That makes more sense now.
That makes more sense now.
This is the style that's right for 66 although they are VERY hard to find
These are the other style I was looking at which are 67 and up but still too expensive for this project, this isnt a restoration after all.
Overall I actually like the clean lines of the caps I got, I just made a mistake with the cream colored stripe, looked good on its own but it's too much with the cream wheels, I'll redo them in red.
Looks great, says I! Yeah, those full floater axles need some serious space.
+1 on the art project reference. Nice stuff is nice.
I've been a Ford guy all my life and I don't think I've ever seen those '66 caps before. They almost look like they could be on a current generation truck. That is, of course, if they were plastic.
Woody wrote: I've been a Ford guy all my life and I don't think I've ever seen those '66 caps before. They almost look like they could be on a current generation truck. That is, of course, if they were plastic.
And I've only ever seen them in the low profile F100 version. I do LOVE them but again...budgets and stuff.
When I was a kid, one of the toys at my grandmother's house was a Nylint Ford pickup with a U-Haul box trailer. I may have had the flatbed trailer as well. It was one of the 1965+ trucks for sure because I specifically remember playing with the Twin I-Beam suspension. The older ones didn't have that. Unfortunately, it's long gone. My uncle was a bigshot at Ford back then and I always thought that it was some kind of dealer promo item.
Not my arm:
Looks like it may have been a '67 based on the hubcaps!
JThw8 wrote: The amount they stick out is quite accurate and unavoidable. The rear axle sticks out well beyond the hub in the F250. A stock low profile dog dish wont work. And no porta whites, its a working truck none of that fancy white wall E36 M3 here :)
Two 2wd in front, two 4wd out back?
The proper fix of course, is wider wheels and tires so the hub caps don't stick out past the wheel rim. 
Junkyard_Dog wrote: The proper fix of course, is wider wheels and tires so the hub caps don't stick out past the wheel rim.
Not if you're trying to keep a stock look. 
Widen stock wheels?
Dusterbd13 wrote: Widen stock wheels?
I just spent money I dont have on these wheels and tires. They'll do just fine :)
JThw8 wrote:
Man, that looks ten trillion times better, it's a real truck now! Now go get some dirt on it quick!
In reply to JThw8:
I would paint the whole dog dish off-white and do only the Ford lettering in red
AngryCorvair wrote: In reply to JThw8: I would paint the whole dog dish off-white and do only the Ford lettering in red
If the wheels were red maybe but otherwise thats just a whoooole lot of off white in one place. Redoing the stripe in red today, looking pretty good so far.
Redo on the hubcaps. Much better
Definitely liking the red stripe!
Amazing how a few simple fixes have really transformed the old girl.
Huge improvement. Nice work!
Looks much fresher now!
Is it normal for it to only have one side mirror? I thought that was only a low option passenger car thing by then.
Even Cadillacs had the passenger side mirror a dealer installed option until the early 70s. I remember trying to hunt one down for my old 70 convertible. Cost me $200 once I did find one.
Stampie
I have the passenger mirror it just needs some fixing of the mounts. They aren't the right mirrors anyway, they are much more functional so I'll probably keep them but the stock mirrors are actually very small car style units.
And recall, when you talk about low option passenger cars. Even low option passenger cars were considered high option next to a truck in these days. It's not like today with the country cadillacs running around. Trucks were bare bones simple work vehicles so they usually had the lowest spec of the line. Being a Custom Cab this one would have been a little higher option with side moulding (missing from my truck) and "door panels" which are just some inserts on the upper door by the handles.
Interesting, I'd have thought being a 250, the big mirrors (and two of them) would have been standard.
Kenny_McCormic wrote: Interesting, I'd have thought being a 250, the big mirrors (and two of them) would have been standard.
Its our modern truck bias that leads us to think that but there was little other than the suspension ratings to actually differentiate the models "back in the day"
Woohoo...New bumper day. Didn't want to say anything till I was sure I had it, then once I had it well I might as well install it right? New bumpers like this cost around $300 and I'm a cheap SOB but I found a shop out in PA that had a an old stock aftermarket bumper they were selling for $100 because it had corrosion from sitting. The place was 10 minutes from a friends house and that friend was due to come here this morning so I asked him to check it out and he talked the guy down to $75 and brought it with him today.
So to the work at hand... Another buddy had stopped by and helped me pull the old bumper. He wielded the plasma cutter of fun to hack up the old bumper into mounting brackets for the new bumper.
Turtle wax products sometimes get a bad rap as being low end stuff but I have yet to find anything that cleans up grotty corroded chrome better than turtle wax chrome polish. A little side by side before and after.
Damn that's quite a bit better. I still need to fab some reinforcement brackets to the mounts before I'll trust it with a trailer hitch but that's a pretty simple job.
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