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Reminds me of my youth!

Great job you are a talented man!

Mike

BADA$$ TRUCK!!!
Wanna trade for a 2011 F350??:):)

Very nice. I've followed this thread with interest since the beginning. Thank you for sharing.

Is Black Betty nosed up with an old shop mate?
Two of your finished projects in one lot just might cause an overload.

Thanks guys for the nice comments. I think we accomplished a lot in under 40 days. The truck sure turned heads over the weekend. Nathan drove his truck with his little brother riding shotgun. Our trip was 150+ miles one way. We went to grandma and grandpa's house.

One if our first stops was at an auto parts store in a small town along our way. I needed an air filter and a power steering belt. While Nate and I were inside the store, a young man in his 20's walks into the store and asks who's big black 4x4 outside. He wasn't shopping, didn't need no parts, he just pulled in and went into the store to talk to the guy with the black truck. Lol

I pointed at Nate and the young guy followed him around the store talking trucks and asking questions. He eventually left after complimenting several times. I looked at Nate and said "yeah, get used to that because you will get that a lot now." We got out to the parking lot and there was a different guy standing by the truck, staring at it.... Here we go again, lol!

The truck performed perfectly, Nate actually pulled a bit better than 13 mpg.

Dave, that is so cool you built that for your son. My "little" brother did the same a few years back for his son, as well as helping him find, finance, and remodel hist first home.

At one point, he told sonny to just stay outta the way while he's redoing the house, I'll take care of "it". Too funny..

He's a pretty cool Dad like you.

Wonderful job ND. I wonder how long it will take now before all the guys following this thread will realize that they can buy an old truck they always wanted ,have it restore to new condition for a 1/3 or less than a new one. I think I'll keep my eyes open for a 79 3/4 ton ext cab with a 400 ,4spd,4wd.Hmm all you need now is to get a bank online that will loan on restored trucks.How about an update on the 69 Mach 1 now that the truck is done? Magnum Man

Unadulterated and uncompromizing craftsmanship, Dave and Nate !

Well done !

GTC

That is one sharp truck.

Congrats to Nate and you both.

Looks great! Well done!

Yep yup. Dat'd nice!

Are you going to Armor-all or otherwise slick up the tire sidewalls?

am thinking George Thorogood already covered this


but black betty is bad to the bone!


you'se some good chit Northern Dave, proud and happy for you and yours

Oh I'm sure it will get that sort of treatment for prom(s).

His school's prom is this week and his girlfriend from a neighboring town has her senior prom the following week.

So, we will be all high school fancy around here for a couple weeks in a row.

CLASSIC!!! & CLASSY!!!

Funny you should say that. Over the weekend putting on around 200 miles, I got 13mpg in the 1/2 ton, 3.50's. 33" tires, same motor and trans as Nate..as you know.

very cool T, cant complain about that much can we?

Here are a couple of Pam's pictures, a bit nicer than my cell phone pics.









Alright, now back to the mach 1 mustang.

No we really can't complain about that. My 2000 F-150 got 14 with the 5.4l so I'm not complaining at all.

I like the shot with the service station in the background. Cool pic.

This is the magazine cover shot!



Excellent!