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Truck Thursday: A Slightly Modded Second Gen C-10
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A little earlier this week, this olelongrooffan was cruising down Alternate A1A just south of TheStuccoBox I call home and I spotted this second gen GM truck parked in the lot of a local filling station. As it has been a while since I have seen anything Truck Thursday worthy, I kinda figured that whipping…
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Converting Mercedes-Benz Fire Truck into an Expedition Truck
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My endless search for the perfect expedition vehicle which I will never realistically buy has brought me to this Mercedes Truck. It is currently on Expedition Portal. It was not the end result which impressed me the most, however, but the step-by-step documentation of the built process. Yes, we have seen a MAN fire truck…
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The Carchive: The 1981 Ford Cargo
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This week I celebrate my Thirty-Second birthday; and that’s quite enough about that, thanks. Also brought into the world in Spring 1981 was a vehicle that went on to appear literally globally, in endless different permutations. You’ll all have seen them knocking about, I’m sure, but possibly with Sterling or Freightliner emblems glued to the…
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Truck Thursday – Lifted 2001 Jeep Cherokee XJ
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Last Truck Thursday, I featured a very beaten and used Mercedes-Benz Geländerwagen. It had also been lifted, and it looked like it could make short work of quite a bit of sticks. This Thursday, I’m posting a final-year XJ Cherokee I saw last week in my town, and it too features larger rubber than stock,…
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Truck Thursday – A Fetching F-150 Find
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For your Truck Thursday viewing pleasure, I’d like to present to you my nomination for induction into the Orange Car Appreciation Society. This is a gorgeous 1979 F-150 Custom. From the ad: Original 460 motor, gas shocks. Original Holley Carburetor completely rebuilt – just installed. Exhaust installed in 2000. 3″ stainless into a triple flow…
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Truck Thursday – Safety Yellow 1983 Mercedes-Benz 300GD is a gold(ish) god
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If yesterday’s lovely and green 280SLC was all neat and tidy, today’s 1983 G-Wagen is nothing like that. And since someone’s pried it off, there’s not even a Mercedes star on the front grille to act as a unifying feature on the two vehicles. The long-wheelbase, five-door truck is finished in safety yellow, and really…
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Truck Thursday – S-10 Pro Truck
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If there’s one thing I like, it’s pickups. If there’s two things I like, it’s pickups and racing. Ignore my paltry use of the English language for a moment and focus on this fun S-10, which has been built for road racing. What we have here is a full-on tube frame race car with the…
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Truck Thursday: From Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach
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So this olelongrooffan has been the lucky recipient of many things during my over 1/2 century of occupying a place on this planet Earth. One of the coolest I have received in recent memory was a full truckload pass to all things that are Barrett-Jackson down in the Sunshine State for their 11th annual Palm…
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Truck Thursday – 1986 Ford Transit 190
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At last, a proper truck contribution from me for Truck Thursday. Hideously dirty, rusty and beaten Transits are the grey eminence that keeps Europe running, along with anything Volkswagen Transporter and VW LT derived, since all the Mercedes vehicles are in the shop. When I chanced upon this 1986 Ford Transit, my accompanying friend asked…
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Truck Thursday: Long Shots: The 1959 Chevy Fleetside Edition
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So on the day this olelongrooffan was leaving TheGarage and heading out of the World Center of Racing for my new home in TheStuccoBox down in toney Palm Beach, I happened to pass by the shop that painted thejeepjunkie’s bright yellow 2A as well as my olestationbus a few years ago. Astute readers of this…
