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One thing I've thought of would be a wench mounted underneath between the cab and the bed. Have the run cable run up the top of the bed on a roller (like on a boat trailer). This would help loading deer n elk and other stuff into your truck by yourself. You'd have to seal up the wench though (you'd need more than a sock or chastity belt lol).
 

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If your ashtray door doesn’t close and you don’t want to mess with putting the springs back in ever again you can glue a magnet to the top of the ashtray housing.

You just have to get a good neo magnet and good adhesive and set the magnet where you think the door sits the best and let it dry. It just won’t have the spring tension when it’s open but it doesn’t bounce around much. And if you get a good magnet the door will never fly open. Less than 10 bucks

A rectangular or square one would probably work better
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Not sure if this is an upgrade or not

Smyrna PD ever get you for livestock rustling? Personally I think the General Lee tag is an upgrade. Awesome!

(I grew up in windy hill area)
 

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Smyrna PD ever get you for livestock rustling? Personally I think the General Lee tag is an upgrade. Awesome!

(I grew up in windy hill area)
Way off topic, but your signature is awsome!!!!
 

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One thing I've thought of would be a wench mounted underneath between the cab and the bed. Have the run cable run up the top of the bed on a roller (like on a boat trailer). This would help loading deer n elk and other stuff into your truck by yourself. You'd have to seal up the wench though (you'd need more than a sock or chastity belt lol).
Couldn't you just let the wenches ride in the cab with you? You know they get nasty when you make them ride in the back and under the truck, right? Maybe KY gals are different than the ones I know. The other thing that I wouldn't do is put a chastity belt on a wench. What is she there for if not to have your way with her??
 

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Way off topic, but your signature is awsome!!!!

Jim Mattis said that to us when we were about to cross into Iraq in 2003 (in reference to the Iraqi people). He was a stickler for professionalism (and swearing). He once told me I could F@ck up a limp d!ck as long as I did it professionally. I'm not real sure what he was saying but go the message.
 

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Can use regular gasket material around pivot points of the ac vents to stop them from dropping all the time
 

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Smyrna PD ever get you for livestock rustling? Personally I think the General Lee tag is an upgrade. Awesome!

(I grew up in windy hill area)
Has the air horns that play “Dixie “ too

Smyrna PD must be pretty laid back

We drove it with open headers for a couple days and they didn’t bother us

Wife and I moved to Atlanta in 95
When she got finished with her two years in the usaf at Keesler afb
Neither one of us had a job and we didn’t have any money
We got my parents camper and parked t in the back yard of a house my brother was renting on the old horse farm on Atlanta road in Smyrna
Across from cambell School

Atlanta road was still a two lane
Now it’s five

That horse farm had seven houses on it
The old lady sold it and it now has 76 houses there

We liked Smyrna and stayed there
 

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Yeah but do you have an embroidered, stitched together heavy cotton Dixie flag for a headliner???

My dad worked for Smyrna post office growing up. I ran off and joined the Marines at 19 and discovered Alabama at 39.
 

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Can use regular gasket material around pivot points of the ac vents to stop them from dropping all the time

Same with those little round Velcro patches. The fuzzy side.
 

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This is just a good mod in general and now that i have it i will not get it. it is a CB I cant tell you how many times i come speeding thru a 70 doing let's just say 70 and i ask for a bear report and a trucker responds with a bear near marker # whatever or clear pedal to the metal.
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(just a cool online pic. i found i take no credit for this one.)
 

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