My highboy has a nonhighboy bed also. They also welded the nuts on the side of the frame. I'm going to find a better way when I get the bed back on.

 

What I started with


and the donor frame

 

You guys and your rust free trucks. I'll post up pics of a one owner shell of a 75 dent. I bought it sight unseen since the last time I seen it ,my 21 year old son was a newborn. I'll get some pics tonight of the lack of floorboards or cab mounts. This is it getting loaded to come home to my house after sitting in the same spot for 17 years.


Getting ready to unload at it's new home.

I'm gonna eat me an import


Another member here has helped me out with the front spring mount for the passenger rear spring .
The grille being tight to the bumper is not a bent bumper, it's the non-existent radiator support.
The 360 was replaced in the early 80's with a 390 but everything else is original and the only exterior metal that has been repainted is the driver door and fender.

 

here is a picture of my 79 when i first got it home......and it has its share of rott that i still hae to tend to



and here is how it looks today

 

My POS 77 F150. Bought it for $500 and drove it for a year until the motor died. Sold the tires for $300, used the rust-free bed on my F350, getting ready to scrap the last of it. I really liked this truck, one of my favorites, even though it was a complete pile of junk. Kinda miss it...

The truck:




There is nothing under that floor mat:


Rusted and collapsed lower spring mount


RIP:


My F350:




Hood closeup:


Paperthin spring mount:


One of the rusted crossmembers:


I could go on with bad pictures of this truck, I have lots more, there was a lot of rust in it. But, I'll leave you with this current shot. It gets better every day:

 

That looks like one dangerous tire change!!! That f350 looked like it was molting its paint off haha. Looks like it's getting cleaned up though. My hats off to you guys that take on a project truck with that much rust and leave it looking new.

 

I made sure to jack up the frame and relieve all of the pressure from that spring before taking that wheel off!

Here is the current project - my $500 '77 dump truck. Getting new floors, doors, and a new driver's side rocker. I hate Pennsylvania and their dang road salt!







Driver's side done and ready for paint:


Now on to the passenger side. The sill is so rusted that there is nothing left to weld the new floor to, so it's getting a new sill/rocker. I'm also replacing part of the seat support bracket, you can see the rusted one in the pic.


Donor rocker/sill


That's where she sits right now. I hate rust repair and get burned out on it pretty quick. Hope to start back at it this weekend because I need to dump to haul gravel for my driveway and scrap to the yard.

 

Boy, those pics sure make me appreciate the truck I got. 2 owners, my dad and me. 36,000 original miles and it sat for 20 some years in a garage. All the seals wentfor a walk and things just dried up. So, rebuilding her now, very little rust. GOOD LUCK with all your projects guys. John from Canada

 

I wish I had gotten pics of a 70's f600 that worked at some sort of chemical plant someone had. The entire roof was gone along with most of the cowl and firewall. the radiator support was barely holding the radiator up. Hood was just a mere couple of braces with hinges. It still ran! haha.

 

Consider yourself very lucky. My dad bought ordered a brand new Highboy in '76, kept it until 2000. It had 85,000 miles on it when he sold it. The bed had rusted off by '81 and was replaced by a wooden bed. He put new floors, fenders, cab corners, and doors on it in '85, and in '95 we replaced the whole cab and installed another set of doors along with a southern bed. Before the new bed went on, we had to repair the frame rails in the arch above the rear axle, as well as build a new rear crossmember and rebuild the rear section of the frame. We also patched holes in the hood (the only original panel left on it at the time). I passed on buying it from my dad when I got my license because it was so patched up and rigged together.

 

heres a pic of my newest dent (yes i bought yet ANOTHER dent). long story short, i get a call from a old friends dad, who ive never met and he tells me his one (my friend) got locked up for some unpaid fines and needed bond money. so he hauled this beauty over, not too much left but there is some good stuff. ill make a few hundred off whats left and scrap.







hold on to your hats, heres the best one

 

This thread could get llllloooonnnnngggggg!!!!

The only pics of the horror of the way my Hiboy use to be are in my head, and that's bad enough!

But that's not the rustiest truck I ever drove. My old 65 F250 was so bad it would lift the cab when you pressed th clutch in!

 

Wow Slayer! There's more gone than is left on that thing! (The grille surround looks to be in good shape though, amongst very few other things.)

 

yeah all the running gear is supposedly solid, motor supposedly ran as of a year ago. im thinking of putting a bumper very similar on my highboy so its cool to have one to model it after, hell maybe ill bolt that winch up too, what the hell right? ill take whats left good ans send the rest to meet its maker.

the truck spent its entire life at the beach pulling stuck vehicles out of the sand so its had a pretty cool life. think of all the beach babes its rescued lol

 

Lol, any bids on the seat?