Damn that is a nice truck for a 17 year old. People at your school drive porsches too?

 

Yea I drove a beat up Ford stationwagon to high school

 

I had a 78 trans am.

 

I had a 1979, Brilliant blue Chevy Nova, with white race stripes. The kid I bought it from, he got it from his grandmother, and he was fixing it up. He had the interior complete re-done, he had a 350 dropped in with a 350 turbo tranny, a holley 650 Double Pumper, and thats all I could remember. He sold it cause he couldn't afford the gas anymore. College was about a 2 hour drive.

I was a complete dumbazz when it came to auto mechanics back then. About all I knew was simple stuff, like replacing a water pump, starters, heads, stuff like that. I never tore into the engine to actually know what was in it. I do know it ran like a raped ape. I out ran a corvette one day. The guy didn't believe it. It was a fun car and I had a lot of fun in it.

Damn that was 17 years ago....I'm getting old.

 

I had a 91 chevy pickup with 350. 3 JL w0 tens and punch 360 a2. Not a bad setup for a teenager.

 

Short wheel base? C1500?

If it's the one I am thinking of, that was a great truck, huh?

 

I feel a ticket coming up.. I just ordered 2 12s with RMS 400 watts and a 2000 watt amp!

 

I bought and repaired several cars till I could get the one I wanted. My dad was a mechanic and helped a lot(as in did most of it). So in 1958 at the age of 15, I got a 1954 Ford 2 door Business Coupe. I dropped the front end about 3 inches, put oversize tires on the rear, painted it purple, black and white naugahyde interior, and put in a 1957, 312 engine from a Thunderbird.

 

I commend you Jamz.....but I would dare say that you are in the minority. Most people just slow down and pretend they don't see the lights. And when they do, we get the "who- me?" look. I've written hundreds and hundreds of tickets- and I'm one of the leinent guys. A good chunk of my tickets are based on attitude. I have the ability to give a warning, but if you're gonna be a "richard-head" to me, I can be one right back. I've witten someone for 10 MPH over (School zone) and given a warning for 110 in a 50. All based on attitude, people. Swallow your pride, apologize, and keep your money in your wallet.
P.S. you can call us Azz hats, etc- etc... but we do have a job to do, and we're not like the Fire department- call them, and they help you. Call us, and someone ends up going to jail- over a situation thats taken years to deteriorate. We have some pretty clever names for our customers as well...

 

Please share.

I am always ready for a new nickname for my wifes dog, or a tard at work, or the idiot that doesn't use their turn signal...the list goes on and on. My names are getting old.

So, the steps that I took during my stop is what a State Trooper would rather see, right?

If so, this is for UC and vader:

 

LOL- Ya, but like I said- I'd be rubbing my eyes- "I can't believe what I'm seeing".

Under the new "Cleaning up the forums" rule, I'll have to code up the names we have....but I'll work on it.

 

If ya get time, and feel up to it, shot me an e-mail.

jamzwayne AT gmail DOT com

 

Feel free to send them to me also, BuiltFordTough@sbcglobal.net

 

The first time, about 1973, that I left the yukon, where there was only 1 road to wherever and everywhere, I entered Vancouver City, briskly pulled off the express-way and into the business district of "down town". I took a brisk right and was half way down the block to the gas station when I noticed all these friendly people, some in my lane, coming towards me, honking and waving. Funny, they all waved the same, so I, being the polite guy I am, returned the wave in the fashion it was given to me. I managed to get into the service station just before the guy in my lane was about to have to swerve away. Whew.

 

Obviously the marines didn't teach you to spell

In regards to the police, around here we have some real ****** quite frankly, mostly kids fresh out of the military whose worst problem seems to be dealing with the fact that their badge doesn't give them absolute authority. Two of them from a nearby town got written reprimands and get to take some refresher courses for the way they dealt with my wife and I a few weekends ago.

I have no problems with obeying a lawful order from police, but I give them exactly what they give me in the process and I don't back down. Especially when their treatment was based on the assumption that my wife and I were just trailer trash that couldn't do anything about it. Imagine their surprise when my wife's family had their lawyers send a letter to the city managers office written on their corporate letter head.

I don't whether to laugh or get angry at how fast they apologized. It's funny to see them wet their pants, sad to think they thought they could get away with it based on how they percieved our social status.