Very cool old truck!

I too learned how to drive on the farm truck, it was a '53 Chevy 3100
I remember it well, as a small kid of 13 it was such a challenge for me to start
I always had to make sure I had a rock or piece of wood to brace the tires so it would not roll
The '53 3100 had a manual engaging starter, it was a small pedal that came out of the floorboard to the right of the gas pedal
Once you turned the key nothing would happen until you pushed in the started pedal which swung the starter over into the flywheel and then the starter would engage
An adult with bigger feet could sort of heel/toe the starter and the gas pedal as the gas pedal needed pumping, my feet were just too small
So, right foot on starter, left foot on the gas, truck in neutral braced on the rock, it was a farm truck no working emergency brake, and then manually pulling and operating the choke cable by hand

Ya can just sort of make it out in this pic

 

Yup!
My desire for old vehicles is completely based upon fond memories

Here is another I really like
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1981-...item416ff541b9

Not a lot of people know, but Datsun invented the extended cab on small pickups
My daily driver is a Frontier King Cab PRO-4X
The name King Cab for Datsun/Nissan has been around since 1977

 

I'd like the Cobra in the garage behind the TR-4 though!

 

They look great but you wouldn't fit in it. I tried. In addition, after driving your S, the ergonomics would drive you crazy in one. I've driven an Indycar, that was easier egress than a cobra. So was my Sunbeam Tiger.

First time I ever got out of a car like that without a test drive. I sat in it for a couple minutes and walked away all bummed out. I was ready to buy one till then.

fltsfshr

 

Boy, talk about raining on another guys parade.

Maybe I could rent one by the hour. Probably couldn't afford the gas to drive it anyway.

 

You are about two weeks late. One of the local SCCA guys just sold his Factory Five Cobra and bought the FFR 818. Cobra lives in Chattanooga, now.

https://www.factoryfive.com/kits/project-818/

 

Sorry I haven't been around for a while. WAY too busy at work. So here is the interesting car of the day, I call a car like this an expensive trap.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Jagua...#ht_500wt_1182

This is a Jaguar XK 140. They are great collector cars and they have good value and great appearance. The 140 is the favorite of many collectors. The 140 had more power than the 120 it replaced. Even though the subsequent 150 had more power than the 140, the lines changed and many people did not like the slightly bloated look of the 150.

So why do I call this car an expensive trap? The lines, the feel, the "spirit" of the car are still there. The first thing you see is the car as it should be rather than all the work it will need. It doesn't take a lot of vision or imagination to see what the car will look like when it is restored. And that is the trap. The car needs every bit of a full restoration. You might save a few bucks on welding over a car with more rust, but you are still going to disassemble this entire car, strip every part to base metal, fix a lot of rust, (look at how the doors sag and the "rough" bottom edges on the left side). You will have to buy a ton of new, expensive parts and end up either replating or replacing all the chrome. The interior "looks" like it is there, but you can't really use any of it. The car isn't good enough or original enough to keep as a "survivor". Someone will pay a lot of money and then spend another $75K to $100K to get a car that is barely worth the cost of the restoration, unless they can do all the work themselves.

 

5 or 10 minutes would probably be enough.

 

reminds me of a wiley coyote skit just after he's gotten hit by lightning but his body hasn't collapsed yet but any moment now....

 

Here you go.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1965-...t_36890wt_1182