Angelo Voltura Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Don't grill me, it's not a bull! But it's close ;) I've been doing a lot of dentside parting out latey and paying for my 79 I've been building, but a friend who I go in on a lot of this stuff with and myself tend to browse marketplace on my lunch break at work and send each other crazy Marketplace ads of things we want but would never actually pull the trigger on. For laughs one day we sent each other an ad of this 87 F150 floating around that had been on marketplace forever. I think the guy was asking like $1200 or something. Motor supposedly knocked, but whatever no big deal. My buddy messaged me saying "hey, I should like, super low ball this guy for the heck of it haha, offer him like 400 bucks lol". I replied "screw it, why not haha, see what happens". Well, I never heard back from my buddy that day. The next morning about 10 or so I messaged him asking if he'd heard back from that guy. I get a message back almost immediately "Yeah, I'm loading it up right now" LOL!! The guy took $400 for it. I guess he had a 70s project that took priority and needed it gone. Well, as luck had it, I was like well heck I'll give you that for it, so I bought it off my buddy that same hour! Haha. So here we are. 1987 F150, 300-6, Tremec T170RTS 4 speed and 3.08s (YUCK), has a 4" RC lift with drop brackets and new balljoints. The good news is that the frame and body overall are pretty solid. It's been beat, but I've had way, way rougher trucks. The bad is the motor is probably fried, and from the looks of it, the truck is going to be a complete and total electrical nightmare. The interior is pretty rough, someone threw a pair of buckets in it that are absolutely atrocious. That being said, on the bright side of things, its got good bones to work with. I have 5 300s floating around, one low mileage one I plan on resealing and likely sticking in if I don't go 351/automatic route. The axles are getting regeared with a pair of 3.55 axles I have laying around, and I plan on removing that god awful flange/tophat hub design. Fortunately as well, I have my old 95 that I wrecked still as a donor truck. I may try to get the EFI to work, but if all else fails I will totally rip everything out and slap a carburetor on it. As far as other things, I found a brand new smoked bug sheild for it, I plan on doing the Australian headlight conversion with chrome stone cages on the head lights, replacing the front bumper, running boards and chrome rain visors, putting a chrome push bar on it, reinstalling my old roll bar and rear pipe bumper and putting on a brand new set of 35s that showed up today. I took the set of wagon wheels on it off and to work so I can clean and paint them and put my new chrome center caps in them. I think it'll be a fun little side gig to get my back into a truck while my 79 is down for while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Looks real solid underneath for upstate NY! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Yes, congrat's! For $400 you can't go wrong. Quad shocks and solid over all. That's a good buy. But Jim's gotta like it so he won't have the only '87 on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Voltura Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 Yes, congrat's! For $400 you can't go wrong. Quad shocks and solid over all. That's a good buy. But Jim's gotta like it so he won't have the only '87 on here. I have a hunch it was probably a southern truck at one point or another. There is a decent size hole in the floor pan but not unfixable, especially as you guys know what I've dealt with in the past. For as cheap as I got it I probably won't sink an absolute ton of money into it since the body has some pretty good dents in it, but who knows, I've done crazier things. I may spray it with some implement paint to get it all one color again this summer. I figure even if I parted it out it was worth what I paid for it. It's only money right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I have a hunch it was probably a southern truck at one point or another. There is a decent size hole in the floor pan but not unfixable, especially as you guys know what I've dealt with in the past. For as cheap as I got it I probably won't sink an absolute ton of money into it since the body has some pretty good dents in it, but who knows, I've done crazier things. I may spray it with some implement paint to get it all one color again this summer. I figure even if I parted it out it was worth what I paid for it. It's only money right? Looks like a good score for $400 to me Angelo. I quite like the Bricknose trucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I have a hunch it was probably a southern truck at one point or another. There is a decent size hole in the floor pan but not unfixable, especially as you guys know what I've dealt with in the past. For as cheap as I got it I probably won't sink an absolute ton of money into it since the body has some pretty good dents in it, but who knows, I've done crazier things. I may spray it with some implement paint to get it all one color again this summer. I figure even if I parted it out it was worth what I paid for it. It's only money right? I see you edited your Sig already. A cab floor is only $30 from Tabco. I don't know how bad it really is, but I'd rock it for an afternoons work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Voltura Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 I see you edited your Sig already. A cab floor is only $30 from Tabco. I don't know how bad it really is, but I'd rock it for an afternoons work. It's not awful, honestly I think a small piece of sheet metal would take care of it. I don't plan on driving it in the snow so I'm not too worried about rot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 It's not awful, honestly I think a small piece of sheet metal would take care of it. I don't plan on driving it in the snow so I'm not too worried about rot. Man, that thing BARELY fit on the little U-Haul trailer, didn't it? You're already into more for tires than the truck, what could go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Voltura Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 Man, that thing BARELY fit on the little U-Haul trailer, didn't it? You're already into more for tires than the truck, what could go wrong? I've got those trailers figured out. 133" wheelbase is the absolute max you can get on them. Had my 79 on one more than a few times haha. But yes the tires were twice as much as the whole truck lmao. We will see what happens. My friend happens to be out in Idaho and found me a nice push bar for her today. I gotta find a decent bumper and a argenr 87-88 grille now, then all I have left to get is the visors, and headlights, and Ill be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 I've got those trailers figured out. 133" wheelbase is the absolute max you can get on them. Had my 79 on one more than a few times haha. But yes the tires were twice as much as the whole truck lmao. We will see what happens. My friend happens to be out in Idaho and found me a nice push bar for her today. I gotta find a decent bumper and a argenr 87-88 grille now, then all I have left to get is the visors, and headlights, and Ill be happy. You are going to have a good truck for not much money. Well done, Angelo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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