the battery runs down. I dotn want
to have to read a damn manual to figger out to unlock the doors or
roll down the windows. I want windows that ROLL down, not some stupid
motor that fails after 200,000 miles.
Even worse, I have not had vehicle payments in over 18 years so you
can imagine how I feel about paying HOW MUCH FOR 6 EFFING YEARS, ARE
YOU NUTS?
So.............I was looking at old, and I do mean OLD trucks on the
internet, like 50s era 1.5 ton trucks that have been almost restored.
These things are simple. I can fix everything on them. They have
actual engines instead of something from Area 51 designed by aliens.
Sure, they burn lots of gas but do you realize what insurance costs on
a new truck? I dont need AC, my strategy in summer is that my truck
is hotter than anywhere else I go so I always feel ok no matter hot it
is out. What do y'all think of this plan. BTW, a bonus is that my
wife would never want to drive such a thing.

HOME PAGE:http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth
--------------------------------------------------

JR, that is a real shame. I hope you get her fixed up cuz its a nice
car. I had a friend who had a really early one and he couldnt get
parts, this was in 1979, he actually had brake cyls made from brass.
HOME PAGE:
http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth
--------------------------------------------------

wrote in news:9840a685-f371-45a2-b73b-
:

So.............I was looking at old, and I do mean OLD trucks on the
internet, like 50s era 1.5 ton trucks that have been almost restored.
These things are simple. I can fix everything on them. They have
actual engines instead of something from Area 51 designed by aliens.
Sure, they burn lots of gas but do you realize what insurance costs on
a new truck? I dont need AC, my strategy in summer is that my truck
is hotter than anywhere else I go so I always feel ok no matter hot it
is out. What do y'all think of this plan. BTW, a bonus is that my
wife would never want to drive such a thing.


I'd never buy new any more. That's insane! Your Nissan needs an
overhaul and a rebuilt differential. Service is FAR cheaper than
insurance!

I always wanted a truck, but anything you leave outside in a pickup is
just STOLEN, which is also crazy. So, I bought a 1.5 ton diesel STEPVAN
we call "The Sarge" because of his career as a flight line USAF delivery
van. The Sarge ran from 1989 to 1998 up and down the flight line
hauling C130 parts from the engine shop to the planes AT 15 MPH, the
flight line speed limit at Pope AFB, NC. Other times, he actually
shifted into HIGH GEAR, which has so little use it's hardly broken in,
driving 30 mph across Pope AFB to the Supply department and, of course,
MOTOR POOL where he was fully cared for on the dot, by the book! He
only had 55,000 miles on him when he retired...

Sarge is a 1989 Chevy 6.2L diesel 1.5 ton chassis under an insulated
steel Union City (TN) Body with full-width swingout rear doors that will
swing all the way around the side and lock pointing forward leaving the
back completely open under the twin floodlights. The inside of the van
is finished in bolted-on steel sheets with real fiberglas insulation top
and sides to keep him cooler in summer and warmer in winter. He has
hydraulic power steering, hydraulic power brakes, but single wheels not
duals for some reason I never figured out. Duals will fit, if you like,
but he's quite stable as he is. His radiator is as wide as you car, and
nearly as tall! An oil cooler is mounted in front to cool his 3-speed
Powerglide automatic you cannot feel shift driven normally. (He has a
new torque converter installed just before he retired for some reason.)
Of course, his drive train is COMMERCIAL, not a consumer pickup truck.
His frame is nearly a foot tall and all components are MIL-SPEC, as per
his government ID plate.

The Sarge also drives really CHEAP, here. He has a Frybrid vegetable
oil heating system (www.frybrid.com) which starts him on diesel for good
cold weather starting (overkill in SC), then his Frybrid computer
switches him to pure, heated-to-160F, filtered vegetable oil I get free
from 3 Chinese restaurants near my buddy George's truck warehouse where
we settle it for 60 days, then slowly pump it off so's not to disturb
any food particles that have settled out of it to clog our big fuel
filters/water separators, holding down our filter costs to near zero.
Clean oil is pumped into a separate heated tank, 32 gallons in Sarge,
which gives him plenty of range....his fuel cost is about 3 gallons of
diesel per month if you drive him a lot. We have used vegetable oil
running out of our ears in French Fry America. Look around and they'll
be more than happy to let you haul it off, saving the restaurant about
$400/month in disposal costs! THEY call ME if I'm not there by 3PM
every Friday...

I called the Charleston AFB motor pool and asked what they did with all
the service records when they sold off a surplus van. "We never throw
any records away.", the nice Sgt told me. "Give me the AF serial number
and I'll email them to you." AF will not surplus sale a van not in good
condition. He got new tires, two red AGM batteries worth about $380,
new front seal, new torque converter, lots of smaller parts, but they
missed the fuel pump which I replaced.

