FORDification.com - My '67 Ford F100 SWB Project


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My 1967 Ford F-100 2WD SWB pickup Page 15
More pics of the parts trucks

Dec. 28, 2003 - I spent the morning hours taking more 'before' pictures of the two parts trucks I got yesterday. There were enough interesting details about these two that I wanted to document them before tearing into them.

The '68 F-100

Both inner fenders were not bolted down to the firewall at all. Naturally, both inner fenderwells are eaten away with rust.

The 390 has a set of rusty headers which appear to be in good shape, so these will be sandblasted and reused.

The previous owner modified this truck to use in the county fair sled-pulling exhibitions. Note the very large hook for attaching the sled.

Cool! A Holley 1860 carburetor. The previous owner fabbed up his own throttle linkage here. (The water on the intake is from the hose-down it just received.)

This truck has what appears to be a 3-on-the-tree column mated to a Ford/Saginaw power steering box. (One of the power steering hoses is missing here.) I can't tell if it's been shortened to fit, but I will definitely be checking, as I wasn't aware power steering was optional with the column-shift 3-speed, and the only way of making them fit was to shorten the column by 2 inches. The previous owner must have misplaced the firewall mounting bracket, and just stuck the steering column through the firewall, and sealed the hole up with expanding foam!
	The VIN shows this truck originally came with a 4-speed, but it's got a 3-spd column shifter and it appears the floorpan was cut with a hatchet to mount the 4-spd shifter. I'll have to figure out what happened here.

The '71 F-100

I thought this truck was a '70 based on the old registration papers in the glovebox, but the sequential production number in the VIN shows this truck was manufactured in Sept. 1970, as part of the 1971 lineup. I should have know the moment I saw the '71 grille, but I just simply wasn't paying attention to details at the time...not that it really mattered, I guess.

The driver's-side inner fenderwell of this truck was the galvanized '73-'79 style. Here we finally get to see that the firewall bracket will not work. The bracket used here is the mate to the fenderwell, and is narrower than the '67-'72 version. You can also see that the fenderwell appears to be pulled to the right, apparently to line up the two outer holes. If the previous owner had notched the bracket holes, he would have been able to use all three bolts. This owner also used the '67-'72 hood hinge by drilling new holes on the inside of the fenderwell.

While getting the '68 home was a simple one-hour job, the '71 was more work. Since it had no wheel/tires, I had to bring some. Of the four I brought, one had a slow leak and one had the wrong bolt pattern, meaning another round trip home to get a couple off the '68. Both trucks were manhandled up onto the trailer with a manual come-along. What a long day!

While I was out getting dirty loading up the trucks, Trevor was getting almost as dirty as he watched.

Aside from this tiny crack along one of the defroster vents, the black dashpad seems to be in good shape and will be salvaged. It's a bit dusty in this shot, caused by several years worth of construction dust.

While aftermarket patch panels are available to fix the inner fenderwell's hinge area, this one appears to be homemade.

The front grille shell has a few minor dings in it, but nothing major. It could be easily straightened and used as a driver piece.