i decided to name her "balls". for all the kids that have the set of testicles hanging from the bumper. i am going to get a set of those and hang them on the front bumper. i refer to all my slicks in the feminine cause they are my babies. my latest definitely has balls. i don;t have enough balls to hold it wide open for very long however. it sure is a blast to drive and is loud enough to hear her coming.
jim
simonscr wrote:For those that have named your truck or the project build, what was your inspiration?
How did you come up with a name?
Mine has been Little green since 1966 when the father in law bought a 66 f100 4x4 in Caribean turqoiuse. He had the 64 2wd sb already. So they were named big green and little green.
Long wheel base or lwb
turk for turquois
army truck or afro american truck because of its distinct coloring and one red rim
223 uni, or the one up in Paradise also for obvious reasons
If you understand what you’re doing, you’re not learning anything.
LITTLE RED: 64 F100 Short Style
BIG RED: 62 F100 Long Uni
BIG “UN": 63 F250 Long Flare
BBW RED: 61 F100 CC BBW Long Uni
CRIMSON CREW: 63 F100 "Stageway" Long Flare Crew Cab
"RANGER": 66 F100 CC Long Flatbed
"AVA" 1963 Avion T-20 Travel Trailer
“Lucille” 1955 New Moon 44’ Travel Trailer
F100 called "white truck", someone called it White Lightning years ago and it stuck. F250 just "truck", coworker called it "old lightning" and it has stuck. Funny because I never mentioned the other truck. Wonder what the connection is?
My daughter named my truck "the loud one truck" a few years back. Most of you that have seen it in person can attest to how it got that name.
2010 Ford Edge
99 Ford Expedition
65 Ford f-100 swb
460 stock other than a double roller timing chain and a s475 TURBO pushing 6psi of boost (now 12lbs)
351 W Pulled and on garage floor in storage
428 4v (R.I.P)
c-6 wide ratio modified
torino front stub
home made ladder bar rear with air bags
11.96 sec @ 110mph 1\4mile (best with the 428)
I call my truck "Big Red". I can't remember exactly why, other than when I repainted it in 1979 I changed the color to red and it was big compared to the other vehicles I had at the time. It's going to get repainted Red again soon.
My 66's name is Frank, as in Frankenstein. It has 75 front discs, a 68 master cylinder, 72 302, 90 aod, steering wheel of a 63 1 ton, front header panel from a 62 long bed uni and the cab and bed are from two different 66's.
Growing up in rural Oregon during the 'eighties and 'early nineties, disreputable white-trash types often favored beat-down '60s and '70s pickup trucks. On any summer Saturday, every swimming hole in the Coast Range would be crowded with crusty old Fords, Chevys, Dodges and Internationals, and toothless burned-out druggies of roughly the same age.
Being as my Slick is a long way from being pretty and the bed often features a collection of empty beer-bottles, my brother reminds me of it's similarity to the crankster mobiles we used to make fun of as kids. And so the truck is known as The Meth 100, the Mullet-Mobile, or simply Dusty, who was an incorrigible buttrocker who terrorized the Washington County logging-roads back in the day.
I pointed out that the empties in my bed are bottled microbrews, not cans of Bud Light, and that I have all my teeth and no history of amphetamine use, but he just laughs and asks me if I have any extra Mötley Crüe tickets or a GPC cigarette... So, I've settled on Dusty.
And all things considered, he did run hard for a long time.
Working on a '66 F100 with a '71 240 and the original three-on-the-tree...
