I love old pickup trucks. Nostalgic memory..

[robvious]

mine was a beat up 1965 GMC... That flat medium baby blue color from back then... white bumpers... straight six.. one barrel carb... manual choke... 3 on the tree... it was my grandfather's and each dent was a story... was given to me as payment for painting the house & barn on the farm when I was in college.. I truly miss that truck.

EDIT.. found a picture...

 

[Krogen]

Heh heh.... It's a perspective thing. Compared to my buddy's '23 GMC "Luxury Truck" my '14 Tacoma is a primitive, simple truck. The taco will be with me until it dies, or I do.

 

[Inusuit]

My current "old pickup" is a 1987 Chevrolet half ton 4x4. Was my dad's ranch truck, so used hard and shows it. 307 V8. Floor shifter with granny gear. Vent windows and handle roll downs. Two keys. Exactly the truck I need at the moment. (No, I won't help you move.)

My favorite was a 1949 Dodge. Guy gave it to me with a blown rod. Friend, his dad, and I put a junkyard flathead 6 engine in it that actually ran when we were done. Rattle can paint job, seat covers I made from an army blanket. Three speed on the floor with an elk horn shift knob. Drove it for years. Wish I had it back.

 

[Bald1]

Here’s my new old time pickup. I sat out to buy the most basic F250 I could. I just didn’t want a white regular cab that looked like a utility companies truck. I wanted as little technology as possible. I found my 2022 online 450 mi from home in Manassas Va. someone special ordered it and never took delivery of it. I literally would have ordered it exactly the same. It’s got a vinyl bench seat and rubber floor covering. I keep the center armrest down usually though. I put old school saddle blanket seat covers on it. The kind I used to buy at KMart for $19. It’s got the Godzilla 7.3 and 10
Spd tranny. I intend to drive it until the wheels fall off.

 

[LVSteve]

Here’s my new old time pickup. I sat out to buy the most basic F250 I could. I just didn’t want a white regular cab that looked like a utility companies truck. I wanted as little technology as possible. I found my 2022 online 450 mi from home in Manassas Va. someone special ordered it and never took delivery of it. I literally would have ordered it exactly the same. It’s got a vinyl bench seat and rubber floor covering. I keep the center armrest down usually though. I put old school saddle blanket seat covers on it. The kind I used to buy at KMart for $19. It’s got the Godzilla 7.3 and 10
Spd tranny. I intend to drive it until the wheels fall off.

That is a bizarre spec. I'm surprised a "civilian" was allowed to order it that way.

 

[oink]

My truck is an 05 F150 but with no vent window. However, the AC doesn't work, so does that count?

 

[ggibson511960]

My Dad had a '52 GMC. I was too little to drive it but loved watching the road through the hole in the floor for the starter pedal. That old timer had manual choke and throttle knobs on the dash, way too much responsibility for modern drivers. My best friend's Dad had a Ford dealership. He loved to tell the story of a widow who bought a new Ford in the 50's and couldn't get it to run right. She was using the pull out choke knob to hang her purse. I heard old timers talk about loading hay by putting an old truck in "compound" and walking beside it through the field tossing bales in the bed as it slowly crept forward.

 

[Bald1]

LVSteve, Ford is one of the few automakers that still let u order anything you want. The problem is they tell you 6 months and with all supply chain nonsense it takes 8-9 months. The guy who spec’d out my truck got tired of waiting and bought one off the lot.

 

[NFrameFred]

I love old pickups, and I love photographing them. :

Kindred spirit here . . . saw this residing in the middle of an overgrown hay field about 400 yards from the road and risked a trespassing ding by climbing over the fence and getting close enough to take this shot . . . the old truck resides where it died or was abandoned decades before . . .

 

[30-30remchester]

Talking about old trucks, my father had a small construction business that my brother and I continued with. Last year I was in a remote Colorado mining town and sitting in some willows at the end of a grass airstrip was a 1957 Chevy pickup with our signs still visible on the door.

 

[rwsmith]

Hmmmm...

My truck is an 05 F150 but with no vent window. However, the AC doesn't work, so does that count?

If it doesn't have a vent window, the a/c IS broken.

 

[rwsmith]

A future archeologist.....

Kindred spirit here . . . saw this residing in the middle of an overgrown hay field about 400 yards from the road and risked a trespassing ding by climbing over the fence and getting close enough to take this shot . . . the old truck resides where it died or was abandoned decades before . . .

