'67 F250 - This project is now for sale (EVERYTHING)

[theletup]

Well I haven't come up with a name for this build yet... This is the 3rd bump I've owned and deeply regretted selling the first two (although I never got around to restoring them like I wanted to). So with that in mind when I found this truck I decided it was time to actually start a "project" instead of just buying a truck and hoping to restore it someday. I'll say right off the bat that I'm not trying to build a show truck and I don't have a ton of money to put into my project. I'm doing it for fun and so I can drive around a nice truck with the pride of my hard work. Also, for my 4 year old son to see it come together and possibly drive it someday.

So... I found this truck on craigslist listed for $1500.




I went and looked at the truck. It had been sitting the same spot for 7 years. Threw a battery in it. Poured a little gas down the carb, and it fired right up. It was cleaner than I expected. Got to talking the guy and we realized he and his father were customers of mine at my recently sold auto repair shop. I offered $800 for the truck. He said I could have it for $500. SOLD SIR.

Took the truck home and sold the camper the next day for $200. NICE!

$300 initial investment... not bad at all.

Further investigation in daylight showed the whole front end has been converted to a dual piston power disc brake and power steering set up from a 73 - 75 F250. Truck was originally Wimbledon White with a 352 and Cruise-o-Matic tranny. Those have been replaced 460 and fresh C6.

After a good pressure wash here's what I got for body panels:


Tires are HUGE! ha ha 33x12.50R16.5s






Only rusted through spot on the whole truck is on the bottom/front of the passenger door and a 6" spot in the bed floor where water must have gotten trapped under the camper. There is some surface rust above the seem the bed but not bad. The underside of the truck is so clean! No cab rot whatsoever. LUCKY ME!!

Last Sunday Wyatt (my 4 year old son) and I spent all day in the garage. Yanked the engine and learned more about it.


Came out of a '73 Lincoln. Had a cam sprocket with nylon capped teeth and ALL the nylon was broken off and sitting the oil pan. It has never been rebuilt. Stock internals and everything looks decent.

Got the engine stripped down to the short block. I pulled just one piston for the now to see what I had. The pistons are originals.


So just for the record. I only have a very small single car garage to do this project. On top of that only half of my truck fits in there at a time ha ha (front or back only)... So don't let space hold you back if you don't have room to work on your truck!


Okay so after the motor was out my parts search began. I'm constantly on craigslist and ebay shopping for deals.

Got this Edelbrock 1411 750cfm with elec. choke new in the box for $120 (cost $350 or more from summit).


and this Edelbrock Performer intake from another guy for $135 ($250 or so from summit)


Found a set of D0VE heads (1970 429 heads with smaller combustion chamber and studded rockers) for $100

(trying to decide if I'm going to go stock on the valve train or splurge on a roller rocker set up. If I go roller rocker they're going to be comp cams spendy Ultra Pro Magnum XDs with 3/8" push rods... still haven't decided yet but I'm leaning towards the roller set up.. ANYWAY...

I ordered and new Cam Kit (High Energy .494/.494) from Summit for $390 and got it this week. Also got an adjustable pushrod length checking tool for when I get to that point.


So next up is the machine work. I need to get some money together and will be ordering my piston and ring kit first. Will be going .030" over with speed pro flat tops. With the higher compression d0ve heads I should be somewhere around 10.5:1 - 10.8:1 compression. I plan to port and polish the heads myself before taking those to the machine shop.

Welp... that's where I'm at so far. Updates will likely be slow. This is a poor mans build on a budget while keeping the quality as high as I possibly can. Remember I'm not building a show truck here guys BUT I am going to have something fast, loud, and fun to drive.

Thanks to everyone on here that has inspired me to get off my ass and get this thing going!

[sargentrs]

Great progress! Keep us updated.

[theletup]

Got bored for a little while at work yesterday and sanded down my oil pan.


Got fix couple little dents, wire wheel and straighten the rail. Was going to do my stock valve covers too but I'm still not sure if I'll be able to keep them (depending on if I go roller rockers or not). I really like the valve covers though.

