I ran across a 1969 Ford F-350 4 door, 2wd. The guy who has it has all the original paperwork. He said he was told it was the only one ever built. Has anyone else ever seen one or have one? Trying to get it bought if it is as rare as I think it is. Any info would be great.
1 of 1? I doubt it. There is a 69 F350 crewcab in the galleries so unless this is the truck your looking to buy there is more than one. No doubt it is rare but how rare? There were 641 cab & chassis's produced in 69. Yours is one of those. Number Dummy - Would a Marti report specifacally tell Mr. Thrill if this is one of X?
A Marti Report would confirm what he has, but you can count on one thing it won't confirm and that is 1 of only 1! Sorry Guys, but I too have a 1969 F-350 Crew Cab 4dr. It has a 8 ft. styleside bed, came new as a "Contractor Special" with the Ford Power Pak Onan Generator under the hood. It is a 390 2v with a C-6 and even has the "Extra Cool" radiator with power front disc brakes and a 3.73 to 1 Dana 70 rear end. Has the dual gas tanks, one in the cab and one saddle mounted on left side of bed. Best you can do would be 2 of 2 manufactured. However, I believe you are going to find something much more to a number between 1 and maybe 150 or so. The F-350 Crew Cabs in 1969 were very popular with the RailRoads and their track crews and were also popular with the Electrical Power Companies. The new "Contractor Special" like mine was also making in roads for the Crew Cab as a Construction Vehicle and the 1 Ton was becoming very popular for its added size and carrying capacity. Boy, I would get "weak in the knees" if it was even 1 of 25 or so! I'm sure we are looking at much larger numbers, though. Hoping to have it restored to a point of being street legal and driveable in the spring. My biggest problem with it is that it set for 9 years. Brake lines rotten and rusted through, etc. and definitely etc. We are putting completely new brake components all the way around. Then are going to rebuild suspension and engine/transmission. Inside is still pretty much in one piece but very, very dirty. Will clean it out and determine what to do with it from there. Truck is Wimbledon White exterior and interior with Parchment seats and black carpet floor mat. Floor mat seems to be factory but is very dirty. Truck has a 12 inch hole in windshield and one rear door glass missing and was sitting outside with the missing glass for some unknown time....hence the dirt, leaves, filth. Tires are original 7.50 x 16 tube type split rims and have a set of 1 ton 7 x 16 tubeless 8 lug rims with 9/16" stud holes and a new set of LT235x75R16 Load Range E tires for it going on after each wheel's brakes are being renewed. And on it goes...... Curious, though, where is this truck that's for sale located? Just wondering what part of the country. As you can see from my signature, I am in Utah. Where is this one you're looking at?
The truck is located in Southwest Missouri. He said it was originally built at the Canadian plant. It has the 390 with a 4 speed. He has drove it all over towing his pulling tractors, it still runs and drives good and is street legal. It has had the bed replaced at some point, its black and the cab is yellow. He is asking $2500 for it. I didnt want to spend that much on a 2wd if it wasnt real rare. Im really needing another 4wd. After get info from you guys Im not 100% sure I want to buy it now.
It sounds like it might be a pretty nice truck. Yes, I know about the 4wd but, I live in Utah where it can snow, freeze and ice over in a matter of minutes for 4 months of the year. I keep a 4wd Explorer for winter use specially because of our weather. I really don't end up using the 4wd that much even though my intentions are good. I wouldn't let that 2wd scare you off. That still would be a rare truck and in my opinion, worth the $2,500. I would offer him $2,000 if I were you simply because it is NOT 1 of 1! But, I would probably not complain much to pay the $2,500. My '69 sports a $5-$600 underhood generator and except for that it is still not running. I wouldn't take less than $2,500 for it right now and would probably have to have better reasons than just someone offering me that to sell it for that. These make great trucks and bring conversations at every gas stop. I have a 1970 F-250 Short Bed High Boy that is like new with only 69,000 actual miles. It was appraised at over $19,000 this last April. Only because it is a High Boy is it appraised that high but the 69 in like condition would appraise at $15,000 so you could easily be passing up a great Car Show truck.... It it was here in Utah, I would buy it. Freight or driving it home makes me more cautious, but I still might even buy it given the opportunity...... It might be good if you took a second look at it.... Good Luck!
