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Old Fri, March 4th, 2022, 05:09 PM
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Went to the salvage yard today. There is never anything old at this place and early 90's are usually the limit.

My eyes were drawn to a 77-79 F150 that had been rolled....just because a 40 year old pickup in THIS YARD was a unicorn.

I'll let these pictures speak for themselves but what you're looking at is:

Rear hubs from a 99-02 F250/F350 WELDED to the front 5-lug hubs on the pickup.

Pipe used as coil spring spacers.

Track bar mount welded to the frame (poorly).

Thin wall square tubing as a steering draglink.

Rear u-bolts welded to the spring plate and holding 3 blocks together.
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Old Sat, March 5th, 2022, 10:16 AM
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Crikey! Kinda reminds me of a guy who reattached his rear axle to the frame with duct tape when it came loose.
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Well, at least we know why it rolled.

I'd love to find the person who owned that truck and kick him square in the balls. That kind of crap puts innocent people in danger.
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I want to see what the rest of the truck looks like....

Geez....

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Old Mon, March 7th, 2022, 01:57 PM
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Found a pic of the builder...

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Actually, it didn't look like anything came apart (by some miracle) to actually cause the pickup to wreck. It had a little bit of damage to the LH side and looks like it just barely started to go all the way over but did not. I suspect with the weather we have had the last few weeks that he hit some ice and just set it over on its side in a ditch.

I agree, Bill. It's no different than driving impaired on drugs or alcohol and there is no excuse to do something like this crap. However, knowing what plates are on the vehicle (in MT, when someone doesn't get one of the 400 optional and stupid "sponsor" plates, they get the standard number-by-county plate), it's apparent why the vehicle was "built" the way it was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson...a#Demographics

Just because someone has a welder doesn't mean they know how/when to use it.
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I was more to the point that with all those modification, the lift blocks, and everything else, that truck was an accident waiting to happen. I can't imagine that it was very stable on the road even under the best of conditions. Add snow, ice, gravel in a curve... Anything that would be out of the ordinary, and it's a recipe for disaster.

And yes... Some people REALLY need to step away from the welder. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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