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16 years old? Still very young and foolish. With age you'll get wisdom and come to realize not everything is worth saving. I know from experience. I got my '49 F-2 when I as about your age. It was a bucket of rust. I replaced it rebuilt everything on the truck. I restored it mainly because I was raised in it since I was about eight years old. I foolishly started a rot bucket '37 Buick about ten years ago. Now ten years later I am reality was too much of a project but I'm already into it to stop. 60 year old me has a lot less ambition than 18 year old me, but more sense.
Belive me, I know what you are saying but this has so much history and such an awesome story behind it that it is worth fixing up (Not restoring but getting driveable and nice looking). It is beyond restoration but you can roughly patch it up and paint it, in the words of david frieburger "Dont get it right just get it running". It doesnt have to be show quality to preserve a piece of history like this and keep it out of the scrap yard.
Belive me, I know what you are saying but this has so much history and such an awesome story behind it that it is worth fixing up (Not restoring but getting driveable and nice looking). It is beyond restoration but you can roughly patch it up and paint it, in the words of david frieburger "Dont get it right just get it running". It doesnt have to be show quality to preserve a piece of history like this and keep it out of the scrap yard.
They can't all be saved. But if you to do go for it. I can tell you one thing, at 16 you're all fired up with grandiose ideas to save the world but once you get married and have a couple of kids others things take priority, and money. There are plenty of projects started but never finished. Come over to my house and I'll show you a couple. Now that my kids are grown, which didn't prove to be less financially draining as when they were younger, I hope to finish them before I croak.
i worked in a body shop from 18 to 29, than i ran my own body shop for 26 years.
there is not much i can't do.
my 88 F-SuperDuty diesel 4X4 conversion with 496k miles on it is about 90% restored.
the 79 F350 4X4 is about 80% restored.
the 65 Falcon 2 Door Hardtop V8 is about 60%.
the 66 & litre is waiting for a full restoration.
67 year old me has very little ambition any more, and even less sense.
They can't all be saved. But if you to do go for it. I can tell you one thing, at 16 you're all fired up with grandiose ideas to save the world but once you get married and have a couple of kids others things take priority, and money. There are plenty of projects started but never finished. Come over to my house and I'll show you a couple. Now that my kids are grown, which didn't prove to be less financially draining as when they were younger, I hope to finish them before I croak.
Thats the thing, i plan to stay single and move to a town north of me that has a population of ten and a property is pocket change. I want to stay single because i have some of the worst genetics and inherited health problems you could possibly think of like add, adhd, odd, anxiety, depression, joint issues, scoliosis, flat footedness, food allergys, many types of inherieted cancer, lynch syndrome, heart issues, Etc... So i will stay single and not have kids as i refuse to bring a child into the world knowing they will have these same problems or worse. I would feel horrible.
73-79 "dentside" bodystyle. That's about as far as you're going to break down a F600 cowl and chassis from that era, I believe, without looking at numbers. Ford didn't make a lot of yearly changes on the big trucks like they did on the little brothers.