So on another note:

Here are my previous bumps:
'68 F100 460 4 Speed


'72 F100 360 Auto:


Wish I wouldn't have sold either but oh well... Pretty stoked that my new truck is a '67. Kind of cool having the first year even though it's a little harder to find certain parts.

[popeyes71]

Cool project! You can have a nice truck that looks good and runs good on a budget. Have fun with your project and starting memories with your son with it, he will never forget.

[jbeaver]

Wow! You're "kickin' tail" on the project. Keep us posted.

[elgemcdlf]

I don't know how much you know but those heads can be modded to hold SCJ valves and ported. They have been on proven 750 hp builds. Scotty's site is a good one if you home port. http://www.reincarnation-automotive.com/ As long as you have it down finding a set of rods from a truck would be beneficial. I assume you are aware of the timing chain differences. You want the '71 or earlier timing set. It sets the cam at 0. Later sets retarded the cam. You can also have the block decked to early specs boosting compression. The 429/460 can handle up to 15:1 compression ratio.

[Calfdemon]

Love the truck and the build so far... Gotta love a 67 as well, why did the PO put those side reflectors on the front fenders and the back of the bed? Also, did they switch hoods on your at some point or did they just switch the 67 markers for the later ones so they could have more reflectors?

On a side note, I have an extra set (2 actually) of 67 F250 hood markers. I have painted one pair already for CrypticRacer (bottom of this page: http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... &start=210 ), and picked up a second set which I plan on painting as well. I was going to put them on eBay but would much rather hook a fellow member up they are in need.

[theletup]

I don't know how much you know but those heads can be modded to hold SCJ valves and ported. They have been on proven 750 hp builds. Scotty's site is a good one if you home port. http://www.reincarnation-automotive.com/ As long as you have it down finding a set of rods from a truck would be beneficial. I assume you are aware of the timing chain differences. You want the '71 or earlier timing set. It sets the cam at 0. Later sets retarded the cam. You can also have the block decked to early specs boosting compression. The 429/460 can handle up to 15:1 compression ratio.

Yep yep. I've been reading up the 460s for about 3 years now since I had my silver and blue '68. I do plan on going with the SCJ valve sizes and will be porting and polishing at home. I've studied Scotty's site a ton but haven't gotten a new subscription for it yet. I plan on also upgrading to a duraspark and following his recurve advice. I order a comp cam double roller chain that has a straight up key on it. Also will be using a degree wheel to verify (straight up should be the key that is directly under a tooth on the sprocket). I think I'm going to keep my compression at about 10.5:1 - 11:1 so I can safely run pump gas without any problems.

Also, I've kept up on your truck progress over the past few years. Specifically about the IRS install because I used to have a T-Bird with rear disc that I was going to throw on my 68. Haven't decided on my suspension ideas for the 67 yet.

Love the truck and the build so far... Gotta love a 67 as well, why did the PO put those side reflectors on the front fenders and the back of the bed? Also, did they switch hoods on your at some point or did they just switch the 67 markers for the later ones so they could have more reflectors?

On a side note, I have an extra set (2 actually) of 67 F250 hood markers. I have painted one pair already for CrypticRacer (bottom of this page: http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... &start=210 ), and picked up a second set which I plan on painting as well. I was going to put them on eBay but would much rather hook a fellow member up they are in need.

Wow Rich I haven't looked at the hood closely enough yet to know if it's original or not! ha ha Thanks for pointing that out! I would love to have a set of those emblems you've been painting. Saw your thread on that a few days ago. I was going to tackle it myself but didn't even realize yet that I didn't have '67 badges. The ones you painted look fantastic. Not sure about all the side reflectors. They ONLY used the truck with a camper so I'm guessing that has something to do with it. They will all be gone once I'm done with it.

Got one of my valve covers mostly sanded down today but didn't snap a pic. Also while talking with the wife and son last night they decided they want the truck to be green. More to come on that topic later...

