TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
I haven't really documented this hoopty all in one spot anywhere but we seem to have a few dentside fans in the crowd. This truck is kind of a pissed off plan B. See, I bought this '90 F350 about 10 years ago. Crew cab, 4x4, big block, for1000 bucks. That was the truck I intended to build, it was ugly but mechanically a great truck. I was just getting into fixing the ugly part (Had a whole front clip and a bed I hadn't even unloaded yet) when a contractor working across the street from my house hooked a power line and caused a fire that burned my hedge, and consequently my truck. I got paid out decently from their insurance, sold the burned out hulk for what I paid originally and went on the hunt for another rig.
What I ended up with was this '76 F-250. It had already had the FE yanked and replaced with a 460, high pinion front out of a '78-9 truck, It had good parts in it, they were all just installed in a really half ass way. Brand new Skyjacker 4" lift springs all around too, guy I bought it from bought it, put the lift in it, put this 460 in it and let it sit in his driveway. It had great features like steering that would change lanes on its own and floors that had been cut out and then not actually patched, just had sheet metal laid over them.
I lost a lot of pictures through old phones but along the way it got rear disk brakes, crossover steering from Ruff Stuff and I threw a set of milsurp 37's on it with the first set of brand new wheels I'd ever bought
Dealt with some rot in the windshield frame, which was likely the main source of the rotten floors. Got rid of the tacky LED headlights that I had installed. Lost some trim, a friend found some grille inserts in a storage building he was cleaning out so no more broken grill. Grew a toolbox too.
Tracked down a visor, some people hate them but this is pretty much a requirement for me on an older truck, paid more than I wanted to ship one in from Michigan. It covers the flat black on all the rot repairs anyway.
The visor was the beginning of the rabbit hole of tracking down various old school bits and pieces. Bought a roll bar off a semi-local guy and these Dick Cepek lights I've been packing around forever finally got a home
Fixed my mismatched mirrors with some genuine camper special mirrors I scored for next to nothing, cost me a day trip to the beach to go get em but it was worth it. Also added the grab bars to the side of the cab, those were NOS ones I found on eBay, still had the K-Mart price tag on the package.
Rolled like that for a while then I found these American Racing Vectors for a whole 60 bucks
What I ended up with was this '76 F-250. It had already had the FE yanked and replaced with a 460, high pinion front out of a '78-9 truck, It had good parts in it, they were all just installed in a really half ass way. Brand new Skyjacker 4" lift springs all around too, guy I bought it from bought it, put the lift in it, put this 460 in it and let it sit in his driveway. It had great features like steering that would change lanes on its own and floors that had been cut out and then not actually patched, just had sheet metal laid over them.
I lost a lot of pictures through old phones but along the way it got rear disk brakes, crossover steering from Ruff Stuff and I threw a set of milsurp 37's on it with the first set of brand new wheels I'd ever bought
Dealt with some rot in the windshield frame, which was likely the main source of the rotten floors. Got rid of the tacky LED headlights that I had installed. Lost some trim, a friend found some grille inserts in a storage building he was cleaning out so no more broken grill. Grew a toolbox too.
Tracked down a visor, some people hate them but this is pretty much a requirement for me on an older truck, paid more than I wanted to ship one in from Michigan. It covers the flat black on all the rot repairs anyway.
The visor was the beginning of the rabbit hole of tracking down various old school bits and pieces. Bought a roll bar off a semi-local guy and these Dick Cepek lights I've been packing around forever finally got a home
Fixed my mismatched mirrors with some genuine camper special mirrors I scored for next to nothing, cost me a day trip to the beach to go get em but it was worth it. Also added the grab bars to the side of the cab, those were NOS ones I found on eBay, still had the K-Mart price tag on the package.
Rolled like that for a while then I found these American Racing Vectors for a whole 60 bucks
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