In the same spirit of my earlier post about older cars, presented in “as they left the showroom” condition, I need to get some opinions on the following trucks (links in title):
All their details (engine specs, etc.) are in the links.
My question:
If you had to pick one of the above three to work with on your ranch, which would you choose, and why?
Though I am a Ford guy, I would pick the Chevy C10. The F100 has been hotrodded. The GMC is too expensive and has an automatic transmission. The C10 is more practical and has a manual transmission
Though I am a Ford guy, I would pick the Chevy C10. The F100 has been hotrodded. The GMC is too expensive. The C10 is more practical.
You could do any repair job on those old side valve trucks with only a handful of tools. Cylinder head gasket replacement, forget the torque wrench, just tighten it till it strips then half a turn back.
When I read the specs the GMC is the only Manual 4X4 of the three, so it is the only possible choice for a working Ranch Truck. The other two would be stuck out in the middle of some pasture within days of arrival. ( Unless, of course, that Ford was owned by Charles Bronson on a watermelon farm in Western Colorado as MR Majestyk )
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=mr%20Majestyk%20chase&mid=F98D6D2F2962F4625136F98D6D2F2962F4625136&ajaxhist=0
Back in the dark ages (i.e., the mid-’60s), when my aunt (mother’s sister) was earning as an architect/general contractor, she had a blue Chevy pickup (the color the Jimmy is painted in your example pic — that must have been somebody’s favorite color, as SO MANY GM trucks were painted in it). It was a family weekend project to build an oak stake body for it. One of my favorite childhood memories is sitting perched on that stake body as that truck sped down the back roads of Butler County, Ohio to and from construction sites.