Slick 60's

Hello again, I wtill can not fit my pics to the post but I did put a pic in my album of the truck. I bought a 66 F100 LWB last month for 1200 dollars runs and drives with a broken windshield.
Bought a windshield (40) and every part I could strip from a stripped 66 locally. Install looked like a drunk monkey but it went in OK. Cleaned up the interior and stripped and painted the doors to install weatherstripping to keep the rain out.
I have gone through the brakes, fuel and gaskets for leaks or issues and have fixed all found. Had to create a cable connect for the Ebrake cable due to not being able to locate one. The engine is a newer 300 that runs very well and clean.
I do not want to restore it to original I want a personal truck to drive use and later cruise with. Here is what I would like to do as I go.
a) Convert to floor shift
b) Dual master cylinder
c) Stock style rear bumper or roll pan
d) Performance intake and exhaust (300 I6)
e) Split bench or buckets with console
f) Repair or replace bed floor with wood or ???
g) Paint Blue over White or Blue over Silver
h) There will be a lot more ideas..............
Any advice or comment positive or negative is welcome I am 47 and have had over 50 vehicles from pintos - corvettes and I am not afraid to make a lot of mistakes because I found I still can learn more.
Thanks Brian

Welcome aboard from West Virginia.... Looks like you have a great start there on a nice ride. You can watch ebay for performance intakes/exhausts. They sometimes pop up on there. I think cliffords? also has them. Why the convert to the floor? I like the column shifters myself.(although mine is a 4 on the floor) there was an intake with carb just sold on ebay for ,I think around $200. I use paintshop pro to size my pics to get them on the site album and posts. Good luck,
Anthony

First, Welcome to Slick 60s.
Do you want an auto tranny or a manual? Either way with a 300-6 you have options so if you want to drive it alot you may consider a tranny swap for the fuel mileage.
Get a MC from a 1970 F 100, you will need a couple of conversion lines too. A GM plunger style brake light switch is the easiest to install.
LMC and a few others sell roll pans and rear bumpers.
New seat - lots of stuff will work. Early Mustang buckets fit quite well as do 92-94 Explorer/Ranger Buckets - some of the Ranger seats are a 60/40 setup and are pretty comfortable.
Performance 300-6 parts - Clifford Research. This stuff comes up on Ebay pretty often at a good price. You can also grab the split manifold from a 90s EFI 4.9 for a good deal on a dual exhaust for a 300-6.
Bed floor, Jason did a fantastic job on his - junkyard truck donor, here's a link for the bed floor and a nice bracket for brake light switch.

http://fordtruk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8950

Brian.
a) Convert to floor shift There are kits for this Hurst used to make one. Then you have an ugly collar on your column tho, unless you change that. http://www.thefind.com/cars/info-3-spee ... or-shifter
b) Dual master cylinder No brainer. Twin I truck, use a mustang one or one from a truck after '67
c) Stock style rear bumper or roll pan LMC has both. Prolly around $200 http://www.lmctruck.com/features/fb/fbb ... d-f100.htm
d) Performance intake and exhaust (300 I6) Use the split factory exhaust from a fuel injected 300 and run duals. Sounds real different.. there was one at SS last year
e) Split bench or buckets with console See Ranger thread. The brackets for the Mustang seats used in trucks are hard to find and expensive tho.
f) Repair or replace bed floor with wood or ??? What? You are kidding me right? take a look
g) Paint Blue over White or Blue over Silver. Nice color combo. I like it.
h) There will be a lot more ideas.............. But of course!!

I plan on leaving it a manual tranny just prefer it over the three on the tree. I have a bumper (front) that I am looking to see how it will work on the back with a small filler plate above. I have 3-4 small rust spots on the bed I just think I would rather see wood than more metal.
I love the colors on the silver over blue Merc, I will be very close to the same just a reverse. As for the brake the lines and switch are a breeze compared to the other things.
I have also seen a lot of trucks with door logos added to give the truck the look of an old service station or race track truck and may do that to hold off the paint job.
Too many ideas when I read through all these threads on this forum.

you dont mention what sort of switch you are using for brakes... I would AVOID the stock pressure switch. They gave me all sorts of headache... get a modern button switch.

I have a '66 lb. I put a roll pan in that I bought from Sir Michael's. It fit perfectly. I then installed a flip down license plate braket and welded in a receiver hitch so I could pull a trailer. When not pulling a trailer, I just remove the ball/shaft and flip up the license plate.

The roll pan - I would recommend welding it to the rear quarters. I also installed power disc brakes and power steering as well as lots of other stuff.

I finished building a '66 sb with a bunch of custom features. If your interested, let me know and I can email a list of what I've done.

There are so many things you can do with these great trucks.

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