The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... June 13, 2007, 06:40:59 PM Just picked this up about two hours ago: 1995 F-150 4X4, 300 six, automatic (), almost exactly 100k miles. There's a bit of surface rust on the body but no holes, and the interior is mint (and as a bonus, it's never been smoked in). It needs tires and wheels (all four wheels on the truck are different :hick:) and a blower motor resistor, but nothing else - it has only had 500km (300 miles) put on it since it passed safety inspection in April. Not bad for $2500 (everyone else selling trucks around here seems to think they're made of gold).Now I've just got to find a small 5-speed car as a DD - this thing will kill me at the gas pumps until I do... Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #1 – June 13, 2007, 07:40:37 PM I like it Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #2 – June 13, 2007, 08:21:09 PM i thought you were looking for better gas mileage? Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #3 – June 13, 2007, 08:40:15 PM Quote from: 32VFoxBird;154065i thought you were looking for better gas mileage? Quote from: Thunder Chicken;154049Now I've just got to find a small 5-speed car as a DD - this thing will kill me at the gas pumps until I do...Try reading the entire post first:flip: Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #4 – June 13, 2007, 09:35:37 PM Quote from: 88sportcoupe;154067Try reading the entire post first:flip:LOL! i didnt look at any text below the pics, thinking it was part of your sig. :wtf: Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #5 – June 13, 2007, 09:42:02 PM Quote from: 88sportcoupe;154067Try reading the entire post first:flip:Yeah, what he said :flip: I need a truck for gathering firewood, hauling home materials for the renovations, going hunting and fishing deep in the woods, and just plain monkeying about on the logging roads. I've been using my father's Dakota (you can see it in the background) but he's kinda resenting paying $800/month for a truck he hasn't seen in two months, so I needed a truck first. Besides, his 2005 Dakota is far too nice to do the things I do to a truck to. Three-foot-wide-grown-in-logging-roads plus two-year-$30k-truck is just plain bad news. I needed a truck I wouldn't care if I left some paint behind. I used to have just such a truck in my old '88 Dakota 4X4 but the safety inspection gods called it home, and I'd been missing having a truck ever since I sold it for parts. This time around I was looking for a Ford or Chev because they are cheap to buy parts for.Now I have the truck I won't be in a big hurry to buy a car, so I can be picky. As in "gotta be a 5-speed and gotta have air" picky. Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #6 – June 13, 2007, 11:28:32 PM hey carm that truck got A/c? if so could you take some pics my brother got a 300 and wants to put air in it i would like to see how it's run and such. if it's not too much to ask Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #7 – June 13, 2007, 11:32:03 PM Our 91 300 six 4x4 wasn't that bad on gas when it had a AOD. Now that it has a C6 it drinks gas like whiskey. Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #8 – June 13, 2007, 11:37:38 PM Quote from: CougarCoupe88;154103hey carm that truck got A/c? if so could you take some pics my brother got a 300 and wants to put air in it i would like to see how it's run and such. if it's not too much to askNope, no A/C. The only option it's got is a tape deck and the automatic :hick: It does have wing windows, though, (as all 96-and-older F150's have) so I can hold off trying to find that four-eye Bird with wing windows for a while...Quote from: CougarSE;154105Our 91 300 six 4x4 wasn't that bad on gas when it had a AOD. Now that it has a C6 it drinks gas like whiskey.Was yours an AOD or an E4OD? I've never seen an AOD behind a 300, but I don't have much Ford truck experience. I've been reading on a Ford truck forum that people are getting anywhere between 18-22 MPG with their EFI 300's. I'd be happy with 18 - that'd be better than the old Dakota. Mine's got 3.08 gears so it shouldn't be too bad... Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #9 – June 14, 2007, 01:00:24 AM e40d... Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #10 – June 14, 2007, 01:01:42 AM We have an 87 that has a 4 speed.. its not too bad on gas, but its worse than the other. Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #11 – June 14, 2007, 01:05:17 AM Isn't an E4OD basically a C6 with an overdrive gear and electronic control? Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #12 – June 14, 2007, 05:58:29 AM Quote from: Thunder Chicken;154049Not bad for $2500 (everyone else selling trucks around here seems to think they're made of gold). Nice deal!I have found work truck's like this hold there value no matter what shape there in as long as they run and drive. Seen total rust buckets (where I thought the bed was going to fall off soon) SELL for $1500. Bottom line, it's a TRUCK it will haul a cord of wood, doesent have to look pretty. And a bonus that one don't look half bad. Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #13 – June 14, 2007, 10:44:32 AM That will be a *little* more reliable then the hellspuppies Volvo (knock on the Volvo, not the truck).Good job! Now about that gas-miser, Layla's first tank was 28MPG with all the mods and light foot for break in :D (just, you know, saying :hick: )My 83 TC (bone stock) with wing windows and a T5 got 26 city/32 hwy on 10-holes with 225/255 tires (the rears bulged a LOT). I miss that car everyday :( Quote Selected
The new ride - not a Fox, but still a Ford... Reply #14 – June 14, 2007, 02:37:20 PM Quote from: Aerobird Motorsports;154191That will be a *little* more reliable then the hellspuppies Volvo (knock on the Volvo, not the truck).Good job! Now about that gas-miser, Layla's first tank was 28MPG with all the mods and light foot for break in :D (just, you know, saying :hick: )My 83 TC (bone stock) with wing windows and a T5 got 26 city/32 hwy on 10-holes with 225/255 tires (the rears bulged a LOT). I miss that car everyday :(I've already got a T-Bird that'll do 28-30MPG all day long on the highway. I want mid-high 30's :D...Not that I'd be above buying a nice four-eye TC if I could find one locally, but I'd then have the problem of not wanting to ruin it by using it as a DD anyway... Quote Selected
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