1964 Ford F-100

Custom Cab Pickup truck

6 - Cyl.

Manual

F11CK462261

Gasoline

Saturday evening: I'm watching all of you watchers out there. You know you want to buy this truck. You sure as heck won't find a better one for the money, and I know you all don't own a similar truck because only 1200 factory 4X4 f-100/f-11's were made 1961-66. How many had factory toolboxes? Who knows...not many. At least this way you'll invest in something that will appreciate, and that you can fix. This is a survival vehicle: even if you don't believe in the loosely conceived post-apocoplytic theories floating around out there, you do realize that things are not going to get better soon, notwithstanding how we may wish they would. This truck will help you make it through anything and has the potential for making money at the same time, both as an investment and as a "Work" truck. Load, dump, haul, charge for your services, or just putter around the ranch.(Back to the listing) This is a 1964, ordered in 1963 by the Yavapai Sheriff's Office, F100 factory 4X4, tilt (dump) bed with built-in factory tool boxes in the slabside box, built in Kansas City from a DSO (District Special Order #75) in Phoenix. This has always been an Arizona vehicle. Equipped with a 223 "Mileage Maker" inline 6, 4 speed with granny, original Warn hubs and a Warn 8K winch. 223 engine was rebuilt with .030 over two years back. Purrrrrrrrrrs. Single wire alternator. All new brake cylinders. Some new bearings in the last year or so. New primary U-Joints late last year. Always maintained meticulously. New shocks. No rust. New Desert brand radiator (which will cool a nuclear reactor) with electric fans last year sometime - not the Taiwan-made LMC Truck stock radiator. New rubber side and back windows and drip edge. As you can see, she's in very good condition. It isn't a show restoration: we don't consider her a restoration at all, in fact, but you could probably go to the local car event and have a lot of fun with her, and probably pick up a trophy or two. She gets much praise from the boys such as, "Now that's a nice truck" and "If I owned that truck and you had a feather up your butt we'd both be tickled" and the like. She's just a very, very unique and nice work truck. Seat is a nice-looking black/gray tweed and it works for us: it’s a newly-upholstered classic tweed from an early Chevy and is thus a bit bigger than the stock Ford which is why we preferred it. New heater core this past winter from a local specialty shop – US made. Has black lap belts. A great running and looking truck. Around town or at 50+ on the highway, this 6 will get an average of 20. We take her into town about once every two weeks – that’s a 100 mile roundtrip. Always reliable, fun and she’s easy to admire, as well as very functional. Her current name, Nelly, is as a result of the letters on her historic plate – NLY. T-18 4 Speed. Dana 60 and 44 up front. Long Wheel Base. Indestructible Dana Spicer 24 divorced transfer case, so it could be re-powered with just about anything – most engine conversion athwart braces are about a hundred and another fifty for the trans. Last year I considered a 350 TBI with auto: that’d be an easy conversion requiring only a clutch slave and new drive shaft: but, really, why bother? She runs beautifully and uses much less gas, and she will go anywhere you like the way she is. Engine runs quiet, smooth and starts immediately. Very, very little LMC – Dennis Carpenter Made-in-China reproduction (Stuff) used on our truck : mostly all original and OEM US Made steel parts. New Goodyear Authority heavy terrain tires on stock steel wheels. (Great looking tires.) No headliner in it yet: always meant to do that, just never did. What she could use, to be as thorough as possible: headliner ($400 upholstery shop ($200 LMC for made-in-China reproduction fiberboard)), two visors ($60 same place), little spring that locks in the E-brake (($1) I leave her in gear - the compression holds her under nearly all circumstances), inspection panels on the doors are off - don't have and didn't want them because it allows the doors to be used as storage areas (I keep a fire extinguisher in the driver's door (cheap insurance) but LMC has a not-too-bad reproduction zipped enclosure for both doors at $200)), and an original seat if you require it. She has no turn signals and I never put a horn in her although the horn button will work fine ($50?). Radio is in her but not hooked up (thought I might pickup a Ford brand reproduction with logo). Headlights, brake lights, tail lights, parking lights all work. You could put on an adjustable electric fan thermostat (at present the sensor turns the fans on immediately, or if I put the contact connector onto the sensor fitted to the radiator, at 190 degrees; an adjustable for $29 would allow the user to set it at any variable trigger point. She has 160 thermostat so about that would be right. Don’t need two trucks nowadays: no big animals at the ranch now (see our other listings for tack, and so on) and our half-ton 94 GMC 4X4 does the trip. Need to find a classic old station wagon, maybe. Got one to trade no newer than 64 or so? As to price: NADA says average is $10.5K but that doesn’t include tilt bed, winch, factory toolboxes. High is $20K plus. Mileage is on the new engine. Overall mileage is probably 133,000. This is not one of the Craig’s List trucks where the ad includes, "Ran when it was parked..." Nelly runs perfectly, all the time. And, she’s a very comfortable ride. In 4 High she'll go anywhere. In 4 Low she'll pull anything you like to anywhere you'd like to pull it. The Warn hubs are locking, incidentally and work perfectly with no leaks - replaced the O-rings just the other day, in fact. So, if you own a ranch or a business you could use her for advertising or in product delivery, or if you’re a contractor, or a homeowner, or (just about anything including retired) this truck is perfect. Drive her anywhere! We're 40 miles east of Kingman, Arizona, remote, in the mountains. Picking her up would be at our ranch, at the Interstate 40 ramp. We had her repainted a Berkshire Green (an earlier Ford color) since it seemed to fit her. A wonderful truck. Have any questions? Write. Here's a question I received on Sunday, responded to, yet forgot to hit the "post" to sale item button:Brian had asked for a couple more photos and asked "if the paint is as nice as it looks":Brian:This is a very, very nice work truck. As in the description, it is something that you can be proud to own. Honestly, the paint's nice. There is nothing wrong with it: two coats of clearcoat over the Berkshire green. This is a 1964/63 Ford that HAS worked, and she still does for us. The pickup bed is the slabside used at that point in time, and as you know from description has the built-in toolboxes from the factory and the hydraulic tilt, which was after market installed by someone long before we owned her, but works faultlessly, and will stay up all day (can you say that for yourself? I know I can't). The bed is made of good-ol' American Steel and is a very, very, very heavy gauge...very heavy, and if you look really closely at her you can see that there were some knocks that just would not come out. We had thought about replacing the bed before we had her painted, but it is in too nice a shape to do that to her: besides, the tilt and the toolboxes and her "nice" appearance do not offset what would be gained. JoeMore from me...She is a nice Work Truck. If she were a concours restoration, we would not be selling her for less than those advertised at $15 to $20K. If you want a truck that you'll never drive for fear of it being damaged, this is not the truck for you. I owned a vehicle like that and am still the subject of ridicule by my wife, 8 years after - a 64 'Vette fastback that I kept in the garage under padded quilts, no less. I'll try to capture a couple more images in the next day. And, this truck is for sale locally, so I reserve the right to cancel this auction without notice. Don't miss our other unique and interesting items. Paste this - http://shop.ebay.com/fortbeale/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562