my old 85 and 93 shortbed

my 2 old trucks.. god how i miss them..

bronco specs-
- 4" lift (stock E250 coil springs and 4" block in the rear)
- carb'd 5.0 HO out of an 89 GT, all sorts of goodies
- C6/NP208
- stock rears
- 38x12.50 TSL's

before 2nd rebuild



and during/after













F150 specs:
- 6" susp lift, 3" body lift
- motor out of the bronco with bigger cam, victor jr intake and new 'noisey' timing gear set
- C6/NP205
- stock D44 ifs with spool, 9" in the back
- 39.5x15 TSL's

what it was when i got it..



and during/after rebuild

Good looking beasts, what happened to them?

long story but i came home 1 day and they were gone.. thank god i got out of that town.. it's all rowan college's fault!!

79_bronco wrote:

long story but i came home 1 day and they were gone.. thank god i got out of that town.. it's all rowan college's fault!!

They where stolen?

nah, impounded because they weren't 'legal' and i wasn't home for quite some time, so they were auctioned off before i was even able to get them back. all i needed for the F150 was a rear driveshaft and it was done.. so needless to say i never got to wheel it

79_bronco wrote:

nah, impounded because they weren't 'legal' and i wasn't home for quite some time, so they were auctioned off before i was even able to get them back. all i needed for the F150 was a rear driveshaft and it was done.. so needless to say i never got to wheel it

Ummm..... wow. That sucks.... BAD.

yeah, that town sucks majorly.. their zoning BS is strict as all hell because of rowan college.. god forbid the bronco was on a trailer with no motor or tags and the F150 didn't have an inspection sticker

Thats horrible. I cant even imagine that happening to me.

neither could i until it happened.. but all is good and well now, i'm out of there for good and don't have to worry about it now.. the town i live in now doesn't even have a zoning board lol

I would have to make sure they got a close look at the arsenal. That is crazy. It takes 6 months to get a warning for parking my trailer in my yard.

Those were great looking trail hogs!!

I really dont understand how people can complain about what people do in their own yards. Its one thing if the truck is leaking fuel or coolant or whatever, but if its just sitting, who cares? I would have flipped if someone touched my trucks.

We have castle law here. It takes a lot to remove something from the property. They even mail you the warning. The PO that drives by and takes note sends it in. They don't put it on the property.

If someone touched my car, it would be the last thing they touched.

Before I killed them, I would make them wash and wax the spot they touched at gunpoint.

1993GMCSierra wrote:

If someone touched my car, it would be the last thing they touched.

Before I killed them, I would make them wash and wax the spot they touched at gunpoint.

no need for washing or waxing mine.. they are always spray painted lol.. makes it cheaper and easier to get nasty scratches out from trees hahaha

BombDocDiesel wrote:

Those were great looking trail hogs!!

you wouldn't have said that if you saw the bronco all clean.. it had dents galore from many years of being a mud truck and hitting trees.. only straight thing on it was the tailgate and that's only because it was brand spanking new

I don't have pics of my old trail hogs, but they were only beautiful to me. I do appreciate a truck I can beat the hell out of and dents just add to it's personality!!

the bronco had a lot of personality and a lot of history to back it up.. my buddy that i had gotten it off of had it for 3-4 years and ran around on 33x12.50 TSL's and it was virtually unstopable.. then when he got a new truck, i traded him my PS2 for the truck as a whole minus motor and the TSL's hahah.. best trade i ever made!

wooo for bartering... i am one to barter myself... jr when your ready ill have a nice blazer for your mom to drive if you ever wanna get RID of that s10... lol..

007jimmy wrote:

wooo for bartering... i am one to barter myself...

really?! no way! lol

hahah Those are some nice rigs man!! Sorry to hear what happened to them. That sucks!

thanks.. my 79 will be bigger and better than these 2.. around this time next year anyway.. haha

What kind of motor you dropping in? My uncle's got a twin carb intake for a 427 he might sell... What do ya think...

sticking with my 400m, they have a pretty decent amount of torque right out of the box. i'm just going to pull it out once i get it to my new shop and replace the rod and main bearings, timing chain, new cam, ARP oil pump shaft and maybe new cam bearings.. topped off with pocket porting the heads, edelbrock intake and edelbrock carb.. should be a decent little torque monster so i'm going to run a 6AL to keep the rpms down under 5500 so my rods stay intact lol