Barn Find: Discovering a 1966 F-250 Crew Cab with Only 7,000 Miles!
Living with the same family on ranch all its life, ’66 F-250 Crew Cab travels from Arkansas to Atlanta to experience a second life.
Today, you can pick up any Ford truck with a crew cab. And why not? The extra utility and rear passenger room that comes with a rear pair of doors is a big deal. Combine it with a bed, decent payload and towing, and a strong engine, and it’s a recipe for success.
It wasn’t always the case, though. According to Hemmings, the first factory Ford crew cabs didn’t arrive until 1965. Before then, coachbuilders like Crown Steel Products converted trucks into crew cabs for the railroads, military, utilities and so on. Thus, a rig like this 1966 F-250 picked up for a friend by Ford Era‘s Solomon Lunger is a treat for the eyes.
“By the title of this thumbnail, you already know what it is,” said Lunger. “I found a 1966 Ford F-250 crew cab. Supposedly all original, 7,000 miles, garage-kept, and only one family. The guy that I’m getting it from technically isn’t the original family, but the title is still from the original family.”
Upon arrival at the seller’s farm in Alma, Arkansas, Lunger gets a good look at the turquoise F-250 crew cab. It’s so fresh out of the barn, it still has a fine layer of dust upon its body and glass. Not to mention the original steel wheels still wrapped in its original rubber, adding more cred to the fact it’s only travelled 7,000 miles in its long life thus far.
“This truck has been on the same ranch since it was new,” said the seller, Britt Shore. “Mr. Mayer’s father passed away, and left it to him. He has had it since then. My understanding is that it seldom left the ranch; it was mainly used for hay hauling, moving cattle around the ranch on a little trailer, ranch stuff.”
Shore came into the F-250 after the owner sold the entire ranch to its current owners in May 2021. Eventually, the owners sold the crew cab to Shore, who planned to use it for his shop. However, upon posting a photo of it in a Facebook group Lunger is a member of, plus some wheeling and dealing thereafter, the classic crew cab wound up in the care of the YouTuber.
“This thing’s amazing,” said Bennett, the actual new owner of the F-250 crew cab. “Holy crap is she clean!”
Now in Atlanta, this crew cab is about to gain a second life with its new owner. After it takes a bath, of course.
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