Land-Shark Projects: 1992 F-150

So this is my personal, first purchased vehicle.

It is a 1992 Ford F-150, 300 I6, Automatic, 2wd, Longbed, Single Cab.

I bought it in November, with hopes of turning it into my first truck.

I have been throwing money at this for a while. I love this little truck. It is currently disassembled in my driveway, but no matter how ugly it looks, I just have visions for it.

I wanted to improve the stance, so I replaced the rear shocks, and added new 2" drop shackles. This will bring the very back of the truck down, to look more balanced.

I plan on fixing the rust it has, when my funds become available. Once that is done, I plan on painting the truck red, with matte black stripes down the hood.

Later on, depending if I keep it long, I want to upgrade the old worn out 300 Straight Six, and put in a mildly rebuilt 302. Keeping it an automatic.

I want a fun, but functional work truck.

This is when I first got it

Back View

Last month, started stripping her out

 No More bed

Painted Frame

After a little Body Work

New Drop Shackles on the freshly undercoated frame

Land-shark Projects: 1966 Mustang

In the 1990's my father purchased a 1966 Ford Mustang. He had it at College and his wedding. After I was born halfway through the decade the Mustang saw the fate of many classic cars... The Garage.

I have ridden in the car all of probably a mile. Proving how much it has driven in recent years.

My father would occasionally have the motivation to work on the car. We upgraded the front drum brakes, to new disc brakes. All new brake lines. New gas tank. New fuel lines.

This past week, aside from the Penbo project, my brother and I sought out on the task of making the Mustang run again. After a lot of trouble shooting, pulling the battery out of the families Ford Excursion, we cranked over the old tired 200 I6. After realizing the lack of fuel, we tore down the fuel filter and sending unit.

After all the gunk was out of that, we got gas to the carb, and ran the engine. We have it running for the first time in almost 5 years.

We plan on dragging the beauty up to Maine, where we will Resto-mod this old Grandma's Mustang into a nice powerful cruiser.

Soon to be outfitted with a 1966 Ford Galaxie 289 and T-5 5 Speed.

Twice the Size, Twice the Rot

This week is my high schools vacation week. And since my father still works in Connecticut my family decided to go down to our old house where he is staying to help out with chores and regular upkeep.

My father has collected numerous projects over the years of living there. We moved there in roughly 2000, and moved back to Maine in 2011. Over that time span we accumulated many vehicles and vessels.

The one I am writing about came to us as out of barter for some tools in the summer of 2003. This is a rare boat. It is a 19ft Penbo Runabout. Penbo stands for Penobscot, Maine. Famous for their Maritime history and their numerous differentiation of types of water-bound vessels.

This has a very nice shape, similar to the famous, and very popular Lyman Runabout.

My father, being the engineer he is, wanted to turn the Runabout into a center-console boat, because we already had a 24ft Grady White which is a little too big for his taste. But another child clouded his vision, projects were put on the back burner, and the old Penbo has been left alone for well over 10 years.

Over the past 3 years, my family has been slowly moving back to Maine. And since we are moving out of our Connecticut house, we need to liquidate projects. Sadly, my brother and I each enjoy all of them. I want the old Mustang, he wants the Penbo.

He sees the good in the boat, I see the dollar signs. He puts out a remark "Only part of the keel is rotted!" I respond "Start counting what isn't rotted, the list is shorter."

Either way, my brother has the motivation to fix this rare, beautiful rotted out piece of Maine Maritime history. And I applaud him, since he has helped me on all my projects; I will have to help him with his new one.

I just expect to drive it when he is done restoring it.