Thanks for the motivation to name this thing. We never did go anywhere over the holiday weekend, mom wasn't feeling well and didn't want company, so we stayed around the house and I didn't get any photos, and then we got a light rain and the cleaning of the truck I did the day before got muddied up. So much crap in the air that light rains make everything so dirty. And we breathe that crap!!!
I did come up with a name for it. But first a little back story.... like I said previously, Mean Green, the 3/4 ton '65 truck I got from grandma after grandpa passed away in '87 was my first truck and I daily drove it from '87 to '05 when I rolled it trying to avoid an accident. It had a 283 in it with the sm420 and 4.57 gears. 4,000 rpms were normal to keep up with traffic on the highway. It didn't have a center hump, just a piece of plywood with no sides, so you could see the u-joint and transmission. It was brutally hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter. I finally found a center hump, but the heater wasn't great so it still froze you in the cold months. In '91 I swapped in the 350 from my '56 210 Sedan and hunted down a better geared rear end and the 3.54 gears really allowed the truck to fly down the road, I mean 80 mph was its happy speed. In '98 I installed a stock Goodwrench engine in it, because I wanted to drive the '56 again, but had to sell the car to take my ex to court. Man I miss that car, and the engine for that car was a really good one!
When I rolled Mean Green in 2005 I had already begun fixing it up and had bought some upgrades, like disc brakes, new wiring, sound deadening, etc. After rolling it I acquired another '65 3/4 ton fleetside, but its frame was in really bad shape and required a body swap to Mean Green's frame and I don't have the facilities to do so especially with code enforcement watching. But I bought lots of parts, such as vortec heads, new cam, and some items that won't be seen such as heater control stuff and the like to make it more quiet and comfortable with the intention of doing the body swap in spite of code enforcement. Fast forward a few years to 2008, the economy tanked and there was more homeless foot traffic in the neighborhood, and I decided not to do the body swap in my front yard for two reasons, the code enforcement thing and the chance of parts walking off while I was doing the work. Moreso the parts walking off. So in 2015 I researched, found, and bought this current truck, another '65 3/4 ton that was running and pretty decent shape except for some body cancer. I added some of the upgrades that were already purchased.
Mean Green got it's name because it was a badass truck and not many vehicles out ran it at the time. I was always setting land speed records in that thing. One was 8 minutes from my house to the work parking lot in 17 miles. Luckily there weren't any highway patrols or sheriffs out that morning.
This truck needed a name, and "The '65" just wasn't cutting it. I asked for your guys' help and you guys' said you needed photos.
@bucket @Honky Kong jr @crazy4offroad I liked "Wild Thing", but this truck won't be too wild. Winston didn't ring a bell. But thank you very much for the ideas. I built off the direction you were going and came up with "Crusty Biscuit". Since this truck will get the upgrades alotted for Mean Green, I used that theme for this truck. Synonym for Mean didn't yield anything good, but Ornery is similar to mean and Crusty was the best choice from the list. This truck is beige/tan in color so the list of synonyms for beige had Biscuit. So Crusty Biscuit it is.
Can I please have the title of this thread renamed to Double Dingo's 3/4 Ton "Crusty Biscuit"?
He said he painted it in his front driveway in a make-shift paint booth made of tarps and 2x4 framing.
