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Yea instagram

 

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Thought so. Truck looks a lot like my firebird pic did when that photographer in the OK Camaro took.

 

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It was fun while it lasted but I sure don't miss it.

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Got my new tires mounted to the rims, now just need the snow to go away and to find my lug nuts so I can put these on...

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My froend and i took his 2014 to the drag strip to watch the nostalgia cars run

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She's a beauty Sarah! I'd cringe driving that in the salt, though. The 80's trucks rusted away pretty fast.

 

 

I see the new trucks went the Ford way with the 0w-20. Stuff is like water. It's a wonder it even lubricates, lol.

My 06 is rusted to hell it was mint 4 years ago now I have no rockers or cab corners. And neither does my 86.

 

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Yeah, it doesn't take long. I was seeing rust take hold under my truck on the rockers last year. Thing only has 85k on it.

 

When the truck was just 2 years old, and I mashed the box up backing into a little sapling, I couldn't believe all the rust under all that plastic on the bumper, and way up behind the tail light in that space between the inner bed skin, and the outer skin. Crazy. :nonod:

 

Wished I had oiled it from day one, but was working 60 hours a week at the time - didn't have time for much back then. Amazing what happened under there in just 3 years. Since I've been oiling it, it hasn't changed, which is good.

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I hear that. They go nuts over here if there's just talk of snow in the forecast. I've seen the sander on my street with a dusting on the road, and temps forecast to go way above freezing just hours in the future. It's ridiculous. Out here everyone freaks out if they can't do 75 in a raging blizzard on bare roads ...

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I hear that. They go nuts over here if there's just talk of snow in the forecast. I've seen the sander on my street with a dusting on the road, and temps forecast to go way above freezing just hours in the future. It's ridiculous. Out here everyone freaks out if they can't do 75 in a raging blizzard on bare roads ...

Sometimes they get out of hand here too. They laid it down on the roads this past Thursday, and we hardly even got anything. I was coming home with the Cruze from the dealer when I ran into it in the right lane. I rode in the left lane until the exit where the State truck got off. No way I was running through that crap when it was wet.

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My 91 has been undercoated every year before winter and there's no rust on her. And they use a lot of salt in my city. Every vehicle I've had get's undercoated and I haven't had to deal with rust in over 15 years. The only one to rust, despite being undercoated, was my Ex's Accord, but I believe Honda's are determined to rust no matter what...

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LOL yeah like late 70's Ford trucks. At night, you could hear them rust out in your driveway. :lol:

 

My ol' man bought a brand new '77 Ford F-100 Custom. Just one winter, and the cab fell through the body mounts and was sitting directly on the frame. We had never seen anything rust so fast!

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LOL yeah like late 70's Ford trucks. At night, you could hear them rust out in your driveway. [emoji38]

My ol' man bought a brand new '77 Ford F-100 Custom. Just one winter, and the cab fell through the body mounts and was sitting directly on the frame. We had never seen anything rust so fast!

Now now, a coworker always claimed that the Chevy's were the only ones to do this. Ford never had ANY issues in his mind...
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My 91 has been undercoated every year before winter and there's no rust on her. And they use a lot of salt in my city. Every vehicle I've had get's undercoated and I haven't had to deal with rust in over 15 years. The only one to rust, despite being undercoated, was my Ex's Accord, but I believe Honda's are determined to rust no matter what...

Yeah, noticed in the Accord forums people with pre 2004 Accords have had issues in the rust belt. But, I have also seen people from those areas post pics of white and black ones so salty and sandy they looked grey or brown. Time will tell on the newer ones.

 

 

Living in OK, doesn't bother me at all. I have been seeing old cars driving around lately sanded down to bare metal!

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