I found some more cool stuff today. A junkyard with several 67-72 Pickups. I wrote this whole thread and after posting it realized I was in the wrong place so here it is again. I scored a straight 72 grille suround with a few minor scratches and an under dash fridgidaire that fits the contour of the dash and is rather slim. I also found a 72 short stepside with what looks like a decent bed. I will check it out better tomorrow but it is the low bed without the tire carrier carved into the fender. All the pickups are complete and even still have the steering columns. I also saw a 64 short step side with custom cab and a 66 custom cab. Plus several 73-79s which I don't pay much attention to but did see a nice straight 78-79 grille and shell.
This junkyard is about an hour and a half from home and I only get up that way when we are working up there so I may go ahead and get the step side bed if the price is right even though I don't need it and really don't even like step side shortys all that much. Any I dea what it is worth? I would just assume it needs new wood. Anybody looking for one? I'm not really trying to sell anything here, just help people find things they need, so if I can help we can talk on the side through e-mail.

 

Where is this private "fishin' hole", mind sayin'?
Im in WA and have been looking for stepside rear bumper and brackets- the orig. kind. I know stepside beds can be pricey in some areas of the country. Like $350+.

 

i tell u what that sounds like my kinda yard, hope they dont crush em. i wanna start a yard specializin in Fords built before 1980 and i know how to get a hold of many i can get a job with a travelling car crusher that goes round tha state and every time i see an old ford i pay about 20 to 40 dallors for it sounds good dont it.

 

jzjames, I am in east Texas, but if you are in Wa. you are, in my obsevance, in the midst of a pretty good concentration of old Fords. Your local truck trader has more of old Fords every month than anywhere I've been and I always pick them up when I travel.
I never did find any real good yards when I was there though. Macs near Port Townsend has as many old pickups as I found anywhere and I did get some parts from him. Also you might give Bergstom's in P.T. a call at 360-385-5061. He specializes in antique auto parts and has a real nice store with reasonable prices. Although most of his stuff is older, he does a lot of consignment and may know where the good yards are too.
I am only familiar with the Olimpic Peninsula and Whidbey Island. Island recycling center gets a few old cars all the time. I was there in may and they had a real straight 72 F-100 styleside and a 51 chev p/u with a 283 engine, a 54 olds and about 20 other cars. They were crushing that day.

Ds7776 where you at in S. Dak.?, I haven't been to the big junkyard in Belle Fourche since it changed hands but they had about 75 ford pickups form 67-79. I knew the previous owners sons and they always treated me right. They started in the 50s and moved a couple times, the last time the state paid to get them off the main intersection, and moved most of their stuff a couple miles out. The boys hung on to the original yard which is obscure and hardly anyone gets taken in there. I bought a 64 Ford highway patrol car out of there once for $300. It had the P code 390 with solid lifters and the castiron headers.