My 1997 F-150 XLT Supercab, bought new at Kip Kilman's Tyson Ford in Virginia, is still running in Kodiak, Alaska. Between my retirement in October 2002 and July 2004 it crossed the continent eleven times as we moved from Virginia to Washington. In 2011 we drove it up the Alaska Highway and took it on the ferry out to Kodiak. One of the few good pictures of the 1997 I could find was when I brought the rowboat my father built in 1939, that I virtually grew up fishing and hunting in, over from Seattle.
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A couple of years ago I sold it to a buddy in Kodiak for a dollar when his much newer pickup collapsed, frame rusted away in Kodiak's salt air!