New guy near Harrington, DE

Greetings all. Let's see, where to begin...

I have four Ram 50's in various states of disrepair -

2WD's

- an '89 w/ 2.0 and five speed that's been my everyday truck for several years but currently needs a bit of work,


- a '92 Long Bed w/ 2.4 and auto that I expect to be using as my everyday wheels soon - the water pump crapped out (I replaced it and the belts but I screwed up the 'o' ring install and have to take it apart again).

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- a later model (no title, year unknown) white long bed that I recently acquired for parts - auto, the motor does not look like any of the others and it has a smashed windshield, but nice wheels, tires (that are going on the green truck above), bed, body parts, etc.

4WD

- a pretty tired but decent looking '88, 2.6 auto. It runs and drives okay and everything works and has okay wheels, but it has 200K miles on it.

I have lots of other stuff - especially motorcycles (hence the trucks!)

Right now I need a cooling fan and upper fan shroud - to make a long, stupid story short, they were ruined in a brief under hood fire.

I suspect that I may soon be selling (or trying to sell) the 4WD and parting out the white long bed, in case anyone is interested...

Welcome to the site man, glad to have you here! You have quite a collection going on lol

welcome to the site and mad props for having so many of these awesome little trucks........

Welcome To The Scene Man!
Yeah the 4x4 You Could Get Some Good Money Out Of It!
Nice Collection!

Well, it's like this. I need a vehicle that I can carry a bike in or on. I was driving a very custom Ford van w/ twin gas tanks when the price of gas spiked a few years back.


So I started looking for something much more economical but reliable.I'd had Datsun/Nissan trucks long ago (took a ton of abuse and worked like a dog but they tend to rust). I'd had Toyotas too but nice ones are friggin expensive.

Then I came across that green one above on Craigslist and recalled that they always were considered excellent trucks in the magazine comparisons back when they were new so I bought it. It was traded in at a dealership at a nearby Delaware beach and a mechanic there jumped at the chance to buy it wholesale. But when it came time to renew the registration, he had trouble getting it through emissions and decided to put it up for sale. But I had no trouble getting it through emissions - he had changed the distributor cap but had never replaced the rotor, dummy! Since then, the other ones have just found me.

One day I took the green one to the supermarket and some gal came running up to me, excited that I had a Ram 50. She had the red five speed above - she'd bought it new and had put 150K miles on it, commuting to work about 200 miles of highway driving per day. She parked it when the exhaust got loud one day and went and bought a new car. It also needed a new battery.

I gave her $550 for it, put a battery in it and drove it home. Then I looked at the exhaust - the pipes looked like new but where the pipes bolt together under the seats - the donut was still there but the two bolts had rusted out. I popped out the rusty bolts and replaced them and did nothing else to the truck. I've driven it about 30K miles since then, including drives to Maine to pick up one of my two-wheeled acquisitions and to Norfolk to get another. It's got a sunroof and a pair of JBL's and gets great gas mileage.


In front of an excellent watering hole that I would love to visit again in Portland, ME after buying my CBX. This photo appeared in Motorcycle Times magazine. That's a six cylinder bike in a four cylinder truck!


At the rest area on the Bay Bridge/Tunnel on return trip from Norfolk after acquiring my CBX project bike. This is not the same bike as in the pic above, note the different heights on the windshields...

One day I stopped at my local Mickey D's for some coffee, driving this same red one, and as I was leaving I spotted the 4WD one in the back yard of a house across the street from the Mickey D's. The guy who owned it had lost his license - he was using it for a place to sit in the backyard and smoke cigarettes since he was not permitted to smoke in the house! I gave him $30 more than he paid for it, but damn, it took a lot of time and Fabreeze before I got that stink out of it...

And when I stopped at a used tire place one day to put some cheap rubber on the front of the 4WD, they showed me the white one with the smashed windshield sitting around back in case I wanted it for parts. So...

Okay, a few more pics. Some of you may be aware that Harley-Davidson killed off the Buell sportbike division last October, and that during the last two weeks of that month they were selling off their leftover stock of new bikes at fire sale prices. So, guess what I did?

Here is a pic of my co-pilot at the wheel of the little twuck on the way home with another two-wheeled acquisition, an 1125R. It now has 5K miles on it and I'm currently putting some fresh rubber (Contis) on it...



And here's my latest project that I found on CL, although it has nothing to do with Ram 50's. I call it my Fidget. Yes, it's a '72 MG Midget with a Ford 289 HiPo and a C4 and narrowed 9" rear stuffed in there...


I consider the trucks to be tools, the rest are my toys!

well i would say that you definitely got some good deals on all of them. Great finds man.

They say that good things happen to those who deserve it and it shows in you situation.

oh and nice bike by the way....
whats up with the van..i would like to know more about it....me myself well i actually like it i used to have one but it was a P.O.S.-----rust bucket..

Oh, the van is still there, along with way too much other stuff...

So, what part of the world are you from?

Incidentally, I still need a cooling fan, and I suppose it'll be easier and cheaper replacing the stock clutch van with another rather than opting for an electric or flex fan.

Show the class how many pipes your CBX has.

Well, if you insist...


I took this photo of it while out for a ride one day


This is a closeup of the bike - note that it has a taller than stock windshield.


And this is what they did to my photo when they put it on the cover


I've always liked these bikes. Here are two that I had about a decade ago (both were sold years ago)...