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New to the site but own a restoration shop and have 5 Ford trucks from 53-97. Recently picked up a '63 SWB stepside from a Chevy friend who was going to scrap it...too nice a truck to scrap and cool looking as is with the very aged patina...planning on lowering it and leaving it looking like it is. It had been pirated for a lot of parts so I picked up another '63 yesterday..LWB fleetside...also a really decent truck but it's a LWB and I need the pieces for the SWB. Going to be nice for a change to throw something together and not have to paint it..
The SWB is a '6 cylinder which I plan to leave it in provided it runs..haven't gotten that far with it yet and the LWB is a 292. Can anyone tell me, are the 292's wanted by anyone or am I going to end up taking it to the scrapyard with the rest of the LWB truck? assuming nobody really wants the LWB bed either...seems SWB are the popular ones.
The SWB is a '6 cylinder which I plan to leave it in provided it runs..haven't gotten that far with it yet and the LWB is a 292. Can anyone tell me, are the 292's wanted by anyone or am I going to end up taking it to the scrapyard with the rest of the LWB truck? assuming nobody really wants the LWB bed either...seems SWB are the popular ones.
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Thanks, I am keeping the stepside bed on the SWB....I just hate to scrap a nice LWB bed if someone could use it. A lot of these older trucks are still around here in the south since they don't rust like they do in the salt states. I'll check out HAMB...thanks!
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I hate to see these trucks get scrapped but ill admit i have hauled a few of them off. I would take the parts you need and then try to sell off whats left. Probably get more than the scrap price anyway. And definitely don't throw the Y-block away.
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Sorry, I know this but in I get so many people in my shop that don't seperate the two it falls into a first thought at times....I can't correct customers english or terminology without potentially offending them so hearing it all the time often brings that word first to mind.
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Sorry, I know this but in I get so many people in my shop that don't seperate the two it falls into a first thought at times....I can't correct customers english or terminology without potentially offending them so hearing it all the time often brings that word first to mind.
Drop a post in the 57 to 60 forum about the bed and that you are parting it out.
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Carpenter, of all peeps is prolly the poorest informed, calls 'em stepsides in his Ford repro trucks parts catalogs. I told Pat Ford awhile back: "Of all the peeps that are clueless, Dennis takes the cake!"
Sadly, well informed peeps are disappearing faster than a phart in the wind.
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Yep, telling a bed vendor he is selling flairside parts at the Western F100 Nationals in lieu of stepside parts did not go over well.
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Dave, was that last year, or 2010, 2009, 2008 or? Hell, 75% of the vendors at this show, prolly another 80% of the owners/attendees, wouldn't know a Flareside from a Stepside. Prolly wouldn't know a jackass from an elephant either!
Carpenter, of all peeps is prolly the poorest informed, calls 'em stepsides in his Ford repro trucks parts catalogs. I told Pat Ford awhile back: "Of all the peeps that are clueless, Dennis takes the cake!"
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Sadly, well informed peeps are disappearing faster than a phart in the wind.
Carpenter, of all peeps is prolly the poorest informed, calls 'em stepsides in his Ford repro trucks parts catalogs. I told Pat Ford awhile back: "Of all the peeps that are clueless, Dennis takes the cake!"
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Sadly, well informed peeps are disappearing faster than a phart in the wind.
2011, I asked the guy selling the custom wood bed sliders why he was selling step side chevy parts at an all ford event................He didn't get it either....Looked kind of blank and vacant until i explained on a ford they are called flairsides.
I some how get a perverse pleasure in doing that. I will burn in Karma Hell.....
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