I have a chance to pick up an old railroad truck, a 61-66 Ford 4-door crew-cab. Seems like those are fairly rare trucks. Anyone know where I can find out what one of those is worth in rough shape? I don't have good photos, but from what I can see the nose is shot, the cab itself needs rear corners but seems to have the rockers and stuff all on it, there's enough there a guy could probably buy another nicer regular cab and swap this cab onto a better frame and running gear and have a unique vehicle. I mean it was always a New York truck, it's not some southwest rust free cream puff, but I've seen way worse. It just seemed like something that shouldn't go to s****, if I can flip it and have a little money to spend on one of my other cars, great, but I know it's no winning lottery ticket and I hate to spend money on it and end up stuck with something else I can't sell.
You could try http://www.ford-trucks.com/ Those crew cabs are sort of legendary, a lot of guys over there talk about them but hardly anyone has seen one in the flesh. My understanding is some of them were built by the factory, and the railroad companies had others built for them by outside firms.
Y's guy, you posted a different site. I recommend the site you posted (Slick 60's). There is so much mis information, spam, pop ups and the mods are act like Nazi's on FTE.
Oh, and those crew cabs are not super rare, but cool none the less. I've seen several and know of one for sale right now.
I signed up with both sites.. thanks - I figure if it was rare enough to retire on, it wouldn't be something I could pick up, but until I spoke up I think it was headed to s****, so..
Man, I would love to get my greasy hands on one of those, have a 63 F100 that was originally longbed, cut down to a shorty and working on a new ch***is, these trucks get alot of looks, even in rough shape, not like a chevy of the same generation, everyone has those.
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i paid 700 for mine out of a junkyard in montana about 8 year ago. was worth the drive, they are just *****N!!
The only one I have ever seen in person was in a stack of trucks in a junkyard. My opinion is yes, yes, yes! If you didn't live so far away i would be begging you for it!
Well, thanks for the help. Consensus from both boards is it's not even worth what it will bring for s**** right now. Not that I expected it to be worth a lot, but I didn't think that asking $1000 and looking for $750 would be so out of the question as to be insane. Too bad they didn't just paint out the RR logos, I could cut them out and sell them as signs and at least get $100 that way. Oh well. Edit: Actually after posting it in the cl***ified here I found two or three possible buyers. Should have done that in the first place. The guys on that "Slick 60s" forum are the cheapest, most utterly clueless bunch of ***holes I have ever seen in my life. It's like they're all to a whole stuck in 1979. Here's a cab that just needs corners and they're seeing no useable parts on it. Telling me it's worth $200 tops when the guy who has it tells me he can fill it full of **** and get $250 at the s****yard @ $100/ton. And I know he can because I've done it myself. So the crew cab is somehow worth less than s****? Okay. The longer I sell cars the more I learn that there are so many ***holes out there it would almost be more pleasurable to crush the stuff outright so no one gets it.
I'm suprised that people don't think it's worth saving, I would buy it if it were closer, I think that there are plenty of folks out there that would be pleased to have something like that. They're not making '60's crewcabs anymore, you know what I mean? Sooner than later they will start shooting up the market, guaranteed. I mean, who in their right mind would have thought that mid '70's cars would get the money they are right now? I hope you save it, for what my worthless opinion is worth
Well, the problem is it's a post-war Ford that's not a muscle car, woodie, early T-bird, or retractable. Which means it may as well be a Kaiser. I've rallied before on how cheap Kaiser guys are - and I've never been able to stir a lot of interest in most post-war Ford stuff, either. I know one guy I may call up who's local who might want it; beyond that I'm not holding my breath.
Been looking for a '53-'56 Ford railroad cab truck for years. I have seen pictures of them but never one in the flesh. The ones I have seen pictures of in those year models were 3 doors. 2 doors on the right and just the drivers door on the left. If anyone gets a lead on one of these please let me know. V/8
Cuz most 4 door cars are actually 2 door cars with 4 little doors in the place of 2 big ones and you can't get in or out of without tearing your arm off at the shoulder if your a big ol' buck or a 6' Lithuanian Irish pollack kraut like me. I think that's why 4 doors are still way cool on caddy's and lincolns but not on chevelles and fairlanes, and especially so on pickups so you and your 3 brothers can pile in 1100# of south Omaha dp and drive uptown for a bronco burger or some smoke pit barbeque. Hail to any who wear **LT
Those ol' service trucks are cool. I almost bought a 69' GMC 2500 crewcab a couple of years ago. I would get it, tarp it up and save it for a rainy day... They make awesome haulers IMO.
you kknow those guys on the 60's boardnwill give fair price if the actual truck isn't junk............if this is the one you dug out of the ground...........put it back..........
You revived a thread that's a year old to stick up for those ***holes? In any case the rest of the story is I did buy it, against my better judgement, it's been sitting up at the top of the hill and I didn't even shovel the dirt out of the back. Advertised it here, even put it on eBay. I figure worst case the next time s**** is up to $200 a ton I can throw some junk in it, s**** it, and make $100-$150 on it. I made a 4400-lb Suburban weigh 5500 lbs and only filled up about the same amount of space inside it. Edit: Not worth bumping this up again but despite what all the clowns on the Slick-60s board had to say about it, I sold it for $750 in July 2011, cut off about a half ton of s**** before it left (and that shows no signs of slowing down, it went up $30 a ton since the last time I took a car in), found a bunch of stuff for the swap meet in the back - and it even had a NY reg and owners manual packet with the RR paperwork in the glove box, that will sell to a railroad collector. I'll do a grand or so out of it by the time I'm done. And the ********ers on that board will still sit whining about it when the next one gets crushed because they won't spring the same $750 a complete truck is going to bring over the scales. I do know any more 61-66 Ford trucks I come across that's where they're going - directly to the crusher, less any 9-inch rearends they may have. I don't even care if they run and go. The closest place is strictly s****, once it's in, it goes out pressed flat with every single part still attached. And **** those guys and their ****ty at***ude, if that's what they want, that's what they'll get.
Tell us how you really feel Yeah I know the feeling, been there. Bought stuff people were looking for at the s**** yard, put a price where I was making a small profit and they want it for damn near free.
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