Nice! :beerchug:

When you say 3 years "piddling" with it, I assume that's when you fixed it up "purdy"? :biggrin2:

And I kind of agree with you about this. These new pick up's are way over priced. All I'm looking for is a new truck, 4x4, short bed, regular cab and instead all I get sold on is the 4-door crap.
A known fact is that a IH Cub Cadet model 1650 had a list price of $3, 120.00 in what, 1974? And yet people are amazed when I suggest to them, a person could have bought a new "economy" car back then. I bet the new XT3-GSX would blow the doors off a old, whooped-as*'ed JD 318 in the mowing field, and if I wanted to spend the cash to get the new Cub, I'd prove it!

:BB&YS:

Edit: Jon, don't go away mad! I know the 318 JD is a better built GT, and proven. Pretty much you got a better product then. My 1982 F100 is proof. I also owned a 72' F100 among a lot of great trucks. Ok, now,... I don't know of a GT today that is so priced that one could come near, or purchase a new car or truck as did back in the 70's. What most people forget, is that the all mighty Dollar was prolly worth a $1.25 back then, as now it's worth might be like .45$ .

Amen to that! What I would say is that today, in a dollar sense, I probably have ten times the amount of money and other assets that I had back then. But when I look around I don't really have ten times what I had back then.

automotive style " beltless" direct shaft drive . That is funny.