| I own a Ford Super Duty pick up. It is a crew cab truck with a long bed. It is a real pleasure to drive, especially on long trips, and for highway use. I call it the alter ego Lincoln, because of it's cavernous amounts of interior room. Driving it in town is not as much fun because of its length. If you drive it to Wal Mart, you may as well just go out to the corner of the lot and park, because you aren't going to be able to get it in the tight spaces up close to the front. I over heard two men talking one day about Super Duty Fords. They were talking about the name Super Duty and when Ford first came to use it. One man was arguing that it was first used in 1999 when the present generation of Ford Super Duties came out. The other was arguing that it came out in the late 1980s or early 1990s when the F-500 Super Duties came out. Me being the big mouth I am, I waded into the conversation and told them that they were both wrong. The name Super Duty was first used by Ford in 1958 for big Ford trucks using the new large cube Ford built truck engine, dubbed the Super Duty. The engine came in 401, 477, and 534 Cubic inch sizes. This was the most powerful gas truck engine ever built. This engine would run right up there with the big diesel engines of the day, and was competitive with the diesel in performance until about the late seventies or early eighties. Eventually diesel engine technology over took the Super Duty engine and made it obsolete. Production ceased about 1990. All the background about the Super Dutie's brings me to another point. One of my favorite trucks, and one that has been literally forgot about by almost everyone, is the Ford N-series trucks from the 1960s. Many of these trucks came with Super Duty engines and had the Super Duty name tag attached to the front of the truck. I have always wanted one, but never quite got the courage to jump in and buy one. I have collected many pictures of these trucks over the years, and have the largest collection of pictures of anyone I know of, there is very little information on the Internet about these trucks that I have been able to find. If you know of any pictures or information on the net please e-mail me. NEW PAGE, as of Feb. 29, 04 I have started a new page devoted to the N series truck. I have always heard that they are two things you don't talk to you customers about if you are in business. That is politics and religion. Thank God you aren't my customers, because that is exactly what I am going to talk about now. First of all let me say that I am of the Pentecostal faith, Assembly of God to be exact. I was raised in a Christian home, and while I may have strayed over the years, I have always came back and I am proud to say that I am a Christian. I am a God fearing person and firmly believe that there is a here after. When I was a child we always went to church. We would go twice on Sunday and once mid week, or every night if there was a revival going on. I pray a lot, and have prayers answered regularly. I sometimes pray for things I probably shouldn't, but then we are all humans and as humans we sometimes ask for things we don't need. Being reared in a Christian home by two loving Christian parents both of whom were reared in the country on farms and ranches, it was a given that I would probably grow up to have some conservative ways. I started to form my political views in my late teens and early twenties. By the time I was thirty years of age, I was pretty firm in my political beliefs. By no stretch of the imagination could you call me a politicaly correct person. The following is a list of my core beliefs. RESPONSIBILITY: I am a firm believer that far too many people today try and place blame for things that happen to them on everyone else except themselves. I firmly believe that you have to take full responsibility for you own actions. I do not believe in excuses like "it was the environment I was raised in that made me do it." If you were raised in an environment, that was less than desirable, then you should work hard to rise about that and be a better person. The world would be a better place today if each and every one of us would accept full responsibility for our own actions. SAME SEX MARRIAGES: I do not believe in same sex marriages, I believe that God intended for the institution of marriage to be a union of one man and one woman. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: I do not believe in affirmative action, I believe that you need to earn what you get by your hard work and your knowledge, and not your sex, or the color of your skin. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, "I have a dream...that my poor little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Affirmative action is just the opposite of King's dream. Affirmative action judges individuals based only on the color of one's skin and certainly not by the content of their character, their achievements, qualifications or anything else. Affirmative action is a step backwards by justifying the very racism it was established to thwart. It appears that supporters of affirmative action are comfortable with discrimination, provided it is directed towards white race. EDUCATION: I believe that education is this country is in trouble too. Graduating high school students are vastly under prepared in basic, but crucial, areas of math, reading and writing, which prompts concern. Many of our children are drastically underachieving when compared to children around the world. This is totally unacceptable. We need less government control and more local control of our schools. There needs to be accountability from teachers that want to teach liberal idealism. There is nothing wrong with throwing out these ideas, but they need to be balanced with the conservative side of the coin. Let children make up their minds, don't tell them that this is the way it is. Political correctness is taking over our schools. For example, an English teacher scrapped books about pigs from her elementary school classrooms to avoid offending Muslims. Some textbooks will eliminate the term 'Founding Fathers', replacing it with 'The Framers' in an attempt to create a less male-dominated reference, these examples only scratch the surface. HOME Click to go to next page |
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