The Trucks That Could
NOV
28

Hi all me and my wife have been married for ten years now and we have been through alot. On January 29, 2009 one day before my birthday my wife and I were in our 1990 F350 4×4 460 V8 crew cab that we use for pulling our building materials. We had a 16 Ft flatbed bumper pull trailer hooked up and it was snowing. With over 20,000lbs of material on the trailer and 8000lbs on the truck we were going down the slick highway taking it slow and the trailer lost control. the trailer disconnected and flew in front of us if it wasn’t for the brakes and Transmission setup we would have been killed. I had enough time to get out of the trailers way. Since then we have been very careful with that old truck. My wife and I have been die hard Ford fans since young so we have only owned them. My truck currently is a 1988 F150 4×4 302 that I love but I also use a 1994 F350 manual tranny 4×4 for work plus we still own the 1990 F350 4×4. We are rebuilding our house after it was ran into by a drunk driver so we are completely restarting. We have 4 horses that we take care of and we have to haul hay plus building materials for our house. On top of that we have to do our job which we own a do everything bussiness so we build houses dig trenches plumbing whatever and we use our 1994 for the big time work for pulling my 16000lbs Case tractor. If it wasn’t for Ford I would be unemployed out of a house and dead along with my wife. Thank you ford for making such great vehichles. The pic is of our 1994 F350 4×4 manual everything on it with the unbeatable 460 V8. We also own a 2002 F250 4×4 crew cab triton V10 which is our only non work truck.
Thanks Travis and Mariah

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What we need is a new Police Vehicle from Ford. The old Taurus left a bad tast in lawenforcement. The new Crown Vic should be powered by the 5.0 in the Mustang or 5.4 or 6.0 v-8 with at least 450 hp, rear wheel drive or AWD as a V6 model offer the Ford Falcon twin turbo. I was a Police Officer for over 25 years. I have seen the Crown Vic run with no engine or trans oil, jump curbs, ditches. Take hits that other vehicles including trucks stop dead in it\'s track. The reverse back doors would be a good idea, plus bullit proof doors and firewall. I would take the Crown Vic over just about any other Police car on the road. The only short coming I ever had was the brakes. They needed to be upgraded to bigger slotted an drilled rotters and 4 or 6 piston front brakes and 2 piston rear sloted disc on rear. Limited slip rear, solid or independent axle, a little wider tire run flat high performance. A roll bar for a cage an plastic rear seats, special front seats made for holster. Special veh could be built for only one person up front with no passanger, and a upgraded suspenion as this could be a chase vehicle only. Remove all the extra weight thats not needed. Light bar built inside veh like the carbon motors vehicle with at least 200 watts sirene, yhis is a must at high speed. Please bring this vehicle back. I think you can make money off of it and be proude. I know the cops will love Ford again. A lot of my friends no longer like the Dodge an Chevs front wheel drive an V8 just dont hold up. Carbon motors might give you a run for your money if they ever get a car on the road. But no one I spoke to likes the Engine and doughts its performance. When gas is cheeper to buy again an yheir vehicle will not start in cold weather we will see how long they last. Best of luck ! Ford we need you really bad. Just ask thw working cops not their boses who sets behind desk all day.
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