The beast lives... pictures

[PToombs]

After looking at the 1st pics, all I got was stacks, whips, and taillites! :-laf



The truck looks good, cept for the rockers. My stacks are that high, but my rack on the flatbed is up there and mellows the look.



JG is turning into a post tramp! :-laf

 

[JGrefenstette]

yea sorry pete. i must admit i get a little carried away somtimes when i comes to talkin about these trucks. my apologies

 

[PToombs]

Hey, no apologies needed! That's why we're here, right? :-laf I just like to poke everybody. You oughta go to 1stGen.org :: Index and see me over there, I'm awful!

 

[JGrefenstette]

well good. i just make sure to get my $35 worth of membership :-laf



yea and now that i look at it, your posts are 12 shy of 2,000!! and you have the nerve to claim my measly littel 500 as trampish!?!?! hahaha, all i good fun. na your right, thats what these sites are for. people like you and i just make good use of them

 

[PToombs]

9 now. :-laf

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

Yeah, I'm sorry I wasted everyones time with those pictures... they really turned out bad.



Maybe the dark adds to the mystique of my truck... ?

 

[JGrefenstette]

make that 8 pete... . :-laf



not a waste at all matt. we all know what these trucks look like, the stacks and whips where what made your truck the most different from the norm and they were in clear view. no waste in my opinion.



if you get the chance check out the pictures i took of the tires, theres some on the first page and more on the 2nd. i took em near sun set, so youll get some good sunlight i thought youd apreciate that being up in dark clowdy snow country.

 

[JGrefenstette]

hahah, alright pete, go ahead call me what you will. im all high tech now like the rest of yall 'seasoned' tdr veterans



cause i just figured out how those nifty little avatars work. yes indeed :-laf

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

The good Lord bestowed some slight sunlight upon us today, so I figured I'd make this post worth while and post some real pictures. Now you can see how awfully dirty my truck is with road salt. Some people wash vehicles to show them off... but not this guy.



The second last picture is where the saying in my signature came from. when those "that thing got a hemi?" commercials were out, people used to roll up next to me and ask if I had a hemi. So I went to a custom sticker store, had them pull up the "yeah, I gotta hemi" sticker, dropped the "hemi" out, and put in why I don't need a hemi...



People still ask if I have a hemi... ...

 

[Shadrach]

When people ask if it's " gotta Hemi" tell them "No - it's just a six" and them blow their doors off :-laf Shadrach

 

[JGrefenstette]

ah finally!! after 2 years of confusion, i finaly beat this stupid computer. #@$%! i figured out how to attach pictures..... what a struggle. :-laf



heres the rig. in less than 30 days it should have 6inch mitre cut black stacks. mmmm

 

[PToombs]

Ahh, so that's what it looks like without all the drawn in bumpers, lights and stuff! :-laf



Nice Jim!

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

I see you haven't hesitated to try out those all terrains, Jimmy.

 

[JGrefenstette]

hahah yea thats right pete. before long tho all those drawn in items will be the real thing

the picture on the top has the actual cab lights in it. the one on the bottom was from a while back, no cab lights, no gauges, except for the tach (you can see the can )



yea i like to let the tires churn in the sauce a bit if ya no what i mean. i never take it through the mud hole my buddies go through cause i actually care about my truck. but it sees much more than asphalt. its actually pretty clean in that top picture, its been wet round here recently so shes been filthy. all up the doors, and my exhaust pipe has about 5lbs of mud ontop of it. it gets hot and cracks all off as i go down the road

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

Yeah, every spring around here the snow melts and that produces more water than you see the whole rest of the year in rain. I took it through a big dig site once and you couldnt tell what the paint color of my truck was for weeks after that. I left the windows open so I could see where I was going and that was a stupid idea. My jumpseats were covered. I knew where my parking spot was at work because all the mud fell off and made a nice box around my truck.



Its amazing ho clean you bed is... what I can see in the pictures. Mine is all dented and rusted and has more duck ponds than the petting zoo. Theres also a hole behind the passengers side wheel well from where a battery broke open and the acid had its way with my sheet metal.



The truck looks good..... makes me jealous.

 

[JGrefenstette]

oh yea, ive learned that lesson before with the windows. keep em up and turn the wippers on high i mark my parking space at the community college with the circle of oil i leave(it only drips when it idles tho ) and my mud tracks on occasion



yea if you look in the photo gallery youll see that when i bought the truck it had a shell on the bed, the guy had a rubber mat in the bed too, origional owner. its in good condition i think. im going to put roll on bed liner right before i do the stacks in a month so hopefull that will protect and preserve it. i dont care that much tho, after all its a stinkin truck!

battery acid ate through your bed?!? dagon... .



thanks for the complements. i must say i have been blessed, and the more i do to it the harder it is to keep my eyes off it.

 

[JGrefenstette]

theres the descusting cap and rack. the truck was a little, lets just say... . ugly... . when i got my hands on her. i think ive done a fair job improving her health in general. cosmetic as well as mechanical.

 

[JGrefenstette]

heres a good clean one of the bed, after the first cleaning. 2nd day of owning her. sorrry to go crazy posting all this mess at least you get the picture. (no pun intended)

 

[PToombs]

Is that your favorite pic taking spot or what? :-laf

 

[JGrefenstette]

yea youve got me figured out. na not particularly, id love to take pictures of it else where, but i dont have one of those fancey digital cameras. i use the parents, and since i only really can use it, or think to use it is when im at the house, thats where most the pictures are taken.