The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.

[Timmy Berk]

My 72 has heat shields and brackets clanging and belts squealing and brakes growling, ahhhh yes I do love an old truck, am radio (dont use it) it drowns out the music of the metal.

[*Dylan]

I just had to come and revive this topic to speak of my newest joyful experience! First I'll get the bad one out of the way, lol. So, a week ago I installed a new fuel sending unit because my old one was far gone. After installing it, my gas gauge now fails to work and at the connection between fuel lines in the cab it now leaks. It's leaking because there's a huge amount of pressure building in my tank now for some reason that was never there before. I open the gas tank and *poof* out comes a shot of air. I'm working on fixing that now.

As for the great new joyful experience, well I was driving home from town the other day and I got caught at a red light. I look in the rearview and notice a white van slowly creeping up beside me. This wasn't just the usual slow creep up either, you know the kind where you try to get the nose of your car in front of the persons beside you. No, this was a creep from my tailgate til they were even with me. I see out of the corner of my the guy we'll call hippy1 glancing at my truck and looking at me. I figure, it's just some nosy guy no harm intended. Then the window started to come down, I was in a shady part of town so I wasn't too sure what was about to go down. Well hippy2 (the driver) leans forward and says "Duuude, your truck is aawweessoommee" my face lit up like a little kid in a candy store haha. I said thanks and the light turned green where I proceeded on my way home. I was probably smiling for the next twenty minutes. That was the first time I had someone pull up beside me and say something about my truck.

[72lb4x4]

Driving my truck is a joy because its like a tractor compared to the DD. Its a half ton but it thinks it can run over anything.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

Nice words. Are they yours, or who said them? You can give credit in your sig...

[*Dylan]

Originally Posted by 72lb4x4

Driving my truck is a joy because its like a tractor compared to the DD. Its a half ton but it thinks it can run over anything.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

Nice words. Are they yours, or who said them? You can give credit in your sig...

Not too sure if that's meant to insinuate anything but I am by no means taking credit for that. I have a quote in my signature as many other people on the forum do. Now if you want to know who those words originally came from I will tell.

-John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), “The Contest In America,”
Fraser’s Magazine, February 1862

[toddtheodd]

Originally Posted by *Dylan

Not too sure if that's meant to insinuate anything but I am by no means taking credit for that. I have a quote in my signature as many other people on the forum do. Now if you want to know who those words originally came from I will tell.

-John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), “The Contest In America,”
Fraser’s Magazine, February 1862

I think he's just pointing out that it's nice to know who is being quoted... so if we want to use that quote in future conversations. With that being the case, giving credit to the originator in your sig prevents people constantly having to ask for who said it.

Toad

[*Dylan]

Originally Posted by toddtheodd

I think he's just pointing out that it's nice to know who is being quoted... so if we want to use that quote in future conversations. With that being the case, giving credit to the originator in your sig prevents people constantly having to ask for who said it.

Toad

90% of the way something is interpreted is determined by how someone says it, I didn't know how to interpret it so I replied in a slightly neutral/defensive way. That is all.

[texanidiot25]

Notta week goes by with out complements.

Though my favorite was the police... Walked out of a gas station to find a cop behind my truck, with him checking it out... He just wanted to talk, his dad had one

Still scary at 1st

[yote1234]

i know how you feel. my wife calls me crazy because i park my 2009 chevy truck and drive my 72 for a month at a time..

[toddtheodd]

Originally Posted by yote1234

i know how you feel. my wife calls me crazy because i park my 2009 chevy truck and drive my 72 for a month at a time..

Makes perfect sense to me.

My wife and I are in a little financial trouble right now (I got laid off of a good paying job, and haven't found anything comparable yet). So instead of selling the 72 that was not running because of a knock, I am letting my car get repoed and am fixing the truck.
People say "Why not sell the truck?" And my answer would have to be that I wouldn't get much, whatever I got would only help for a month or two, and then right back where I was. But most of all, the truck is paid for.