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.
I'll take 2. That blue one on top and the red one with bed rails on the bottom. Oh yeah, throw in that 2 tone green one on the bottom too. 2 tones have better trim packages.
The reason they stopped shipping them like that was the dealers got tired of repairing the bullet holes and a lot of other damage. I once took a Jeep Cherokee to a dealer that had all the windows shot out and had more than 20 bullet holes in the body. I was a Teamster Car Hauler. I could tell you stories about how cars were messed with when they shipped them in open carriers. I worked out of a railhead and had a guy climb out and ask me where he was. A lot of them were used as toilets.
The 72 Ranger XLT I had in High School was the same scheme as the lower back one but the dark green was maroon and the light green was white. 360 V8, C6 Automatic, chrome rear bumper. That truck was sold new in Ohio and as much as I would like to have kept it, it was having severe rust problems by the time I sold it.
As mentioned above, the damage to the vehicles was outrageous. Especially if going through any inner-city stopped on a sideing or sitting in a freight yard. They couldn't replace those freight cars quick enough.
WRT to shipping damage . . . I'd heard/read that it was common practice to change out the wheel bearings upon arrival at the dealership. Apparently, a long trip by train means a lot of shock and vibration, and since the wheels/bearings weren't rotating, the effects weren't uniform around the bearings, and that trip ended up peening dents into the bearing races.
Trying to guess the year. I'm going to say somewhere between 1962 and 1968.
ReplyDelete'68 at the earliest. That was the year side marker lights became mandatory. They made a lot of the red over white ones.
DeleteSo is the B&O, a line that is no more. I've got a kerosene lantern with the company logo with a red fresnel globe.
ReplyDeleteWe lived near a B&O railroad in the 60s and 70s, it was mostly coal cars that went by. We would walk the track as a back way in to town.
DeleteI'll take 2. That blue one on top and the red one with bed rails on the bottom. Oh yeah, throw in that 2 tone green one on the bottom too. 2 tones have better trim packages.
ReplyDeleteWould like to have all of those but will settle for the Ranchero.
ReplyDeleteThat cab model was 67 thru 72, I'd guess these are closer to 70-71s. Sure would like to have anyone of them. Guess I will have to be happy with my 58.
ReplyDeleteI wish they still made these, said everyman ever.
ReplyDeleteEverything you need and nothing you don't. Like a smog check.
DeleteThe reason they stopped shipping them like that was the dealers got tired of repairing the bullet holes and a lot of other damage. I once took a Jeep Cherokee to a dealer that had all the windows shot out and had more than 20 bullet holes in the body. I was a Teamster Car Hauler. I could tell you stories about how cars were messed with when they shipped them in open carriers. I worked out of a railhead and had a guy climb out and ask me where he was. A lot of them were used as toilets.
ReplyDeleteGraffiti was a big problem.
DeleteThe 72 Ranger XLT I had in High School was the same scheme as the lower back one but the dark green was maroon and the light green was white. 360 V8, C6 Automatic, chrome rear bumper. That truck was sold new in Ohio and as much as I would like to have kept it, it was having severe rust problems by the time I sold it.
ReplyDeleteI had a 69 F100 that looked like the green one on top, but with a pale green cab.
ReplyDeleteNeighbor had the sage green one on top, exactly - about 40 years ago. He's long gone now.
ReplyDeleteThe red and white two tone is snazzy. Some mag wheels would look good.
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned above, the damage to the vehicles was outrageous. Especially if going through any inner-city stopped on a sideing or sitting in a freight yard. They couldn't replace those freight cars quick enough.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't long before they put metal sides on all the car carriers.
DeleteDunno what makes me hungrier, one of these, or the hasselback potato breakfast a couple posts back/down.
ReplyDeleteStraight 6, 3 on the tree and an AM radio. I don't care about the color, just give me the keys to one.
WRT to shipping damage . . . I'd heard/read that it was common practice to change out the wheel bearings upon arrival at the dealership. Apparently, a long trip by train means a lot of shock and vibration, and since the wheels/bearings weren't rotating, the effects weren't uniform around the bearings, and that trip ended up peening dents into the bearing races.
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DeleteThese were the ugliest of the ugly Ford trucks. Just my opinion, but backed up by my excellent taste and sense of style!
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