At $12,500, Is This 1964 Ford F-100 A Patina'd Peach?

While today's Nice Price aliases No Dice F-100 looks wholly old-school, secretly it has a much modern five-speed down its 292 Y-block V8. We'll person to determine if we for illustration its also-modern value tag.

Eddie Harding was a pianist and vocalist champion remembered arsenic an on-again, off-again personnel of nan British blues set nan Spencer Davis Group. After leaving that set for nan first clip successful 1968, Harding embarked connected a solo career, releasing his first medium successful 1972, titled "Home Is Where You Find It." We recovered a location this past Friday: a monolithic 1996 Winnebago Vectra Grand Tour WQ-P Class A motorhome. 

No doubt, if Harding were still live and touring, specified a home-on-the-road would make for a comfortable circuit conveyance for between-gig decompression. At $7,500 to buy, nan Winnebago was affordable moreover connected a busker's wages. Many of you commented connected nan myriad of imaginable landmines an aged motorhome mightiness have, but that didn't sway nan vote. Ultimately, that resulted successful a coagulated 74% 'Nice Price' win.

It's arguable that nan title of "Best-selling Vehicle successful America," long-claimed by Ford for its F-Series trucks, is thing nan institution would conflict to nan decease to maintain. The F-Series has held that grant for truthful agelong that it conscionable seems for illustration a pat portion of nan automotive manufacture milieu. A batch of effort has been poured into nan F-Series lineup complete nan years to support that record, pinch nan large pickups astir apt accounting for nan largest stock of Ford's R&D walk present successful nan U.S.

Sometimes location person been misfires on nan statement successful nan series' evolution. One of those occurred pinch nan preamble of nan 4th procreation of F-branded trucks, erstwhile Ford sewage nan agleam thought to build unit-body pickups for nan F-100 and F-250 lines. Rumors started circulating that overloading nan trucks could origin nan portion assemblage to bend, jamming nan doors successful their jambs. As a result, aft 3 exemplary years, nan "Integrated Pickup" was nary more. Happily, this 1964 F-100 came nan twelvemonth aft that discontinuation, and rides connected a accepted ladder framework that carries its furniture abstracted from nan cab for illustration a normal pickup.

While 1963 was nan past twelvemonth for nan "Integrated Pickup," this exemplary twelvemonth would beryllium nan past for nan 292 Y-Block V8 successful U.S. marketplace pickups. The Y-Block was first introduced successful 1954 arsenic a replacement for Ford's fabled flathead V8 and earned its nickname "Y-Block" for its heavy skirt and gangly heads. Available successful aggregate displacements complete nan people of its career, nan Y-Block powered everything from Mercurys and Lincolns to nan fabulous Thunderbird.

According to nan ad, this F-100's 292 comes pinch a mill four-barrel carburetor and ram horn exhaust manifolds. Originally, that motor would person fed a transmission pinch nary much than 4 gears. This truck, however, has been updated pinch a five-speed manual from an '80s Mustang. The advertisement makes nary mention of whether nan rear-end ratio was besides changed to accommodate nan other gears. 

Other updates see an aluminum radiator and what nan seller describes arsenic "Period correct Craegor wheels." Both nan original transmission and lipid bath aerial cleaner will beryllium included pinch nan motortruck successful nan sale. Additionally, nan adjacent proprietor will get a grille and beforehand fenders from a '65 motortruck arsenic a parting gift.

As acold arsenic appearances go, this modular furniture F-100 is simply a spot of a mixed bag. The two-tone teal-and-white overgarment has a beautiful bully patina, and a fewer bumps and bruises guarantee group will cognize this is simply a activity truck, not a poseur. That taxable continues successful nan cab. Most obviously, nan chair spot has 1 of those awesome serape-style spot covers connected some nan bottommost and back. That's matched pinch a steering instrumentality wrap connected nan skinny three-spoke tiller that seemed to beryllium each nan rage 50 years ago. 

The remainder of nan cab is pleasantly spartan, correct down to nan instrumentality cluster, which comprises a azygous gauge lodging nan speedo, gas, and temp gauges, and lights for charging and lipid pressure. A much modern stereo is housed successful nan metallic dash, but it's not evident wherever nan speakers are located. Thankfully, they are not trim into nan doors. An S-shaped displacement lever evidently gives center-seat passengers a small thrill connected nan road, and there's an upturned sour pick instrumentality connected nan level that has maine each kinds of funny to cognize its story.

It's safe to opportunity that aged pickups are having their infinitesimal correct now. Prices are each complete nan board, pinch pristine restorations often going for complete $30K. This 1 comes pinch a cleanable title, immoderate acceptable deterioration and tear, and, if sold to an Idahoan, a group of original 1964 black-and-white licence plates. The asking value for that appealing package is $12,500.

What do you deliberation astir this F-100 for that benignant of cash? Yes, that's much than you mightiness expect 1 to salary for specified an aged and primitive truck, but arsenic we discussed, nan marketplace for classics for illustration this is beautiful basking correct now.

Could you spot personification paying that $12,500 value tag for this motortruck successful its coming state? Or is that conscionable excessively overmuch for thing this aged and spartan?

You decide!

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