eBay Motors: Ford : F-100 (item 170254218012 end time Aug-29-08 19:00:00 PDT)

Any one here loveketchup?

WOW a NO RESERVE AUCTION !! You don't see that every day.

Only 6 days to talk myself into if.

 

LOL...too bad he ruined the doors though...looks good going down the road though

- cs65

 

I would venture to say a 390 with stock cast iron exhaust manifolds and a stock 2 barrel carb DOSE NOT put out 345 rated HP as advertised by the seller. That is just my 2 cents on it.

Jeff

 

Yes, I agree, but...

Is this really a 390? The VIN engine code is Y = 352 2V. The 390 wasn't introduced till 1968.

On sale day, all 352's and 360's magically become 390's.

This is a Custom Cab, so where are the stainless steel windshield mouldings?

 

Oh come on guys ! Your not helping. I am trying to talk myself in. LOL..

Positives and negatives so-far.

Pro - X-Show truck = X-swimsuit model ( got a lot of miles but still looks really good and every thing works !).

Pro - No reserve auction. Con - Obama , Biden future !!

Pro - Spent Saturday afternoon - putting new brakes on the wifes car. ( wife is still in shock and just a little scared ).

 

CON: You are going by the sellers description, and until you inspect it, you have no idea of the quality of the "restoration." Many ebay sellers are klewless, and some lie worse than fracata used car dealers.

Case in point, no F Series truck came with a 390 engine till 1968, so if there's one in there now, he, or some previous owner installed it.

One cannot tell one FE (352/360/390 etc) engine from another by looking at it.

CON: Are you over 6 feet tall? These cabs are very tight even if you aren't.

CON: These trucks are yesterdays technology with no AM/FM, no AM/FM tape or CD radios, no power steering, very few have power brakes which are drum only. No discs were available on F100's till 1973. Very few have A/C, none have power windows, power seat, no tilt wheel or Cruise Control.

CON: Gas is over 4 bucks a gallon and the price will continue to rise. The days of 2 buck a gallon gas are over. Don't expect better than 15-18 MPG on the highway, 8-12 MPG city with one of these rigs. And don't make the mistake of thinking one of these rigs drives like a new one...they don't.

CON: Your local Ford dealer has little or no parts for any Ford truck prior to 1980. Obsolete parts are expensive and difficult to find. Quality repro parts are also expensive.

CON: If you aren't mechanically inclined, you'll have to have the work done by others. There are very few shops around today that will work on these trucks, because they have little or no service info. They don't know where to buy the parts, and what passes for mechanics today, even on newer stuff is terrible. In SoCal, I've found exactly two shops that will work on old vehicles. Both charge over 65 bucks an hour for labor.

I'm the original owner of my 1965 F100, so I ain't just whistling Dixie.

This info is based on reality, it's not meant as a dis-couragement.

Some peeps are affected with "buck fever" and buy these old rides, without doing a shred of research. Then they come to realize they had no klew of what they got into.

Some are disappointed, some are not.

 

Find it hard to believe it's a no reserve auction. Within past few months there have been a few 61-66 Ford pickup's on ebay and couple did not meet their reserve at $24,000, granded they were in excellant condition but I would put this one in same catagory. Unfortuately, have an extra 65 f100 lwb collecting dust as it is or I would be in the mix. At 11-13 mpg it certainly would not be my daily driver.

 

Never know what ya get until it's inspected. I bought a bed from a guy that was 'fixing' a 65 for his brother-in-law. He had filled the front cab corners/mounts using fiberglass. Who know what else was going on there! It'll LOOK good for awhile.

 

Sold for $7,100.00
Who got it?

 

Well worth it IMHO.