Okay heres one I drug in. It was a real mess. I still roll my eyes thinking of buying it.
It last ran in 1971 and had stock number stickers still on the new clutch. The steering box was like it was rebuilt. I took it apart and put new seals in it and have it in my current truck.

 

The worse basket case I've had, and I've had some real beater parts trucks, it my F-2:



My dad bought the truck back in '68-69 to use for his auto repair business. It was beat when he bought it and it didn't get much better. He pop riveted patches in the floors and fenders and painted it with a case of spray bomb black paint. He went out of business in '73, stopped driving it about a year later and parked it on the side of the drive. In '81 I started tearing it apart. I finally got it on the road about 14 years ago. All I had to do was replace the engine, the entire front clip, the entire cab (I am still using the original dash pod which is in perfect condition), the box (patched the rear fenders and tailgate), the entire brake system. Other than these parts it's all original

My sister has given me the opinion she would have like to have the old truck when she refers to the truck as "Dad's" I remind her I bought a larger percentage of the truck that is sitting there than what he gave me, so it's not really the truck Dad had, it's all my truck.

 

Well, heres a pic of what my truck started out as when I hauled her home.

 

I forgot to mention my engine was full of water to the carb top and the header panel was rotted out all across the top.
I scrapped most of it and stripped it down tot he cab and frame and sold the rolle ron ebay to another builder for just over $100. I wish I would have kept a couple of more parts off of it, but at the time I was glad to see it go.

 

Here's my 48 F-3 the day brought it home....that's an old Dodge bed sitting on the frame....

 

Well here is mine:

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No interior, missing half of the motor, and no bed what so ever. Boy did it turn into a great looking tow truck though. Oh the front clip was just sitting on the frame.

 

This is my 56, what you can't see in the picture is in a basket.lol





And this is it after it went back together.




brian...

 

Not a truck and not even a Ford, but a basket case nonetheless....
I don't know WHY I seemed so happy to be the proud owner of this rust heap!

 

Charlie, I want to see the after picture of that one!

There's a lot of guys on the HAMB that would kill for that "rust heap". I think there are a lot of dreamers on that board.

 

That's funny...I bought it from a guy on the HAMB!
I haven't gotten around to this project yet so it's still in the same condition as you see it here...that said, the car under the cover behind this one in the picture is a 50 Merc and that is the next in line after my 56 F100.

 

WALFORD did this to me, and he's still laughing.

Thank goodness the trailer didn't come with it...





Lucky for me he didn't know about the currency stuffed under the driver's seat with the picture of Grover Cleveland on it.



On a quiet Winter night you can hear it rusting.



Later Folks...

 

Dave I see you have the same taste in junk as I do lol

 

Time to take off that rare custom cab stainless drip rail trim and drive a new effie under it!

 

I don't get. My wife, along with many others here, think I'm obsessed with old trucks. She never sees the beauty in the stuff I drag home. I haven't seen truck here yet that I wouldn't let follow me home on my trailer, for the right price that is.



BTW, I've had my F-2 a lot longer than I've known my wife so there's not much she could have, or can, done about it. It's here to stay.

 

What are you tryin' to say here Charlie???