First off, I'm absolutely enthralled to find a forum with enthusiasts for these trucks. I've always been a huge fan of the body style at all the rod runs and car shows growing up, and it's going to be great spending weekends with my parents again.

This week, or probably 2nd week in July, I should go pickup my 54 Ford f250. She needs some TLC, but the cab forward is good on it and that's really all I want. Price is right too at $500. Going to be a father/son project, and one that I finally get to show my pops some tricks on this one. We're a family of gearheads, but we all went different directions with my father building quite a few amazing street rods (23 Ford T-bucket, 23 Ford C-cab, 31 Model A, 37 Ford Phaeton which actually made centerfold in Street Rodder! and now he has a 32 Coupe), a brother into mini-trucks, and I was always into spiced up sport compacts (not your old accord with a fart can muffler, but real heavily modified performance compacts, 380whp Dodge Avenger, 546whp Dodge SRT-4).

I've also been quite happy to see a large mix of people on here, from traditional to hot rod, so hopefully I won't be too shunned for what I'm about to do to an old Ford pickup . Some of you may have a clue as to the user name.

Either way, I'm at least going to be bugging some people with questions on the best way to tackle some projects as we get going... like what has been found to line up/fit the best and things like that. Most of it will be hand fabricated parts and lots of customization, but I'm really excited to try and bring 2 styles and cultures culminating into one project vehicle.

 

oh and I guess I can at least throw up some pics of previous work :-P I need to get some better pics of the coupe and some older pics of the other street rod's scanned, but most of this stuff is from previous projects on the sport compacts


My father's current 32



Beginning and end of a custom T4 manifold for a customer at my old shop


1st generation 2.4 swapped and turbocharged neon I built for a customer


Custom intake manifold


That was the Mazdaspeed at a local show doing some shakedown and road testing with it

 

Welcome to FTE. Sounds like we might be the ones asking you questions.
Be sure to post pictures of your build.

We will support pretty much everything you want to do with your truck, as long as it's something I like.

 

Hello and welcome to FTE. i like your dads 32, the paint i have to put on my 50 f-1 is a shade darker than the brown on it, im still in the primer stages because of a rookie mistake. LOL Nice work on that manifold. Well your home brother, if you like these old ford trucks, catch you later (JIMMY)

 

Heh, that's actually the result of using a crappy cell phone camera when we sat it down to look at the wheels on it. The coupe is actually a very bright tangerine orange with gold pearl all throughout it. We've also had a band of flames put down the side of it as well too since then.

I'll get some good pics of the coupe once I get the 54 down from PA and we get it into the garage. Right now it's kind of crowded in there with the bass boat too so I can't get around it too much.

 

Welcome aboard... Enjoy the site... And remember we love to see pic so keep posting them!

 

I can't read, so I stare at pics all day

Welcome to FTE!

 

Welcome be sure to post pics of your truck.

 

Welcome to FTE!

 

Welcome to FTE. Pics are always a plus....although I should post a few myself...

 

Welcome. Nice work, but I would install a surveillance camera in your garage to catch the vandal that tied your header pipe into a knot. Jag

 

Welcome!
Cools pics you got there...
Paul