Oh, and parts are CHEAP compared to a supertruck with no box!
I get parts from Mill Supply:
http://www.stepvanparts.com/
I replaced the light bulbed tail lights with LED beasts....They weren't
$70 like a boat trailer.....$18 on a sale sheet they send out every 8
weeks. Mill Supply has EVERY part...in stock! No dealer markup
nonsense...use your credit card and order right off the webpages.

Sarge was only $3000 with 55K on the clock, an empty shell, so I only
carry liability insurance...MUCH CHEAPER THAN BANK-REQUIRED COLLISION.

I've added twin 8000 Btu window AC units to the starboard bulkhead just
forward of the rear wheel well powered by a Honda EU3000is electronic
genset in a custom built aluminum storm cover that swings down for easy
service and filling, on the port rear door. He's full of locking file
cabinets to carry organ parts and manuals in. A military office desk
with military dual flourescent shoplight is my work bench and office.
Where the fold-down crew seats were I store my twin 15" JBL PA monsters
for the DJ business. The DJ console sits on top of the engine cover so
we can play it LOUD riding down the highway from the MP3 player. two
12" speaker cabinets are on the inside of the rear doors that fold out
to become the center channel when operating totally independent from
power outdoors at 1450 watts up to 300' separation.

When the genset isn't necessary, Sarge has a 750 watt Black & Decker
inverter that runs off two 630AH wetcell 6V golf cart batteries in the
driver's footwell in a custom box with outside safety drain. A 40A
manually controlled Amel Sharki battery charger is the 115/230VAC
charging source that came off my friend's yacht when I installed a nice
autocharger. The 170A heavy duty military alternator is easily
connected to charge the house batteries, also, by simply closing the
350A marine on-off switch to the left of the driver's left foot,
paralleling them all without fear of an unregulated batteryless
condition. The house batteries parallel connected with #2 cabling also
act as jumper cables to crank the big diesel if the starting batteries
failed. I got plenty of power...(c;

Sarge has a massive channeled rear bumper welded to the rear end of the
massive channel frames. 4 very hard bolts hold a 16,000# combination
hitch ball/pintle hook onto its main crossframe I'm sure would haul your
boat and stuff anywhere you like. The pintle hook is also good for
towing dead pickup trucks around...(c;

Great tow vehicle for boating. Load the truck with all your stuff and
leave extra beer cooling in the 2.2 cuft fridge I have bolted to the top
of my little filing cabinet behind the driver. Dock the boat and your
MANLY MOTORHOME has your lunch ready for you....air conditioned all the
time in mine! Unlike wimpy motorhomes made of pressboard, Sarge doesn't
mind if you track mud into him. His corrigated STEEL floor hoses right
off out the back doors.

My stepvan is EXACTLY one standard parking lot in size. There are much
larger ones, but I didn't want the long dually you have to park miles
from where you want to go. I can even parallel park it on the street as
it's no longer than a standard pickup bumper to bumper. Of course, it's
10 ft 8 in high so don't drive it through the bank window...(c;

Great fun is to look DOWN on those wimply SUV, Pickup and HUMMER drivers
beside you....(c; Say, "Hello down there!" and the Hummer Penis
Extension boys get all red in the face...hee hee.

"Eisboch" wrote in
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http://www.eisboch.com/fordcrop.jpg

Isn't the lighthouse in the box too tall to get under the neighbor's cable
TV drop, not to mention the blackouts from it hitting the power lines?!

Great picture...nice truck...

Long stick on the floor with NO SYNCHROMESH GEARS, right??

.... and it can carry a lighthouse! Cool!

--Mike

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in
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http://www.eisboch.com/fordcrop.jpg

Isn't the lighthouse in the box too tall to get under the neighbor's cable
TV drop, not to mention the blackouts from it hitting the power lines?!

Great picture...nice truck...

Long stick on the floor with NO SYNCHROMESH GEARS, right??

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in
:

http://www.eisboch.com/fordcrop.jpg

Isn't the lighthouse in the box too tall to get under the neighbor's cable
TV drop, not to mention the blackouts from it hitting the power lines?!

Great picture...nice truck...

Long stick on the floor with NO SYNCHROMESH GEARS, right??




I used this truck as my daily driver for about a year, then sold it to a guy
who was going to ship it to some Caribbean Island. He has a business doing
film documentaries based somewhere down there and intended to put his
company's logo on the doors. Don't know whatever happened to it.

Here's one of my favorite pictures of it:

http://www.eisboch.com/55allopen.jpg

and another of the pickup bed:

http://www.eisboch.com/55fordoakbed.jpg

Eisboch