Helmwurst

My dad had one of those, except his was just an extended cab. It was a standard trans though. When he passed, reverse gear was out of it. It was scheduled to be repaired when he went into the hospital. I took it out to the Leonard's trans shop a couple weeks after that and he repaired or replaced the tranny, not sure which, no charge. He always liked my dad and I had known him since first my First Communion in church. I sold the truck to the first looker and took part of the proceeds out to Lenny and thanked him for the generosity, he would not take the money. I donated his portion to the church's kids fund.

105Fountain

Nice Truck I say $20k all day long never knew a 2-wheel 1 ton drive could pull anything.

Zach F100

Much more character in these old trucks than new ones.


This is my 88 F150. Been in the family for 20+ years. I’ll probably never sell her.

540Fever

😂 Easy easy! My half ton 2wd 6.2 does pretty darn good, but I’m always mindful of those back tires.

I’m impatiently waiting for a call from my buddy telling me to come pick it up.

liberator221

88 so is it fuel injected? That’s about when they changed. Looks like C-6/460. Both are very tuff and reliable. One post said they added an overdrive gear box. That’s a good move.

Jupiter Sunsation

The only thing with old trucks is they always seem to "need" something or you miss something the new trucks have as standard.

An acquaintance bought a 90's Suburban with 15K miles on it, sure its a time capsule but it's got 1/2 the HP of a new one, same amount of seats and still gets 16 mpg. He daily drives a new duramax 2500 so I have no idea why he felt the need to buy an old burban. I'm sure a rear main seal is dripping by now, they all seem to!

Hoodoo 2.0

The old stuff is nice to look at but a pain in the azz to drive compared to the new ones.

resurrected

I had an 82 Ford Van that I put a 460 with D0VE heads, a little port work, cam, intake and a Holley, to pull my stock car. With the 24' enclosed trailer on, I could get light under the front tires on about the third bounce leaving the pits after the races. There was another For guy I raced with had a E-150 with a healthy Cleveland in it and we would race off the track with the vans as often as possible. I loved the 460

snapmorgan

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We had some Fords of about that vintage when I worked at an RV dealership years ago. Here is what I can tell you about them. They get about 6mpg loaded or unloaded. Possibly better with the OD unit installed. The valve seats would sink in the heads fairly regularly. Driving one is about like herding cats, If you can keep it between the lines on the highway you were doing pretty good. Front tires last about 5000 miles.

The new trucks are so far superior, I personally wouldn't buy it with intentions of actually using it on a regular basis.

Wildman_grafix

Truth, I have a slightly modded 1996 7.3 oil burner, it's fine around town but go on a trip and 1 hour down the road you are hating life.

Cool if you can have one to play with but as a daily no. Kind of like when we all grew up with 60-70 muscle cars, it would suck to have one as a daily now.