Truck is closer to completion. Put the restored box on the truck today. Pi



Restored box is on the truck<br/>

 

Looks like a plain Jane truck with no bed trim or model badge but nice looking.

I see you setup for a camper with the lower frame mount.

I had a cab o/c on my truck for many yrs cracked 3 of the white wagon spoke wheels, luckily they slowly leaked the off air and saw and where it looked cracked. And sprayed some Windex on the crack and saw it bubbling air out a hair line crack.

So be careful running those with any loaded weight.
Orich

 

very nice looking truck, i myself have a 68 hi boy but it dosent look as nice as yours, mine use to be a state of california dept of water resources truck, came with 19.5 tires from the factory and a winch 300 6 cyl and a 4 speed.
someday i would like to paint it the color it came off the line with, it is a odd light blue of some kind.

 

Very nice looking truck.

 

Good looking truck. Nice and simple. "Truckly".

Is that your neighbors matching trailer??

 

I got the heavy duty 16"rims with tires rated for 1ton, she handles the 11' cab over camper well. The truck is pretty plain, all manual everything. My garage has many more pics of the restoration. Still have a lot of finishing touchs, but this bed restoration was a bigger project than I planned

 

Nope, that is the old box swapped onto the F100 trailer frame. Bought from a guy that moved to Michigan from Oaklahoma. Got a relatively rust free box, that I did not have to go get. However, I did have take some sheet metal from it to fix one bed floor section that was rusted from a spare tire sitting on it. Know I have a matching trailer

 

Mine started as a F250 2wd Nebraska farm truck, that I saved from a scrap yard in Maryland. The cab restoration is a cab from a 69 tow truck bought from a Dallas salvage yard. The 4x4 chassis is a 1971 brush fire truck from Durand Illinois. The box is from an F100 chopped down to a trailer from Oaklahoma.

 

The farm truck came with the factory split ring wheels. Had them refurbished and new tires installed by a local commercial truck tire center. They are fun to put on once in awhile, and as a back up set.

 

Looks good, and it's a multi-state truck too!

 

Tailgate, tail lights, and reflectors added. Can go for a drive now.

 

I'm still a fan of the chrome but that color sure looks Good bare-bones.

 

Most of the truck body has the holes for trim. However, none of the trim came with any of my finds. Almost bought an entire truck for $1200 that had all the trim and aluminum grill. Some one must have beat me to it because he never returned my calls. With all the trim this color looks nice with the lower half in Wimbledon white. That would be a down the road project, after this summers truck bed restoration, I must pay some attention to my wife. She has been patient and supportive so far, must keep it that way. No hurry, it has benn a ten year project, and will probably continue on for a long time, one upgrade at a time. Interior is next, but I am getting worried that it will be getting sissified, it has always been my work, hauling, dump run, pulling cars out of ditches and snow bank truck.

 

I have found with Women, you get back pretty much what you give. Treat her well Buddy. On the sissy part, I know what you mean. When I moved out here to Phoenix from Toledo snow country I started 4X4ing in the desert with my brand new 79 Bronco. Surprised people but I said "I bought it to use as a truck". After a bunch of "Arizona pinstripe" down both sides I wish I hadn't so much.

 

Nice looking pickup, very inspirational!