38fordtruck
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hey everyone i thought id share some pics of my first project a 42 ford 1 ton. first off a little history lesson about the truck an old gezzer with the last name blackburn bought this truck many years ago and put many hard miles on it. then my grandpa aquried it somehow he drove for a few years and replaced the king pins many times and eventualy he got sick of changing them. so he parked it where it sat for a few years then my uncle deiced to try and get it runing he wasnt succesfull and he forgot to put the air cleaner back on
so it sat for many more years then it caught the eye of a local auto body man and it just happened my grandpa wanted his 58 edsel painted so my grandpa offerd trade, cash plus the truck for a paint job which seemed fair untill we let the painter touch the edsel he did a decent job of painting it however he thought he could "fix" the problem we had with the shifter which was that it wouldnt start in park you would have to put it in neutral which wasnt a big deal to us but he still took the electronic shifther stuff a part and lost parts for it! so we took the car home and told him to **** off you aint getting paid and few more years went by and guy came to my grandpa begging for some money and grandpa being too kind of a man paid him! but didnt give him the title to the old truck. then a few years later i told my grandpa im going to bring the blackburn home his eyes watered a little and he said "you really want it?" i said "yeah its a cool truck" he said well "i still got the title"
so i brought her home
when i brought it home
my plan for it is to swap a 77 toyota frame under it (i lack the tools/funds to build one right now) keep the fenders and the old flathead v8 but back it up with a t5 tranny and do a 4 inch chop
so it sat for many more years then it caught the eye of a local auto body man and it just happened my grandpa wanted his 58 edsel painted so my grandpa offerd trade, cash plus the truck for a paint job which seemed fair untill we let the painter touch the edsel he did a decent job of painting it however he thought he could "fix" the problem we had with the shifter which was that it wouldnt start in park you would have to put it in neutral which wasnt a big deal to us but he still took the electronic shifther stuff a part and lost parts for it! so we took the car home and told him to **** off you aint getting paid and few more years went by and guy came to my grandpa begging for some money and grandpa being too kind of a man paid him! but didnt give him the title to the old truck. then a few years later i told my grandpa im going to bring the blackburn home his eyes watered a little and he said "you really want it?" i said "yeah its a cool truck" he said well "i still got the title"
so i brought her home
when i brought it home
my plan for it is to swap a 77 toyota frame under it (i lack the tools/funds to build one right now) keep the fenders and the old flathead v8 but back it up with a t5 tranny and do a 4 inch chop
