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Sep 23, 2013 | 10:51 AM

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Daily Drive 69 Highboy

So i've had my eye on this 69 F250 for a while, i am just trying to decide whether i should sell my jeep and daily drive this. How much of a pain would it be, disregarding the mpg's? How many DD trucks like these? It is on 40's, and i plan on installing power steering.

1969 ford f350 lifted

Sep 23, 2013 | 11:56 AM

Freightrain

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Welcome to the forums.

Back in the 80's they were very popular and guys drove them all the time. If you can live without cruise/tilt/air conditioning/power windows/remote start then it is no problem.

I'd love to have nice bump to drive every day, but fuel would kill me. You can't go far with a 8-9 mpg truck.

$5k is pretty steep for that in my opinion. Good motor or not, if 1/2 the bed is missing and the rest looking marginal it is not worth that kind of money.

Sep 23, 2013 | 12:25 PM

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TO MUCH $$
needs bed side welded on (does he have replacement ?) also needs rear end gears ? why ? toasted or wrong set up for 40" tires

Sep 23, 2013 | 01:31 PM

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these trucks in general are ok depending on the person. I drove mine in high school and college but got hard when i needed to get to work and didnt have a back up like i did when i was living at home. i still drive my truck as much as i can when i can but it is really nice knowing each morning that my Focus will start.

that truck i wouldnt drive ever not even to test drive it. they are asking too much for it and the picture with the guy in it just gives me a bad feeling about how they treated the truck.

Sep 23, 2013 | 02:47 PM

BradyCouchman

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i took a second look at the pictures and picture one the truck has the fender and in the second it doesn't. my guess is the white truck has a green bed side on it or they did some real bad damage to it and cut it off to hide it.

Sep 23, 2013 | 03:09 PM

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Ya, the first pic shows a "decent" truck, then the later pics show a well worn, abused, off roaded, mud toy.

Kinda also wondered about the other truck in the picture.

Sep 23, 2013 | 05:25 PM

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Let's guess they got that thing stuck in some deep mud real deep. Beat the heii out of it trying to get it out. There-by wrecking the rear end. How in the heii else are you gonna hurt Dana 60 gears with that diameter tires? My guess is there is a lot more hurt than the gears. Driveshaft(s),T/C, front hubs, Tranny,etc. I wouldn't just forget it, I'd run from it.