f100 - current bid $16000

[UNCLE BOO]

Beautiful truck but no way it was "rotisseried". The frame and suspension were not disassembled or cleaned before they were rattled-canned. I doubt anyone spent the claimed $80,000 restoring that truck, if so, I'm in the wrong business.

You are absolutely right, BobbyFord! I took another closer look at those photos, and it sure does look like they just sprayed "wherever" all over everthing under that truck! It doesn't even look like they washed it before spraying it! No way that truck is worth half of the current "bid". Nice paint, though!

[cdeal28078]

I agree. That is what I meant by all of the crusty looking paint on the bed supports. He might have had it on a rotisserie and rolled it over a couple of times but he sure didn't take that truck all the way down and paint the parts individually. Heck the underside of my truck looked better than that 12 years ago after I did what I call a backyard restoration/customization.
I had about $5000 in it then. His paint and body looks about a 1000 times better than mine but mine was painted under a tent by a 1st time painter...ME! I can say I did it all myself though and I am proud when people STILL comment on it.
Interesting to see where this goes at least. Wonder what the reserve is? Anybody want to start a poll about what it sells for and if it pops back up on Evilbay after a month or so after the so called sell falls through?
I don't guess he is a member or lurker here or he would have said something by now.
clint

[fordman]

the only bad paint picture i seen on the truck was the crossmember under the bed. and i thought those were because of rust pits in the metal of the crossmember.

[bluef250]

Reminds me of $10 million dollar house in a tract home subdivision.

Very nice truck, but $80k. Owner must have paid for everything to be done twice maybe three times.

[Joe Kriston]

Wow, tough crowd...I wonder if the responses would have been different if the owner just joined up here and said "Hi, guys, I'm olebluestepside---how do you like my truck?"...

The guy who's selling it or a previous owner probably took a pile of sheet metal and rusted bolts to a professional restoration shop and said "here, put this truck in show quality condition...$80,000 wouldn't be that far-fetched---the resto shop is probably going to charge at least $80-$100 per hour for everything they do plus markup on parts and everything they sub out...I've seen ads for resto shops in magazines who qualify their potential customers by saying "if you can't afford at least $50,000 on your restoration, then we can't do a good job, blah blah...

Obviously, most of us here are more do it yourselfers who wouldn't dream of spending that kind of money on our truck...If you average out the amount of hours you spend tinkering with your truck and multiply it by whatever it is you make per hour on your day job, I' think we'd all realize we got alot more invested in our trucks than we realize...Not trying to be critical of folks here, but geez, be happy that somebody put the same effort into a bumpside that would normally be reserved for a Shelby or Mach one...

For Alexexc and the gentleman with the beautiful red fire truck, regardless of what they're worth, I'd take your's any day of the week over a restored beauty such as this stepside...Your trucks are living history...This truck is modern art and craftsmanship...I'm more of a history buff...

[Ranchero50]

I'm with Joe, figured the owner spent $80k to have that work done. Florida, don't want to prejudge but methinks older retired guy, 50's styling puts him around 70-80 or so. Can't drive the old tub but it's surely worth a lot of money so he's cashing it out.

Resto quality isn't that great but it sure looks good from topside.

Jamie

[Ranger72]

Wow, tough crowd...I wonder if the responses would have been different if the owner just joined up here and said "Hi, guys, I'm olebluestepside---how do you like my truck?"...

Well sure it's a tough crowd, it's a Ford bumpside website. If that guy joined up and showed off his truck I would positively drool over it, heck I am even now. But it's an entirely different thing to try and sell a truck with a ratty resto and an Earl Scheib paintjob for twice what it's worth.

I see that **** all the time in SoCal. Somebody buys a PoS Mustang, bondos the crap out of it, drops in a junkyard 302, paints it either flat black or some metalflake :bs: to hide the lumps, then sets out to scam someone. Sure, I understand the concept of "buyer beware," but the lies and cons of these people are unconscionable.

If the owner of that stepside told me he did the work himself, I would be mighty proud of him. If he told me he paid $10,000 I would think he got his money's worth. If he told me he paid someone 80 large I would still like his truck, but feel really sorry for him. The fact that this seller is misrepresenting the truck so heinously really chaps my ass. I smell scumbag...

