Also heard it called "cab candy". Who knows how many nickles you'll find.
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Road Guy
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they always say you can tell a lot from a person about how neat (or not neat) a person keeps their car.. a friend of mine who ones a couple of rental houses says he always makes sure to walk by a persons car that shows up to rent one of his houses.. says its usually spot on to how they treat the house...
Master slacker
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That would be so awesome! However, with the amount of pan and bed rust mentioned along with a "small hole" in the body and no title or engine, I'd be hard pressed to shell out any more than $1k. Judging from the pictures, the paint it has is only to mask the vast rust.
Capt Worley PE
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I think that's actually the truck that Gibbes VW owned back in the day, now that I take a good look at it. It was a POS back in 1984 if that's really the same truck.That would be so awesome! However, with the amount of pan and bed rust mentioned along with a "small hole" in the body and no title or engine, I'd be hard pressed to shell out any more than $1k. Judging from the pictures, the paint it has is only to mask the vast rust.
Master slacker
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Antannae or roller skates?
I've never looked into converting, but a friend of mine works for Chrysler and gets to take vehicles home. He had a full size crew cab Ram truck that ran on CNG once. It had an 8-gallon tank and about 150 mile range, not a very practical thing.
Keep in mind the different BTU contents of the different fuels. Propane has about 75% of the BTU content of gasoline per gallon, so at $3/gallon, propane is probably more expensive than gasoline. CNG is a little worse on BTU content, but probably costs a lot less. The problem is where do you find somewhere to fill up with CNG? My friend's only option is at work, which is 30 miles away, so just his commute takes up almost half his range.
Good point MP.I overhauled a ford staight six for a mechanic at a summer job in college to run on propane. I also worked on a couple schwan's food service trucks that ran on propane. The basic principle is to get your hands on a carburated engine and swap the gasoline carb out for a propane/CNG. Newer cars have more crap to manage, here's a good ref.
The way I'd go is to run an engine on Water. Electronic frequency harmonics, natural annode/cathode, or good old fashion batery for electrolisys to separate the hydrogen into a fuel cell & the O2 into a reservoir for the combustion cycle. Same principles as the propane carburator. Aluminum or stainless block and heads to help prevent oxidation by the steam durring compression cycle. I would tap the O2 supply through a super charger mixing with outside air on the intake, and add a condenser to the exhaust to reclaim the steam. It would also be trick to install a small steam turbine on the exhaust to tap some of the regected heat, and a condenser to reclaim the steam back into the H2O storage tank. Backyard mechanics have been doing things like this for over 40yrs. Damn hippies and their mother earth vanagons.
jeb6294
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It's too bad Ford decided to phase out the Ranger. They're still available overseas, have several running around on the base here, and they look pretty sharp. Kind of look like a scaled down Raptor.
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Road Guy
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I had 2 rangers and for "what I paid for them" they were a great truck
I'm suprised they ditched it just for the commercial sales they always did. I mean looking around in traffic how many of those white ford rangers used for many different public and private businesses do you see?
I'm suprised they ditched it just for the commercial sales they always did. I mean looking around in traffic how many of those white ford rangers used for many different public and private businesses do you see?
Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
I had a love/hate relationship with my old Ranger. I hated the power (or lack thereof) and light rear end, but loved everything else. It would have been a perfect yard truck, but was slower than my wife's 4cyl/5speed Beretta.
I probably would have been better off with a Sport-Trac or Ridgeline, but they didn't exist at the time.
Jeb, the new Colorado (I think it is coming out in 2014?) looks an awful lot like that Ranger.
I probably would have been better off with a Sport-Trac or Ridgeline, but they didn't exist at the time.
Jeb, the new Colorado (I think it is coming out in 2014?) looks an awful lot like that Ranger.
Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
'71 Boattail Riviera...love those things.
Master slacker
Something awesome.
I'd hit it
Flyer_PE
Jr. PE / Sr. Company Pilot
I've been watching Barret-Jackson for the last couple of days. George Barris just sold Batmobile #1 at auction for $4.2 Million. The guy that bought it said he's going to put it in his living room.
knight1fox3
Jedi MASTER & Friend of Capt. Solo
The Batmobile auction was cool to watch. I don't typically watch those things but as I was with friends from the "south", that was the channel of choice for the evening. I really like the look of the new vette.
In later years Barris kind of annoys me. He's got a great legacy on his own but he takes credit for every popular movie or tv car where he actually created it or not. One classic example is that he says he did the monkee mobile, but it was actaually done by Dean Jeffries, also he lays claim to the Green Hornet's Black Beauty also done by Jeffries. He even tried to say he owned the Smokey and the Bandit movie car but Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham (the director) have often said that all the car were destroyed during the making of the movie. Barris got a restored 1977 T/A and "officially signed" it. Why would I want to have his signature on the hood of the car? Apparently he did this to the Batmobile too.
The guy has a great legacy on his own, I guess his ego drives him to steal other people work too.
