Jim, is this still available? Sorry I'm so late to the party.

 

I saw a very odd crew for sale about 18+ years ago. This was in front of a junkyard (Alton Enterprises) that I used to "frequent" in Alamogordo, NM. Even the junkyard is long gone, its an exit ramp now.
I think it was a 61 to 63 because of the unibody. It was wearing a unibody bed, 4 doors, a faded baby blue paint job, and a 429/auto under the hood. They only wanted $1500 (I think) for it and it was running good but at the time I was a bit on the poor side.

So my question is, was this uni-crew a backyard built truck or did Ford ever produce one?

I know the 429 was a transplant of course. If this was a home built job then who ever did it was very skilled and it was done long enough ago that the paint was at least 20 years faded.

Eventually I am going to build my own 60's crew to sit on my 93 F350 4wd crew chassis since I have enough 65/66 cabs and doors lying around to do it. I just love over the top metal art.

 

The reason I am asking is mainly because at the time, these weren't even cool trucks, just old trucks. Besides me, a guy that used to work as a ford dealer mechanic, and my auto shop instructor, nobody else even had a nice one in the entire county. I still remember people telling me "awww, to bad its not the 57 to 60 body style".
We also ended up owning both the mechanics and the shop teachers trucks BTW. I couldn't imagine someone putting that much work into a 60's F truck that wasn't me or my brother.

 

[i wish. someone found it before i made up my mind to go get it. sorry.

jim oberg







QUOTE=SJ Bikesaws;7042521]I saw a very odd crew for sale about 18+ years ago. This was in front of a junkyard (Alton Enterprises) that I used to "frequent" in Alamogordo, NM. Even the junkyard is long gone, its an exit ramp now.

, 4 doors, a faded baby blue paint job, and a 429/auto under the hood. They only wanted $1500 (I think) for it and it was running good but at the time I was a bit on the poor side.

So my question is, was this uni-crew a backyard built truck or did Ford ever produce one?

I know the 429 was a transplant of course. If this was a home built job then who ever did it was very skilled and it was done long enough ago that the paint was at least 20 years faded.

Eventually I am going to build my own 60's crew to sit on my 93 F350 4wd crew chassis since I have enough 65/66 cabs and doors lying around to do it. I just love over the top metal art.[/QUOTE]

 

You mean a uni like this....






Garbz

 

garbz yours isn't a true unibody crew though is it? thought it was a uni bed but no actually a uni truck?

 

Looked close to it, but it did have a unibody. I'm always trying to keep an eye open for it incase its still around here. That truck is VERY cool BTW, I WANT ONE!!!!!

 

Eventually, I want to build my own 4 door LB to set on my little mule. I have a few nice cabs and a stack of doors to do it with. Here she is sitting at home in the "driveway".

 

No such thing as a factory uni crew...All ford crew cabs prior to 65 were coach built. Could a coach builder have done one. possibly. There was a guy in texas that built a bunch of uni body extended cab trucks.

I made the Suicide Crew a uni split bed with parts an pieces of other trucks, Quite a few actually. I would have liked to finish it but i had to sell it to afford my move to Arizona.

Garbz

 

Bummer you had to sell it, I had the same problem when I moved, had to sell my 65 F700 dump truck due to space issues. My wife couldn't figure out why it left me so crushed. Who wouldn't want one???? I had big plans for it.

 

new member....joined because i've seen more here about the old crew cabs than anywhere...i have a 1966 ford <NOBR id=itxt_nobr_1_0 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 100%">f-350</NOBR> 4-door....it is listed on ebay at this time....if you would like to take a look at it the ebay number is 200362921005...it is nice....i'm selling it because i just moved back to huntington, wv from biloxi, ms and renovating my old family home....take a look and see what you think....thanks <!-- / message --><!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ad_showthread_firstpost_sig --><!-- END TEMPLATE: ad_showthread_firstpost_sig -->

 

I think there's a section for Classifieds.

 

Hey BikeSaws...we are on the same page! I have a 97 F30 Crew that I would LOVE to put a mid sixties crew cab on. I just had to write, that cracked me up when I saw the pic of your truck. I bought mine with that thought in mind. If there are any mid sixties crew cab shells left anywhere, anymore......that is....

 

Dave, Is your crew still around Hazelton??? Love that truck!! drool drool

 

Same thing I though about the day I bought mine. I love everything about the truck,,,,,except that ugly square chevy lookin body and all of the plastic in the cab.