[cdeal28078]

i guess I am just old school and I did do all the work myself on my truck. I just have to think that I only paid or are paying 75,000 for my HOME! Been many years ago but still. It is no palace but it is my castle. I cannot imagine paying more for a truck than I did my home.
I do think more of a truck, even if it is not perfect or far from it, if the person did the work themselves. Any rich person can send a truck to all the best shops and get the work done. My truck is FAR from anywhere near the shape of this stepside but I'd rather have mine. I would not trade mine for his even. Tough crowd? Yep! I think most on here think pretty much like I do.
I am happy our trucks are getting a little attention but the down side is it will raise the cost of parts also.
clint

[papabug71]

Slick old Ford but, if he paid 80k for that, he got his a$$ handed to him.

Looks like an old geezer mobile.

[averagef250]

Strikes me as strange that truck would get bid that high given what I've seen other 70's Fords sell for. I figured there was far more interest in the rarer trucks like super low mile time capsule trucks and the rare ones like crew 4x4's. Not often you see a bump sell over $15K, especially one like that. Nice paint though.

[mk]

Wow, tough crowd...I wonder if the responses would have been different if the owner just joined up here and said "Hi, guys, I'm olebluestepside---how do you like my truck?"...

I guess they would be, as long as he didn't add " and I just spent $80g on the resto"

Obviously, most of us here are more do it yourselfers who wouldn't dream of spending that kind of money on our truck...If you average out the amount of hours you spend tinkering with your truck and multiply it by whatever it is you make per hour on your day job, I' think we'd all realize we got alot more invested in our trucks than we realize...

Absolutely, Joe. I know I'm picky, too picky at times , but I really like this truck and the execution of detail on the body(maybe not so much the wheel or wiring). I guess it's the specter of that outrageous price quote that raises my hackles. That, to me, seems more like Shelby or Cuda territory than a truck that hasn't seen chassis disassembly, let alone a 'rotisserie' resto. I have a very tough time believing an identical truck couldn't be turned out for a quarter of that price, notwithstanding $1200 NOS grills and such.



mike

[cdeal28078]

MAN! up to $22,500 with 4 days left on the auction. That should mean my old beat up 71 F100 with a back yard paint job should be worth at least $8000. Not $80,000 just $8,000
If they did away with the white/Blue paint on the steering wheel, air cleaner and valve covers and put some nice later model Ford aluminum rims with the holes and added some duel exhaust I'd offer him around $10,000 after I win the lottery of course.
clint

[fordman]

joe is right. it could have been a professional restoration. i like the two tone steering wheel. and the truck does look like a old geezer truck. i do see one or two small porblems with the restoration of the truck. and it looks better than some of the sloppy stuff i have doen over the years. but i havent doen a restoration either. i really find it funny that the price is going that high. i think this may be the highest priced truck i have seen sell except for that arizona auction place. and there is a reason they get so much fo ra car. they personally talk to the seller and tell them. you know you want it. bid again. money is nothing.

[Joe Kriston]

For those of you guys that like the History channel reality shows like Pawn Stars and such, last week they had a few of what I thought were cheesy episodes of a combination of Pawn Stars, American Pickers and the one where the guy does restorations...Seems the Pawn stars guy wanted to give his dad a restored '57 Chevy 210 for his 70th birthday and requested the assistance of the American pickers guys to find him a restorable one...The whole deal seemed more staged than a Jerry Springer fistfight...Anyway, while they were doing their dramatic mano to mano haggling , the pawn stars guy brings in the restorer guy to give him a price to do a frame-off....On the show, at least, the guy quoted him $70,000.00...

I'm ok with picking apart a restorer's job---no different than being an art critic----after all, it's not the old truck, it's what they did to the old truck that's subject to critique...I'm glad somebody put forth the effort into a bumpside....While a high price may raise the price of parts some, enough interest is also what keeps them making parts like new dashpads, seatcovers or whatever...

[BobbyFord]

IMO, it's guys like this seller that are what's wrong with Ebay. The vehicle is clean and has a lot of potential but it has also been misrepresented. The seller has a 100% rating (how I do not know), I have not seen any of the other vehicles that he has sold but you would figure for a seller with a 1700+ score, he would have knowledge of what a frame off, rotisserie resto should look like. That truck CLEARLY has not been on a rotisserie and, to me, to claim that it has is not right. Guys like this take advantage of those that do not know the difference. Just my , your opinion may vary.