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Old 03-30-2021, 06:44 PM
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Hello from Highland Village TX. (just north of Dallas).

I have been a Toyota guy for several years now. Recently a young lady ran over my Tundra while texting and it was a total loss. I have been self employed since 1985 selling industrial supplies and using Toyotas to deliver them.

I will be 70 this September and will be retiring then, so I don't need a big expensive pickup. Just something to make the occasional trip to Home Depot.

I talked to a lot of folks about older small pickups, and they said the biggest bang for the buck hands down was a Ranger, So I began my search.

After some tire kicking I bought a 2003 Ranger extended cab 3.0 5 speed with 150,000 miles.

This was an Arizona truck and has almost no rust, but the paint is chipping in places. One of the things that sold me on this truck it's as quiet as my Tundra.

It has some small problems that I will probably bore you guys to death with window regulators etc.

Lots of Ford folks tell me this truck will outlast me and I am fine with that!!!

Enough of my ramblings.

Thanks for allowing me to be a part of your community.

The Boltman
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Old 03-30-2021, 06:50 PM
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Old 03-31-2021, 12:50 PM
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Nice to see more Texans coming in here! I am new as well. I am close to Fort Worth . I always had bigger trucks, one ton turbo diesel long bed etc. and finally no longer needed one and got a Ranger several years back. Now I look back and wonder if I ever really needed the bigger trucks, the Ranger has done everything I have needed .
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Old 04-01-2021, 04:42 PM
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Old 04-04-2021, 09:33 PM
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Texan's all over forums as of late. Are all the new Californians driving you indoors now? lol
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Old 04-11-2021, 09:47 PM
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Texan's all over forums as of late. Are all the new Californians driving you indoors now? lol


i am going to try to and not get to pissy or soap box stand for too long...
I grew up in a small Texas dairy and ranch town. Almost no crime, folks knew each other and things were nice and clean. Even the local politicians were nearly tolerable. Not perfect, of course. In the late 1990s the California invasion started. Things went down hill quick after that. A guy from CA tossed out his cigarette butt on his way in town one afternoon. Someone reported him and his vehicle description and CA plate, but they never caught him that I know of. The dairy and ranch I worked at went up were in flames soon after. Being a dry year and a windy day made it bad. Me and a few buddies spent till midnight trying to salvage what we could and trailer the surviving animals and dig fire breaks. Horses burned alive that were trapped. If you have ever heard a animal "scream" in pain you know what I mean when I say it was awful not being able to help. Fire burned for a few more hours. The fire depts. did a good job keeping it from spreading and getting to other property. Almost everything planted was ruined and with no graze / pasture land all the surviving stock of animals was sold for less than value. Farm trucks and a tractor were burned down to metal with no glass, plastic, rubber or anything left that was not metal. The big city news was quoted saying something to the tune of," why the big deal it was only some old fence posts, barns and grass that burned, not stores or homes". It was the work and bread plate for about 4 families and 3 generations. That has and will stick in my mind as California coming to Texas. Now, in 2021- that same town has seven lanes of piss poor drivers that are rude, stupid and convinced what they are doing is worth all the other lives on the road. Rush hour on 635 is about equal to the crazy drivers and traffic in my home town now. My home has been broken in twice since about 2005, with four attempts. One guy came back knowing I had a shot gun waiting... truck broken in and several murders, rapes etc. It is not a "bad area". Only six blocks from the police station! So, I have to be fair. All of that is not the fault of California or folks moving to Texas from other places. I am sure some of them are very nice people. Much of the down hill change is just small towns growing up. But, we used grow up with more manners, sense and respect before the influx. That concludes my rant and soap box stand lol. My grandfather used to say if you @#$% your sleeping bag, you still get to sleep in it. I often feel like all those fleeing the crazy taxes, laws and marxist style leadership of other states that come to Texas should have to stay in the sleeping bag a while lol.
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Old 05-10-2021, 11:22 PM
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hi keith! welcome to the community!
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Old 11-14-2021, 12:36 PM
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