This is my first post on the forum as I have recently become the proud new owner of my grandfather's 1978 Ford F250, Big Red. Big Red has been in the family since day one and has been used and abused to do everything under the sun. It has 214,000 miles on the odometer, all the mechanical parts are solid, but the body is showing its age. The truck has been rolled in a snow storm (cab is all dented and the windshield is fused down the middle), the body got beat up yarding out logs to build a cabin, and the bumpers are dented from Grandpa's poor eyesight and light poles in parking lots!

This where I need everyone's help, I recently entered Big Red in a local contest called "Pimp My Pile." A local radio station is going to put $10K into fixing up the vehicle with the most votes. I know this a lot to ask as a new member, but I do not have the resources to bring the truck back to its former glory. If you can take 5 minutes out of your day to help out a new Ford owner to get my grandpa's truck fixed up. Go to kfat929.com, its a hip hop station (I'm more a country guy, but they are the ones with the contest). Click on Pimp My Pile. You will need to create a log in, but they do not send junk to your email account. Once that is done, please vote for Big Red, the picture shows a faded red Ford with no grill.

As soon as I figure out how to post photos on my profile here, I will show you the current appearance of Big Red!

Thank you,
Kurt and Big Red

 

hey sounds cool, but have to be careful with those pimp my ride type "restos". as soon as they talk about putting a flatscreen tv and dvd player where the spare tire carrier is under the bed or pimp purple seat covers, drive fast very very fast. hope you win.

 

No offense, not trying to burst your bubble, but are you sure you want to have them do it? Knowing things like that you will get it back with 24's, bagged, god knows what else.

 

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I agree with the others, I LOVE & DROOL over the Stock Looks, with all the trim & Emblems, etc...
I don't like lowered anythin', or HUGE wheels on a 2WD. (I'm young, But, Very old-fashioned)
Unless you want to destroy the originality of your truck, then don't do it...

 

Gentlemen, I now have some photos of Grandpa's Ford posted, I hope I did it properly. As you can see from from the extensive body work needed, if I do win "Pimp my Pile," most of that money will be spent on body work and not weird and useless stuff. The body shop that is part of the contest is friend of my brother, so I will have some say. But if they try and do anything stupid, I will put a stop to it!

As of 15 minutes ago, I am now rated #15, up from 25th place three days ago. But I sitll need your help to win. Go to www.kfat929.com, click on Pimp my Pile, they do require a login, but they don't send junk mail. Once you are logged in, Click on Pimp my Pile again and then vote for "Big Red" aka Grandpa's Ford! I know there is another old Ford truck on there, but Big Red has abetter shot at winning!

Thanks again everyone and I look forward to learning more about my old Ford from this forum!

 

Here it is:

"Stumps and trees 'fine tuned' the body while my grandfather at age 70 decided to build a log cabin in the woods as their retirment home. The bumpers got a little more twisted up thanks to his poor eyesight and parking lot light poles!"


"Back in the late 80s, Grandpa rolled the truck in snow storm on the way home from a Christmas concert. Grandma hung upside down in her seatbelt for 45 minutes until the paramedics could cut her loose. The cab was twisted back into shape and the front windshield is fused down the middle to make it fit."


"The passenger side has taken the brunt of the 'use' through the years. The tailgate does have a custom feature, the quick release bungee cord tailgate! All in all the body is thrashed, but the whole family loves it, most of the grandkids learned stick shift in it, and it has always completed the task at hand!"

Although I dis-agree with it, Cause I like Factory, I did Vote for you...
Your truck is The Same Color as mine....
It's Ford "Bright Red" & is Paint Code K.

 

I voted for you since you seem like you really want this...
Just dont let it come back slammed on 24s with a chopped top!!!

 

aight, I voted for you, good luck!

 

I voted for ya, hope you win. As far as the body goes, looks like you got 2 good doors and a hood? The stories that old truck could tell, lol.

Make sure they don't do all kinds of stupid crap like most of them pimp my ride places do nowadays. If they did your Grandpa would probably consider it a smack in the face.

 

I like it the way that it is. It says don't "F" with me !!

 

I voted for ya....Good Luck!

 

I voted for you! moved you up from 13 to 12. I see there's someone else with a dentside in the competition too.

 

I voted for you an I hope you win an welcome to the site. what are your plans for it an is your grandpa still living? an how did you get the truck? an if you have any questions bout anything just ask someone on here can help you out. an least your keeping the truck in the family an not selling it for some new tuner car.

 

Gentlemen, thank you for your votes. I have no intentions of letting them stuff 26s on the truck (not to mention it would then have the turning radius of a dump truck) or other odd ball things. The truck is driven on a regular basis and loaned out to family to assist in projects (Home Depot runs, dump runs, etc.), so it has to remain functional. To the family, it is still Grandpa's truck, he passed away in 1997. His work gloves are still behind the seat and grandma's stool (so she could get into the truck) is still in the bed of the truck. My uncle has always maintained the truck and I have service notes from day one.

The history behind the truck is this:
In 1978 my Uncle Pat bought Big Red in Fairbanks, AK and used it for all sorts of outdoor activities. In 1981 my Grandparent's retired to a piece of land 12 miles outside of Fairbanks and built a log cabin. Grandpa borrowed the truck to yard out some logs and put the first of many good sized dents in it. My uncle sold it to Grandpa for $1 with the rights to it when Grandpa was done with it. He got it back when Grandpa died. My uncle drove the truck daily until he replaced it with a new F250 last fall. I told him years earlier, if he wanted to sell it at some point. I would buy it. He sold it to me for $1, I gave him $2, it was a deal at twice the price. Included with the sale were two new fenders and a new rear bumper, what a deal! Now that I own it and moved it to Anchorage, my plan was to keep it for my use and that of the family in Fairbanks.

Big Red may not be pretty, yet, but ugly in that cool sort of way!

 

Great history behind your truck and it certainly doesnt lack for character. Good testimony for these fords that she has survived all these years and still is working hard. I hope you win but even if you dont I hope you can get her fixed up so she will last another 30 yrs. Everyone vote for Big Red!! Spread the word!