Actually, I owned 2 96 Ford F150 trucks that was like this body style. I bought them brand new and got the company I worked for at the time, I got their fleet price, actually better than their fleet price and reason why, cuz they did give me the fleet price but because I was a persoanl buyer, not a fleet buyer, I was able to also get the personal buyer rebates on top of getting fleet price. haha, my employer was a bit jealous. I bought them about 9 months apart. They were standard cab 2 wheel drive 300 I6 5 speed manual trucks with Tilt, Cruise AM/FM with AC and then the what was called the TexasOak package, for TX/OK region it was just a small upgrade package for base model trucks to have some chrome bumpers, grill, alloy wheels, AC, cloth seat and tilt and cruise. They were actually good trucks. Of course I didn't have them but a year each but I ran the hell of out them for that year I had them. Took good care of them though, they still looked like new trucks other than the inside of the bed paint cuz I used them for work trucks and I did not like bed liners for water to get trapped in between the liner and the bed to start rust. So I figured when I got done scratching it up I'd just do a spray in bed liner. Well, being I bought them right on the price, got a great interest rate when I financed them at no money down, I actually had equity in them and that's very very rare for a Ford since they don't hold their value, AND remember the 97 new body style was out by then. To be honest, a lot of people didn't like the new body style, and a lot of die hard Ford truck guys loved loved loved those 300 I6 engines and that TXOak package trucks, so I didn't get hurt bad at all and made a **** ton of money in those trucks, and the colors actually matched my company trucks and what I was doing was doing subcontract work installing built in appliances and window unit air condiitoners for the company I worked for customers. They'd buy the merch from us then they call some Jose or Pancho to install it for them and that was between the customer and them not us. Well, once the salesmen figured out I could install this stuff, they just started asking me if i could do this or that and I set up the install with the customer direct. So I actually helped my company make more sales but being able to offer installation. So I made as much money doing side hustle installs in my own trucks as I did working doing deleiveries for that company.
Our Delivery Trucks were white with all the company lettering on them, and a Tommy Liftgate and a rack for tieing down appliances. Our store managers also had trucks and they were either sold white or solid red which was the company colors. So when I bought this truck personally, I got white like our delivery trucks with the same color red stripe that matched the managers solid red trucks. The company ended up buying the rest of their managers trucks in this color scheme.
And don't noone tell anyone I bought Fords. I only did it cuz they were dirt cheap and I was trying to match my company for side hustle biz and it worked well. They ended up paying me mileage when I used my own truck to deliver some stuff when we'd get over busy and I'd let a guy I trusted drive my assigned manager truck. I hated that, cuz I had a phone mounted in my managers truck, but he was insured to drive the company truck, he wasn't insured to drive my personal truck. That didn't happen often though.
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