I had to say goodbye  to an old friend today.      the old girl  didnt run.   needed  several items, starter,battery,radiator,bat cables,  GAS, tires,   but alas  she was my Dad's favorite old truck.  1969  Ford 1ton long wheelbase dually, with a HEAVY  11 foot steel flatbed.   He bought it  maybe a year before i got my toyota  93 maybe 94,  somewhere in there.   He used her to haul his mowers  and equipment with.      I remember  hauling firewood  on the old girl,  we had  3 ricks  of firewood  on the bed,  and a large tree on the ground  but  we were down in the river bottoms  and  it was supposed to rain.   
         Dad backed the old girl up to the big oak,  wrapped  chains around  the  tree,  and tied it short to the back of the bed.   and drove out in granny gear.   when the end of the tree would hit a small stump  or something the front end of the old truck would lift off the ground  but it never stalled  or even sputtered, the old 390 v8  just chugged along  like a team  of  missouri mules.   we got to the gravel road  and Dad  was grinning ear to ear.     I'll never forget it.

but  times are tough,  and  we needed the money.  I sold it to DJ  from Oklahoma,    he's  a member of this forum,        Hopefully  he'll fix her up  and put her to work hauling hay 
heres a couple pictures   

it was 
 
 

 Ya I think she headed for a good home. Ya don't drive to Ar  from Ok to get a truck ya just going to let sit and rust. 

 

yea  thats what i'm telling myself,     either way  at least its getting to see some scenery 

My grandpa had an old willies that he loved to take out and beat around.  No kidding, after he died, no one could get that thing to run.  It was as if the jeep knew that its rightful owner wasn't ever going to drive it again   we all cried when a guy came to take it away. 

The first toyota I owned was an 81 longbed that I had bought at 17. Bought it one day after school and rolled it the nxt back over front, while taking a buddy for a drive. To this day I won't own a yellow vehicle, lots of bad carma.    My second toyota was a 79 short bed 4wd ,that I had bought from a friend. After getting in an accident and it sitting for a couple years, I decided to marry and needed some cash. So it had to go, but not whithout a fight. While loading it on the trailer, I cought the sidewall of one of the 33 12.50 mud brutes on the trailer spare mount. That ment getting a maching tire just so I could sell the thing. Then after finally makeing it to the auction the morot froze up whith out a warning ,and so it had to be towed through the auction. Becouse it was now anon runing vehicle, the ammount of money I could make droped and the cost of keeing it skyrocketed. I wish now that I had hauled it back home and stuck it in the back yard till the block rusted away. Man I balled the day I sold that thing, lots of good times in that truck.

I'm probably up to 30 vehicles that I have owned, most never titled. Seven or more of which were all toyotas, all 4x4 trucks and the newest being an 86 runner that my buddie still has.

If I still have it and you decide you want it back you get the 1st chance. UPDATE--one of my friends is wanting it for a fishing/farm/firewood truck at least you know where it is and how to find it. thanks for your help and the truck that was a pretty long trip.and we only got 4 miles from the western sizzlin and had a blow out on the trailer so I had to put the spare on and went to wal-mart to buy a cheap tire so we would have a spare I will post some pics after we get it running and clean it up a bit

The DUCKS (sorry, that was my good memory from that pic from Glen's place)

it definitely needed another axle under it,   or  some 10 ply  tires  with 80 psi or so 


the old girl  is nothing but HEAVY

you bet Adam   

im gonna try and  visit  with some of the arkansas  locals this weekend