New Project

[kensmith69]

I could mail it to you California's not that far...............

[fomocoguy]

If you pay the shipping for the bedsides I'll take em! Seriously though around here that would be a major steal for that truck. F250 4x4's that aren't junk are few and far between in the midwest.

[70f350]

I think the shipping would be harsh.

[kensmith69]

I brought it home today.
It needs alot of work I think Im going to just part it out.
I had it advertised for sale for $700 but Ive been changing my ads and dropping it to $450.
Something that i found at the same place was bedsides , rust and dent free.
For a Short Box.
I bet someone redoing a shortbox would drool at them.
They probably will be squished before I get back there as he was starting to squash stuff today.

[1971ford]

that last picture pisses me off

[Redcap]

that last picture pisses me off

Eh...it's a dentside.

[kensmith69]

Well i made my last trip out of there today.
By the weeekend most of it will be flattened and gone.

[averagef250]

that last picture pisses me off

I don't understand it when people make these statements.

It's a beat down pile of trucks in what looks like a junkyard. You weren't willing or able to go out there and save every last one of those junker trucks so why should anyone else and why shouldn't he crush them?

If he had a pile of Boss Mustangs or 427 fairlanes I'm willing to bet they would have been saved. What's in that picture may not be junk, but it sure as heck isn't something you'd be proud to drive on the road in the condition any of it's in. You can go out and buy a really nice highboy all done up for less than $5000 right now. You can buy a show quality one for under $10K. Why buy a junkyard heep and dump $10K into it to get a worse finished product since you're starting with a worse starting point?

That highboy for $400 was a decent deal. $400 is what I paid for each of my '70 and '71 F-250 4x4's and they were both in about the same shape when I bought them, but I'm ambitious and willing to put some serious work into a project to get it there, the way I want it. Most people aren't. That's why there's junkyards and automakers sell new cars because people get tired of fixing old ones.

Sorry for the rant, just wanted to bring some reality to the discussion.

[fomocoguy]

He said what he said because he doesn't like seeing these old trucks get crushed, especially when there are some good parts still on them. I agree with him 100%.

[FreakysFords]

ticks me off cause it's never near me

[71PA_Highboy]

that last picture pisses me off

I don't understand it when people make these statements.

It's a beat down pile of trucks in what looks like a junkyard. You weren't willing or able to go out there and save every last one of those junker trucks so why should anyone else and why shouldn't he crush them?

If he had a pile of Boss Mustangs or 427 fairlanes I'm willing to bet they would have been saved. What's in that picture may not be junk, but it sure as heck isn't something you'd be proud to drive on the road in the condition any of it's in. You can go out and buy a really nice highboy all done up for less than $5000 right now. You can buy a show quality one for under $10K. Why buy a junkyard heep and dump $10K into it to get a worse finished product since you're starting with a worse starting point?

That highboy for $400 was a decent deal. $400 is what I paid for each of my '70 and '71 F-250 4x4's and they were both in about the same shape when I bought them, but I'm ambitious and willing to put some serious work into a project to get it there, the way I want it. Most people aren't. That's why there's junkyards and automakers sell new cars because people get tired of fixing old ones.

Sorry for the rant, just wanted to bring some reality to the discussion.

Dustin,

Try living in the rust belt... your perspective will change significantly - though LOCAL economic considerations always win.
I lived in Seattle until I moved here and I had the same opinion as you... after living here it is a different story.

jmho,

Eric