Hey guys, just wanted to introduce myself to the forum, you can see this is my first post here. Yesterday my Grandmother gave me a 69 Camper Special that my Great Grandfather bought new. Its a red 69 Camper Special, 360, auto, under the dash AC, and it only has 47k miles!!! My Great Grandfather bought it new, had a huge camper on it, and he drove it to the lake once and a while for a couple years until he bought another 69 ranger that he started to drive more often. The Camper Special apparently sit under a shed most of its life, grandma told me that he'd go out and fire it up once a week and shut her down. Which isn't too great great for fuel systems. I'm reaping the consiquences on that. Anway before he passed away he gave it to my grandfather, I was young when that happened but I remember, the paint on it was shiny and it had never had the camper shell off it whole life. So grandpa took it off and started using the truck around the lake until he got ill, and for the last 5 years or so, it sat in a garage....until yesterday. I'll post some pics later today. But I've got to tell ya, the seat, dash, and door panels are near perfect, and the carpet is almost as nice. The body has no rust except for surface rust on the hood, and paint is of course faded, but the body is straight as an arrow. Anyway, I've probably bored you with the details, i'll post some pics later.

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h yea, its has power steering and power brakes. Not sure if they're all that way or not.


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Wow. Nothing boring there . . . just an awesome story. You mentioned the fuel system . . . I think the first major challenge is going to be getting all the rust flakes out of the fuel tank. I took mine out, hung it from an engine hoist, shoved a powerwasher nozzle through the sender hole and sprayed, sprayed, sprayed. Then I shook, shook, shook. Rinse and repeat.


That lasted for about 300 miles and then it started to clog up the line again. Since you've got such a wonderful truck there, you might just want to splurge and order up a brand new fuel tank.
It would certainly add a measure of reliability.

 

Wow, another treasure found in an old barn. The best thing is it belonged to family, that makes it even better. This will be a fun project for you. Make sure all the mechanical systems are Ok before you start the pretty stuff. Dont want to bend it up going down the road.

 

Yep, last night I had to pull the tank and rinse it out, the powerwasher is a good move though. If I continue to have problems with it I've considered having this one hot tanked, or buy a new one. Do you have any idea what a new one costs? Also in the last two days that I've had it already, I had to, replace the fuel pump, kit the carb, replace the points, condenser, cap, rotor, wires and plugs (those were precautionary moves though), replace the vacuum advance, replace the stupid water hose between the water pump and the block (I had to do that on the way home with it on the side of the road), and reroute (actually disconnect and reroute) the carb base plate heater hoses....which I also did on the side of the road. Anyway, it runs like a top now.....well I have a small amount of carb work left to do, but I drove it to work this morning and its a nice ride. I need to schedule some exhaust work next and it looks like its going to need shocks also. Fun Fun I'll get some pics up after I get it all cleaned up.

 

Also, where is the best place to get parts, I've always gone to Obsolete Ford since its located in Oklahoma City.

 

there's dennis-carpenter.com and lmctruck.com

 

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