What I Like About Older Vehicles

In Maryland, if your vehicle is more than 25 years old, you can qualify for Historic Licence Plates. What that also means is... you don't have to go through MVA inspection to get tags. I'm not a fan of vehicles that aren't safe to drive but the Maryland inspection process can often mean the garage that's offering to do inspections has to FIND something wrong with your vehicle to be able to afford to do the inspection for such a low price. Mechanics need to make X amount of dollars, the garage needs to make X amount of money and the fee for the inspection just doesn't do either one of those 2 necessary things.

Now if I'm going to get an older vehicle, I want one that's built tough enough to be able to stay on the road, and a pick up certainly fits that bill. Another neat thing about older trucks is if you want to haul something you won't be so panicky if that something scratches your paint job.

Of course if the older pick up is fully restored, that's a different matter altogether.

In Maryland if you are wanting to restore a vehicle, be it a car or a truck, the best Maryland auto upholstery shop I can recommend is Joe's Upholstery Shop in Frederick Maryland.

301 662-5006

When I discover a Maryland auto body shop worth writing about I'll post that here as well.

Ford F Serise Pick Ups

Restored Vintage Ford Pick Ups From Trucks.About.com

Ford F-Series Trucks

Pictures of Restored F-Series Trucks, 1961-1978

From Dale Wickell, About.com

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The F-Series pickup trucks in this gallery represent a range of generations. The majority are stock restorations, with only a few changes to equipment (mostly aftermarket wheels).

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1961 Ford F-100 Styleside Truck	1963 Ford F-100 Flareside Truck	1966 Ford F-100 Short Bed Truck	1966 Ford F-100 Truck
1966 Ford F-100 Truck	1966 Ford F-100 Truck	1968 Ford F-100 Ranger Truck	1978 Ford F-150 Truck

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F-Series Past to Present

• My First F-150 Pickup Truck
• Ford F-Series Generations, 1948 to Today
• 2009 Ford F-150 Trucks
• Ford F-Series 10th Generation Pickup Trucks, 1997-2003
• Ford F-Series 9th Generation Pickup Trucks, 2004 - 2008

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Vintage Trucks

Why Collecting Antique Dodge Trucks is a Passion for Some People
... more people have opted for buying these antique Dodge trucks. Even though the Dodge trucks gained more popularity after the Second World War, even today there are many people who want to add these vintage automobiles to their collection. Read
By: Muna wa Wanjiru | 28/05/2008 | Antiques


Classic Cars: Get Insured - Article Directory - Free Articles ...
Purchasing insurance for your vintage vehicle through a well-established commercial insurance company may help bring peace of mind, whilst also allowing you ...
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The Classic Car "Blue Book". by Bob Welcome Classic Car Trim Pty Ltd
Jul 16, 2007 ... It provides retail, private party and trade-in values for used cars, trucks, and vans covering the last 15 years. There are further details ...
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Amazon.com bettering Ebay at their own game

But to tell you the honest to God truth... it's because it takes money to sell on Ebay and from what I've seen it doesn't take money to sell on Amazon.com!

I can't GET PAID from Amazon.com without paying a fee of some kind, but with Ebay if you don't have the fee...you're just S.O.L.

Frederick Maryland has the Great Frederick Fair, you can buy stuff at the fair and throw it up online at both ebay and amazon.com for a profit

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This post has a treat: Jessica Mellot Country Music's Rising Star and A HomeGrown Frederick Maryland Sweetheart to boot

Simple steps to Maryland Internet Advertising

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Simple Steps to Maryland Internet Advertising

As a local small business, you're not going to be able to 
knock that directory out of his number one spot, but that 
also means your competitor isn't going to be able to do so 
either.

Pick up videos

This blog is by, for, and about Marylanders that love old pick up trucks. Myself? I love them because they're durable, like me!

It's going to take me awhile to gather what I'm going to put up here, but for now I found these interesting videos of Pick Ups:


Pickup Truck Ferry Accident - Watch more Animal Videos




Big Trucks Kendel Carson - Watch more Entertainment

Here's what I'd like to do:

Organize a truck swap meet

List junk yards that have old truck parts

List places that sell hard to find truck parts

List local Maryland shops that restore old trucks

Start a Mailing list for all of us to post to so we can share tips, trick, and how-tos

That's all I have time for now, it's Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend, AND I just had a birthday... and I'm a new Grandfather!!!

My Grand daughter is the "Apple of my eye" (wonder where that phrase came from?)

I even started a blog about being an "Aging Baby Boomer gets second chance to be a better parent", it's at http://granddaddydaycare.blogspot.com


See ya soon
David Bruce

My vintage truck project - 73 Dodge pick up

Welcome to the first edition of the Maryland Vintage Truck Club newsletter.

I'm David Bruce and I wanted to start a Vintage truck club in Maryland because I think older trucks deserve to grow old gracefully, just like I am:)

Over the years I've had more than my share of vintage pickups, at the time they weren't considered *vintage*, they were just old! In the 80's when the auto industry began installing computers and sensors and other high tech gadgetry, the technology just wasn't up to the geekyness factor that the gadgets offered.

The car or trucks (even big rigs) computers worked OK, the sensor technology wasn't up to the task. Extreme weather conditions of blistering heat or shivering deep freeze ruined the sensors.

It was right then and there that I resolved to ONLY purchase vehicles that had 6 wires and I knew where they all went.

This is the first post...

The task of setting up all of this web stuff combined with what it's going to take to make this a 'real club' complete with articles of incorporation and such are forcing me to post 'itty bitty pieces' as I go along

more coming
David Bruce
Frederick MD