That looks like a great truck to restore @sokoloka. What sort of plans do you have for it?

 

Hi all,

Long time denter, only ever had regular and supercab trucks. I am now looking to get into my first Crew. I am looking for a restorable 78-79 F26 truck, if anyone has one in good restorable condition, please PM me, willing to pay current fair market value based on condition. Thanks!

Aaron

 

Aaron, Once you buy an early Crew Cab pickup, you'll wish you had 10-years ago. hahaha

There is a guy locally who has a cool daily driver Silver '73 F250 Crew. I was in my honda passport and was able to pull up alongside him at a stoplight, and upon asking, he hollered out "it's a '73", and Vrooom, he was off and gone. Typical red-headed red-neck with a Do-Rag of course in red.
I know where he lives !

Anyway, I restored my '77 way back '96-thru-98 completion. All drivetrain got rebuilt except the NP205 transfer case, and it got new seals.
As a result, driving my Crew Cabber has been like driving a New Pickup since 1998. I think now, near 25-years later I've logged around 40k miles.

I had come across a nice white F350 longbed Crew several weeks back, and did post the Craigslist ad it was in SoCal I think and 2wd to be converted to 4x.
That was a nice base pickup for around $15k. If I were looking, I'd have snagged it because the 2wd F350 crews were the only longbed chassis.

i'm guessing here, but think maybe Ford offered a longbed 4x4 Crew in the early 72-to-75 years ?
I went to high school with a fella who drove one, and I would swear his crew was a longbed, and it had a 300 inline Six.
That pickup gave me the inspiration to put a 300 in my '77 F350 longbed Crew. The 300 is a gutless wonder compared to a 429 or 460, but very dependable.

 

Great information, thanks for sharing!

 

Sorry but no. No crew cab long bed 4wds from Ford in the 60's or 70's.

And sadly I just had to let go of my '74 F-250 4wd crew after trying to cling onto it for the last 4 years. Had it since '07 or so and made very good progress on it until '12 when I got married and had kids. Then all my time went away and progress mostly stopped. A bit off and on until '18. It went to a great home though, and I have 1st right of refusal if he ever sells, so I'm kind of hoping he finishes it for me and I get a chance to hang with her again later in life!

Oh, and I'm assuming the 2wd you saw for $15k and posted was white and in the San Diego area? I've seen that ad running for a while. I think his price might be a bit high. Or... I just let mine go for a bit too low

 

Yep, you may have let yours go too low or not. On the good side, you were able to find a buyer for a mutually agreed upon sales price.
Don't feel bad, because when I had to sell my '66 Crew cab project, it about broke my heart because I knew i'd never have one again.
I do still have my '77 Crew pickup, and it took all my spare time and money at the time I re-furbed it. My wife got tired of looking at the '66 Crew incomplete.

 

After years of looking, I finally grabbed myself a dentside Crew cab. I'll make a separate thread later when I have the time with pictures, but I have a question here and now for the experts:

It's a '78 F250 with a 460 and an automatic transmission, rear wheel drive obviously. There is a huge camper shell on the bed and the inside is covered with **** carpeting.... it also has a sunroof and about eight hundred thousand miles of wiring to all sorts of creature comfort switches. It also has a tag in the door with a serial number claiming the truck was built and sold by Holiday Rambler. I cannot find much information about this save for one other old post on one other old forum describing a similar truck and claiming they were apparently pretty rare. Has anyone heard of them?

 

Pics or it never happened.

 

1978 F250 Crew Cab Holiday Rambler

^^^^ There's the thread I started that has some pictures in it. Definitely a weird truck. How rare is it? And how bad should future me feel for tearing all that junk out of it/off of it?

 

Pretty rare. I believe there were a few of those camper oriented truck upfitters back in the day. If it was nicer I would say keep it original. Given it’s current shape I would probably just build it how you want it. You may find it cheaper to buy another cab for it in the long run…

 

Hey everyone, I am patiently waiting for a crew cab I purchased to be delivered so I can begin work on her and I am trying to clear enough room in my garage for it to fit. Does anyone happen to know the length of a 1979 crew cab from outside bumper to outside bumper? I’m pretty limited on space in my garage and so I feel like it will be close, thanks for any help y’all have!

 

You forgot to mention longbed or shortbed

 

that would help I suppose lol! It’s a short bed

 

@Twolivecrew
I would swear my '77 F360 longbed Crewcab is 18-feet long (guessing).
So, your F250 would be a shortbox and so probably will measure 16-feet and something. Someone on the know will chime in.
Congratulations on your purchase.
the door window glass will exchange for both doors with a standard cab pickup.
The wheelbase should be the same whether 2-by or 4-by on the '78 F250 CrewCabs.

 

I just measured my 1974 crew cab short bed.
19' 3" with bumpers
You could probably shave 6 to 10 inches by removing the bumpers.
I looked at the Fordification website and it says 222.58 inches with no rear bumper. 150.3 wheelbase. It doesn't look like you will save any length by removing the front bumper