Hey just wanted to share this one with you old truck guys. This one has been in the family for over 45 years. It's still working hard, and carries this well pumping stuff, yards of soil, towering loads of junk to the dump etc.

 

Great pictures. I love seeing these old trucks really working today. Thanks for sharing.

 

great to see the old ford on the job. you can add it to the "working trucks only" thread. there is no substitute for long term ownership: you can't buy that. dick r.

 

I had a long box 1/2 ton '56 once.....wish I still did! Yours has the big back window too. Very cool old tuck, and great to see it still working!

 

This is nice to see Steve, mine doesn`t get quite as much use as your`s.

 

Very cool, Steve! I love that rear step bumper. And fomoco, your f350 certainly LOOKS like it's wanting to haul something. Great stance and that's just a really nice shot of it.

 

Excellent!

Good looking truck. Its always good to see them doing what they were made for

Bobby

 

Hey thanks for the good words. Here are a couple of older shots of the same truck performing duty as a camper hauler. This was the summer (1994) when we decided to drive across Nevada avoiding as many paved roads as possible. The camper is a '63 Alaskan.

 

Wow, those are great pics. Love the last shot with the camper. Those pics are a pretty good tease. Are you going to share more of the truck's story with us?

Fomoco... you need to load that truck up and drive it somewhere... and of course take some pics while doing it!

 

My uncle had an old Alaska camper like that. His was mounted in a 68 F-250. I spent many a night in that camper as a kid

Great pics. That trip across Nevada must have been a great adventure

Bobby

 

My dad had a camper on his 65 F100. We went camping and hunting in that truck, from California to Wyoming and Montana. Great memories.

 

Well the short version is that the truck belonged to my Uncle John who was a contractor in Oakland in the 1960's and 1970's. He bought it second hand in about 1964 and used it for his business. I took possession of the truck in 1991 and mounted the Alaskan on it at times, and used it for hauling for my own business.

Uncle John had it re-powered with a 292 in the 1970's which replaced the original 272. By the time I had it in the early 1990's, the motor was petty tired and was burning coolant through cracked cylinder heads. The shot of the kids the day we pulled the old motor is fun.



The present engine is mostly stock but has a decked block to bring the pistons to near zero deck, C heads, steel shim head gaskets, the 245 horse T-bird cam, Rams horn exhaust manifolds, a later 4-barrel intake/Edelbrock 500 carb, GM alternator, and an MSD distributor.



I went through the steering and suspension when i got it, and it's still pretty tight. I do need to address some rust, and fixed the roof corners last year. The passenger door needs a lower skin next. My daughter is 15 now, and she loves to be driven to school in the old family F-100!

The shot of the truck and the kids when they were really tiny is from Saline Valley, CA which may be one of the most remote places in the country. My wife had no (voiced) concerns about me taking those two on a trip down there in that old pickup. It was December 26th, and I recall it being 5 below zero that morning in Bishop before we headed off highway...

 

Very cool
Thanks for sharing your experiences

 

Thanks Bobby, it's been fun dredging up the old photos. The old truck only gets driven maybe 3,000 miles a year now, so it's in semi-retirement!

 

Good stuff Steve... thanks for sharing. I love hearing about the family connections to our trucks.