That's a nice looking truck! Maybe ND can tell us if that is a Ford brand camper.

It won't be hard to remove.

It probably has holes drilled right through the bed rails. So you may have to deal with that repair, assuming you plan to ditch the camper for good.

Some pieces of PVC pipe can make it easy roll it back.

 

Pop: It has a 360 with low original mileage. The aluminum colored piece of metal is a gas filler door. It has one on the other side too. The guy I bought this truck from made a few mods that are still confusing me. Can't complain though having only paid $500.

I wish I had a diagram of the factory setup so that I could remove all the stuff that was added after and bring the truck back to factory spec. The camper will be removed and offered up for free to whoever wants it. I just need to get it off the truck so that I can get to work.

 

Great buy @ $500

 

I'll say! In So Cal, any truck that runs is worth $1k, no matter the condition. This one would bring a sight more than that.

 

That canopy is piece of cake, get a couple of guys and lift it off. It would be nice if you had some sturdy sawhorses to set it on, sure saves backs and fingers.

I thought we were talking about some 3,000lb 11ft self contained monster of a cab over camper........yes, they can be FUN to load/unload.
My camper goes on in the early spring and off in the mid fall........no sense messing with that more than once a season.

 

It's not a Ford camper shell. And...I wouldn't believe the low mileage figure, because...

The odometers of these trucks read to 99,999.9 then return to ZERO. Used car dealers were in-famous back then for rolling back the mileage.

The 15" wheel covers are correct. Yes, I'm aware the truck has 16" wheels, but you prolly aren't aware that Ford offered an accessory 16" trim ring for 1972/79 F250/350's.

The trim ring was snapped onto the wheel, then the 15" wheel cover was snapped onto the trim ring...I kid you not.

The wheel covers are the same as 1971/72 Galaxie/LTD, so if you lose one, they aren't too hard to find.

The saddle tanks with the fuel caps behind (riveted on aluminum) doors are aftermarket, prolly installed by the Fey Bumper Co., a long time local outfit that specialized in saddle tanks and step bumpers.

Ford never offered saddle tanks for any truck, and while 1973/76's were available with side mounted (front/rear) drivers side only fuel tanks, they had exposed fuel caps.

If you wanna know what's correct and what ain't, send me an email or P/M with your address, I'll whiz on by and take a look see.

 

A little but my '88 had dual tanks. Both on the drivers side as Bill noted. My hunting buddy had a Chevy, about an '86 IIRC, and it had saddle tanks. One on each side. When he needed to fill up, he had to pump one side, then pull around to the other side and fill the other. I got a hoot out of watching him do that on our long trips. I guess it made more sense when stations had full service and you could pay the attendant. But when station lines got longer, and service disappeared, and pay at the pump came in, it was a PITA. Ford had a better idea all along.

 

The Ford fuel tanks were mounted on the inside of the left (drivers) side frame rail, while the Chevy/GMC's saddle tanks were mounted on the outside of the frame rails, butted up against the sheet metal.

When these trucks were T-boned or sideswipped, the fuel tanks were compromised, spilling gasoline everywhere.

Some of these Chevy/GMC tanks exploded, trapping the drivers inside the cabs. This was a big "to-do" back then, got a lot of media coverage, like the exploding Pinto fuel tank fiasco.

 

I remember that. I also remember thinking, at least the saddle tanks were outside the cab, unlike one of my Fords.

 

I also remember NBC News "rigging" one of these trucks to ensure it exploded for their cameras on impact.

It was one of the earliest obvious ****** in the armor of media news credibility, and it's all be downhill since for "news".

Pop

 

Though it WAS a poor design on GMs part, and did cause some fires, NBC did totally distort and misrepresent it. Much Like the Pinto fires and later on the Crown Vics.
Investigative journalism at its worst, courtesy of the lame stream media.