lvin4jc
Well-known member
Well I put my '51 F1 build up on here a while back and without telling my life's story let me try to explain. I bought that truck last spring and planned to be driving it early this spring. I was well on my way but my wife was diagnosed with cancer and it brought things to a screeching halt. Before I go on, she had three surgeries and she's fine now, praise God! But any money I saved up for the truck went to medical bills and it was just a pile in the garage instead of a driver this spring.
So I decided what I needed instead was a driveable project that I could enjoy and wrench on at the same time. I sold the '51 (sad day) and started looking for an early 60's Ford. I ran across this one that had been sitting in a field since 1996. It was a local mail truck when it was bought and i'm told it has seen 400,000 miles of road in its day. The engine was rebuilt around 100k ago. They wanted $650 I offered $500 and they took it. I threw a battery in it and some fresh gas (the tank was bone dry, no old stuff) and it fired right up and I drove it on the trailer under its own power. She's rough but I feel good about saving her. I think this one's right at the point where it can still be saved but if left in that field for another couple of years it would have been parts only.
It had 0 brakes when I brought it home but i've replaced the master cylinder and some brake lines and now there's brakes. It has a long way to go but it's driveable. I may finish it with a traditional paint job as a restomod someday but that's a long way down the line. In the meantime I plan to paint the wheels, add beauty rings and hubcaps and new chrome bumpers front and rear and add a little kulture with some pinstriping on the hood and maybe tailgate. And i'll enjoy it as a rat like that for at least a few years until I decide which direction to go with it while I work on the mechanical things. I'm toying with satin black with red scallops in my mind but who knows? Anyway, enough rambling, here's some pics.
So I decided what I needed instead was a driveable project that I could enjoy and wrench on at the same time. I sold the '51 (sad day) and started looking for an early 60's Ford. I ran across this one that had been sitting in a field since 1996. It was a local mail truck when it was bought and i'm told it has seen 400,000 miles of road in its day. The engine was rebuilt around 100k ago. They wanted $650 I offered $500 and they took it. I threw a battery in it and some fresh gas (the tank was bone dry, no old stuff) and it fired right up and I drove it on the trailer under its own power. She's rough but I feel good about saving her. I think this one's right at the point where it can still be saved but if left in that field for another couple of years it would have been parts only.
It had 0 brakes when I brought it home but i've replaced the master cylinder and some brake lines and now there's brakes. It has a long way to go but it's driveable. I may finish it with a traditional paint job as a restomod someday but that's a long way down the line. In the meantime I plan to paint the wheels, add beauty rings and hubcaps and new chrome bumpers front and rear and add a little kulture with some pinstriping on the hood and maybe tailgate. And i'll enjoy it as a rat like that for at least a few years until I decide which direction to go with it while I work on the mechanical things. I'm toying with satin black with red scallops in my mind but who knows? Anyway, enough rambling, here's some pics.
