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1980 F250 Custom 4x4 with only 76? original miles

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1980 F250 Custom 4x4 with only 76? original miles

I imagine many of you have already seen this truck posted on Facebook?

I can't find it on the 920 website so I am assuming it sold already?

Some details here:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/articles/1980-ford-f-250-with-76-original-miles-doesnt-even-seem-real/?fbclid=IwAR1HtuvE8lxdbBbbJhL4aX7-897UkeGGR58N-5iu507AJL8ah3CyCGsDxLk

Youtube here:

The video shows some nicks and scratches...

I read that the dealer was going to post more pics...engine bay and all, but I don't think they ever did. Must have sold?

So what do you think? Real deal?...

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Re: 1980 F250 Custom 4x4 with only 76? original miles

Screen snip of the window sticker. 351...what do you call them Gary? A 351M400, right?...haha.

Gary Lewis

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I think that's the real deal. If not, it is an extremely well done restoration that would have cost a MINT!

Notice that color of the various interior pieces isn't exactly the same. They would be if they'd come out of the same can. But from the factory they didn't quite match.

As for the engine, it is a 351M and I call that family the M-Blocks. Ford called the 351 of that family an "M" but never called the 400 an M as there was no need to put an alpha character on it since there was no other 400.

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

Dad's: '81 F150 Ranger XLT 4x4: Down for restomod: Full-roller "stroked 351M" w/Trick Flow heads & intake, EEC-V SEFI/E4OD/3.50 gears w/Kevlar clutches
Blue: 2015 F150 Platinum 4x4 SuperCrew wearing Blue Jeans & sporting a 3.5L EB & Max Tow
Big Blue: 1985 F250HD 4x4: 460/ZF5/3.55's, D60 w/Ox locker & 10.25 Sterling/Trutrac, Blue Top & Borgeson, & EEC-V MAF/SEFI

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Re: 1980 F250 Custom 4x4 with only 76? original miles

Be cool to hear the story behind it. If you read all of the stickers on the truck, it was built at the Twin Cities plant in Minnesota, sold to Frontier Ford in Rockford Illinois, who sold it to the Sharon Telephone Company in Sharon, Wisconsin. It has a fair amount of nicks and scratches in it, so it must have been sitting somewhere collecting dust all these years. I must say, they did a nice job shining it up the way they did.

Gary Lewis

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Yes, it sure would be good to hear that story. And whomever cleaned it up did a superb job.

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