Today I was helping somebody move, and their neighbor has 3 ford trucks. They all look around 1967. The one that I mainly think has the best chance of running is the f-100. It’s by far in the best shape. There is a f-250 ranger 4x4 and a dually. I only had time to look at the f-100. It still has floor pans. Anyways. I’m wondering if it’s a good deal. I’m 16 and I’m restoring my moms corvette but I’ve been looking for a classic truck for my first truck. I have some mechanical knowledge, mainly with Chevys and c-k trucks. I’m wondering how cross compatible parts are. Could I get the one running using the 2 others. I know how chevys are inbread, and everything works on each other. I’m wondering what engines they probably have. I’m going tomorrow to look at them more closely with my grandpa who used to be a mechanic when these trucks were new. I doubt I would restore them but just get it back on the road and drive it for fun.

tomorrow I will get more pictures of it up close and I’ll make sure it has body mounts still. Try to look in the power barn.

I apologize, could a moderator move this to the 67 forum page. I accidentally put this in the 73. I can’t figure out how to move it.

F-100




250 Ranger

Dually

 

Looks like fun do yourself a favor and take the ten grand it’s gonna take to get that f100 going down the road and get something that hasn’t been abandoned in a field for god knows how long. Your gonna be dealing with quite a bit with any one of those trucks in my opinion unless you have a full shop lots of money and lots of tools and time

 

I should also mention I have a 93 k2500 with a blown engine but good trans and the same person will sell me a similar truck with a blown trans but rebuilt good engine. I could throw it in and sell the truck and part out the one with the blown trans and Maybe get A few grand to put towards the fords.

 

Serious rust, I'd keep looking.

 

Moved at OP request

 

Sure, 3 for $1k is a good deal if you have the space, time and patience to really dedicate to this. Even better if you can spend some time with your grandpa working through them. Other posts here telling you to walk might assume that you have other options at $1k which I don't think is possible.

From the looks of it from the grilles, the 250 and 350 are 1968, maybe 1969. The F100 appearing to be 1967 was a unique year for a few body and trim parts which makes it an oddball in the generation--this is a necessary read before you go: https://www.fordification.com/tech/67differences.htm. Mechanically, not too different though apart from steering box I think.

So to answer your question, they are by-in-large pretty swappable with some caveots. Major body panels are fully swappable. Mechanically, there are some differences like the front suspension will be leafs on your 4x4 250/350 instead of what Ford called twin-I-beams on the F100 as well as a handful of other driveline differences if it is a 4x4 like steering box, mount locations, axles, etc. Basically, a number of differences to beef things up to spec. A driveline swap is not going to be 100% direct bolt-on. Engines and transmissions can be swapped but you might have to change out the engine mount locations, bell housing and/or driveshaft/ujoint when swapping between I6/sbf/bbf that can be major work. There are some other minor differences like accellerator linkages as well but these can be done to make it drivable. Nothing different on the core electric circuitry.

That being said, the bad news is that any through-rust on the roof lines like it looks like you have here is pretty uncommon and is impossible to repair. There's likely a lot more. You could just to make sure it is solid and drive it (can't push a screwdriver through it and it should "clunk" not "pop" when you hit it near the points where it's questionable). If you don't like the speed holes on your driver, then that's a pretty big ding against this plan. Other points of interest for rust as a checklist coming in to this generation of Ford--the following locations are common and are repairable from replacement panels if you can weld and do body work:

• Front cab mount collapsing (structural; visible from the front wheelwells)
• Rear cab mount center support bracing near the ends rusted through (pretty cosmetic but really badly rusted ones beyond just the ends can be structural)
• Floor pans and kick panels (pretty cosmetic, can be structural; single side replacements only)
• Front fender behind the wheelwell (pretty cosmetic; replace the fender usually)
• Door skin exterior bottom (pretty cosmetic)
• Cab rear corner skin rusted thorough (pretty cosmetic)
• Inner fender brace to the radiator mount rusted through (structural)

Anything else is pretty uncommon and difficult to repair major body damage. Those marked structural, you really need to replace for serious safety reasons.

I am definitely in the camp that has you getting rid of the Chevys and going full 67 Ford but keep in mind that these are much much older trucks than those Chevys. If you need a daily driver, these are going to be hard pressed to work if that's your expectation.

However, If you're looking for a good place to start a first big project on a true vintage truck, you probably can't get any better than $1 a few Ford trucks to tinker on with their relatively straightforward mechanicals and parts that are pretty easy to obtain from a junkyard or comparitively pretty cheap from Rock Auto. Still going to be a challenge no doubt but I can't see you not getting your $1k back out of them in parts if you at least have the means to transport and store them.

Let us know how it goes.

 

$333 each is a good buy. They are worth that in scrap

 

Yes . Buy all of them. Sell/part out the 250/dually and use the money to fix the 67. From the pics it's grille looks to be in good shape and they are part of the one year only parts on those trucks. You said that you are 16 years old . So you have plenty of time ahead of you so you and your Grand Pa can work together. And the memories from that will be Priceless. Ignore the nay sayers telling you to walk away.

 

Thanks. I’m going to work this morning, when I get back I’m going over o look very closely for rust. The top back 2 cab corners are for sure rotted out. My grandpa has a welder so Mabey we could weld in new ones. The rockers aren’t rusted though, but I’ll for sure give it the screwdriver test.

 

How long have they been sitting and did they run and drive when they were parked? I'd get under them with a screwdriver , a hammer and a good flashlight and poke around the frame before i decided anything. I'm all for dragging out stuff like this and fixing it up, but once the frame starts going it's pretty much a lost cause.

Seems like it would be at least worth it just to strip and flip parts and scrap out the rest. I've done that on a couple old vehicles that people were gonna send to scrap and made some decent money selling the stuff online.

 

The guy drove it up till the day he passed 2 years ago. It’s been sitting since. They used it to move 2 years ago as well so it’s seen some drive time recently. I don’t know about the other 2. ​​​​​but they are not worth saving. Just part outs.

 

”Sure, 3 for $1k is a good deal if you have the space”

YES. 3 Oregon trucks for $999 is a good deal. (see above).
Are you good at parting out stuff?

 

The 67 grill could bring $333.

 

I don’t know. Probably, I know how to work on cars and stuff so I think I could manage.

 

I got good news and bad news. Bad news first. The F-250 and Dually are worse than i thought. Both of there roofs have 100% rotted out. The dually has no engine, but the F250 does. But they have already pretty much been parted out on the inside. So there’s pretty little I can do with them.

Good news is that the lady that owns them gave the F-100 to my little brother who’s 14, and me. I was able to roll the engine over easy with no rough spots. The oil isn’t full of water and it smells like oil. No gas in the oil. It’s got a 352 in it. The lady that gave it to us said we can take any parts off the trucks that we want. The ranger has a Edelbrock carb and some headers and straight pipes. That’s just what I could see through the rust in the hood. I figure I’ll rob them off it. The hinges are stuck. Anyways. I’m excited to get my own project going. Thanks.