Well i bought this saturday for $600.00 The truck is a 1953 Ford f-100
It was dropped off to the junk yard last week for scrap. I was in luck since i know the owner of the scrap yard and he called me when he got it in. It has alot of work done to it including 3.5 chop top, frenced antenna, cali combo, rear window chopped to 4 inches, full shave, front and rear rollpans, and full tilt front end, also frenced custom rear lights and fender body line. Also notice the detailed body line around the frenced antena and the rear lights. It adds some nice touch.

Its in awesome conditon minus the front clip gone in favor of subframe swap. The underside of the bed is rusty from not getting under coated after sheetmetal work. The interior is gone as well as rotted floors And no glass except rear and one side window. Also no running boards.

I bought it with the intentions of setting it aside till i finish my dime. Ive always liked 50s style fords and intend to spend the next several years building this!!!










I need help on this truck!! I dont know t much about it like where he got the rear lights, did he do some of the custom body lines? Any help or insight on where to turn would be great. Take your time and look closely at the pics  

I'd love to get my hands onto something like that! It would be so easy to get that '53 back on the road. I'd loose some of the 80's stink, and ditch the old geezer tailights. Same thing for the elaborate license plate box on the tailgate. It might be kind of cool to re-attach the frontend, and then cut-out a smaller hood opening. There's a ton of molding on that truck, and added body-lines. For $600.00 you are so far ahead to build a really neat truck for cheap it isn't funny. I can tell you the rear suspension isn't going to work real good if you have any kind of horsepower and you want to use it. It's going to wheel tramp like a *** No big-deal, there's lots of ways to beef it up. For paint I'd scuff the whole truck, and use SEM Hot-Rod Black. You're a luckyh guy, take advantage of it, and whip out a cool truck!  

Oops I see the brain police censured part of my post. When you get to the part about wheel-tramp, and you see a bunch of little stars insert the b-word that means a female dog. Welp, I talk to you guys later, I have to go buy a new Snap-on ratshit wrench.  

I wannget ride of the license plate in the rear and add a 3rd set of louvers. I have been debating about putting some flush mounted LED in place of the rear tails.  add a  flush mounted 3rd brake light in the back of the cab. And when i say flush i mean i wanna clear over them also so u cant see them in the body. Also wanna scrap the front fog lights.

Should i keep the added body lines and molded body parts? I like the tilt front.

It will show off my 350 i have thats outfitted with march billet pulleys, billet specialties valve cover and breather. I got the 350 from a 89 IROC as well as the 700r4. I also swapped the TPI for a carb setup! to many wires look messy  

oh yea im looking at a camero subframe swap with parallel foru link and watts in the rear. Also bags for comfort. I wanna make it into a dependable cruiser. that rides great at a hotrod stance.

Any semi-local people around michigan that can cut curved and straight glass?