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I've chanced driving my truck to the ORV park a few times with no issues but I know it's a matter of time until I break. It's 2 1/2 hours from my house. Picking this up next week. It's a '63 Ford F600. Only has 32,000 miles. One owner. It's ridiculously clean. 292 motor and 5 speed w/ two speed rear. Going to pull the sides off and run it as a flatbed to haul my CUCV and general use around the acreage such as hauling round bales, logs loaded with the loader, etc. Got it for free, kind of. Did some work on a car for him and we swapped labor for the truck.

Fortunately when they drove it home it ran out of gas as it's been sitting a couple of years. Threw 5 gallons into it and it only took three dribbles in the carb until it caught and then it ran and idled perfectly. The only issue is the fuel pump is shooting fuel out the side so I'll pick up a fuel pump this week. Didn't want to chance driving it home with fuel possibly shooting out on the manifold.





 
Damn my type of deal there! So what labor did you do on a car for them? I need to find people like that around here. Nice looking truck to by the way. Keep us posted with new pics on it.
 
You know,I'm not that much of a ford guy,but that truck there is sweet!..
Looks like it was in a time capsule !...that should haul good,with a 5 speed/2 speed axle...might not break any speed records,but it'll do the job..

I hear Nebraska has lots of older "grain trucks" in similar shape just parked in barns most of the year...Kansas too...a guy who moved here recently from Kansas was telling me he knows of "dozens of old 55-56-57 and newer chevy trucks" that are just sitting out behind barns and in fields where he used to live,and are only surface rusted,wouldn't take much to get them to run again..and he is pretty sure he could get them "cheap",like under 1000 bucks each,maybe 500..
Shipping them would kill the deal though...that,and if they had titles...

I would change the oil after replacing the fuel pump before driving it,it probably diluted the oil with gas when the diaphram ruptured and pumped gas into the crankcase,plus its old and been sitting years anyways,it probably has condensation built up in it...
 
I rocked one of those. Bought one with a dump bed with a couple buddies we each put in a hundred bucks had a Y block in it
 
Awesome score. I've always had a soft spot for the old grain trucks. There used to be an orange 64ish chevy c60 down the road from my parents house. He wouldn't ever sell it though.

Many of those trucks never left the barn except for harvest time. Ive seen a lot that are very nice survivors like that.
 
diesel4me said:
I hear Nebraska has lots of older "grain trucks" in similar shape just parked in barns most of the year...Kansas too...a guy who moved here recently from Kansas was telling me he knows of "dozens of old 55-56-57 and newer chevy trucks" that are just sitting out behind barns and in fields where he used to live,and are only surface rusted,wouldn't take much to get them to run again..and he is pretty sure he could get them "cheap",like under 1000 bucks each,maybe 500..
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Many of those trucks never left the barn except for harvest time. Ive seen a lot that are very nice survivors like that.
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Pretty much the case all over these parts. The guy I got it from had a couple more. This one doesn't have a hoist so I suspect it met it's end and languished in a barn well before others. When they hauled grain to the elevator they drove it in, opened the end gate and then a lift would raise the entire front of the truck to dump it.
 
brans87 said:
Damn my type of deal there! So what labor did you do on a car for them? I need to find people like that around here. Nice looking truck to by the way. Keep us posted with new pics on it.
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His wife rear-ended someone in her car. I did the mechanical work to get it running again - radiator, support, trans cooler and ac condenser and pulled the uprights for the radiator support with a porta-power attached to a chain to a post in my shop with another chain on the rear to another post. Poor man's frame machine. He still needs to get a hood and bumper for it and I'll help him put it on. I have zero dollars in the work, just 20-30 hours of fun time in the shop. He's paying for all of the parts.
 
Very nice! That looks immaculate for its age.

I missed out on a similar truck last year. It was a driver for 1700. I want one like that either ford or chevy to haul my blazer around with.
 
I drove a 1970 F-350 someone made into a stock car hauler,had a 390 V8 and a 2 bbl carb and a 4 speed...long WB,dually,with a "wedge" bed that looked like a slice of cheese,made of thick diamond plate--had a 20K lb. PTO winch under the bed,and I bet the thing weighed 7500 lbs empty easily...it had really low gearing,it topped out at 70 mph,but sounded like it was spinning at 5000 rpms to do it...

Despite it being overweight unloaded,we hauled some real heavy vehicles on that truck,including a 1980 K-30 4x4 that had a mason dump body and it had 3" of hard asphalt stuck to the bed!...the thing had to weigh 10K!....the truck didn't seem to be bothered by whatever you hauled on it,it just handled like crap,to the point it was dangerous,mostly because it had NO power steering!..
I could barely turn that thing around,it made manuvering it into tight places to pick up junk cars quite a task...but that thing was reliable,it made the owner a lot of money hauling scrap and junk cars to the crusher.

Today getting an inspection sticker on something like that might be difficult..
It only had stock power brakes with a vacuum booster and drums all around,stopping it in a hurry from 60 mph with a full load was scary--more than once I almost sharted myself going downhill in it with a vehicle on it,and had some moron pull out of a side street right in front of me!..had to downshift it a lot to help the brakes out..
 
Weren't the Whody boys looking to sell their car hauler Stein?

Martin
 
82355 said:
Weren't the Whody boys looking to sell their car hauler Stein?

Martin
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I am unaware of that. That said, the slant deck wouldn't be good for anything else. This will get used more hauling stuff around the house than the couple trips to Tuttle. If it sucks for that and I can't justify keeping it I'm sure I can sell it for more than the $32 total that I will have in it even if it is a Ford. Picked up a new fuel pump today.
 
Oh I think you will enjoy it around your acreage, but it would be slow going all the way to Randolph with that thing.

Martin
 
82355 said:
Oh I think you will enjoy it around your acreage, but it would be slow going all the way to Randolph with that thing.

Martin
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You don't think it will do 50-55? Of course the one hill going south out of Waterville might be 15 minutes by itself.
 
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