welcome to wacky Wednesday's where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mods and here's this week's winner, hey everybody this is my 1969 Ford f-100
360 cubic inch Ford Fe motor, two barrel carb, 3 speed on the tree, this is a very
solid truck for being 50 years old, paint jobs not the best what do you expect for
a 50 year old vehicle, I bought this truck originally from a place here in
Nashville Tennessee, I bought it for $900 actually has a rebuilt motor and the guy
that owned the auto shop did not want it anymore, didn't want it sitting in his
lot anymore, and he said for me to take it for a thousand, I said well how about
900 and he said go for it and so ended up with the truck, this is a I believe a
Ranger I'm not a hundred percent sure on that part but it is a long wheelbase
short wheelbase are a lot more expensive of course, this has a 15 inch
tire all the way around, four nine inch rear end, a lot of people mistake these
old trucks for hiboys which highboys came a lot taller than this from the
factory, going back to the story about having bought this truck from a mechanic
shop, the guy I originally thought this was his a high school truck that he had
during the mid to late 70s and thought it was his original truck which he said
it was red at the time, and yeah like down here and these little strap holders
and back there in the bed it's kind of hard to see, but yeah this is a very very
structurally sound truck like I said the paint job isn't the best, you know not
really looking forward to sinking a whole lot of money off into this thing
just something that I like to drive around on the weekends and once summer
gets here take to a couple shows and stuff, so
let's take a look at the interior oh and if you notice too, I have two
different mirrors I have the bracket in the back of the truck for that, just
really got to find a mirror, people tell me go to O'Reilly's but I want an original
forward mirror, that's understandable this is the inside, I got the truck with
these speakers in it I really don't like that, but you get to do something with it
yeah that's my that's my speaker, now got a crack here but you know all things you
can expect out of a 50 year old vehicle that's in such a condition it's
been sitting for a while, we've got a Bosch two I believe illuminated tachometer,
and just a Sun Pro old pressure gauge and the dash cluster isn't in the best
of shape, the odometer works 58,000 miles steering wheel is not in the best
condition, carpets fair good or whatever you say, I have no idea what that stain
is over there but I've tried washing it away it's not coming off so I have to
try something a little bit stronger but still easy on the paint,
there's my stock radio, I'm not 100 percent sure this is stock because
I would think it would have an 8 tracks original heat controls, heat works and
I'm not the best but you can't like I said you can't expect much of a
vehicle like this, you know the classic dice, three-speed on the tree, I consider
a modern day anti-theft device most people don't know how to drive a three
speed unless you're 50 years or older I've got a straight piped exhaust system
that sounds sweet, true dual, get back here and
look at the other side of it, yeah True dual, still have
exhaust manifolds on the vehicle, just overall fairly nice truck, now under the
hood I don't know what's going on with this wiring job but is not perfect, lot
of this wiring was like this when I picked up the vehicle, like the tach the
tach has been recently installed you can tell just because of how clean the wires
are compared to the other ones, and that little dinky thing right there was
already on the car but I wish I had the one that actually came on it cuz I
don't like that at all, but one interesting thing here is wires for the
tach we can see it actually come out through one of the master cylinder bolt
holes, everything runs fine, got good oil
pressure, this truck does not miss a lick, and we'll get a good listen of the
exhaust system, like I said straight piped, 16-inch tips, still exhaust
manifolds on it no headers, maybe for a later day, but kind of sounds good as it
is right now, so let's give it a listen it's a great little truck I really enjoy it,
here again you know you can you can see the red still fading through and the
tops not that clean, sat under a tree at the mechanic shop that I bought it from so
it's quite a bit of tree sap on it, it's hard to wash off but I've got most of it
off from when I purchased it, good little weekend truck I really enjoy having this
truck and driving it around, the cops don't enjoy it too much but you know
it's a fun little piece of history I guess you could say, it's is an
original Dearborn plant truck from you know Michigan, so pretty cool about that,
last thing I like say I want to thank Scotty for allowing me to showcase my
truck to you all, really means a lot to me and I want to thank you everybody for watching
this video and especially thanks Scotty and wish everybody a good weekend,
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