Starting with my first truck, an

83 f150, 302 automatic; piece of worn out crap. Traded it to a guy who wanted it for a



67 f250 with a 390, 4-speed in it that ran decent with a tap in the top end. When I decided to re-do it I found: two bent pushrods, over half the lifters were frozen, two lobes were gone from the cam, some of the rocker arms had worn grooves into the rocker shafts, and the stock aluminum timing gear was worn down so sharp that I cut my finger taking it off. All that and only a tap... needless to say, it ran like a whipped dog after I got it all back together... sounded great too! Sold it before I left to be a missionary for two years, when I got back I bought an

87 f250, 460 automatic, I got snookered into this one, it was a POS. Somehow I found a guy who really wanted it, despite the long list of things I told him that were wrong with it, and he traded me an

88 Ranger, 2.9 5-speed that I still use for all my driving around. I also bought a

94 f250 with a 460, 5-speed that I use for my hauling/ occasional towing.