How rare are supercabs?
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Fleet Mechanic
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How rare are supercabs?
We have a supercab at work thats getting parted out, the roof is rusted through the drip rails but the floors are good and body mounts good, and the footwells need patches near front of door like usual when the floors start rusting. I shouldn't say it is all good as the cab corners are gone and rusting toward the doors as well.
all the supercabs I've seen up here have had rusted away rear floors and rusting through front footwells and the rest of the cab is good. This cab is the opposite and more in keeping with what I see online and in the forums here.
all the glass is out of it, all the interior is out, the dash has been pulled, exterior trim is removed, its just a cab shell with a wiring harness to run the engine, and the doors are still on for now.
when i have the rest of it apart, wiring removed and pull cab off frame, should i cut cab up for patch panels OR try and get the cab metal fixed and sell cab??
all the supercabs I've seen up here have had rusted away rear floors and rusting through front footwells and the rest of the cab is good. This cab is the opposite and more in keeping with what I see online and in the forums here.
all the glass is out of it, all the interior is out, the dash has been pulled, exterior trim is removed, its just a cab shell with a wiring harness to run the engine, and the doors are still on for now.
when i have the rest of it apart, wiring removed and pull cab off frame, should i cut cab up for patch panels OR try and get the cab metal fixed and sell cab??
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Not that rare, there are places that sale patch panels for SC's. Post a for sale add in the classified to get that business of the one guy that wants OEM metal in there.
The one rare part that is not reproduced is the cab section itself dent chrome.
The one rare part that is not reproduced is the cab section itself dent chrome.
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How rare? Not very, but depends where you are. I'm also in the lower mainland. I still see a fair amount of dentside supercabs around, but they are probably mostly like you describe - a Canadian Ford without a swiss cheese floor is usually a resto or had a very easy life. Longboxes are what most of them are. My supercab shortbox was only the second one I'd ever seen locally, one of the reasons I bought it. Check craigslist in Texas, Arizona, California, etc, and you'll find they're not nearly as rare as up here.
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If it's a 79 F350 4x4 supercab, then it's fairly rare in my book. Ford only produced 1761 of these trucks. Then depending on trim level, some are very rare!! The only way to truly know how rare, is to get a Marti report for the truck by giving them your vin#.
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this one has exterior chrome, and a good green headliner(the vinyl is good but the backing is warped)
I thought supercabs came mostly with the shortbox and the longbox was rare, maybe the 4x4 longbox was the rarity I was thinking of? or is it just in general that they came with longboxes more?
I thought supercabs came mostly with the shortbox and the longbox was rare, maybe the 4x4 longbox was the rarity I was thinking of? or is it just in general that they came with longboxes more?
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My boss has one, we redid it this year, he had an engine built for it, the owner before him had already done a 460 swap so its got a fresh 460 and red and white two tone paint, its lightly modified from stock. I didn't know it was that rare!!
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Ya hi guys. I also have a 1979 F-350 Supercab. It's not too rusty in the usual spots. Brought it up from Washington a few years back. But my issue now, is that the roofline area or where cab joins roof is really rusting. Wasn't sure who would be good at tackling the work on that. Don't want to just take anywhere, would like it if someone had a bit of experience with old fords. I'm also in the lower mainland.
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