1965 Ford F100-Michael G.

The story of this 1965 F100 started with an idea from my father-in-law Billy Adams, an “old school” car builder.
I own and operate a family and commercial auto repair business in Cibolo Texas, just a few miles outside of San Antonio. I had the luck to find a few mid-60’s Ford pickups going to waste in a farm field nearby, and rescued them. We also do vehicle repair work for local police departments and we had a few retired Crown Victoria patrol vehicles sitting in the back lot next to the pickups. The back lot of the shop was getting out of hand with cluttered vehicles and we needed a solution. Then one day Billy said he had an idea. With a tape measure in hand, he started doing measurements of wheel bases, widths, etc… comparing the old pickups with the more modern cars. He came to me and said “Wouldn’t it be great if we can somehow get those Crown Vic chassis’s under those old Ford truck bodies”. We discussed the possibility of the great handling and ride or the Police Interceptor coupled with the coolness of the mid 60’s Ford pickups. Using his years of experience and knowledge customizing old vehicles he started in with drawings, mock ups and making notes.
Well too soon after that, my father-in-law and mentor, succumbed to cancer. It was determined to have came from his contact and exposure to Agent Orange as a flight engineer during his two tours of duty in Viet Nam, and his 20 plus years as an aircraft mechanic for the Airforce.
That was when I decided to try and take his notes and make his vision come to life. I started picking and choosing which vehicles or parts could contribute and made some starter projects to sell and kept what I needed . I got rid of the rest. I got lucky enough to purchase a rolled over Police Interceptor with only 3,500 miles on it from an auction. With it and other parts vehicles I had in the back lot, I started the project. Using the complete frame, suspension, engine, transmission, rear differential, wiring harnesses , ECM and body modules, from my collection of C.V.s, I took Billy’s notes and went to work. It took about eight years working in my spare time to modify the car chassis and truck body to have a mechanically completed vehicle. Then came the complete disassembly for body and paint work. It was another two years , and more packages from LMC Truck than I could count, to get to the finished product.
What started out as a need to clear out a vehicle cluttered back lot, turned into the vision of an “old school”” car builder. With that vision and a bunch of notes on scrap paper, is finally a reality I call “THE BILLY TRUCK”