Vehicle Sighting - 1970ish Ford F-100
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Wish modern pickups had low beds like that. Beautiful.
Those are still very common here.
It's got some life left in it before going to the scrapper.
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Exactly, how are you going to get a fridge or appliances into a modern truck, with a crane? Trucks are pretty useless other than for bro-flexing if the beds are too high up. You can just tip a fridge over into this one. Glad to see this one in it's natural environment...still working!
With a seat cover and decent floor carpet/rubber it could be a $10k truck these days.
No owner around, or I would have asked to see under the hood. I imagined a 240 or 300 inline-6, but who knows?
I mean it is for picking up Scrap.....just look in the bed.
The timekeeper at my first summer job had a beige one exactly like it. It had rubber floor mats and our work site was really muddy. He used to hose out the interior, working from the dash down. Seemed very strange to me. Was that an approved way to clean the interior?
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Only if you didn't want it to last too long. I can't see getting water into the dash as doing the electronics and favors.
The hot ticket on those trucks is to get a 02-11 Crown Vic. Throw the body of the Vic away, and throw the frame of the truck away. Then take about 8" out of the bed and the truck body pretty much drops right on the Vic frame. One of my friends did it, but threw away the 4.6/4R70W and put in a 5.3L with a LS9 supercharger and a Magnum XL 6 speed.
One of the older models with the fuel tank inside the cab.
The way a pickup truck is supposed to be. Nice! The best real pickup trucks IMO were the Chevy camper special/GMC long horn with the 8"6" bed, 1 ton springs and the 14 bolt or Eaton HO 52/72 diffs and a 402 under the hood. These things came with a 3/4 or 1" marine plywood bed floor held with recessed carriage bolts that were easy to replace if ever needed. The only PITA with these truck were the 16.5 8 lug split rim wheels.
Unless the grill been changed it’s 67-69. Pictures of the dash could narrow it more…
Edit - reasonably sure the rear markers are 68-69.
Edit - reasonably sure the rear markers are 68-69.
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That ain’t no trailer Queen. Here is a Mercury pickup from the Radium car show.
Shame that a truck of that vintage is hauling junk.
