hello I live In Canada BC I am gonna get started on my first ford, a 49 f1. I ain't never owned anything that started with and F before so I hope you folks don't mind me lurking around and asking the odd question when I need a smidgen of help on some dumb question thanks!
[ QUOTE ] Welcome man! And you must not be married because I've called mine alot of things that start with a F [/ QUOTE ] I've been married for 22 years!! she's been thru lots of automobile resurrecting on mid fiftie chevy trucks and 1 55 chevy car nothing professionally done just me ****ing around on my own
Welcome, I've had a 51 F-1 for about 30 years. If ya need help holler, my son has one too (K-MEMBER).........OLDBEET
Welcome, welcome, welcome. You landed in the right place to get questions answered and then some!! Anyway, welcome.
[ QUOTE ] Hi Upchuck. Is your real name Chuck? Or is there a good story behind your screenname? [/ QUOTE ] My real name is Jeff, I used the name Upchuck on an old online game called planetarion I used to play and it was the only name I could come up with quick that wasn't scifi, egotistical and didn't have numbers in it so it kind of just stuck I wasn't born in a puddle of puke and can't remember the last time I woke up in one either! I'm 42 married and got 2 boys aged 10 and soon to be 12 in a week
chuck welcome. i've had a '48 f-1 (panel truck) for 31 years. there's a chance i might know an answer or two for ya.
welcome!!! hey man, jeff's a cool name, f-1 is a very cool truck. im buildin one right now. what look are you shootin for? something radical, or traditional... you can get away with some cool ****. heres mine so far. s-10 frame, fenders raised two inches hood sectioned 2 inches, 1 inch cut out of running boards to make it look right. i still got a ways to go. lets see some pics!!! good luck
[ QUOTE ] im buildin one right now. what look are you shootin for? [/ QUOTE ] nice look'n truck you got there! thanks I am gonna strip the chrome off except the headlight rings, them hood latch handle things and door handles, leave it primer since I don't expect to ever paint in my lifetime, revive the flathead V8 if possible, and would maybe like to lower it slightly but I haven't got a good look at it on the level, I might be happy with the stock stance with some respectable tires on it other than them old bias ply deeplugs on it I don't got it home yet but will get some pictures of it hopefully by the end of the month when its parked on the ole homestead here
That's cool Jeff, I just thought there mighta been some cool "drunk out one night with the boys" kinda story, but I'll forgive ya this time!
[ QUOTE ] welcome!!! hey man, jeff's a cool name, f-1 is a very cool truck. lets see some pics!!! good luck [/ QUOTE ] upchuck welcome my names jeff too.. and I also have a 48 f1. gay jeff is my ***** seein how I pimp my old parts to him on occasion.. heres a shot of my truck mid build..
welcome aboard "some respectable tires on it other than them old bias ply deeplugs on it" What other kind of tire is there
Hopefully I'll be getting my trucks home sunday or monday and will get some fuzzy pictures up I'll edit out the old 60's/70's ******* centerfold pictures off the walls though
Whatcha talkin about editing old cl***ic wall art ....Welcome from another BC Jeff. I was in Cranbrook last summer for the fires and met a guy with a couple of old cars..nice old sled and GTO I think.He's the pres of the Cranbrook car club , Ron was his name. Anyway , lots of good info here and some really talented guys.You can learn alot from them...
[ QUOTE ] I was in Cranbrook last summer for the fires [/ QUOTE ] off topic I know I got a pretty funny story about them fires, we live out of town at cranbrook and were on alert for a day or 2 til they upped it to evacuation alert and when the cops came by to gather names and family member numbers I asked them if I could talk to them off the "record" something, they just looked at each other and asked me what and I said I got nothing to say if they were going to follow up on it so they agreed to off the record, well I asked them what I should do with about 30 lbs of black powder I had in the house, since if it went up in smoke and there was some of you fire guys around I didn't want a big section of the house blowing shrapnel and debris all over, their mouths fell open a fair bit and they suggested I soak it down to which I replied "no can do" since I wanted it for my shooting so in the end we agreed to bury it and mark its location incase they brought in a Cat or something for a fireguard all in all though they were a pretty good bunch of cops, and my hats off to you firefighters whether you were in the bush fighting it or riding around on patrol with firetrucks it was a pretty intense couple of weeks
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