Hmmm... Mines a 76 Hiboy with 78 or 79 Doors the 390 is from a 70 LTD so far that's it

 

OK on a related topic. Once you frankenstein a truck together, IE 77 frame 79 cab 69 428cj engine, how do you go about getting a title? I didnt have the title to the 77 swb 4x4 truck but I do have the title to the 79 swb 2wd truck. Obviously I cant title a 4wd truck as 2wd...or can I? What is the deal with salvage titles?

 

Well if it is in fact in a salvage title, then you will have to get it inspected before they will either re-issue a good title, or assign you a new vin/title. I don't believe the 4x2 4x4 comes into play unless you try to do an insurance claim on it.

 

Well that plays into the other part of it. I dont want to get too far into a project without a title. I would hate to completely reassemble the truck then have it inspected and it wont pass for some reason.

 

Well as long as there is lights, wipers, seat belts, turn signals, brakes, and an emergency brake, I think it will pass. Bumper height in some states too...

 

Just call your local DMV, regulations vary by state.

 

My supercab is:

-frame/steering box/Tcase from a 1978 F150 supercab 4x4 shortened 16"
-bed from a 1976 F100 shorty.
-cab/doors from a 1978 F250 camper special
-front axle D60 from a 1979 F250 4x4(snofighter)
-rear axle D70 from an 84 F250 4x4
-front springs from a 74 F250 highboy w/2" addaleaf
-rear springs from a 1989 F350 4x4 (6"skyjackers w/factory lift blocks removed)
-seat from 1996 F350 crew cab rear seat
-ZF trans./clutch master,slave and hose from a 1991 F250 4x4
-rad from 1990 E350 van (for engine clearance)
- engine 5.9 cummins from wrecked 93 Dodge 250

Thats all I can think of right now, I'm sure there is more. What a project!!

 

It depends where you live on how to title something. Where Im at I just go by whatever is on the cab sticker. Technically you should go off the frame VIN but with the people I deal with at my county its best to keep it as least confusing to them as possible. Of course they try to find the VIN on the dash but its not there so I tell them back in the old days they put it on the cab at the door jamb. As long as they get a number that matches they are happy and I get my title. Altho i havent had my 76 highboy with a 73 F-100 body and 79 front clip tagged in a while. Back when I drove it as far as they knew it was a 73 F-100 2wd.

 

my 76 F-100 has parts off a 74 another 76 and a motor and transmismission from an 80-82. Dads 79 F-350 has jeep mirrors and I just got my 74 F-100 but I have already put parts off my 76 F-250 parts on it

 

i must be doing somthing wrong my 78 is all 78 but as soon as the shop is done its time for a make over

 

Ive got parts form 2 dozen trucks ive stripped in the last few years. Ive built 2 trucks and ive got 2 in the making. LOL your guess is as good as mine on what parts came from what truck.

 

One Piece At A Time Lyrics
» Johnny Cash

Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

[CHORUS]
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.

The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.

Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.

The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."

So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.

[CHORUS]
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

[Spoken] Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?