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another german

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seems that germans like the old Ford Trucks...last 3 welcome threads all from germany :eek:

anyway - I´m Chris from northwest of germany and im 29 years old. I´m no professional mechanic but I had done a few things to become a hobby mechanic :lol: I did a full resto on 68 Cougar 4 years ago and had several Bike projects.
The reason why I´m here is I recently bought a 68 F250 Camper Special in "project" condition in PHX AZ. Has a swapped in 429 and a 4 speed manual. It came from the factory as an 390 auto. Maybe I´m converting back, not sure about that now. I also recently bought one of these cool F600 instrument cluster - really love it :woohoo:
It´s currently on it´s way to germany and will hopefully arrive at around end of April.

The big masterplan on that guy is doing a little resto to get it back on the road and building a peroid correct camper shell by myself. Here´s what I´m thinking (or dreaming) about:
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Since the older Trucks are not that well known as mustangs in germany there are not much knowledge resources. I hope to get a few special information on this car here in the forum.
And of course I will try to help as well - maybe with some electrical things. (I´m doing radio conversions, mustang sequential tail light conversions and cougar repro sequencers)

of course a few pic´s of my US classics:
68 Cougar 302 std. 3-speed manual
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68 F250 Camper Special 429 4-speed manual
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Chris
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:wel: Chris from a "Yank" who's set foot on your homeland before!
USN got a few miles from Hamburg way...back in the early 80's.
Both the Cougar, (wow...hidden headlights option wa rare!) and the bump rock man!

Stay safe in our "new world" and for the record guys...YES GERMAN'S CAN OUT DRINK US YANKS LOL! :burp:
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Many Ford bumps / one 76' EB / and several dents through the years.
A lot of "oddball" Ford parts collected from working on them for 34 years now!
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:wel: on board from southern germany. Nice to see more german guys here :thup:
basketcase0302 wrote:..... and for the record guys...YES GERMAN'S CAN OUT DRINK US YANKS LOL! :burp:
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Former nuke submarine sailor who's drank ale with the British / German / Italy / Russian / Spain and Japanese sailors from around the world but ya'll got us beat hands down by the alcohol content, (our "wimpy" US alcohol beer standards put us at like 5%)! :eek:

I got to see one of my fav musicians at the time play in concert there in Germany, (Mike Oldfield). And I also came real...close to going AWOL, (basically get hanged by our government by doing so LOL-well at least jailed for many years for desertion of our military) by the beauty of your homeland ladies there LOL! :yes:
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Many Ford bumps / one 76' EB / and several dents through the years.
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:wel: from Georgia !
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Thanks for your warm welcome guys :fr:

It´s beer a clock right now :drool:
4 speed Toploader is in now the cougar and drives awesome...much better than the old 3 speed and I like the new hurst shifter :thup:

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:wel: from Ohio

It's ALWAYS beer o'clock in Deutschland! In my 5 years there I tried to drink the country dry and failed miserably..... :lol:
"Life is a garden - dig it"........... :thup:

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