1950 Ford F1 Restoration.
 

Me and my father decided to restore this pick-up. We bought it winter of 2006 and have been working on it since then. A 1950 Ford F1 1/2 ton pick-up. Me and him have done most of the work on it. All my other 3 brothers did was help get the cab on and off and sand down and paint the chassis.

Engine specs:
-360 big block from a 1968 F-150.
-Engine was bought for $600 running. We had to buy a carbeurator, alternator, belts, fan blade, air filter, and exhaust manifolds.
-We were going to keep the headers on it, but they got in the way of the steering block.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/specs006.jpg

Body spes:
-Body is in fair shape. Has mostly surface rust and a few holes.
-Going to paint the truck black.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/specs001.jpg

Interior specs:
-Seat from some van.
-Going to put in gray interior.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/specs005.jpg

Wheel specs:
-Eagle Alloy polished rims.
-16" wides in the rear, 15" in the front.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/specs003.jpg

Chassis spes:
-Sanded down, primered and painted black.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/specs002.jpg

Additional info:
-Going to be mine when I get my license.
-Had to buy brake discs for the front.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../album1005.jpg


Progress:
-Engine and transmission mounted and bolted in.
-Seat bolted down.
-Passenger side fender bolted down.
-Brake discs hooked up.
-Brake line hooked up.
-Shaft cut to proper length and bolted in place.
-Driver side fender bolted in place.
-Hood hinges bolted in place, hood bolted in place.
-Cab bolted down.
-Lights fully wired up.
-Seat belts hooked up.
-Ebrake hooked up.

Part we are working on now:
-Getting the sides of the bed made.
-Getting the ehaust system ready to be put on.

freakin awesome man! its cool that you and father found something to do together!

**** awsome, its about time you make a thread about it!!

btw, those gray seats are from the 96ish Caravan, the middle seats.

not nessesaraly it could have been reapolstered but if it was the choice in mateirial and color could have been better lol nice tho

Small update! We got the hinges on and the hood on. We also got the driver side fender bolted down.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../Hinges030.jpg

We are thinking of either covering these holes or putting mesh and just putting pins on the hood to open it.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../Hinges029.jpg

Very nice. Can we get a full body shot now? :)

Custom Classic Trucks featured a '50 F1 this month. I'll upload it right quick, it had some trick little things on it.

Here you go. I'll get a pic of the front when it warms up outside. I can't get it now because there isn't enough room between the garage door and the front of the truck.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/whole001.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/whole002.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/whole003.jpg


When it warms up I'll get a front pic and today I have to start sanding down the underneath of the back and paint it.'

Those are the best pics I can get for now. When I open the garage, I'll get better ones.

Nice project truck, hope everything works out on it.

One suggestion tho.
You should have primered and painted the inside of the hood and fenders and firewall while you had it apart, would make it look more professional that way otherwise your going to have a B**** of a time getting it to look right.
not criticizing just making a suggestion.

You know how nice it would be to just dip these trucks in a vat of POR15 to simply get everything rust-proof.

Here is the F1 from this month:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/IMG_4861.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/IMG_4862.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/IMG_4863.jpg
^Check out the mirror arm.

thats a pretty small space to be working in..the hinges look kinda old,and they may start to buckle in over time,i would suggest to buy some new onjust in case it does happen..its coming allong pretty smoth in my eyes..

That looks pretty clean texan_idiot. The paint job is pretty nice too and the mirror arm is slick.

Ospho bath FTMFW!!!!

a couple of buddies and me are restoring a 56' ford-o-matic and it looks to be in about the same shape.
what we've been doing is grinding down to metal(getting through all of that nasty assed undercoating) and spraying the ospho through an old latex sprayer.

lol, try finding hood hinges for a pre 60's ford truck at a reasonable price:lol:
those hinges dont really look bad at all..just some superficial surface rust.
the actual metal will never weaken,just rust from the surface in.
the springs appear to hold the hold and they are the most delicate part of the hinge assembly so they wont be a problem.
i'm curious as to why the hood doesnt have the tension rods though.

just an educated guess(please let me know if i'm right) but it apears as though the inner/outer fenders are mounted for mock up since the firewall already has a basecoat.
it looks like the soloniod,battery and accessories were hooked up to run the motor.
something tells me that this is just the "get it together" phase and once everything is fitted and running properly the truck will be taken almost completely apart again and gone over with a fine tooth comb before final assembly......sound about right???

That's right. We are just fitting everything in place, then we will take it apart and paint and such.

the hinges will become a problem soon or later,I know that,not because of rust,because ive had experence with alot of metal hood hinges,my sister had a problem with her '74 cutlass,and the hood didnt always close right,i had to bend them back everytime we opened the hood..but hey,jabari's truck hood might not have that problem,it might have more support than my sisters cutlass's hood had..

Thats due to the design of the GM hinge, it has one large spring that pulls only on one side. So over time, the pivot points wear out. Same thing happened to my CST/10's hinge: http://www.xmodsource.com/forum/show...0&postcount=42

"Don;t fix what ain't broke." :bigwink:

yea thats what im talking about,but nobody wanted to pay to get it fixed,because nobody ever drove it,except me (only around the block a couple times)it didnt have a tag,and it wasnt realy driveable,we sold the car,so no more problem here..

Small update. I will take pics of the front of the truck when we turn it around and pull it into our garage. We got the cab mounted and when we turn it around we will bolt the bed on.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...rackets002.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...rackets001.jpg


One question. Can we put that lower bar that goes across the truck on top of the leaf springs to lower the front of the truck? Big circle is part of the bar and smaller circle is one of the leaf springs.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/untitled.jpg

I would bet you could. The suspension geometry won't change since it's all on the beam-axle. The most I would worry about is maybe steering linkage, and travel. Thats how you get some extra lift on modern trucks in the rear, with a spring-over-axle kit. To do the opposite would lower it a good 2-3 inches..

Though, check that up with some oldschool guys.. lol.

Yea, we just weren't sure. I'll have to look it up. Thanks.

Wow, been a long time since the last update. Sorry it's been so long. My dad has been working late. We got a fuse box, wires, and new halogens and are working on the lighting. We are trying to figure out something for power steering.

Fuse box:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/light006.jpg

About how much room we have for power steering box
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/light003.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/light002.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/light001.jpg

Random pics:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/light004.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...u/light005.jpg

We got the front lights working!
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../lights005.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../lights004.jpg

Does anybody have any idea on what we can do for power steering? We heard Toyota might have a system, but we haven't searched on anything.