ahhhh helloooooooo a 56 for $100 hmmmmmmmmm the hood alone is $400 so i say da huh buy it buy it now before some one else jumps..(Panelman) ,,lol

 

Did someone call my name??

Last June I bought a 58 Ranchero for $100. It was complete, but not running. Even came with extra replacement trim. About a month later, I sold it for $2k on eBay and bought more truck parts.

Keep "bugging" them and they'll sell. Maybe increase your offer to $500.

I'm still kicking myself in the a** for not buying a complete 51 Panel for $500 when I first got my 52 Panel. It even had a flathead V8 and the sheetmetal was perfect (except for the rear and doors).

Ilya

 

you wanna tell us where its at ? i promise i won't buy it ! hee hee !

 

i just went through the same thing though . i found a 55 f 100 that has been sitting forever in a nice quite out of the way place where i suppose only i and my son in law knew of and it is hidden . any way i've stopped numerous times and this thing is all there , it's a custom cab , the top has been chopped , dropped axle , etc.. with 312 in it and finally had it bought for $ 200 . yep went back the next day , and took off from work , and his wife told him that he should keep it as they are worth lots of money as she seen one on e-bay going for big bucks . damn e-bay and those high dollar auctions . it will rot completely away before he let's it go now.

 

that's what I'm afraid of, too. I asked my supervisor to ask him again, but no reply yet.

 

i paid 3,500 in canada and was happy with that

 

At $3,500 for a decent project truck isn`t bad any more. That`s what I paid for my 56 M100 that was pretty much a driver 5 years ago.
I`m glad I didn`t wait any longer as it`s getting tuffer all the time as they dry up, get bought up and disappear.

 

I paid $450 6 months ago for this '54 F-100 and had to go 200 miles to pick it up;



It did come with an extra good hood, ok rear fenders and a couple bed side's.

I thought it was a great deal and I really only bought it for the frame and running boards to do my '56.

Jordan
Eastern Oregon

 

It looks like a good deal as I don`t see much rust from this picture and with all the extra parts. Too bad it`s getting parted out.

 

I paid $500 for my 51. It was just plain dumb luck on ebay. It was listed on a holiday weekend and no one bid except me.

 

I think thats sort of how I picked up the '54 picture above. It was only listed under the parts section, it didn't come up when looking under Ford pickups.

This '54 would be worth restoring but someone removed the vin plate somewhere along the lines, I have the title for it but it can't be transfered from out of state with out an inspection and it won't pass inspection with out the vin plate.

I'm going to search the frame but I'm not sure if the VIN is anywhere else on these older trucks or not. The front end has also been modified and welded to because a PO put a dodge van front and rear axle in it. If I can get it titled and what not I might see about keeping it as a whole truck, or at least use this cab on my '56's long box frame.

 

Here is my 48 F-3 I bought for $500. It had a running flathead and I drove it home. It was only a mile from my house...

 

did you get the truck

 

I just bought a 55 F100 for 250.00 complete with original 239 and three on the tree.
Bed wood was gone and rusted. I was looking at the buyers guide for 2008 and with my truck the way it sits right now is worth over 1200.00 so I would ****** that 56 up
in the blink of an eye if I were you. You can see my gallery. Only two pics there but
their OK.

 

He said to make another offer(this was 2 months ago) But since the contractor has dragged out the house build for 6 extra months now, the wife won't let me buy anything [higher int. rate, bigger utility bills, etc....]). Long story there, but I'm patiently waiting. Meanwhile, I'm trying to sell the '78 bronco to make room. Probably gonna have to strip the '85 f150 and get my big orange '78 back on the road so that I atleast have a running pickup. I'm hemmin' and hawin' over my '73 IH, got another tbird coming, now driving my Saturn to save on gas, got the Jeep, wife's blazer, the Merc, the '48, the '79 plow, so everything is a big shuffle....it certainly is an addiction.