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My 1980 Ford F100 Ranger Lariat


Fordtruckman80

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Joined
Jul 22, 2009
Messages
46
Age
33
City
Florida
Vehicle Year
2003
Transmission
Manual
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Don't mind the blue seat.lol. The truck used to be a Custom trim level, but i've added quite a few parts to make the truck a Ranger Lariat trim clone, and I haven't gotten a chance to have the seat re-upholstered.

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4.9 300 I6

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1995 D44 TTB waiting to be rebuilt and swapped in place of the kingpin TIB.

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I love that body style.
 
Ya its a nice looker
 
Nice man those 300's are bullet proof.

No kidding. This one has been put through hell by the previous owner, but it still serves it's purpose well although it's starting to show it's age. One day she'll get a mechanical restoration so I can drive her on the street again.
 
Awesome work! One of my favorite Ford motors under the hood to boot! I love that body style.
 
Beautiful truck.

Thanks!

Sweet rig! Moar pics!!

Guess i'll add some of it from when I picked it up.


When I first got it home:

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The 300 was covered in oil and dirt.

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The interior was an ugly burnt yellow color:

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The new interior has a cool story to it. I had a friend who picked up a 1982 F250. He bought it as a mud truck, and it had a beautiful almost flawless black interior with wood grain cluster trim. I fell in love, and knew I wanted a black interior for the F100. Well, about a year and a half later, I found out that my one friend had sold the truck to another friend of mine. But that friend only wanted the axles, and was gonna scrap the rest of the truck. I called him up and asked him how much he wanted for the interior. He said $30. Later that night I came home with the entire interior in the trunk of my mom's Cavalier, with the exception of the seat, which was long gone. The interior was covered in mud, which can be seen in these pics. But it all cleaned off, and now the interior shines as seen in the pics at the beginning of this thread.

Interior when it was in the 82 F250:

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And when I brought it home:

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As you can see in this pic, the door panels did not have the woodgrain trim. This is because the donor truck was an XL, which did not come with woodgrain trim on the doors. I later found a set of woodgrain panels in the junkyard, and added them to the door panels.

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Here were the wheels after cleaning. They were covered in brake dust and dirt, but cleaned up nicely. I picked these up for $40 at the local junkyard. The tires are 31x10.50's, and I got those for $50 from the same kid who originally bought the 82 F250.

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