Phantom Of The BumpSide

PhantomoftheBumpside · Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:26 pm

Ni hao, Anyoung, Ciao, Aloha, Hola, Howdy, Hello. My name is Rob, and I am addicted to BumpSides.

Currently have a pair of '68 Bumps... Looking for the right '67.

robroy · Post by **robroy** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:03 pm

Good evening PhantomoftheBumpside,

You're the first person I've ever seen here on FORDification using Chinese words--especially in your introductory post! I love it!!!

How are your '68s configured? What are your plans for them, and what's your plan for your future '67?

Robroy

cowbay · Post by **cowbay** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:56 am

Welcome aboard make sure you post some pictures of the bump. And yes you are right it is addicting. Found this board to fufill my needs since my wife is not really into it.

MrMajestyk · Post by **MrMajestyk** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:05 am

Rob

Big Blue 72 · Post by **Big Blue 72** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:44 am

Welcome from Washington State.

fireguywtc · Post by **fireguywtc** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:59 pm

from Texas!

PhantomoftheBumpside · Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:20 pm

The current driver is a '68 F250 (F253) Custom Cab 360/C6/3.73 Dana60 (built around March 68) in Krylon Italian Olive Satin over Rustoleum Flat Black with a Desert Tan bump line. Going to be wearing 16x8 Modular Steel on front, 16.5x10 Modular Aluminum on back for the winter.

The spare is a '68 F250 (F254) Custom Cab Camper Special 360/NP435/4.10 Dana60 (built around June 68) in original Pure White with a '72 F100 driver door (Aug 71) in Swiss Aqua. It wore a shell for most of it's life, so the bed is just about perfect except for light surface rust. The bed is also loaded with an 18 gal tank, a spare hood and two spare doors and misc other parts...

For the '67 I have a resto-mod vision...M100 Ranger/Custom Cab SWB with completely stock body, period correct custom Ranger style two tone paint (Pebble Beige over Econoline Boxwood Green), with modern drive-line and running gear that is still Ford+Dana and at least looks like most of it could belong there - 4.9L I6 / 4R70W / AWD / 4WD / IFS / IRS / 4f-6r dropped stance...

*corrected typo in date

PhantomoftheBumpside · Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:54 pm

@ Robroy - I speak several languages.. including z80 and x86 machine, I've also been under the hood of several OSes including the BSDs and various other flavors of *nix and still have my original beta floppies of Castle Wolfenstein.

@ Cowbay - I will be posting up pics of the Bumps.. my wife isn't into most of the things I am into either, so I'm never surprised if I end up sleeping in one of the Bumps after spending too much time on them and not on her projects.

@ MrMajestyk - Thank you for the welcome. Love that color on the Bump.

@ Big Blue 72 - Thank you for the welcome. I am also in Washington State. Tacoma area to be vague... Sumner if I am being more exact.

@ Fireguywtc - Thanks for the welcome. If that '67 turns up missing, you can't prove a thing, I haven't been to Texas since umm.... 1987. Yeah... that's it... 1987.

robroy · Post by **robroy** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 9:12 pm

Good evening PhantomoftheBumpside,

Well this is certainly the first time I've seen somebody write "BSD" on FORDification.

Sounds like we have some things in common. Do you speak Chinese by any chance? Now that would be a weird coincidence: two guys who like Bumpsides, Unix, programming, and Chinese. Even without the Chinese it's unusual!

Robroy

PhantomoftheBumpside · Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:19 pm

FORDification 是最好!

* Forgot to mention... Thinking about doing a full network in the eventual project truck... WiMAX connection to the internet with a BSD web server, WiFi router for traveling gear, headliner mounted 10.1" android tablet for nav & commo and a pop-up rig with Sony Blu Ray (w/Internet Apps), xBox360 and HD flat screen in the bed for entertainment when tailgating...

Mancar1 · Post by **Mancar1** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:03 am

Welcome aboard from Northern Ca. I also look forward to pics of your Trucks.

PhantomoftheBumpside · Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:18 pm

Thanks for the Welcome Mancar1. Will work on pics today... probably.

PhantomoftheBumpside · Sat Dec 31, 2011 11:26 pm

Ok. My pic is now my avatar and the Baseline Pics are up of the project truck "War Horse", ready for the New Year. The world can now hold me accountable for my progress, of lack thereof, from this point forward.

As we can see, the current project truck is basically all original with a nice dose of Kylon and Rustoleum, a lot of which was sprayed by my 10 year old daughter and the two neighbor boys who are something like 7 and 9. Didn't turn out bad since I almost had things masked, but they were anxious to spray so... there ya go.

The Krylon and Rustoleum is just to keep the rust slowed down while I pull together time, money and parts to work on her.

We shall see what happens...

I threw this one in just for Robroy, hopefully he won't have a stroke...

我也是使用一台老卷轴刈草机。

FoPAR · Post by **FoPAR** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:09 am

Welcome Rob, good looking projects! oh and by the way I'm also Rob and I lived in Sumner for 10 years and I also love the old bump side trucks.... but I don't speak Chinese...

. I grew up in Buckley moved to Sumner and then got the heck out of the rain and moved over to eastern WA. 3 years ago. Good luck with the projects and hope to see more pics soon.

sargentrs · Post by **sargentrs** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:20 am

from Georgia! And a Happy New Year! Looking forward to getting to know and your trucks.

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