What's new
  • ICMag with help from Phlizon, Landrace Warden and The Vault is running a NEW contest for Christmas! You can check it here. Prizes are: full spectrum led light, seeds & forum premium access. Come join in!

Fords are built like shit...

pop_rocks

In my empire of dirt
Premium user
420club
Not all their cars suck

growing up i had a friend who loved to build mustangs to resell
he said its because its a sweet looking car and there are tons of parts out there and he did pretty good at it
they are cool cars and if you trick them out the are pretty skippy
/im just a truck guy myself, that or my roller skates

 

dogzter

Drapetomaniac
I had a bunch of f150's over the years as survey trucks.
Love them until around 120,000 miles then its over for the trannie.
Lot of excellent memories for me in those old Ford trucks.
 

Dime

Well-known member
growing up i had a friend who loved to build mustangs to resell
he said its because its a sweet looking car and there are tons of parts out there and he did pretty good at it
they are cool cars and if you trick them out the are pretty skippy
/im just a truck guy myself, that or my roller skates


For a movie that looks like it had a $300 budget it was pretty funny,it made me chuckle
 

armedoldhippy

Well-known member
Veteran
View attachment 19117219
Fix Or Repair Daily ?

Id just get some hardware store brass tee and hose clamps 🤷‍♂️
Bulk spools heater hoses from auto parts stores
"if" it were possible, that's what i would have done. but the hoses are molded to shape, with fucking quick couplers molded into each end, and the tees are molded into the middle.. and they positioned them so you could not unhook them without damn near disassembling everything under the hood/on the firewall. the dirty CSers went to a hell of a lot of trouble trying to be sure a normal person could not replace/repair them... :mad:
 

mike-or-ozzy

Well-known member
"if" it were possible, that's what i would have done. but the hoses are molded to shape, with fucking quick couplers molded into each end, and the tees are molded into the middle.. and they positioned them so you could not unhook them without damn near disassembling everything under the hood/on the firewall. the dirty CSers went to a hell of a lot of trouble trying to be sure a normal person could not replace/repair them... :mad:


Yes but they dug their own grave imo
 

mike-or-ozzy

Well-known member
yeah. when i can palm this POS off on some other poor schnook, i'm going to buy an older jeep. one with points, and a carburetor, regular hoses with clamps, and a damned metal radiator. fuck modern technology/cheap shit... :mad:

Paid $50 for a '68 Ford Falcon, had a broken transmission mount that I replaced with a prefab metal building girt clip. The only way it would run was with the distributor in 180* opposite what it should have been. Ran like a top, those oldies are what you want for sure hippy.
 

flower~power

~Star~Crash~
ICMag Donor
Veteran
The 2025 Tesla Cybertruck starts at $79,990, and it comes with a 600-horsepower dual-motor, all-wheel drive electric powertrain. Nearly all of the car's available features come standard – a list that includes an 18.5-inch touch screen, a panoramic roof and plenty of driver-assistance tech
 

armedoldhippy

Well-known member
Veteran
And when the masses complained, she responded “let them drive a Tesla“ & thus began a revolution
"kill them ALL, let none escape alive..."
those oldies are what you want for sure hippy.
i've been given a 1978 Jeep Cherokee Chief, with the 225 ci Buick v-6 motor. it's rusty (which i can live with) and has an automatic transmission (which i'll get used to) but...it's all the way out in western Kentucky at a relatives house. THAT...would be an expensive roll-back ride to get it here. we may end up moving out there, but the future is foggy.
 

pop_rocks

In my empire of dirt
Premium user
420club
For a movie that looks like it had a $300 budget it was pretty funny,it made me chuckle
you have never seen napoleon dynamite?
watch this move! with your kids and have all the laughs together
/nothing too offensive but just this silly movie about this guy and his life
 

Boo

Cabana’s bitch
Veteran
I have had a ford super duty in my driveway for the last 31 years...never an issue that I didn't cause to occur...regular maintenance and taking care of your ride let's them live forever...now F150's, that's a whole other story...won't own a gas powered truck again, they just don't have the balls to do what the power stroke does...
 

Sweatloaf

Well-known member
I had a 1978 Ford F150 Ranger Lariat 4x4 with a 400 V8 that I loved back in the late 80s. Dual fuel tanks. The coolest blue and silver. First full year they had rectangle headlights. But I ended up not being able to afford the gas even back then when gas was pretty cheap. I think it got around 10 MPG.

But my late Father-in-law owned a Texaco service station from the 1940's-1980s and he hated Fords. I don't remember exactly why though.
 
Last edited:

Old Piney

Well-known member
I had a 1978 Ford F150 Ranger Lariat 4x4 with a 400 V8 that I loved back in the late 80s. Dual fuel tanks. The coolest blue and silver. First full year they had rectangle headlights. But I ended up not being able to afford the gas even back then when gas was pretty cheap. I think it got around 10 MPG.

But my late Father-in-law owned a Texaco service station from the 1940's-1980s and he hated Fords. I don't remember exactly why though.
I have a 1980 f350 dump with that motor that‘s a 351 modified 400 or 351 m can’t kill it but the truck had it ,I worked the piss out of it ,its just sitting in the woods . My buddy had a 79 F 250 4x4 like that what a Beast .Im a ford guy I got 3 work trucks going a F150 a F450 and a F700 . They are the best work trucks not so much pretty boy do no work trucks
 
Last edited:
Top