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No Abe, I waited around for a while but they never showed.
Fenders it was pretty clean. Looked like the side boards were recently installed. All the hardware was new. I'd have liked to have seen if it had a Flatty.
No Abe, I waited around for a while but they never showed.
Fenders it was pretty clean. Looked like the side boards were recently installed. All the hardware was new. I'd have liked to have seen if it had a Flatty.
You're just like all the other old dudes. "Hey that's a 53. Still got the flatty?".
"No, it's just a stupid resto-mod I spent every waking hour of my life on for five years. Sorry you hate it".
Lol I felt that way sometimes. But they were often driving a minivan looking thing so I got over it.
LOL, I think the O.P., who has been a longtime good friend, bought some of his trucks before I was old enough to shave and he isn't that much older than me. He is past five years too but making very good progress now.
You're just like all the other old dudes. "Hey that's a 53. Still got the flatty?".
Nothing wrong with a modern engine in a build. But it sorta had the vibe like it might have been more of a survivor.
But just to set the story straight I like em ALL. Better if they are powered by Fords but anything that keeps em on the road will do. It's just too hard to keep them 100% original.
Nothing wrong with a modern engine in a build. But it sorta had the vibe like it might have been more of a survivor.
But just to set the story straight I like em ALL. Better if they are powered by Fords but anything that keeps em on the road will do. It's just too hard to keep them 100% original.
I hope that everyone here knows I am razzing you BJ, but I have been asked a zillion times if my 53 has a flatty from informed old timers that knew that was a possibility. Just to make conversation, there was a 53 running around here 10+ years ago. Wasn't remotely close to the quality of my restomod but I sure was jealous he was rolling around in a flatty. Fortunately these trucks were popular and sold in great quantity and there are still projects waiting to be rescued, or projects stored away for decades waiting for a new owner.
If you have some skills you can still build a decent resto-mod for $10Kish if you make very efficient use of a carefully chosen donor car. You can buy a decent stocker and you will blow way past that money when you finish rebuilding everything from end to end to make it as reliable as that resto-mod. If you don't you will have a stock trucking truck that is waiting to break every time you drive it far. They are 70 years old after all. In the end you have to spend the time and money if it will get any real use. This is an expensive hobby if you do it to anything near a high standard. I am looking at a new project F1 soon and it will be a miracle to build a pretty nice one for $20K. It will require I farm out almost no build labor. That's the way I prefer it anyway so oh well.
I get asked the same question about my 54. Some guys are looking at it straight on where they should see the V-8 emblem on the grille and ask if it has a V-8. I'll say 'yup'. Then older guys who know enough to ask but not as much as us Ford truck nuts will ask if it has the flathead still in it. Then I explain that 54 was the first year for the OHV.
When I’m at a race, at lot of guys come and ask if it’s a 292 or a 312. Nope, just a 239. At Beaver Springs a guy came to talk and remembered I pulled a camper, raced, and pulled it home again at South Mountain. One guy came by with his wife and said look there’s a Y block.
Each picture got better and better. I wasn't fond of the paint combination, but then seeing F250 and a flatbed with cool stakes just made me smile.
I prefer stock and love to see flattys and Y-blocks, they are getting more and more rare. But anything on the road is awesome.
I took my truck out today to get some concrete pavers and on my way home I saw a corvair. It made me smile and we gave each other a knowing wave as we passed.
What gets me is while I am gassing up at the convenience store the number of times someone will come by to look at the truck and ask if I have a 350 Chevy in it. 🙄
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