My 77

<font color="darkblue">This has been a labor of love.
I aquired this truck 3yr's ago. I could go into a lot of detail about it, but I'll let the picture's do the talking. It didn't look anything like this when I bought it.</font>




<font color="purple">I am now in the process of painting the engine and underhood detail's</font>

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: big1 on 12/20/04 10:28pm ]</font>

Cool. I've got a bunch of those 70s shortbed stepsides. Excellent.
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<font color="purple"> Would you happen to have a radio for one ?</font>
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On 2004-12-20 23:45, big1 wrote:
<font color="purple"> Would you happen to have a radio for one ?</font>

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Yeah, but they likely have problems. I think I've got a factory AM/FM, and the rest are AM.

I just cut the dash and run a DIN style CD player in my drivers.
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Is the AM-FM for sell and in working order?
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On 2004-12-22 00:33, big1 wrote:
Is the AM-FM for sell and in working order?

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Everythings for sale, but I have NO clue if it works or not. You SHOULD be able to find one (maybe even a stereo version) out of any 70s/80s Ford/Lincoln/Merc, up until they went with the DIN style receiver.

Unless you're going for a total restoration, I'd buy a cheap shaft style cassette player as the bare minimum. A few places still carry them, but there are millions of them out there used and dirt cheap.

I can get them all day long at the flea market for under 20 bucks. Oftentimes under 10 as they don't sell. Nothing wrong with most of them, people just want CDs.
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Look in old lincolns in the JY, most of em work that I've seen, and you can probably even score the cool factory AM/FM/8 track!
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<font color="blue">I've resently finished painting the engine (Ford Corperate) inner fender well's and firewall. Photo's to come,</font>
<font color="purple"> I'm now ready to install some aftermarket gauge's. Mechanical oil pressure, Volt's, and Temp. I'm thinking of installing them in the dash just to the right of the heater control's. What do you guy's think ? Shouls I do this or do the usual and hang them under the dash ?</font>
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On 2004-12-29 14:27, big1 wrote:
<font color="blue">I've resently finished painting the engine (Ford Corperate) inner fender well's and firewall. Photo's to come,</font>
<font color="purple"> I'm now ready to install some aftermarket gauge's. Mechanical oil pressure, Volt's, and Temp. I'm thinking of installing them in the dash just to the right of the heater control's. What do you guy's think ? Shouls I do this or do the usual and hang them under the dash ?</font>

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Mine are under the dash on both sides of the column, BUT, when I get my overhead console made, I'll be relocating the stereo and CB overhead, then using the hole where the radio used to be to run 3 2" gauges.

Actually, I might relocate the heater controls and place the gauges there, havn't decided yet.

Under the dash would be by far the easiest, you can always relocate them later. If you don't have AC, then off to the left is a good spot on the benzel where the AC ducts should come out. There's room for one or two right there.
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<font color="blue"> Hopfully I'll be getting a radio soon, so I don't want to install them there. I hadn't even thought of an overhead console. That would be different. I believe the capilary tube for the temp guage is long enough thou.</font>
<font color="purple"> A friend of mine brought me a set of "Tilt tube's yesterday, so that pretty much made up my mind. I'll be mounting them in the dash just to the left of the heater control's. Now I've got to decide weather or not to paint the tilt tube's the interior or leave them chrome. The guage's are black, the interior is midnight blue. The chrome may look out of place.</font>
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