Well it ain't a Toyota, but it will probably haul one around eventually. Besides, I figure you guys will appreciate my strife as we go along.
Betsy is a 1985 Ford F-150 that we bought to serve full size duty as we work on getting "the farm" ready. She is about as basic as they come. Basic stats:
4wd, 300 I6, 4spd w/ granny low
Since she got to our house we haven't done much aside from amassing parts for her.
Currently we have a 2.5" Rough Country suspension system with new springs and shocks all around, a set of 33" BFG KM2's picked up from Elbert, a pair of EFI manifolds and a holly 600 carb.
It came with vinyl bench with an "awesome" real tree seat cover and a b!t#hin' grant GT steering wheel. The springs were soo bad you may as well have been sitting on the floorboard. Our good buddy Jason picked me up a really nice cloth bench and a OE steering wheel that I decided to swap in today and thus begins what will undoubtedly be the first of many new adventures.
Pulled the old seat and decided to clean the floor good so I lifted the rubber floor covering on the passenger side to find this maddness..
Yep, those are holes in the pan and alot of nasty surface rust, so I guess I will give try my hand at replacing the pan soon. Drivers side looks much better. Some surface rust, but not bad. I ditched the factory rubber floor because the jute sound deadening was soaked. I plan to fix the pan, sand everything good, prime it, apply some lizard skin and then paint the floor.
I went ahead and put the new seat in just to get it in but it will have to come out to do the floors.
I also played with some paint. I think I am gonna redo it in a semi-factory two tone.
Massey Ferguson red and charcoal grey. Gonna really try to slick up the body to try to make the rattle can job look pretty good.
This one won't go like gangbusters, but hope to move it along.
Stay tuned.
Betsy is a 1985 Ford F-150 that we bought to serve full size duty as we work on getting "the farm" ready. She is about as basic as they come. Basic stats:
4wd, 300 I6, 4spd w/ granny low
Since she got to our house we haven't done much aside from amassing parts for her.
Currently we have a 2.5" Rough Country suspension system with new springs and shocks all around, a set of 33" BFG KM2's picked up from Elbert, a pair of EFI manifolds and a holly 600 carb.
It came with vinyl bench with an "awesome" real tree seat cover and a b!t#hin' grant GT steering wheel. The springs were soo bad you may as well have been sitting on the floorboard. Our good buddy Jason picked me up a really nice cloth bench and a OE steering wheel that I decided to swap in today and thus begins what will undoubtedly be the first of many new adventures.
Pulled the old seat and decided to clean the floor good so I lifted the rubber floor covering on the passenger side to find this maddness..
Yep, those are holes in the pan and alot of nasty surface rust, so I guess I will give try my hand at replacing the pan soon. Drivers side looks much better. Some surface rust, but not bad. I ditched the factory rubber floor because the jute sound deadening was soaked. I plan to fix the pan, sand everything good, prime it, apply some lizard skin and then paint the floor.
I went ahead and put the new seat in just to get it in but it will have to come out to do the floors.
I also played with some paint. I think I am gonna redo it in a semi-factory two tone.
Massey Ferguson red and charcoal grey. Gonna really try to slick up the body to try to make the rattle can job look pretty good.
This one won't go like gangbusters, but hope to move it along.
Stay tuned.
expensive for a 30 year old truck, and they don't even come in little red boxes. 
so Erin and I can go to the tractor pull saturday night. So I think rear and new cat will be my goal for this weekend. Anything else will be a bonus.