Ford F 100 F 100 | eBay


looks a nice truck and a ranger by the looks of it,

 

$10,500?


Pretty steep IMO.

 

Man all I can say is prices keep rising for the most part. If thats an all original truck, which looks in good original condition from photos, I don't think 10K is unreasonable. I just talked to a guy thats 4,000 FIRM on a 66 2wd with a basic (wrong) 302/auto drivetrain. You guys with the rust free originals in good shape will likely see values climb. IMO.

 

Did they make Flareside Rangers? Did they make Custom cab Flaresides?

 

what's with the stupid hood scoop ? ?

 

Sooner or later ND will arrive to run us through whats wrong with the truck as far as being original or hack job!!

 

My 64 CC is a flareside.


Don't get caught up in the hype.


Yes a 66 f100 Ranger is not all that common, but not uncommon either.


The cost of restoration will still exceed the value.


It looks like a nice truck, but all original = needs everything.


No PS or PB, doesn't state if the AC works or not.

 

I've never seen a Ranger Flareside, so I dunno if they existed or not, but they did make Custom Cab Flaresides.

The only way to determine if it's a real Ranger is by the BODY code stamped on the Warranty Plate. But the seller didn't post a pic of it.

So if anyone's interested, contact the seller and ask what the BODY code is. And be aware that 1966 Ranger BODY codes are different than 1965.

 

Would you find a Custom Cab Flareside with factory installed body trim and windshield trim on a '66?

 

It's in PA if I wasn't so busy I might of went to see it in person if he let me. But looks decent has the bucket seats and console. Is that the big f series hood scoop? Can't see it good enough to tell on my phone.

 

Yes, it is. I saw a scoop like that sell on eBay just recently for $350. And it wasn't perfect, either. Some pitting in the potmetal and some not totally straight sheetmetal.


Stock scoops don't sit real well on the centerline of the F100 hoods. It works better if it is off to one side or the other. Looked good on the big truck hoods.


Same scoop used on Pontiac Super Duty cars of the same era. Pontiac licensed the Super Duty name (about 1961) and the hood scoop from Ford and used the name up through at least 1974 (455 Super Duty in the 1973-74 Trans Am). The 1962 Pontiac Tempest Super Duty 421 and other models were pretty cool with the hood scoop.


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My first car was a 1966 GTO...389...Tri-power....4 speed....I paid a big fat $650.00 for it in my 16th summer of my sixteenth year on earth and sold it a year and half later for $750.00 so I could get a more economical car to drive back and forth to college...which I dropped out of after 1 year to become a full time auto mechanic instead of part time after school...man I miss that car. Everytime I see one on Mecum go for $40,000.00 I thwack myself in the nuts for being so stupid.

 

Stainless steel windshield reveal mouldings installed on all Custom Cabs and 1965/66 Rangers, ditto anodized aluminum grilles except 1961 as the Custom Cab grille was chromed steel.

I've never seen a Flareside with side mouldings, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist. There were no bed mouldings for Flaresides, just Stylesides.

Ask tripleframe if the hood, cowl, door and cab corner mouldings were available for Flaresides, he has the fleet salesmans data books.

 

That is a very nice first car to have. My first car was a 1968 Firebird 350 Powerglide. I used to take it up to about 80-85 in Low and hit Drive and rocket over 100. I hit 135 in that thing one late Friday night on I-5. Things sure start happening fast over 120. Luckily, somehow, I never got busted doing insane speeds.


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You sure it had the 2 speed "slip and slide with Power Glide?"

Excepting some 1953's, I wasn't aware this trans was installed in Tin Indians.

1953: GM's Hydra-Matic factory burned to the ground, so some Cadillac's & Oldsmobile's have Dynaflow, some Pontiac's have Power Glide.

GM then bought the former Willow Run B-24 bomber plant in Ypsilanti, that Kaiser-Frazer was using as an assembly plant.

Plant was erected by the War Production Board for FoMoCo to build these planes. Henry J. Kaiser at first leased it, then bought it.

Kaiser had just bought ******-Overland, so production was moved to Toledo.

Frazer cancelled after 1951, Kaiser sales were dropping like stones, Henry J. Kaiser wanted to unload the plant which had become a huge white elephant.

Wags said inre to the GM fire that Kaiser may have lit the match!