ditching the 302 is a great idea! i hate putting money into tiny engines too! that steering wheel gotta go tho!

 

 

Mine: 1990 XLT Lariat 5.0L AOD Shorty with red interior paint is original and only 2 little rust spots 1 being the hood other is a rocker, It's lowered 5/7 (DJM) on Dick Cepek DC-2 knock offs 17x9 or 10s never looked (I hate them)
I bought it this summer It's a Virginia truck, have the MPH speedo instead of the KPH one were used to up here.
Have 83,000 miles on it. The front bumper was damaged at some point and replaced with a lower trim line one, will replace it with the proper one with trim strip and wind damn in spring, The original grille was all cracked so I swapped it out with a black grille I had from an older 87 I used to own.

Plans for mine, Bumper swap, reinstall the rear bumper (have a roll pan and find it useless), remove the stupid moon visor and weld up the holes, install billet grille, change the wheels to something more classic likely something around 15x10 , I have a roller 351W engine out of a 95 F150 that got rear ended will take it apart and freshen it up with bearings and seals and repaint block and heads red, paint up my FEAD I am also dumping the ford EFI all together and going with an edelbrock pro flo 4 efi I have a ton of parts to go on like E-Fans, new 200 amp alternator, Efan trans cooler, B&M 8.8 diff cover, B&M ratchet shifter, AutoMeter cobalt gauges in a pillar pod, 92-96 chrome mirrors. Later maybe in a year or so I may concider a paint job, might do satin black or a brighter red and reinstall the A/C system the idiot previous owner ripped out...

Good luck with your project.

 

wheres your heater controls.

 

i just press a button on my head unit the screen moves back into the deck, they are in the back if you look at them in the last picture.