The things that I drag home

Measured up the F-450 and just a little to wide but got a doner given to me so might be starting on the build soon.

Also here is the cab sitting on the driveway, The 49 is sitting next to it.

COOL

Glad you found one.I have been looking for an old chevy truck myself for parts.Good find.
Thats a nice cab you have there.

That T cab has a great look to it. Kind of like an airplane. Should be a great build.

The windshield on the diamond T looks bad, like Bonehead said it's got a kinda airplane look to it.

Parts hunting for my 71 F-100

Called today on a 68 F-100 parts truck poped the hood and I'll post pics tomarrow.

Diamond T is way cool. I just put a freind onto one of those. He carves them up and sells all the parts on ebay. The windshields are cool because each side has it's own crank.

Willowbilly3 said:

Diamond T is way cool. I just put a freind onto one of those. He carves them up and sells all the parts on ebay. The windshields are cool because each side has it's own crank.

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I will have to watch d-bay I'm missing a couple interior parts. Not that they are needed I would just like to have them.

So on to the 68. An old beater and I mean beater, but it has all the little parts that are missing from the 71. When I first talked to the guy about the 68 he told me all the parts I was looking for are on the truck. I told him I was looking for an auto trans, he told me there was one in the truck. I asked about the motor he said there is a 390 in it. I asked if the truck was a driver. After a long story about the big D and the big house, he said he had it on the road for a short time before it got parked and had not been touched in years. He started to remove thing to pull the motor and trans a couple month ago to scrap the truck but just had no intrest in it any more. I have to cut the hood open but here are a couple pics. The header came off the truck and were sitting in the front seat when i looked at it.

Got it dug out

Needs a little cleaning after sitting 6 year but I don't think I went wrong for what I paid.

Found a 50$ cab

Could not pass it up. For $50.00 I'm going to try a 6" chop. If I mess up no big deal. Not going to try to build a complete rod, If it comes out I'm just going to sell the cab.

Mike, that ribbed block is a later service block IIRC, one of the better 390 blocks. Nice score. I think that performer is the low end torque intake with the tiny runners. Worth a buck and a half by itself

WB3 I was wondering about that block, this is the first time I have seen the ribbed block.

Pulled the motor out of the gray shortbox 71 today. The 390 w/auto trans should be going in tomarrow.

Other then flat spots in the tires

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro8kcMfBjPE&feature=youtu.be and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQNAL6h7D80&feature=youtu.be