Before - As I found it.

After - Back home again.

Still complete, but far from running.

1954 F250 belonged to my father in law. When he passed away it got sold on auction in 2001. I traced it down and surprised my wife with it on our anniversary.

 

Very cool!

And a long bed to boot

 

I haven't had time to do much yet. It was running when parked, I can get it to turn over, but not fire. Looks like I have some wiring problems. Didn't have the original key so had to get a ignition switch. No spark yet. Hope to get back to it soon.

 

I haven't been on the Forums for long. I suppose most of the members prefer the F100's over the 250's with the long box? Guess you take what you can get your hands on.

 

Not me, I prefer long boxes, they're taller and wider, it looks a lot better in my opinion. I used a '78 Short box cause I couldn't find a long, they're wider and taller too. Granite the size of the wheels and the work I've done to my fenders doesn't make it look bigger, but if I had an old short box on there, it would look ridiculously tiny.

 

Hello,

Those are great Pictures! Did you download them into a gallery or album here? If you did, and are copying the URL in the Properties table, if you open the picture first, right click properties, then copy the URL, it will give you BIG copies.

Hmmm I checked and you must have them in a photo bucket.

 

Loaded them into Flickr today. I copied the URL from the pictures, but they were pretty small when I opened them. Will experiment more, maybe on the downloading pictures thread. I have some ignition questions, but probably will open a different thread for that.

 

Already talked about the ignition on your other thread. Keep working withthe pics....I already stole two of them for another thread - so you are now famous!

 

nice truck , and a great project !! personally i like the long beds . i also cut one down into a short bed , kinda just tacked to gether , never finished , and thought it's scale looked much better even on my 55 as a short bed . wish i hadn't now but ..............

 

great looking truck, love the long ones...

 

Ok, so here are some questions for the experts. The rear bumper has angle iron running up to the side of the box. Was this factory or added later? Maybe the whole bumper was fabricated? Also, the spare tire is mounted on the right side. In a lot of pictures, it looks like it is on the driver side. Which was typical, or was this a add on?



Rear Bumper, note the angle iron coming up from the outside ends.





Will it still run? I hope so.

 

i'd be willing to wager , that someone added it later . mine had this monstorous iron bumper that was welded to my fenders and the bed 1/4 extensions , and sill as well as bolted into the frame rails with enough iron to build a bridge . the p.o used it to pull loaded trailers and a big pull behind ingersoll rand generator to job sites ............

 

Those bumpers were usually added on at the dealer or a local shop subcontracted out to weld them up. I had almost the exact same bumper on my 55 but the diagonal angles were different.

With heavy step up or towing use the smaller ones I had tended to pull loose so folks would "strengthen them up."

 

Nice looking truck, I am partial to the long beds too.