Question on crew cab value

[UNIFAN]

You guys always give an honest opinion, so I wanted to ask what you feel a Ford bodied crew cab is worth in your eyes. 1966 F250 with decent paint, clean interior, 6 cylinder, 2WD, little to no rust and drives excellent with all the electrical working as it should. In short, a driver that would really need nothing.

[foodstick]

Man, this really is a tough one to guess.
So many people like the crews..
So many of us here are "Thrifty !" hahhahaha.... and I am just cheap ! ;P i will admit I haven't been watching crew prices, Or a south western trucks value.
And around here you never see a solid south Western truck with no rust. Its so hard to say.

Someone like me dreams of paying 2-3 thousand, and knows twice that would be worth it ... and somewhere there is somebody that might dump 20-30 grand into a Crew just to stand out from his neighbors... Its really going to be about finding the right person, or TWO right persons that would get in a bidding war?

I see lots of people reading the post but afraid to post, hahahahha

[69supercj]

I'm gonna say 3 to 3500.

[Gritsngumbo]

I'd say $5,000 to 6,000 easy, as described. A lot would depend on how much you want it. Being a "factory" crew cab there are more out there than the 64 and earlier, but still pretty scarce.
Maybe Chris (PFM-64F100) will chime in. Not sure what he paid for his.

[bruceandersson]

I think the replies here are on the mark. One item that I take into account these days is whether I plan on using the wheels and tires. This can be a large investment, even if just replacing the tires.

[Hawkrod]

I think an important point to answering this question is where is it. West coast prices are always lower than east coast and around here I would expect to spend between $2500 and $3500 for a driver crew but a regular cab has a tough time getting $1500. On the other side of that, a finished restored truck pulls amazing money and there is a really nice crew 4X4 that has been floating around for a while because the won't bust loose for less than $25K. Hawkrod

[PFM-64f100]

When I bought my crew cab it didn't have a bed, the 352 haddn't run in 10+ years (something like that) and it had been repainted but I for sure didn't like the color (wasn't the best paint job out there). The good thing it was clean and no rust to speak of not even patina. At the time there were no other crew cab out for sale and I had been looking for a long while. I paid about 3k for mine. I would do it again if I found another one like it (I beat my wife would get the frying pan out for sure).

Needless to say it has been a long journy in its rebuild.

[Gritsngumbo]

I'm sure to most people I overpaid for my 63 F100 Crew Cab ($2,600 as I recall, and then the expense of getting it off the top of a mountain and 300 miles home) but the seller wouldn't budge off his asking price (which we discussed it over the course of several months) and I REALLY, REALLY WANTED the truck. Rough shape as it had been used in the NW Arkansas oil fields (salt water used in the process), but I knew some of it's history (including being built in Ft. Smith AR by Armbruster Stageways) which is important to me.

I had never seen a pre-64 crew cab (and still haven't), the fact that it was an F100 (not the typical F250 was of interest and the fact that it was a long bed, rather than the typical short bed on crews all made the truck interesting and buy-able to me. I like unique trucks and prefer long beds.

As I said earlier, it depends on how much you want the truck. Buying a Slick isn't always a rational decision. If I want it and can get the money together I will buy it.

Regretfully I have not been able to do much to it yet as I had other projects that were in front of it, but hopefully that will change soon.

[UNIFAN]

I was trying to see if the value of a nice stock or "restored" truck had a higher or equal value than a customized one. Sometimes I come across vehicles that are still together after all these years with their original parts and are so complete that I would prefer to find them a good home instead of dismatling them and removing everything that made them original. At the end of the day it seems like a custom will bring way more than the original truck, even though its way harder to find something that is still original. I always look for rollers, but sometimes the complete trucks are a better deal.

[Gritsngumbo]

Most of the Crew Cab projects I've seen have been modified with more modern suspension and drive train, from diesels to modular engines. Most that were being posted a while back were slammed into the weeds. Don't recall seeing any that were kept stock.
Don't have a clue as to values of one vs the other. I don't buy trucks with the idea of selling them so that doesn't' enter the equation.

[foodstick]

A crewcab with a giant over the cab camper would make a nice rc plane hauler ! hahahahahah