04sd wrote:I went over to the FE board and read through your build. Awesome build and a great story.

Thanks for the kind words, Bill. It was a MUCH later in life, father-son project. Lol 50 something here and dad 70 something. It's never too late I suppose.

The rear end is a page straight out of dads 1960's hot rodding book. The ladder bars used are from a mid 60's Chevy truck. They were cut down and modified exactly the way dad did it in the 60's. Welded directly to the axle housing. I was skeptical of this arrangement at first, but it proved to be an...

After all the fussin' cussin' and discussin' with the engine and trans, we set the body off of the frame so we could start our drag racing chassis. The stock frame is a pretty stout piece as is, heavy as hell for a F-100 sized pick up. So we didn't see any need to box the frame or add any stiffeners...

Nice work, Steve.

Drilling spot welds on an old truck always makes me think about the assembly processes "back in the day". It was some persons job to run a spot welding rig. 40+ hours a week!

Dad and I did quite a bit of discussing and planning before we started in with locating the engine and trans. We knew we were gonna put the engine in the center of the frame. Instead of keeping the FoMoCo offset towards the passenger side. It's like 3" And for traction, we knew we wanted the en...

Great looking truck man! Your metal work is clean and detailed. Looking forward to seeing it making some noise.

Did you get the rear disk brakes as a kit? I need to do something similar to the rear end of my '62.

We scratched our heads for a while on the rust issues. You'd think a truck that had spent the majority of it's life in a dry climate would be in great shape, right? Not this one.The front cab mounts were completely rotted. The bottom of the hinge pillars had huge holes rusted thru. The floor of cab ...

Wow that's a clean restoration. There's not a lot of those trucks around these days. It definitely has a forest service look about it. Nice work Gaylon.

Thanks for the tip nightmare! I did some googling and found a place that reproduces them. My steering column came in today. The exterior rubber piece I was missing (which has been ordered) and there is an interior rubber piece which I am missing. I’ll do some googling on that (maybe the mustang pla...

Thanks for all the kind words guys. Will pass them along to dad. Here's a little backstory on this truck. We started this build the summer of 2017. Shortly after dad finally retired. I had a killer FE sitting on the floor in the shop. And dad had an old red truck. So we put together a plan to build ...

One of the things I realized about these trucks, at 120mph, there's a ton of air that comes out of the factory vents. I figure it must be something to do with the windshield angle. Anyhow, I figured it might be worth a few ponies if I could get all that air funneled down to the carburetor. So I tigg...

Hi guys. Just a few months back I discovered this website. :dontknow: I've been serial lurking this build section ever since and thought I would share a cool truck build. This is a truck that my dad and I built together. We're a couple of hotrod redneck truck building mechanic types. Dad's been reti...

Hi folks, my name is Kevin. Cool place you guys have here. I'm a hardcore Ford truck guy. :rocker: Been lurking in the members build section for months now and thought I might fit in around here. Thank you for letting me join! I found this place while looking for pics of Mayhem Bob's (rip) badass sl...