John’s truck was purchased brand new in Alaska. After the original owner passed away and no one in the family wanted it, John was approached about buying the truck. With a history of tinkering on cars, John was their only choice or the Ford was headed to the scrap yard. The family told John that it was a 4×4 Ford with a manual transmission. John has always been more of a GM guy, but he liked the sound a four wheel drive with a stick. The family told John that the truck was “almost roadworthy.”
John offered a little over “scrap price” for it sight unseen. The 1975 Ford ended up being rougher than the family described. When John finally saw the truck in person, he immediately thought about parting the truck out to make his investment back. The more he inspected it, the more he saw it was in better shape than he originally thought. John decided to get it running as a wood-hauler/off-road beater.
John started to work on the Ford. The more John fixed, the more he liked it. The 1975 Ford F100 wound up getting a rebuilt engine and a full body-off restoration. John replaced a lot of the sheet metal and painted it himself in his 2-car garage to bring it back to where it is now. Now it looks pretty darned good.