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Offline velojym

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Found in a field today
« on: February 13, 2012, 04:20:43 pm »
I was out taking photos for a real estate listing, for a property of a deceased fella, and ran across some interesting trucks he had in the back "yard" (man, I'd love to have a yard like that). While the fire truck is pretty cool, the two medium duty Chevies, and the flatbed 1 ton intrigue me the most.



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Offline firefighter

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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2012, 04:51:34 pm »
The blue Chevy truck looks like it's been there for a while.   ;D
How bad was it rusted?   
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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2012, 05:14:12 pm »
Quote from: firefighter on February 13, 2012, 04:51:34 pm
The blue Chevy truck looks like it's been there for a while.   ;D
How bad was it rusted?   

I only saw some surface rust. I didn't inspect it very closely, but didn't notice any real cancer.
That red bobtail would make a great hay hauler and parade float tractor... polish it up, get 'er runnin' good, maybe a set of stacks...
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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2012, 07:38:34 pm »
     Yea, they look like they have been there a little while.
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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2012, 09:54:43 pm »
The blue couldn't have been there too long. There's not any dead growth around. Like it was put there after the grass and stuff stopped growin this year. Compare it to the others.
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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2012, 05:54:52 am »
It must have been hard to not take a few minutes and take a close look at that 1 ton.  ;D
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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2012, 08:08:11 am »
Quote from: thirsty on February 15, 2012, 05:54:52 am
It must have been hard to not take a few minutes and take a close look at that 1 ton.  ;D

It was. I peeked inside, saw that it had a manual tranny, but I was in a hurry to catch up with a really unpredictable realtor.
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Offline txchainsawgogi

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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2012, 11:20:51 am »
aww, thats how mine looked. now i drive it pretty much every day :)
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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2012, 06:05:27 pm »
I want all of them!
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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2012, 07:18:13 pm »
Quote from: heavychevy91 on February 15, 2012, 06:05:27 pm
I want all of them!


They could make for some darned pleasant Spring afternoons cleaning and tinkering.
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Offline Jason S

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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2012, 08:17:14 pm »
Quote from: velojym on February 13, 2012, 04:20:43 pm
While the fire truck is pretty cool, the two medium duty Chevies, and the flatbed 1 ton intrigue me the most.

That blue one-ton looks salvageable.  With the amount of pine needles on the ground, you'd think the thing would be covered in needles if it had sat there very long.

The fire truck and the dump truck are Ford... There's a chance that the Chevy medium duty truck has the Tachometer/Vacuum gauge cluster... Would be a shame if it did and it was dispatched to the crusher.
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Re: Found in a field today
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2012, 09:10:41 pm »
Erp, you're right. I wasn't paying close attention to the dumper, and just kinda pictured it as a 70 model or so.  Well... I'd love to get my paws on the bobtail and the flatbed 1 ton
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