mrgreenjeans
Junior Member
A neighbor while growing up on the farm, may have had something to do with this. He drove a fairly new 1950 high box side pickup in dark blue with black box and yellow painted wheels. As a child I was smitten with this beauty and would gaze at it as he and Dad would talk in the yard about farm stuff. I was maybe 6.
Then as I grew older another farm neighbor bought a new 1971 Adventurer in blue metallic..... it was the first Dodge I had seen with bucket seats, but not the first pickup seen with them. My uncles who farmed west of Winnipeg had an early C10 in white with red buckets and center console they had bought new in 1968.
Meanwhile Dad had bought a black D100 with blue interior, used from the local MOPAR dealership 12 miles away. It had a ride I had not experienced before, in fact quite comfortable. A 318 truck with 3 speed manual, it was a '68 and looked and drove like it was new.
Well, "stick a fork in it". Done and DONE.
------and wish I had every one of those old pickups today; yes, even that C10 with the big engine and beautiful interior (it was also an air-con truck), and seem to remember my uncle Melfort saying it was a 427.
My first Dodge I bought 35 years ago is a 1950 dually with fluid drive and 4 speed manual. Red with black box and high sides, yellow wheels. And from the original owner. Then came the Sweptsides and Sweptline from the late '50s, then the M37B1, Custom Sport Special, and a few vans, finally a Palomino.
I am working on a neighbor to get an 'abandoned DUDE' ...... then there are the Warlocks, and Californian to find.
oh, boy........ this is an itch which knows no scratch will help
Then as I grew older another farm neighbor bought a new 1971 Adventurer in blue metallic..... it was the first Dodge I had seen with bucket seats, but not the first pickup seen with them. My uncles who farmed west of Winnipeg had an early C10 in white with red buckets and center console they had bought new in 1968.
Meanwhile Dad had bought a black D100 with blue interior, used from the local MOPAR dealership 12 miles away. It had a ride I had not experienced before, in fact quite comfortable. A 318 truck with 3 speed manual, it was a '68 and looked and drove like it was new.
Well, "stick a fork in it". Done and DONE.
------and wish I had every one of those old pickups today; yes, even that C10 with the big engine and beautiful interior (it was also an air-con truck), and seem to remember my uncle Melfort saying it was a 427.
My first Dodge I bought 35 years ago is a 1950 dually with fluid drive and 4 speed manual. Red with black box and high sides, yellow wheels. And from the original owner. Then came the Sweptsides and Sweptline from the late '50s, then the M37B1, Custom Sport Special, and a few vans, finally a Palomino.
I am working on a neighbor to get an 'abandoned DUDE' ...... then there are the Warlocks, and Californian to find.
oh, boy........ this is an itch which knows no scratch will help
