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    Around my area, a truck like that one would get snatched up quickly, either for parts or more likely to fix. There are a lot of good-running Fords of that body style with rusted-out bodies and undercarriages. Yours looks pretty solid, and would be a great project truck for someone to swap in a good engine and tranny out of their rustbucket and bring it back to life.

    I've scrapped some 90s F-series trucks that really were junk, and quickly sold every half-decent part that was on them. Good beds, tailgates and doors leave fast. If nobody bites on the whole truck, I would definitely do a part-out. One that I junked was an XLT with a nice gray plush bench seat just like yours... That seat brought $225 from a guy who was fixing up an old Bronco, and he came 200 miles from another state to pick it up! I wish I had a half-dozen of those seats, as I got numerous calls for that one after it was gone.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SparrowMetals View Post
    Around my area, a truck like that one would get snatched up quickly, either for parts or more likely to fix. There are a lot of good-running Fords of that body style with rusted-out bodies and undercarriages. Yours looks pretty solid, and would be a great project truck for someone to swap in a good engine and tranny out of their rustbucket and bring it back to life.

    I've scrapped some 90s F-series trucks that really were junk, and quickly sold every half-decent part that was on them. Good beds, tailgates and doors leave fast. If nobody bites on the whole truck, I would definitely do a part-out. One that I junked was an XLT with a nice gray plush bench seat just like yours... That seat brought $225 from a guy who was fixing up an old Bronco, and he came 200 miles from another state to pick it up! I wish I had a half-dozen of those seats, as I got numerous calls for that one after it was gone.
    I thought about putting it on BigIron.....http://www.bigiron.com/cgi-bin/mncal.cgi?bigiron

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