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The guy at the service station where the owner of the truck has been having some tune up work done said the truck has been in the area for years. He said as far as he knows it has not been converted to 4wheel drive to the best of his knowledge. So it looks like it started out as a F250 2wd, and then the conversion company switched it to a F350 4x4. When the owner's wife returns from a camping trip tomorrow I should be able to get the v.i.n. From the title. On a side not I stopped at Taco Time in Casper, WY for a both to eat while on my way back to Kentucky when I noticed an old red F250 at the car lot next door. I walked over and looked at it. It was very solid and straight. It was also a Camper Special like the crew cab I am looking at. The lot owner said it is a 1969 F250, and it also had the box with the side marker tail lights like my crew cab. I thought that was interesting since I thought that box debated in 1970 aa well.....
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The guy at the service station where the owner of the truck has been having some tune up work done said the truck has been in the area for years. He said as far as he knows it has not been converted to 4wheel drive to the best of his knowledge. So it looks like it started out as a F250 2wd, and then the conversion company switched it to a F350 4x4. When the owner's wife returns from a camping trip tomorrow I should be able to get the v.i.n. From the title. On a side not I stopped at Taco Time in Casper, WY for a both to eat while on my way back to Kentucky when I noticed an old red F250 at the car lot next door. I walked over and looked at it. It was very solid and straight. It was also a Camper Special like the crew cab I am looking at. The lot owner said it is a 1969 F250, and it also had the box with the side marker tail lights like my crew cab. I thought that was interesting since I thought that box debated in 1970 aa well.....
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The guy at the service station where the owner of the truck has been having some tune up work done said the truck has been in the area for years. He said as far as he knows it has not been converted to 4wheel drive to the best of his knowledge. So it looks like it started out as a F250 2wd, and then the conversion company switched it to a F350 4x4. When the owner's wife returns from a camping trip tomorrow I should be able to get the v.i.n. From the title.
The wheelbase confirms that it is an F-350 CC, as Ford didn't make a 164.5" F-250 CC, only a 149" one, and the F-250 was the only Ford factory 4wd CC at this time. An F-350 was not factory 4wd until 79. It would have been converted by an outside company such as M-H which still converts vehicles today, only larger. As to the door tag, that shows that the door belonged to a 1968 149" F-250 2wd CC, plainly not this model, if the 1967 F-350 2wd VIN is correct, which would be verified by the VIN on the frame. Verify the title with the frame VIN. If this was a railroad truck, that could explain the door tag as it was probably "borrowed" from a wrecked 2wd F-250 CC which the railroad would probably have alot of CC's to move crews around with. As for the bed, the F-350 was probably a cab & chassis or flatbed unit which the railroad might have kept, and mounted a 70-72 bed in its place when they sold it.
The wheelbase confirms that it is an F-350 CC, as Ford didn't make a 164.5" F-250 CC, only a 149" one, and the F-250 was the only Ford factory 4wd CC at this time. An F-350 was not factory 4wd until 79. It would have been converted by an outside company such as M-H which still converts vehicles today, only larger. As to the door tag, that shows that the door belonged to a 1968 149" F-250 2wd CC, plainly not this model, if the 1967 F-350 2wd VIN is correct, which would be verified by the VIN on the frame. Verify the title with the frame VIN. If this was a railroad truck, that could explain the door tag as it was probably "borrowed" from a wrecked 2wd F-250 CC which the railroad would probably have alot of CC's to move crews around with. As for the bed, the F-350 was probably a cab & chassis or flatbed unit which the railroad might have kept, and mounted a 70-72 bed in its place when they sold it.
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