"Lets get a truck!"

A few years ago I was talking with a friend about my passion for owning a classic truck, we tossed some ideas around and started searching Craigslist, Nextech classifieds, and eBay for a truck in decent enough shape to rebuild. Anyone who's lived in the Midwest knows how hard to find a rust free truck can be, so we searched not only online but every where we went around the county roads and such but all we could find was dilapidated rusted out heaps.

Not letting it slow us down we expanded our search to the states surrounding Kansas, looking for the right truck. this process got harder as we found that the right truck also had to be a fairly inexpensive one as our budget was not large, who's is? it seems all the really nice trucks, like the daily drivers and such were priced astronomically high, and the rest were farm trucks, mostly beaten up and mildly rusty, and since we did not want to travel more than 500 miles in any direction to find our truck the search tapered off, with one or two trucks every six months coming up on our radar.

Time passed as it always does and a few more smaller projects occupied my time, I built a lap steel guitar from scratch, and restored a custom tricycle, but the ford truck itch never really went away, Id be driving down the road and see one and say to my wife hey look there's a 68 and she would look at me and sigh, then we'd drive on and I'd shake my head but the idea of a classic ford truck stuck in my mind like a fox tail and as it pushed its way in to my brain I kept thinking what if I could.... Then I found it the Truck we had been looking for, I talked to my buddy and we set out to see what would soon become our new truck. a 1967 F100

All in all she  is in really great shape, with minor body cancer in the front fenders, and a tad bit on the drivers door, the cab mounts looked good and the floor wasn't rotted out and the best part was the price, cheap.


We got some gas ,ether, a new battery and an air bubble, then we aired up the one tire that was flat and poured some gas and gas additive to the tank and in just short amount of time we got her started, and idling. The 352 Big Block FE motor was alive and running, we paid the man and signed the title and drove her out of his back field and out onto Highway 36, since it was running a straight pipe to a  rusted out glass pack about 3 feet behind the engine it was loud, so we decided to take some of the old dirt roads that go between Mankato and Jewell, after bouncing down the hill and running back out to Highway 14, I decided to open her up and push her a little. My buddy Jay was following close behind me but not for long I floored it and ran it through the three on the tree that's when I noticed the Speedometer wasn't working, not wanting to get a ticket on my first ride I slowed down and coasted for a while, till Jay caught back up with me then we moseyed in to Jewell and to my garage.