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Every man should own an old truck

NvPirate said:
Deleted ALL EGR, larger turbo, 8" intake and exhaust , stronger head bolts, ram air intake filter, and different injectors. He also downloaded an RV type program and removed catalytic converter and muffler to straight pipe.
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It must be nice not to live in CA. They now have biannual smog checks on diesels and everything but those head bolts can cause a fail.
 
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Harley said:
Dont like Fords but can appreciate a good lookin classic. ??
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I’ll say with confidence that in the older days, any of the big 3 made basically equally decent trucks. You just picked your preference on what aesthetics or what particular pluses/minuses you wanted to deal with, but overall they were all solid, comparable trucks
 
I was fairly excited about the "old" truck I picked up recently, until I found something I wasn't excited about anymore.. good think I didn't put too much into it. I'll just sell it and wait for another to come along again.

That's a real nice rig you got there Doc!
 
Just got my Marti report. This truck was 1 of 3 ever made in this color and trim lol. Dang.

Guess if I ever get it painted it’s going back to Rangoon Red AC5EB1C3-963F-4686-AE45-F555357099F6.jpeg
 
Dr. Marneaus said:
Just got my Marti report. This truck was 1 of 3 ever made in this color and trim lol. Dang.

Guess if I ever get it painted it’s going back to Rangoon Red View attachment 139571
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Ford only made three blue-on-blue F150's in 1968? Wow ?
Wait, is was originally red with blue interior?
 
Coup d'etat said:
Ford only made three blue-on-blue F150's in 1968? Wow ?
Wait, is was originally red with blue interior?
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Blue isn’t original. It was red from the factory. Red with black seat and ‘red appointments’ according to the report. I know the seat is original, and so are the seat belts, which are red. So maybe it had red carpet too? I’m not sure. The interior would have been red paint regardless, as they didn’t do a different paint color on the inside than the outside.

Either way I bet a red truck normally had red interior. Red seat and dash pad and seatbelts, but this one apparently has black seat and dash, unless the dash pad was painted.

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Wow, factory A/C and disc brakes. The 390 was only rated at 190 hp? That can't be right.
It's got a bullet proof rear end Dana 60.
Same rear end used by Hemi Mopars.
 
Coup d'etat said:
Wow, factory A/C and disc brakes. The 390 was only rated at 190 hp? That can't be right.
It's got a bullet proof rear end Dana 60.
Same rear end used by Hemi Mopars.
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Truck engines were lower compression than the car engines, also, its a California truck so who knows? Or maybe that's WHP vs at the crank?
 
Good looking truck.
My old 72 f100 had a different number on the door , vs the cab, vs the frame.
Turns out it was a 67 cab , 72 chassis and 71 doors. Lol.
 
Gullwing said:
From Wiki....

8.6:1 — 255 horsepower (190 kW) at 4400 rpm and 376 lb⋅ft (510 N⋅m) at 2600 rpm
  • 1968–1971 Trucks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_FE_engine
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I know. This isn’t my first rodeo.

But I’m gonna trust what the factory says vs what Wikipedia says. Also, I assume the wiki info again is gross horsepower of just the engine, not net horsepower
 
JTW_Jr said:
Good looking truck.
My old 72 f100 had a different number on the door , vs the cab, vs the frame.
Turns out it was a 67 cab , 72 chassis and 71 doors. Lol.
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Lol it happens!
 
8 hours today buffing and polishing. still haven’t don’t the drivers door, drivers bed side, tailgate, or roof.

Before:

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Beautiful!

What products do you use?

I been thinking about bringing the shiny white back in a vehicle that sat in the sun for 20 years - never polished or waxed. Been reading a bit about that Turtle Wax Hybrid ceramic spray you do every 6 months. Have a new buffer I've never tried, and that looks much better than clay bar.
 
Every man *should* have an old truck. For me, it was a 1964 International 1200 that I purchased from the estate of an old time gunsmith in San Rafael. He had been the original owner and the original "build list" that he used to order the truck (they were all special order at the time AFAIK) was in the glove box. Armstrong steering, no power brakes, big V-8 coupled to a 4 speed manual gearbox with a granny gear so low that in compound low, I literally could walk faster. Manual hubs, of course. It had custom bumpers; the front mounted a PTO winch that could haul the thing up a wall - if you could keep the engine running at that angle - and a rear bumper that was a water tank for extra traction. Good thing as all of the tires I could get at the time weren't exactly off-road capable. It had the original paint in decent shape inside and out. The seat was shot and the passenger floor had some rust but that was the worst of it.

It was big, loud and uncouth, a straightforward workhorse of a truck. My Sergeant said, after I passed him on the freeway one day, that it sounded like a Russian tank going down the road. Yup, it did. It got the same gas mileage as a Russian tank, too... "fuel economy" was not a phrase anywhere in that truck's lexicon!

There were some big down sides, though. Tires were almost impossible as it still had the original split rims and there were just no wheels out there for it. While mechanical parts could still be ordered from International, things like door seals were a challenge in the days before the Internet. I finally sold it to the Chief Engineer of the Red and White Fleet in SF, he bought it for his son if I remember. Raising a family just didn't leave room in the budget or anywhere else for a restoration project.

Dang it, now I miss that truck! I wish I'd even thought to take a photo of it.
 
titanNV said:
Beautiful!

What products do you use?

I been thinking about bringing the shiny white back in a vehicle that sat in the sun for 20 years - never polished or waxed. Been reading a bit about that Turtle Wax Hybrid ceramic spray you do every 6 months. Have a new buffer I've never tried, and that looks much better than clay bar.
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Since this is garbage single stage paint I’m using garbage products. Just turtle wax rubbing compound and nufinish polish.
 
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