If it runs and drives, isn't rusted to the point of oblivian, I would pay the $2500 for it in a second. But then I want a crew cab like that pretty bad.
I'm just going to add that while there were not a lot of these F350 Crew Cabs assembled, once you get a Marti Report, you'll prolly see that circa 500 were made in 1969.
Most 1965/79 factory Crew Cabs were assembled in Oakville, Ontario Canada.
The 5th digit of the VIN is the Assembly Plant code: C = Oakville Ontario.
One other thing....martiauto.com charges a fee for this service, it's not free.
Marti has all this info, as he acquired it in the late 1980's directly from Ford...after he found out that Ford was gonna toss all of it into the TRASH!
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Number Dummy - How did Ford designate crewcabs on the data plate? It was my understanding that all crewcabs were designated as Body Code 81 which = Chassis cab or Chassis cab 4x4. Did Ford break it down further than that? For instance there were 641 F250 chassis cab 4x4's built in 1969 and 27,817 4x2 chassis cabs built. Does Marti or any else break it down further than that? Can I find out how many of those 641 4x4 Chassis cab's were turned into crewcabs?
I started out once on the Marti web site to see what I could learn for a reasonable amount of money. To me, about $40 for a couple of stamps and 15 minutes of their time would be reasonable. After a few minutes or reading their descriptions of the "do's and the don'ts," it became clear to me that if I was going to be able to get anything more than I already knew from my Original Invoice and the Sales Invoice for the truck, I would need to purchase their $250 package. No place on their web site did they say anything about any guarantee my truck would run better, look better, or any such thing. So given this and the fact they didn't say these things wouldn't occur, I decided to follow my instincts and keep my money. Therefore, I guess I shall be forever in the dark as to whether or not my truck is one of one, or is one of 2,949,867,317,519,386,702,421 and two thirds. Ah, such is life.....so many unknowns! Sock it to 'em, Marti!
Number Dummy - How did Ford designate crewcabs on the data plate? It was my understanding that all crewcabs were designated as Body Code 81 which = Chassis cab or Chassis cab 4x4. Did Ford break it down further than that?
For instance there were 641 F250 chassis cab 4x4's built in 1969 and 27,817 4x2 chassis cabs built.
Does Marti or any else break it down further than that? Can I find out how many of those 641 4x4 Chassis cab's were turned into crewcabs?
81 is the body style for all conventional cabs. It was used for all F Series trucks with this cab, not just a Cab & Chassis. Most F Series trucks have this cab.
81A = Standard Cab // 81B = Custom Cab/Ranger.
There were other body styles used on F Series trucks:
84 = Chassis w/Cowl = Open Drive-Away
85 = Chassis w/Windshield = Open Drive-Away
The Open Drive-Aways have no cab.
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99 = Styleside Pickup.
83 = Flareside Pickup.
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The following info is from "The Standard Catalog of Light Duty Ford Trucks-1905/2002" / by John Gunnell / krause.com / ISBN: 0-87349-411-3
1969 F250 Production Totals
2WD Chassis w/Windshield (Open Drive-Away): 242
2WD Cab & Chassis: 6,093.
2WD Platform & Rack (Stake Bed): 586.
2WD Platform (Flat Bed): 73.
2WD Flareside Pickup: 3,827.
2WD Styleside Pickup: 101,603.
4WD Cab & Chassis: 641.
4WD Platform & Rack: 102.
4WD Platform: 30.
4WD Flareside Pickup: 973.
4WD Styleside Pickup: 10,286.
Excepting the Open Drive, any one of these could be a Crew Cab.
To break down these production figures further, Marti...AFAIK, is the only source for this info.
btw: An example of what an Open Drive-Away could be: Good Humor ice-cream truck.
__________________ Bill / Retired Ford Partsman (1962/97) / SoCal Chapter Member.
Part Number Research: Trucks: 1928/2000 // Cars: 1928/79.
1934 Packard V12 Convertible Victoria // 2008 Fusion S // 2008 Edge SEL.
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