I need a truck. Just for regular truckly duties of picking up stuff and getting it home or to whomever I sold it to.
But... Me being me.... I'm not so down with... "normal"
What say you about:
http://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/cto/5444345598.html
'82 Grumman Truck, with what I think is a 300 Ford drivetrain.
I like this Grumman truck better:
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Looks like the airport might want you to come back to the tarmac and push aircraft around a bit. I like it! 
If I was looking for a truck I'd be all over that! Definitely not your average Joe truck.
Price seems a bit much, but what do I know. If I had it I would break out the aircraft stripper and polishing compound!
I didn't know you could polish iron.
It will be noisy, uncomfortable and slow, and the bed looks like it's not very big because of that big storage locker in the front.
m4ff3w wrote: I need a truck. Just for regular truckly duties of picking up stuff and getting it home or to whomever I sold it to. But... Me being me.... I'm not so down with... "normal" What say you about:
That's almost normal. But not really.
It's like an open air ice creak truck....no matter what you do, when (not if) you buy it, you've got to fit it with am external speaker and play the ice cream truck song. https://www.youtube.com/embed/CZB6WXDuM1g
The ultra reliable Ford 300 straight 6 is very interesting.
That's a lot of glass and metal in that interior. Being Dallas, you'd better be sure it has AC!
Hell yeah! One door, six cylinder, manual, aluminum body, this thing checks all the boxes. Why ain't there a build thread yet?
Heck yeah! I wonder if it's a 3 or 4 SPD manual, and I wonder what the rear axel ratio is. Being a 6 cyl powered 1 ton, the axel ratio is probably 3.90 or lower, so don't be in a hurry to get anywhere in it.
The price is borderline crackpipe though.
HappyAndy wrote: The price is borderline crackpipe though.
I think it's cheap for a truck with only 10,000 miles on it!
HappyAndy wrote: The price is borderline crackpipe though.
Yeah, I could see that price if it ran and drove and had a 4BT under the doghouse.
codrus wrote: I like this Grumman truck better:
The man asked for truck, not a COD 
How much 88-98 GM 1/2 ton does $3200 buy down there these days?
WildScotsRacing wrote:codrus wrote: I like this Grumman truck better:The man asked for truck, not a COD
It's a flying truck! :)
T.J. wrote: It's like an open air ice creak truck....no matter what you do, when (not if) you buy it, you've got to fit it with am external speaker and play the ice cream truck song. https://www.youtube.com/embed/CZB6WXDuM1g
Is he allowed to be near children? Just kidding on that one...
Well, you'd be unique. Probably no A/C, short bed, parts difficulty, etc. If that appeals, go for it!
Don't ever crash it. Grumman views supplying replacement body parts as some sort of inconvenience in their daily life of building crappy bread trucks.
It is a mail truck. But they have four cylinders. Not the 6. Interesting.
pict It's missing the matching trailer! Frito-Lay has a bunch of those with 28ft trailers. I recall seeing one guy haul a dragster to the strip in one as a kid. he loved it.
Cool.
That engine may be the best one Ford ever made.
Neato look. What is the chassis? Are parts around for it? Can you add A/C or heat? It's certainly very interesting, but I'd want to know more, since it's not exactly chump change.
codrus wrote: I like this Grumman truck better:
I'm not sure this plane has enough rudders 
He says it is on a 1 ton Ford chassis. The transmission is most likely the 4spd with the "granny" low first gear. So for everyday is a 3spd. You start in 2nd. Slow but it will get there.
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