... will find this and have to explain it.

 

[Muley Gil]

....I got 21 trucks that you have owned. If I need advice on a truck I'll give you a call, With one lemon you must know how to pick them. I think my lemon outnumber the good vehicles I've bought. (I do my homework, but they always change something in the middle of the model year that they shouldn't have changed).

Have you ever bought any CARS???

Just a few.

My 1st vehicle was a '52 Buick Super that had been my granddaddy's. OHV straight eight and a Dynaflow tranny. Next was a '60 Pontiac 4D Catalina. 389 that only tolerated GOOD high-test gas. It had a compression ratio of 10.25:1.

When I had to give my '80 Bronco back to Ford, my mom gave me a '72 Catalina.

That was my last car until my mom died in 2015 and left me her 2014 Toyota Prius. I thought about trading that in on a P/U, but I was driving 50 miles a day for work and 50 MPG was hard to give up. I'm still driving it. The '88 F150 4x4 only gets about 14-15 MPG.

Oh, I trying to remember my vehicles when I remembered the 1999 Isuzu Rodeo I had. So make that list 22 trucks and SUVs.

 

[Bald1]

Talking about old trucks, my father had a small construction business that my brother and I continued with. Last year I was in a remote Colorado mining town and sitting in some willows at the end of a grass airstrip was a 1957 Chevy pickup with our signs still visible on the door.

I’d have to own that truck.

 

[30-30remchester]

I’d have to own that truck.

Problem is, nobody knows who owns it. It is a derelict with not tires or engine and trees growing up through it. I also looked at the photo again and it isn't a 1957 model but appears to be a 1954 model.

 

[BRL40]

Old pickups with the ol' mandatory bench seats, ah yes.

Story Time:

My first car was a 1970 4-door Nova with a front bench seat.

Pulled up to a red light and stopped, the guy behind me didn't stop and slammed into me at about 35 mph.

I wasn't looking in the rear view mirror so I never saw it coming.

It dang near snapped my head off backwards!

Now picture the same scenario in a pickup truck with a bench seat and the rear glass window about 2 inches behind your head...

Well at least your head will end up in the bed and not be laying on the road.

My '69 Chevy Stepside came with a beautiful newly reupholstered bench seat, and I couldn't wait to yank that thing out and find some high back buckets!

YMMV.

 

[NYlakesider]

Old pickups with the ol' mandatory bench seats, ah yes.

Story Time:

My first car was a 1970 4-door Nova with a front bench seat.

Pulled up to a red light and stopped, the guy behind me didn't stop and slammed into me at about 35 mph.

I wasn't looking in the rear view mirror so I never saw it coming.

It dang near snapped my head off backwards!

Now picture the same scenario in a pickup truck with a bench seat and the rear glass window about 2 inches behind your head...

Well at least your head will end up in the bed and not be laying on the road.

My '69 Chevy Stepside came with a beautiful newly reupholstered bench seat, and I couldn't wait to yank that thing out and find some high back buckets!

YMMV.

That also gave you a good view of the in cab gas tank.

I had a 70 with that tank set up and I never really got use to listening to all that explosive gas sloshing around!

 

[BRL40]

That also gave you a good view of the in cab gas tank.

I had a 70 with that tank set up and I never really got use to listening to all that explosive gas sloshing around!

HA!

Yea, don't get T-boned with an 18 gallon gas tank sitting behind you either, almost happened to me two weeks ago at a 4-way stop intersection.

On the bright side, you won't have to worry about any cremation fees upon your death.

Definitely not a perfect world.

 

[BRL40]

...I never really got use to listening to all that explosive gas sloshing around!

No problem there, just crank up the stereo!

Another cool thing about high back buckets is you now have a perfect spot to install a Rockford Fosgate 8" sub-woofer enclosure.

...you'll never hear it coming either.

 

[Farmer17]

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New trucks are nice in their own way. You mentioned bench seats. I miss bench seats more than anything. These new trucks all have bucket seats and center consoles.

My 2018 Ram Quad Cab has a 70/30 bench seat that has a flip down section with a lid to use as a console. This is my favorite type of truck seats because the cab seems so roomy with added leg room plus when I was dating there were many times when I was parked I would flip up that center console and she would slide over into my seat!