***First and foremost, this post has nothing to do with racing history, this is just something that happened in my life this past week that I'd like to share***
Hey All!
I have been without internet for almost two weeks now, and Jeff asked me to put this on the site whenever I got it back - Wednesday, I bought my first truck - A 1995 Ford F-150!
After 4 months of driving my dad's 2004 Dodge 2500, I wanted MY own truck, that I could say that I bought with MY own money, and plus I didn't really care for the 10 mpg that came with the Dodge. So not far from Atlanta Motor Speedway in McDonough, Georgia, we found this awesome little truck.
At first I didn't really care for it simply because of the color. It's called 'Sapphire Blue', but in some light, it appears to be a dark "blueish-purple". My first thought was "NO", but after looking it over and driving it, I loved it. However, I still wanted to get it repainted - I thought black and silver. However, while driving back to Dawsonville, I got to thinking...when's the last time I saw this paintscheme on a truck. This is my favorite body-style of Ford trucks, and I do quite a bit about them, but I had never seen this color. When I got home, I attempted to research this color. From the few that I found, I saw a truck with a silver top and bottom with the purple middle and I saw trucks that were just straight purple, some with a silver stripe. I had only found one other online with the same purple/silver/purple, and that was an extended cab F-250.
I have been searching for the past three days on some sort of production numbers on this year of trucks, but I have found nothing. One thing I did find is that on 1995 Mustangs, out of the some odd hundred thousand Mustangs that were produced that year, they only painted a few over 2500 in this color, 'Sapphire Blue'. Based on this, I can only guess that this has to be a rare color on my truck.
The next day, (Thursday) I was curious to know the response from the school parking lot of driving a purple truck. I even brought it around to the auto shop to show off, and to my surprise, everyone loved it! The only sort of negative response I got was from some guy who wasn't a Ford fan, oh well!
So for the specs - it's got a 5.0 (302) with automatic transmission. Although it has 180,000 miles, which sounds high, but for a 17 year old truck, that's an average of about 10,500 miles a year. I have to do a few simple things to it, like get the transmission serviced and a few interior things. However, the agricultural teacher at school is going to let me have parts off of his 93' (Same body-style) that I will need.
Oh and did I mention it's got flowmasters? I just love the low rumble it has, almost like a racecar! lol
Enough with words....let these pictures speak for themselves!
When I went to look at it.
A nice and clean interior for a 17-year old vehicle
And at home, all clean and waxed!
Thanks for allowing me a couple minutes of your time to share with you one of the best things that's happened to me in a while.
-Cody
updated by @cody-dinsmore: 08/09/18 05:24:28AM
