truck finally done

[yellodog]

[ThinLizzy13]

Gorgeous!

[yellodog]

ready to pull my fishing boat, go to the lumber yard, or take a load of hay to the sale. she's gotta' earn her keep around here.

[sgettin]

nice! That green shade is my favorite color on slicks. How does the interior look?

[FORDMANLCRACKEL]

Good job man!

Lonnie

[F7BIGJOB]

Looks great. really like the red inset too.

[Shadow]

Great Job, It Looks Fantastic...........

[BarnieTrk]

nice! That green shade is my favorite color on slicks. How does the interior look?

Yellodog,
You gotta let us all drool over a few pics of the interior and of the under the hood shots too!

B-E-A-U-tiful truck! I'd be afraid to scratch it up hauling lumber or even hay with it!

(By the way - THANKS for the flashback - of when I was a mere teen and hauled hay off the fields with 5 bales of hay stacked ON THE CAB ROOF and 40+ more bales on the home-made wooden flatbed of my ol' 223/T18, '63 F100 with additional leaf springs)

Thanks! - BarnieTrk

[bobenhotep]

Good looking truck. What is this "done" you speak of?

Dan

[unibody madness]

I am looking forward to the place you are at. you did a great job!

[Roger Carter]

Sweet looking truck.

x2 on pictures of the interior and underhood.

[Gary Seymour]

That's a real beauty. Nice job.

[yellodog]

ok, let me clarify what "done" means.

i bought this truck last fall, from an older gentleman who'd bought it about 10 years ago. it was complete, driveable, but hadn't been driven much since he'd owned it, and i did drive it home. didn't do much last winter except strip and polish all the aluminum trim, but this spring i got busy going over it. redid all the brakes, got new tires and wheels, put new antirattlers and vent window rubbers in the doors, installed a new seat cover, made a new headliner, installed 3 point shoulder harnesses, new trans cooler, painted all the white, and fixed the rr bedside where the po had scraped it on his garage. nothing too major, just alot of time and some money to make it dependable and look the way i wanted it to.

i looks pretty decent, but it's not a show truck, just a nice driver. my work truck is always full of tools, saws, feul tank, junk, ect. so if i need to haul something that needs to be kept reasonably clean this truck should work nicely for that. just right for my fishing boat too.

i have a 79 donor that has tilt wheel, ps, and pdb. that stuff will all eventually find it's way onto this truck, but for now i'm just going to enjoy it for a while before i start working on it again.

glad to hear someone else likes the red inset on the trim. my trim was pretty beat up, i spent hours upon hours straightening it before i stripped and polished it. still, it wasn't as nice as it could be, so i painted the red inset to help break it up a little to help hide some of the defects i couldn't fix. thought it might clash, but theres red in the TIB emblems and the wheel centers, so it seems to work ok.

[jkimbrel65]

Enjoying them is the best part of owning them

Mike

[Gritsngumbo]

Looks great. Congrats.

[grump]

It looks great so enjoy it.

[Alan Mclennan]

yellodog ... you have done a fantastic job on the old Girl very nice!, just one thing, the steering wheel is on the wrong side mate!

[Truckrat]

Great choice on the Wheels man. Those chrome blade wheels look great
on our Slicks and I have a set for my 64 already for a new set of tires. TR

[yellodog]

the wheels are from a 92-96 f150. i really wanted that particular wheel and watched craigslist for 3 months before i saw a decent set, then they only set me back $100. i did buy a set of repop center caps from lmc, but they look great. when i get around to the disc brake conversion, i'm thinking about redrilling the rotors and rear axels and going with a set of those 15" early mustang styled steel wheels. i usually like all ford stuff, but i think those old style torq thrusts look great on slicks too.

[64trucker]

Awesome!!!!!