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Reader Stories: Tell us About Your Favorite Pickup Truck

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Have you owned more than one pickup truck? If you have, do you have a favorite, a truck that you either own, or maybe one that got away? Tell us about your favorite pickup truck, and upload a photo if you like.

1940 Ford 1/2 ton pick up truck

I bought it in 1960 from a friend, Cliff Hooper, the flagman from Napierville Drag Strip.1961 Entered it in mine and Montreal's 1st. Bob Laravee's ISCA, Salon D'auto Sport car show in the unfinished …More

1975 Ford Explorer Regular Cab

The 390 engine and Holley carb were stock from the factory and yet it could beat all of my friends' modified and souped up trucks. With the three-speed automatic transmission, it would even slip the …More

My Little Yellow Pickup Truck

It NEVER broke down. Four large people rode in it from N. California to Reno (those were the days eh?). It didn't use much gas (gas crunch of the 70's where people were waiting in line at the gas pum…More

My 1974 Dodge Power Wagon

was one truck that turned heads where ever it wentwent almost everywhere I tried to drive itwould drive through snow 4 to 5 ft deepsand and mud with no problempulled out lots stuck peoplewas a daily …More

1972 Dodge 3/4 Ton Standard Cab Truck

see above..It ran good, lived up to expectations, and was truly heavy duty.. It went to a friend of mine who drove it for 5 more years, and another 100,000 miles before the engine needed major work. …More

2005 Dodge 1500 SLT

I am 100% disabled with an incurable disease and multiple other diseases which I blame on Agent Orange. Every time I get close to death, my wonderful wife does something to keep me alive. We have bee…More

1984 Ford F-150 Pickup Truck

My father told me he was going to buy me a truck for my birthday. So we went to look at it and after walking 400' into the guy's back yard there was a truck we had to pull out of bushes. He also gave…More

1940 Ford Pickup Truck

It was labor of love. Today it would be called a Rat Rod.Back then it was what we all were driving. I joined a car club "The Piston Poppers of Verdun." We all worked at putting together the first Bob…More

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