Show us your truck!

[cdthayer]

Don't forget to show those amazing US registration plates - do you really get to choose what goes on them?

Does anyone signwrite their truck to advertise their leather business? I'd definitely like to see that as well!

Ray

Hi Ray, Yes, we get to pick what goes on them...to an extent. Here in Oklahoma, you have to select 3 different personalizations, rate them 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice, and send in your money. Then the state selects one of the three, or denies your request and keeps some of the money for messing with you. I can't remember if they keep it all or just part of it. I got my tag, so I've never went through that part. We get to pick the color of the tag also, so I picked the closest color that they had to my truck color. I chose "79 F250" because people always wanted to know what year it was. I've owned it since 1981, and it only has 68,000 miles on it today. It's still got the original brake shoes and clutch in it too! We've always had "her vehicle" that has usually been a newer (more comfortable) one, plus we ride our motorcycles more than we drive our trucks, so Ol' Blue has had an easy life. Her current truck is a 2003 F-150 Ford Supercab with an 8-foot bed and topper (small camper shell).

Another thing that is unusual (for the states), is that Oklahoma only has one tag (or "license plate"), and it always goes on the rear of the vehicle. No front-end tag, so many people put a personalized tag (non-state issued) on the front. Usually it's their favorite sports team or their first name. My wife and I have plates with our website address on them, but we just bought a new "www" address for our current business, and we haven't gotten new tags yet. That's all of the advertising that we have for our business on our vehicles right now. We've been thinking about magnetic signs, but haven't gotten any yet. Vinyl letters in the rear window of our topper may be another choice to consider. Many businesses around here advertise their business on their rear windows.

A final note: With a personalized tag in Oklahoma, you still have to register your "original" tag each year, and keep it in the vehicle at all times in case an officer wants to see it. So, if you have a personalized state tag, you also have a "regular" state tag, and you pay for both of them. And there are no tags on personal trailers, no matter how big. Only trailers registered "commercial" have tags. They used to require that you put your Social Security number on the rear of personal trailers, but I think they dropped that because of ID Theft a while back. Same with our Driver's License. They used your SS# for your license number for a long time, but quit that a couple of years ago too....

CD in Oklahoma

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[Go2Tex]

This is my other truck... A 1979 Dodge Power Wagon. Sorry it's so dirty, but it's break-up time here in the Pacific Northwest, and everything is turning to mud! The dashboard was starting to get damaged from too much sunlight, so my wife asked me to make some leather covers for it. I've never done anything like that before, and you can see my leather carving skills are rudimentary at best, but my wife likes it, so I'm happy.

Why did I expect to see a shotgun rack in there?......

[TrooperChuck]

Brent:

There's a reason I didn't take a picture BEHIND the seat!

Ray:

Thanks for starting this topic. It's been fun to see other people's rides.

Johanna:

PLEASE tell us all those kids aren't yours! They look like they're gonna go some place fun!

Edited March 2, 2009 by TrooperChuck

[Windy]

Ray,

This is my 75 Ford F-100 with the best motor Ford ever made

the 300 straight six or inline as some say. It has extra springs

donated from an old Chevy so I can haul more weight which one

sometimes needs in the brick laying business.The glove box and

the door handle covers are leather and I decorated them with

our company logo , the skull and cross bones.The rear lights

are also our company logo which I also made. As a matter of

fact I spent four years in my spare time rebuilding the motor and

the body work on this truck. When I brought it home from the

job site it had holes in the floor boards I could crawl through.

In place of the rear bumper I built a roll pan from the roof of

an old Nissan. I never did the inside of the bed since it was

built for work.Oh yea the license plate bolts have cast resin

skulls that light up that I made while I was making the shift

knob which is also cast resin and it lights up as well.I do not

have photos of them for reasons I do not know.

WINDY

[McJeep]

As the nickname implies:

Presently

Oh, and just so beauty doesn't get her nose bent outta shape ;0)

Ray,

This is my 75 Ford F-100

Cool accents - you've given me some idears ;0)

Edited March 2, 2009 by McJeep

[Kevin]

This is not my truck, but the truck I learned to drive in, notice the equine containment system, optional bright equipment and PTO powered winch. The wheels are 16" split rims; tires, retreads. This is only a half ton truck, but since it has 4wd it came with a 3/4ton suspension and of course has added helper leaves for when you have a real load. Three shift levers, two of which have nice red bicycle hand grips (they really were original equip.) and it has so many universal joints the dealer wouldn't believe they were stock when some needed to be replaced.

This is my first pic post, I hope it works.

Kevin

[Go2Tex]

Yeah well............ check this out

[Johanna]

Brent, I'd know your truck anywhere! God bless Texas, and God bless America!

~J

[Kevin]

Since that only took an hour or so, I'm gonna give 'er another go. This is another beaut I learned to drive that summer. Some of you may recognize it as a haystacking outfit. It has a Cadillac engine, two transmisions, drive wheels in front, steering in back. It has two different heads, one for loose hay and one for 16 bales at a time. I was a 16 y.o. suburban kid and had never worked a day in my life. After stacking my uncle's loose hay for 2 weeks and getting used to that, we went to the neighbors and stacked baled hay, generally 1,000 bales a day, my scrawny 125 lb ass on the stack and my uncle running the machine. Every once in a while he would give me a break and let me run the machine. Oh, did I say the brakes were activated by cable? Which esentially means NO brakes. "Just put it in reverse and slip the clutch when you come up to the stack." Did I say I hadn't driven at all before that summer? No problem, slip the clutch, work the hydraulics, don't mess your Levis cause you got 16 bales of hay swaying back and forth 20 feet up in the air. I got yelled at a lot that summer, but I made the princely sum of $150.00 dollars for six weeks work. I promptly blew that on a reel to reel tape recorder that was a floor demo. That son of a b never did work right even after taking it back to be worked on twice. I guess I learned something that summer.

Sorry, I have to talk to customers all week and on weekends I sometimes don't speak to a soul, so I do ramble. Kevin

[Dually]

Howdy Ray...and all, Here is my ranch truck, and daily driver in the summer. Stood in the rain this am for the pics. lol Its mostly stock and fun to drive. No rifle though, guess I gotta work on that.[at

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