1984 Mazda B2000	#16 : 1984 Mazda B2000, November 1984. Great little truck. Sold it to a lawyer and had to reposses it from him. That was fun.
	1985 Ford F250	#42 : 1985 Ford F250, Nov 1, 1998. It looks like hell but runs great. It has a 460 CID V8, heavy duty suspension and tow bar, 4 speed manual transmission and 4 wheel drive. Yeah, it has alot of rust on the bed, but it has almost 300,000 miles on it and burns no oil. Don't have it any more, I sold it to my nephew-in-law.
	1989 Ford Ranger	#47 : 1989 Ford Ranger 4x4. Update : Well this one has now been owned by all the older Rossi brothers. I just sold it to Alex (in order to get the F250), so Danny has owned it, I've owned it, and now Alex owns it. Keeping it all in the family. You may say, "Hmmmm, looks familiar." Well, there's a reason for that, you've probably seen it in some of the Ranch pictures. That's because I bought it from Danny. Needs some work, but it runs pretty good, and I got it for a good price. So, I guess the Wrangler is going to have to wait a while. But at least this way I won't have to shovel the snow off the driveway, just stick it in 4WD and I'm home.
	1986 Ford F250	# 48 - 1986 Ford F250 4x4. Well, I sold the Ranger to Alex and bought me another truck. 460 CID and a 4 speed. Sound like anything else I've owned? #42 - 85 F250, same engine, same tranny. Could pull a house up Parley's Summit at 50 MPH (and 4 MPG). One of my old students came by a month or so ago and said he was selling his truck, we had already discussed how similar it was to my old one. The price was right and Alex wanted the Ranger, so I decided to get it. Very unlike me, eh? (NO!). Anyways, Alex & his Ranger, Danny & his Jimmy and me and the new F250 go up Lambs Canyon to play in the snow. Had a blast, only got 'almost' stuck - that means it took a bit to get it out. Well, the truck performed perfect, except I really could use some better off road tires. So, I get up the next morning and try to start the thing up, and nothing. Nada, zip. Not even a whirh, click or the buzzing of an almost dead battery. Son-of-a-%#&($. Just bought the damn thing and already it's busticated. So, I try jumping it. I try putting the LTD's battery in it. I try wiggling the wires to the starter button (oh, did I mention that the ignition switch is messed, so they installed a starter button?). I try messing with the clutch cutoff switch. Nothing. And it's blocking most of the driveway. Scream, yell, kick things. Still doesn't want to work (no, I didn't put any new dents in it or break anything else!). Damn! So, squeegee the Mustang out of the garage and around the truck and take it to work. In the snow. Still fuming at the truck. Even more on the way home when the roads are ugly. I get home, try to start it - still silence. Hmmm, maybe I should call Kirk and see if there is a little quirk that I should know about. Duh. Guess what? Yup, one little thing - sometimes the wires to the starter button come loose and need to be tightened down. So, while I have him on the cell, I go out to the trudck, tighten the wires and try again. Suprise, suprise, it starts cranking! Yeah! Moral of the story - what may seem like a big problem sometimes turns out to be nothing - just call the guy you bought it from.
	1989 Nissan Hardbody	#49 : 1989 Nissan Pickup.Ok, so the idea of having a 4WD to drive on a regular basis, especially in the winter, was a great idea. But at 7.5 MPG, the F250 was a little expensive to drive. So, when the Aide to the Special Ed teacher right next door offered me the pickup that has been sitting in her driveway for 9 months for only $300, yup, you guessed it, I jumped at it. I've had it about 2 weeks now,it's legal and it runs. Good deal. It still needs a little work here and there (new slave cylindar for the hydraulic clutch, new main bearing in the transmission) but for now it's getting me around at a lot more than 8 MPG.
	1968 Ford F250	#50 : 1968 Ford F-250 (2WD). Picked this one up from a friend for $1,500. I told him it was a classic, even looked it up it's value, but he only let me talk him up $500 from his original offer. He's got a 70-something Chevy 4X4 and just picked up an 98 (I think) police cruiser (for only $1,000) so he wanted to get it out of the garage, and figured I'd give it a good home, and give him visitation rights. It's in great shape, he put some work into the carb, new radiator and some new body parts so it has no dents or rust. Anyways, I wanted something that could make it up to the land with a little less work than the Nissan takes going up those hills, and the blast of cold air coming in the rot hole in the door was getting a little old. Plus, now Fords out number other brands in my driveway, and I have a couple classics.

 

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