Was just thinking about a truck I had for the winter in high school...

It was Three on the Tree! Pretty cool I thought...

Any around that maybe look good that have it here?

The one I had I picked up for like 700 bucks. Wish I had a pic.

Was blue and white and rust... LOL With near springs for a seat used thick blankets as seat covers.

Proudly earned the winter beater title!!

 

I'm runnin' two. Always love the, "Whys your automatic have a clutch?" question when I leave it in reverse.





Hmmm, thats my dad drivin'. Was just thinkin' about him as well. He loved that truck.

Anyway, some more detailed pictures from my '66.

Reverse.



First.



Second.

 

Third.



To back up pull up and towards ya.



Straight down to go forward.



Wind that FE out and slap up and away.



Yank down for top gear.

 

The day we brought that ole truck home.



Funny how a ride can bring back memories.



Adrianspeeder

 

Great Pics Guys!!! Glad to see them out there!!

I kno what you mean about the automatic with a clutch!

I had no problem ketting someone else drive it...

That's probably because not very many could figure it out! LOL

 

I had a 62 , with a 292, thre on the tree. I couldn't keep I beam bushings in that truck.
I had a 72 4X3, 351 Cleveland, 4 on the floor with the granny low. That truck would pull anything you could hook up to it.


Edit: Make that 4X4, sheese 4X3

 

Mine was my first vehicle, 63' E-100, 6 Cyl. Falcon engine, 3 on the tree. Best of my 9 fords since. My current 87' 302 does a pretty good job for me though.

 

Yeah, that brings back memories...

My own Dad had a '70, with a 3-on-the-tree 6 cylinder. He used to call it the best running 5 cylinder truck on the planet (one of the cylinders had dropped, but we never knew why). Bullet-proof engine, that 6.

The steering column collar was broken for the shifter too, so we had a hard time keeping the damn thing stuck in there and functioning.

Earlier, we also had a '56 F-100, 3-speed (tree) and V8. Too bad it was a longbed.

 

Ooo, that '56 auta looked good Filmy.

Adrianspeeder

 

Adrian??? Did the OIL and ALT guages come like that in your 66? From the factory? Do the OIL and ALT lights also work?

PS: I have a '65 F-100 with that same dash, 352 and 4 on the floor minus the OIL and ALT guages. Wish I would of kept it running, had too many vehicles and just parked it.

 

I wish. It wasn't beat, but it was primer gray and had the steel reinforced rear bumper - read: work truck. It had *****, though. And wide reverse chromes with baby moons on it. Sat pretty well.

And I'll never forget the smell of it. A combination of old gas, new gas, burnt oil, a little clutch... It was a pretty drafty truck, and those smells never go away. (The heater worked well, though.) We put a new clutch in it (was my first clutch job), and I distinctly remember adding a new rubber fuel line on a very cold New Years Day in 1978.

Knowing what I know now of the '56s, I'll have another someday - a shortbed this time. All depends on time and money. Always, time and money...

 

My dad had a late 70's Econoline van, which he bought new, that had "3 on the tree" with the inline 6 I believe. He had that thing for years, and I remember growing up, we called it "rusty the wonder truck". I wish I had some pics of it, spent many weekends helping\watching the old man bondo the rusted out wheel wells. I remember on the way back from a camping trip one time, a tire iron fell through a rusted out spot in the back of the van and was sparking down I-95. Took us a while to figure out what the hell was going on. Ahh, the memories indeed.

 

Yes, everything works now after I rewired the main harness from scratch. It's a factory pimpin' Custom Cab dash and interior.

I hear ya on too many vehicles, but I do my best to keep everything on the road. Deployments are my biggest obstacle.

Adrianspeeder