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Old May 13, 2022 | 11:27 AM
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Good Morning, everyone!

COS - Can you step a little closer to the window? Having a little trouble hearing today.
Old May 13, 2022 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by white89gt
It's taken a while, but that body has started to grow on me.
I wasn't crazy about the headlights back then. That was the generation of the bug-eye headlights.

The truck was so named The Bug-eye Burgundy lol
Old May 13, 2022 | 11:31 AM
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Good Morning, everyone!

COS - Can you step a little closer to the window? Having a little trouble hearing today.
Old May 13, 2022 | 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Jbrew
I wasn't crazy about the headlights back then. That was the generation of the bug-eye headlights.

The truck was so named The Bug-eye Burgundy lol
My Buddy had a 2WD F250, and I want to say it was a 91. Pretty good little truck. It was slow as hell, but rock solid.

That front is definitely my least fav. I really like the bull nose now. Those are sweet trucks.
Old May 13, 2022 | 11:47 AM
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Well, Youtube went ahead and rearranged the furniture overnight. Not so sure I like the new look. I'm also disappointed the took the Studio link out of the menu. Seems a little stupid to remove that.

EDIT: Well, I refreshed, and it's back. LOL - weird!



EDIT 2: And.... gone again.



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Old May 13, 2022 | 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by white89gt
My Grandfather owned a store. Back in 90-92 I was working for him. Seems like they were around $1.75 to $2.25 back then, depending on if you got GPC's or the good cigs.

That's when I tried smoking. Damn, am I glad that didn't stick.
Mom sat on the bed, sewing some little thing. I took a.puff.from her cig,.coughed, she loomed at me for a sec, as I put it back. Said nothing. I was cured. She ate 5 colors of vegetables daily, could but didn't drive, walked EVERYwhere and gardened, hunted. Trim figure. Had a cig in the morning with toast and washed it down with coffee. She didn't drink but one on Christmas or New Years. But washing down her cig with coffee to an almost empty stomach gave her cancer of the pancreas. She died at about 72, could but A long sad death, but way too early for her state of health in all other ways. They had almost made their Fiftieth together. Lost a detective-pal and wonderful brother-in-law from them chewing, as Marines didn't tend to smoke, (red glow, ya know.) A tea made from tobacco is used to kill slugs and snails in the garden. The stuff, literally, is not good for much... but killing. Slugs and snails? Get a duck.
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Originally Posted by djfllmn
cheapest i remember is 90 cents a gallon back in the late 90s
Sold my 25.5' Bayliner (125 gal tank, 225HP/350 Merc',) when gas hit 76¢ in the early 80's. Pumped gas when it was 25¢ in '66¢ @ Gulf. (39¢ at Texaco, '67.)
Old May 13, 2022 | 02:22 PM
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Re arranged all of my yard equipment the other night to behind the ranger. Going to cut the grass tonight and i was all excited i didn't have to move a vehicle to get the mower out, then i remembered I drove the F150 today...sigh
Old May 13, 2022 | 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by COStruck
My family owned a grocery store when I was a kid, and I still remember a man yelling at the cashier because paying a "whole dollar" for a pack of cigarettes was an outrage.

What are they now, ten bucks?
Depends on where you are. They are ~$28 a carton here and even cheaper in Carolina.

Originally Posted by djfllmn
cheapest i remember is 90 cents a gallon back in the late 90s
Originally Posted by Jbrew
That's the cheapest I can recall that stuff being.
Originally Posted by Jbrew
Had a memory creep up me this morning while filling a 5 gallon can of gas. I was 14 working my first job at a full service gas station changing the sign to 88.9 per gallon. Man how things have changed...
Y'all all making me feel old. I remember my dad bitching about gas hitting 50 cents / gallon in 1973ish. It was under a dollar a gallon when I learned to drive.
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Gave the ranger engine bay a good detailing today



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