And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Maybe, maybe not. My brother had a '76 F-250 4x4 that was that color that he bought new. It was a fairly unusual color to see on the road so I always figured Ford marketed it to contractors, who seemed to like their company pickups that color back then.
I had a 78 F-100 Ranger XLT 4x4 that I picked up cheap when it was 10 years old and burning over a quart of oil with every tank of gas because of the worn valve guides. I rebuilt the 400M that had 65k miles where I increased the stock 170ish HP to a little over 300 HP. A cam for low end torque, Holly 700 carb, worked heads, and headers as the bottom end was tight. That engine with a granny gear 4 speed going to 4:10 LS rear and a spool in the front axle on 33 Ground Hawgs got 11-12 mpg normal driving. It would get 15 on the highway but it saw the woods more. It was still running strong when I sold it in 1999.
Ex-Weyerhauser?
ReplyDeleteMaybe, maybe not. My brother had a '76 F-250 4x4 that was that color that he bought new. It was a fairly unusual color to see on the road so I always figured Ford marketed it to contractors, who seemed to like their company pickups that color back then.
DeleteI had a 78 F-100 Ranger XLT 4x4 that I picked up cheap when it was 10 years old and burning over a quart of oil with every tank of gas because of the worn valve guides. I rebuilt the 400M that had 65k miles where I increased the stock 170ish HP to a little over 300 HP. A cam for low end torque, Holly 700 carb, worked heads, and headers as the bottom end was tight. That engine with a granny gear 4 speed going to 4:10 LS rear and a spool in the front axle on 33 Ground Hawgs got 11-12 mpg normal driving. It would get 15 on the highway but it saw the woods more. It was still running strong when I sold it in 1999.
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice '78.
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