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Parking an F350 in driveway.

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Originally Posted by Shagone (Post 1748336)

There is a Ford F-350 truck being advertised on this site. The F-350 is a "1 ton" vehicle. If you are a "Villager" and interested in the truck please note that most of the "Covenants & Restrictons" in The Villages prohibits one from keeping a "1 ton" vehicle at their home. It is a beautiful truck and is being offered at a good price. (I have owned 2 before and my wife is still whines about me selling the last one. In fact she would not object if I bought this one.) I recommend that if you buy it you remove the F-350 badges before you take it home and that you replace them with F-250 badges. The trucks are the same vehicle except that the F-350 has one additional leaf spring and F-250's are specifically allowed since they are only a 3/4 ton vehicle. If you buy it as a F-350, all it would take is one anonymous complaint from a neighborhood busybody and your day would be ruined to learn that you are not allowed to keep it at your home. God bless...and stay healthy!

I was turn in by my neighbor because I had
A 1 ton diesel in my driveway that I used to tow my fifth wheel.
The VCCD came by and spoke to me about it. They took a picture of it and told me that I can park it in my driveway because it was a single wheeled pickup that takes up the same footprint as a half or three quarter ton truck.
He said they don’t want dual wheeled pickups in the driveway.
I live in district 9 in the village of Charlotte.
Problem solved for me but my neighbor wasn’t happy. Ha ha

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Originally Posted by Pfavreau (Post 1749303)

I was turn by my neighbor because I had
A 1 ton diesel in my driveway that I used to tow my fifth wheel.
The VCCD came by and spoke to me about it. They took a picture of it and told me that I can park it in my driveway because it was a single wheeled pickup that takes up the same footprint as a half or three quarter ton truck.
He said they don’t want dual wheeled pickups in the driveway.
Problem solved for me but my neighbor wasn’t happy. Ha ha

Good for you. I've heard that about duallys and it makes sense. F250 and F350 single rear wheel configurations are exactly the same except for a minor chassis tweek.

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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 1748565)

Interesting post. Reminds me of my fishing boat up north. Many of the lakes and ponds have a 10 HP limit on fishing boats. I bought a used boat that came with a 15 HP 2 stroke outboard. The cover over the engine has very real looking graphics on it that says it’s a 9.9 HP Mercury. In many years of fishing I have never been questioned.

ha, I did the same thing with a Merc....bought it knew and just had the smaller engine decals put on.... folks did it with the Johnson kickers too

nice to have a little more power to get back in when a storm was brewing

I did find that it was somewhat difficult to really throttle down to a real slow troll when the water was really calm though....so we mounted a device onto the shaft just above the prop that we could drop down to slow us down

like they say, you buy a boat and you're constantly sinking money into it

when you added everything up, those were damn expensive fish that we caught LOL

we have a neighbor that is parking his Ford F150 on the street is that allowed ?

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Originally Posted by rickaslin (Post 1749348)

we have a neighbor that is parking his Ford F150 on the street is that allowed ?

If it is a courtyard villa, it's not allowed. But, otherwise, it depends on the county law.

Up here in Pa / Nj. A friend had a company work van that was a 350, he changed the badges to 250 to have cheaper tolls on the bridges back and forth...it worked out very well for him...

That's why I didn't buy a dually 6 years ago.

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Originally Posted by jjfoster69@aol.com (Post 1749355)

Up here in Pa / Nj. A friend had a company work van that was a 350, he changed the badges to 250 to have cheaper tolls on the bridges back and forth...it worked out very well for him...

He probably did other illegal or unethical things too. But hey, if it "worked out very well for him" I guess we should be good with it. He cheated the DOT but they probably deserved it, right?

:shrug:

Now the troll lady’s with their clipboards will have something else to look for.

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Originally Posted by Jayhawk (Post 1749399)

Good grief. Chill out.