At 170k miles, my motor has quite a bit of the factory paint left.

 

Speaking of barn finds, this is mine. It spent the better part of 20 years in a barn in Curtis Ohio. The guy bought it used in 1978, (it is a 77 300 I6 2wd) and his last service records show in 1982 it was serviced at 71,000. When I got it there were 80,000 on it.

It was sold at an estate sale, the next owner had it for three weeks, and decided to sale it, that’s when I came into the picture. It is fun to work on, but bringing it back from the dead is a challenge. It had about 10 lbs of bird crap on it, I was shocked how well it looked after several washings and a good coat of wax.



Some of you may have seen these before, sorry for the repeat if you did!



Acres of room to work under the hood! I love it, and everything SAE.



Going to put period correct AM/FM in the dash, after the mechanical issues are taken care of.

Anyone else have a barn find story to share?

 

it may or may not be 9k truck,but it sure is clean and straight,I would toss a bid in on it if it wasn't so far away.

 

Nice truck! It's hard to come across a ''barn find'' now days. My truck OJ was parked in a barn in Oregon when I picked it up in Dec 1991 and when I drove it back to Washington state it had 29,906 miles on it. Man...that truck is clean! It won't last long.

 

Nice clean looking truck. Has the master cylinder been replaced recently? It looks like it's weeping out the back seal.

 

Sorry, I was away on vacation. Yeah, your right, it is weeping, I think it is original, and it will get replaced after the drive line gets squared away.

 

to me at even 8 grand for that truck in the pittsburgh area the thing would be a friggin steal especially with the factory cap. i just was wondering though and i'msure someone on here will know, can you put the curved non tilt gear shifter into a tilt column. i think the curved ones look better and ford only put the straight shifter in the tilt colums. and either way i don't want to give the tilt wheel in my 78 bronco.

 

The bed look awfully beat up for 9000 miles especially for a non commercial truck

 

not the original hub caps looks like caps from a bronco?