[theletup]

Pretty small update for today. Found a killer deal for some 67 F250 badges

Picked up the pair for $25. Going to refinish them like Rich did in the post mentioned above!


Also made some progress on refinishing my first valve cover today during downtime at work. Got the rest of it down to bare metal and fixed all the dents as well as the rail. Didn't have a real hammer and dolly set up (which I will be getting tomorrow) so I still have a little bit of smoothing out to do. This first one was beat to hell.


Well that's all I have for today. Should be dropping the block off at the machine shop early next week.

[Alstoyz]

Really nice work. You my friend, have a nose for the smoke'n deals!!!

[theletup]

Pretty silly update this morning but what can I say... I get excited about the little things...

I was kicking around the idea of green in my head so when my 4 year old son Wyatt said he thought "...green would look so cool, Dad!" and the wife agreed, that pretty much settled that. I'm thinking green main body with grey or silver on the cab top as well as the bumper, grill and trim that would all normally be chrome. I know some people might want to strangle me for painting it but I think it would look pretty mean.

So today (Saturday) I'm awake at 5am on my day off work and can't make too much noise yet, so what do I do? Yep, find some line art and borrow Wyatt's crayons and markers ha ha.. I'm no Chip Foose but here is a very rough draft of the color scheme.


I know... the grill and emblems are completely wrong. But you get the idea. Also the wheels will be quite different. Infact my buddy that owns a tire shop says he can get me a pretty close match to what I'm looking for in 16.5s so I can keep my old turbine style wheels!!! I plan to refurbish them. I would probably go the same grey as the roof inbetween the spokes and polish the outside/face edge of the spoke and maybe throw a green ring around the bead (don't know about that part yet though..

If you guys feel like finding your inner 4 year you can find this line art here: http://www.fordification.com/galleries/ ... ineart.jpg
There are some other pretty cool ones too if you just do an image search on bing or google for "f100 drawing"

[theletup]

I just got back home from a pretty great parts run. Went to go pick up the '67 emblem from the guy off craigslist. I asked him what else he had laying around and found out he had a set of mint inside door panels with 2 sets of trim, arm rest with no rips, inside door handles, window cranks, a bunch of different dash switches, a '67 radio bezel, a cluster in almost perfect condition (mine is trashed), F.O.R.D. letters for the front of the hood, tons of trim clips, mint wiper arms, a spare tire jack/accessory set, and a few other misc parts in a box. Got everything for $180.







Stopped at ACE on the way home and have the emblems soaking in stripper right now to refinish them.

[theletup]

Okay so I spent the afternoon working on my hood badges after being inspired by Rich's post above...

Here's the before pic:


While I let the Ford 250 badges soak in stripper I spent a little time cleaning up my newly re-homed F.O.R.D. letters:


After some paint stripper, tooth brush (which didn't work), a detailing wire brush, and a bunch of scrubbing:


Then I spent several hours and several Coronas taping off the first emblem. Now I've never painted anything in my life so this seemed extremely difficult for me but with a **** load of patience it seemed to work out well. I used a #2 exacto knife and took my sweet ass time:


After 3 coats of Rustoleum self etching primer (3 minutes between each coat) and 3 coats of Rustoleum Sunrise Red (also 3 minutes between coats) I ended up with this:


I waited about 30 minutes after final coat to pull the masking tape. I had to clean up a couple tiny spot where the paint bled though the tape/under the tape with a Q-tip and a very tiny amount of xylol. I may use a brush to touch up a couple small spot but from 2 or 3 feet away it looks almost perfect.

Here's a before and after:


I will do the other badge tomorrow. Thanks to this forum I was able to pull this off with zero experience with something like this. So thanks dudes.

[Calfdemon]

Love to see that something I did (also with minimal painting experience) inspired someone else to give it a shot, and then see that it worked out with awesome results!! Nothing feels better than seeing something you did yourself come out so well, right?

Glad I could be the minor help that I was!! Looks awesome!

[Mancar1]

good work, looking great.