1978 or 79 crew cab long bed 4x4
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1978 or 79 crew cab long bed 4x4
What I'd like to find is a 1978 or 79 crew cab long bed 4x4 but I can't even find mention of one. Did Ford make one in this configuration? Thanks for any help.
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Re: 1978 or 79 crew cab long bed 4x4
I use to see one around here every now & then. Some mexican guys hauled pine straw in it stacked about fifteen feet high. Haven't seen it lately though.
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Re: 1978 or 79 crew cab long bed 4x4
Check oldfordcrewcabs.com Several for sale.
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Re: 1978 or 79 crew cab long bed 4x4
Ford never made a crewcab longbed 4x4 before 1980.
Hundreds, likely even thousands have been made though. I'd say 8/10 78-79 crewcab longbed 2wd trucks have become 4x4's in my area. There's a guy in Washington that makes a living buying just 78/79 crews, sprucing them up, making them 4x4 and putting them for sale. He called on a 69 Lincoln 460 I had for sale and we got to talking. I told him I'd done a few with Cummins engines and they worked pretty good. He acted like I was talking Chinese and a 460 was the engine god intended to be in a 78/79 Ford truck.
Hundreds, likely even thousands have been made though. I'd say 8/10 78-79 crewcab longbed 2wd trucks have become 4x4's in my area. There's a guy in Washington that makes a living buying just 78/79 crews, sprucing them up, making them 4x4 and putting them for sale. He called on a 69 Lincoln 460 I had for sale and we got to talking. I told him I'd done a few with Cummins engines and they worked pretty good. He acted like I was talking Chinese and a 460 was the engine god intended to be in a 78/79 Ford truck.
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Re: 1978 or 79 crew cab long bed 4x4
Thanks for all the help everyone. I suspected that 4x4 and long beds didn't overlap in those years but couldn't find data one way or the other.