Okay, to explain, I've been looking for a '73 to '79 Ford F250 or 350 4x4 to 'wheel and pull my car trailer. I spotted a very sweet appearing (at first glance 50yds off from the highway) '77 F250 RC LB 4x4 specimen with about an 8" lift and 38" Thornbirds (brand new with the **** on 'em and everything) here in Hays. The interior was very rough, with a brand new wal-mart special seat cover. The doors, fenders, and bed floor and sides had rust thru, but the frame was freshly painted. It looked like the dude drug it out of the weeds and slapped a new suspension and tires/wheels on 'er. So I call the ol' boy up whose number was on the 4 sale sign, and low and behold I get some high school rugrat who doesn't know his *** from a hole in the ground telling me this pile is worth 6,300 of my hard-earned american greenbacks! He tried telling me it had a 350 with a TH350 (his words, not mine), and that he'd built both himself with "racing parts". I informed him that his p.o.s. had a 400M and likely a 4spd muncie, so he obviously didn't know wtf he was talking about. I guess in short I just wanted to tell y'all about my experience today and if anyone in central or western kansas has a decent buildable F250-350 for reasonable coin let me know!

 

WHAT A TURD BURGLAR
sounds like a good truck in the wrong hands
probably only worth parting out after einstein did a lift job on it

 

the lift actually looked new and of good quality, its exactly the truck i want, i could always put a body on it, got plenty of those. it's just that the price was outrageous, the owner is an idiot, and i'm wanting a 460 or diesel.

 

in my honest opinion you would be better off buying a sound 73-79 4x4 and then build it the way you want it!
that way you get exactly what you want
and who knows what the other turd did to it to begin with

 

Just out of curiosity, what would you want a truck with soo much lift to tow with?

You loose a lot of strength with those 10" drop hitches.

Just curious.

 

Thats too funny. This one kid i know had a 79 Chebby half ton with a big block in it, and he thought he went 165mph in it. Then it went up to 180 then 200. People like that are just too funny.

 

Thanks for the laugh, reminds me of some of the same kind of people I went to high school with

 

I don't necessarily want that much lift, just enough to fit some 35s or 37s. I like the looks of the 73-79s and it would just be towing my derby cars within about a 150 mile radius of home so it wouldn't be towing all the time, it's just that my '98 F150 doesn't handle the load of a 18' car trailer with a '75 Cadillac fleetwood sedan very well lol. I'm just trying to stay away from having to make a truck payment if at all possible, and I love my '98 and don't want to replace it.