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“The big truck”1976 Ford F-150

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The story

I have owned this truck for 15 yrs. I'm the 3rd. owner and purchased it from my father in law Tubby, after it had a minor "accident". On the way back from a trip, while towing a 21ft. camper trailer, the r/r wheel sheered the wheel studs and came off the truck, lodging the wheel standing up between the axles of the trailer,(see pic. ) The trailer was written off and I bought it back from the ins. co and repaired it. I then needed somthing to tow it with and purchased the truck. I built the engine 12 yrs. ago when I redid the whole truck. The cab is all original paint except the fibreglass addons, the box and topper were painted then. It has 160000 mi. on it since then all of them hard, it huffs a llittle oil when you start it up, but she purrs like a kitten when it's running. I still blow the doors off many young kids in their ricers, who can't belive 6000 Lb's can move so fast. Everything has to be tied or fastend in or it is piled up in the back as soon as you hit the throttle,( cup holders are a must ). A body freshen is in the near future, and some int. upgrades, it gets parked for the winter, so I can take my time. — 79bigbronco

Photos

1976 Ford F-150 - this is the big truck after it's 1st. face lift, 13 yrs. ago. 1976 Ford F-150 - this is the "accident" that brought the big truck into my life. 1976 Ford F-150 - "The train" : After 11 years of hard labor, the big truck still can tow broken chevies home. Plus the quad & the buggy! Yea it's illegal, b… 1976 Ford F-150 - The power, the black tub air cleaner is the lower part of the ram air. 1976 Ford F-150 - another view 1976 Ford F-150 - "Head on" sports a canuk visor & front air dam,functional scoop and hot air vents taken from a fiat X19 1976 Ford F-150 - Long and low and going lower in the near future. 1976 Ford F-150 - The interior is as it was when first purchased, other than some more guages and kick a$$ tunes, the original seat, it wasprotected by a sad… 1976 Ford F-150 - The strg. column is tilt out of a 79 larado, I added a dealer installed a/c unit out of an old fairlane (it's where the glove box was) with… 1976 Ford F-150 - Note cup holder 1976 Ford F-150 - The roof and upper console were put in by the original owner, those alpine 6x9's have been in there for 14 yr's of total abuse, they've out…

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