well, this is my story.
Ive always been a fan of a ford truck, one day I was cruzing kijiji and noticed a 1976 highboy for sale about two hours from where I live so of course I called the fella up and worked out a decent deal and the next day I was on my way to pick it up. As I showed up I noticed the truck wasnt all it was cracked up to be in the add, it had a box the was hardly a box due to rust, the cab floor was rotted out and the engine was a crusty old straight 6 that would run..sometimes. But hey, i just drove two hours so this thing was coming home with me either way so i loaded it on a uhaul trailer and started back-tracking. the next day i got out and started looking at it a little bit better and noticed that the frame was actually in really good shape, which on the east coast of canada is hard to find even in newer vehicles.. so thats when i got bit by the bug. I had to bring this truck back to it glory or atleast as close as i could get it with my budget. Over the next few weeks I stripped the truck down to the frame and started making a "plan of attack" as i called it, really it was more good timing and good friends to help out along the way. I ended up getting the frame sand blasted and epoxy primed for a $100 tim hortons coffee card, than i took it home and rockguarded and tremclad the entire thing, I found a cab from the states again on kijiji which the guy dropped off right in the yard. fenders,seats and all. part by part over the next few weeks I had a truck again.. almost. I had two major issues, i still had the straight 6 and the box was still like a over sized water strainer. So i posted on my facebook that I needed a old v8 ford, a few weeks passed before i got a message from a friend back in cape breton that he had a 429 sittin in his garage that he would sell for the right price. so i loaded into a truck that i got a loan of and made the 7 hour journey to pick the engine up. made it home and ran into what i know now as the typical issues of putting a 429/460 in one of these old trucks. so it sat, for months. un-touched Due to budget. but i got a phone call one day from my girlfiends dad saying i had to call this number this fella has a box i think that will be perfect for your truck, so i called and buddy on the other end of the phone said "your the 5th person that called today, if you want it you better come with cash" so i figured this box had to be decent so i made the trip cash in hand, i showed up to the almost perfect box that was on a show-truck that had been in a crash a week or so before. now i got all the pecies of this puzzle and shes on the home stretch.. Ill leave it at that, hope ya enjoy the photos that will be following here shortly.

 

 

Good going on the truck and welcome to Fte. Those Timmie cards sure come in handy don't they. Rattle can black seems to be a traditional color around here so you should fit in quite well.

 

Nicely done. How do you like the wiring harness?

 

thanks fellas! rattle can black is the solution for the next few years anyways! and blue the wiring harness really was worth the money, im no electrical genious and it made what could have been a rather mind numbing job pretty easy. all the wires are individually labeled and the instructions were straight to the point.