satx78247
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Friends,
As several of you know, I bought a one-owner, low-mileage 6.9, Super-cab 1986 XLT LARIAT (sight unseen) off of a ranch up in North Texas. - Rather than PMing everyone that asked, here's the story.
(54,927 actual miles.)
A friend of the seller volunteered to bring the truck to me for a LOW cost.
The circus began last night at 2100, when he arrived on the ranch with truck & trailer. It took until 0200 to get the PU loaded & boomered down on the trailer, after having to take the fenders off the trailer.
(This was accomplished in a major thunderstorm. - Dion said that the two of them looked like "drowned rats" by the time that the truck was loaded & the fenders put back on.)
He left the Ft Worth area about 0300 & headed south to San Antonio, driving the 300 miles through "a major weather event" with heavy rain, large hail, flooding, damaging winds, etc. & finally arrived in San Antonio at 1300.
Then he got lost on the way to my place & it was nearly 1430 by the time he found my place & we unloaded the PU off the trailer.
BRAVE MAN to have delivered the PU through that MESS. = He averaged about 35MPH through the storm.
Nonetheless, the PU is NICE & as the saying goes, "all's well that ends well".
yours, satx
As several of you know, I bought a one-owner, low-mileage 6.9, Super-cab 1986 XLT LARIAT (sight unseen) off of a ranch up in North Texas. - Rather than PMing everyone that asked, here's the story.
(54,927 actual miles.)
A friend of the seller volunteered to bring the truck to me for a LOW cost.
The circus began last night at 2100, when he arrived on the ranch with truck & trailer. It took until 0200 to get the PU loaded & boomered down on the trailer, after having to take the fenders off the trailer.
(This was accomplished in a major thunderstorm. - Dion said that the two of them looked like "drowned rats" by the time that the truck was loaded & the fenders put back on.)
He left the Ft Worth area about 0300 & headed south to San Antonio, driving the 300 miles through "a major weather event" with heavy rain, large hail, flooding, damaging winds, etc. & finally arrived in San Antonio at 1300.
Then he got lost on the way to my place & it was nearly 1430 by the time he found my place & we unloaded the PU off the trailer.
BRAVE MAN to have delivered the PU through that MESS. = He averaged about 35MPH through the storm.
Nonetheless, the PU is NICE & as the saying goes, "all's well that ends well".
yours, satx
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