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[mat in tn]

ok gary i may have figured this out. my name is matt and i m 54 and live in nashville tn. i have the first truck i ever bought and it is still my daily driver today. 1986 f150 sb 4x2 with 300/ c6. one engine rebuild 20 years ago.  at this point bubba is as much a part of the family as anyone.

[Gary Lewis]

Yes, you're figuring it out, Matt.  Welcome!  

I know Nashville fairly well as our kids used to live there.  In fact, our SiL is there now on business.

So, do you want to be on our map?  (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map in the menu.)

That's a good story - you bought the truck new and still drive it.  

[grumpin]

Welcome!

[mat in tn]

well i wish it was purchased new. im too cheap for that . always have been. i bought it five years old and negotiated hard. i have owned may trucks since and still have a few. i retired (quit) so i could do bullnose trucks somewhat full time. i do later models too but not as extensively. i always have one frame off resto going at any given time.  

[Gary Lewis]

You are surely going to be a big help here!  Show us some of your restorations?

[mat in tn]

i am definitely tech challenged. i have no pics on my computer . they are on my phone. the phone app only shows the left half of the forum. idk... i no longer have a secretary haha..

[mat in tn]

[mat in tn]

This is an 85 xlt that i built a few years ago . Mild built 5.0 with custom exhaust. Aod . Trac lock rear axle etc.  

[Gary Lewis]

Nice looking truck.  By "built" you mean for someone, right?

[mat in tn]

Not really.  I built it for myself but then i sold it. I seem to do that. I really like bullnose trucks and i love building restomods and restoring them.  I dont build these for other people . I build what i like. I do other commision work and custom work  but frame off builds i do on my own.

[mat in tn]

[Gary Lewis]

Interesting.  I've only sold two Bullnose trucks after working on them "significantly".  The '82 Explorer got a new engine and I ported the heads myself.  And Rusty required both the rear diff and the t-case to be rebuilt, and I swapped engines with Dad's truck and then put it back.  Plus there was a whole lot of other work done on both trucks.  But in both cases I sold them because I was getting another truck - Dad's truck replaced the Explorer, and Big Blue replaced Rusty.

But now that I have "extensive" work on both of these trucks I could never sell them.  They've become part of me.  Or I'm part of them.  So I don't see how you do one so in-depth and sell it.  But both you and Cory apparently do that.  

[mat in tn]

Well i love doing them. I dont have all for sale but i cant keep them all. If i want to build another i must make room to do it.

[mat in tn]

While working on our land my brother said my truck looked as if were in an old truck ad so i had to take a pic

[Gary Lewis]

It does!  

[Rembrant]

Gary Lewis wrote

So I don't see how you do one so in-depth and sell it.  But both you and Cory apparently do that. 

Hey...HEY!, Whoa... What is it you always say Gary, I resemble that remark...lol.

[Rembrant]

mat in tn wrote

While working on our land my brother said my truck looked as if were in an old truck ad so i had to take a pic

Cool truck, and I love the topper(?)...we call them "Caps" around here, but I know they have a lot of different names depending on who you're talking to. Cap, topper, camper shell, etc.

[Gary Lewis]

Rembrant wrote

Gary Lewis wrote

So I don't see how you do one so in-depth and sell it.  But both you and Cory apparently do that. 

Hey...HEY!, Whoa... What is it you always say Gary, I resemble that remark...lol.

Yep, that's what Dad would have said.

He really had a lot of sayings.  While on the trip to Ouray my brother and I'd look at each other and grin, knowing what the other was thinking - Dad would have said "..."

[grumpin]

Out in the west caps or toppers are called canopies!

[mat in tn]

the funny thing is that when i got bubba it had a roll bar and lights. thats what i prefer but i needed to keep my tools dry so i bought a topper / cap . that was 27 years ago. again i find practicality takes precedence. however i do like the old school topper look