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leanin' H

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Finally! Sorry it took awhile but we lost our camera. :???: We have hunted high and low looking for the sob but had to go buy a new one finally. This old truck has hauled lots and lots of cattle and grain over the years. My late Uncle Ron owned it and I am pretty happy to get to haul 1 or 2 more loads with it. Not sure of the exact year yet but i think it might be a 1965.
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The paint is faded, floorboard shows some daylight, rims are widow maker splits and the brakes are a tad spongy but other than that she's cherry! :D Had a flat on the driver side dual bringing her home. I have since fixed that tire and picked up a spare rim and tire. Mounted them this morning so I ought'a be set on tires for a half hour! :wink:
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The old cab need a little work. I hope to be up to the task.
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The old rack top is in good shape. But the bottom 6 inches of the sides show their age. Thought I'd get some 10 inch toe kick and patch it up.
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Gate goes up and down. Ought'a haul some cows eh?
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It sat for a few years. If I was going to be using it every week, I would be fixing stuff a lot. But for a couple a trips in the spring and fall, it will do the trick. We'll fix her up a little and clean her up a bunch. Might even put a paint job on the old cab. Hope Uncle Ron will approve cause I am sure tickled! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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ought to haul cattle for ya just fine....even greater that there will be
sentimental value behind it.
 
Way way back in my childhood we had a 1967 version of that truck. It was sold before I learned to drive but I still know where it sits. It would be fun to have it fixed up like new. There are a few showroom retro trucks on the road around here.

Your old camera should show up fairly soon now. :wink:
 
H, I have a 1966 truck that is a twin to yours that I mostly use for feeding. Mine only has a straight six in it. Good Luck with yours. I hope it treats you as well as mine has me
 
I learned to haul cattle with a 1963 F700 with a 18 ft oak stock rack that my Dad had built for a 1953 then extended it for the '63. The trucks still here but now has a 16ft grain box on it but we don't use it anymore.
 
with the switch of generations at the local service station went the work ethic and the guy wouldn't get his hands dirty... became more of a self service station.... so i dropped our old version of your truck and told him i wanted new tires all the way around before noon. it had all widow makers, i think he lost 20 lbs water weight that morning.
 
when your ready for a coat or two of paint...

painted my car for about $50, it's actually very easy and the results are amazing. First off, get a can of tremclad real orange (or what ever color u want) in the can, not spray, yes tremclad, it is a acrylic/enamel paint which is very durable. next prep your car as if was any other paint job, fix all the rust, ect....no need to prime the car since the tremclad already contains elements which allow it to be painted over bare metal. next, after prepping the car get a small 4" professional FOAM rollers, it's tiny and has one end rounded off, and the other cut straight, and is a very high density foam. u also need a jug of mineral spirits to thin the paint. The thing i really like about this is that there's no mess, no taping the whole car, just key areas, and u can do it in your garage, since your not spraying there is virtually no dust in the air, just clean your garage first, also it does'nt really smell at all, dries overnight and it super tough paint. also it you decide to paint the car professionally later, just prep and paint, there's no need to strip the tremclad. i have done this to a few cars, and i can say it works amazing, u just have to be patient. next u thin the paint with mineral spirits so it just about as thin as water, a little thicker. get out the roller and paint away, don't get the paint shaked when u buy it, enamel is stirred, otherwise you'll have bubbles in the paint for a week!!! after u do 2 coats, wet sand the whole car, then repeat, 2 coats, wetsand, 2 coats wetsand. i painted the charger using a can since your not spraying the car u use all the paint and not spray 50% in the air, use progressively finer sand paper each time. it's not really that much work, cause u can stop and start any time, u can do just a door, or the hood, ect. do one panel at a time, and don't stop once you start. once your done the final coat, wetsand with about 1000 grit to a totally smooth finish, and then using a high speed polisher i use a buffing bonnet and turtle wax polishing compound. do the whole car with this, and I'm telling u, depending on the amount of time and patience you have, the results are amazing. laugh if you want, but for $50 ($30 for paint, about $20 for rollers, sand paper, ect...) it really looks good. also you can do these steps overnight, paint one evening and by morning u can wet sand. i have personally done alot of painting, mostly single stage acrylic enamel, and I've sprayed several cars in my garage with really good professional results, just it stinks, it's a real pain to do, easy to make a mistake, messy, and expensive. The tremclad is awesome paint, the "real orange" is an amazing hemi orange, and almost looks like it has some perl in the sun, awesome color right out of the can. I used this technique on my 1974 beetle also, here are the results:
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I didn't paste pictures that go with the paint job, but it does turn out well. good luck...

nothing nicer then a great ol truck with history...
 
I just bought a 67 ford bronco sport. Half cab, 289, auto. Duel gas tanks and air. The finders are uncut to. Its been under a barn for 30 years. My macanic rebuilt the carb, put a new key switch in it and it busted right off. Its the third one I owned but its goin on ebay soon. There bringin 4 to 6 thousand. I hope to drive it a while.
 
My version of that is a 65 1T Chev crummy that I cut the back off & put delivery doors & an 8'flatbed on. It finally died when the cable broke just as I crested the roadbed. It went over the side when the water tank went the oppossite way the truck was going.

It was even funny at the time. Sold the engine & tranny out of it & made a horsedrawn wagon out of the rest.

It had a 6 in it got 11 mpg at 5K or 24K gvw. load did'nt matter.
 
Blkbuckaroo said:
Looks like that truck will be just right for ya' H,I've seen a couple like that parked around various ranches.Looks like you'll have to build a loading chute though.
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befor 5thwheels everybody use a truck like that. up on there forest we gust back off the edge of the road instead of pulling out the load ramp to jump horses out. Wiuld back along a pole fence throw a panel out pull the load ramp out of the back and push cows in if there was no chute. Or pull the load ramp out and throw a ropr around the calf and pull it in if momma didn't fallow throw a rope on her.
 
Lime green and rust go together like peas and carrots. :wink:

I vote to name your truck "El Grusto". :D

Looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you, hope you like that kind of occupation.
 

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