Paul is trying to figure out what this old truck is worth and has asked if we can help. There’s more photos and information about the truck in the forum linked to below. Please post your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks!
Location: Ely Minnesota
Mileage: 49,000
Title Status: Clean
Seller’s Description: The original owner of this truck passed away and the family is looking to send it to a good home. Value is uncertain. The truck has a small original topper on it. It is a two wheel drive camper special.
Body Condition: Body is all original, no rust or dents. Paint is like brand new. Been stored for over 30 years.
Mechanical Condition: Everything is in driving condition. It has been maintained over the years.
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If the truck is in driving condition like you say Paul, you should back it out of the garage and wash it up. Submit some more photos when it’s clean. Underhood and underbody photos would also be good.
Agreed!
I am planning to do that. Photos to come. I forgot to mention the truck has just under 50K mikes.
1st of all, I would urge the seller to reconsider, keep the truck, and sell something else. This is a heck of a find, and have no reason to doubt the mileage. Original trucks like this are hard to find, plenty of tired ones here in Colorado, however. The fact it sat for 30 years is a bit of a deterrent, and doesn’t say if it can be driven home, which would broaden the buyers and raise the price, but most people that would want this, know what they want, but they’re going to want a deal if it needs to be towed, naturally.
To seller, don’t be fooled with what crazy prices some people put on vintage pickups today. What they actually get, may be thousands less than they are asking. I recently bought a ’77 GMC short box, one owner, 150K, but still hardly rusted, runs and drives great, with a camper shell for $1,400 bucks. Today, I’d ask no less than $3,000, considering what’s come through here lately. As your truck sits, I’d have no problem asking $5 grand, maybe $6,500 or $7, if it can be driven, but this $10 grand ( or more) baloney you see for these types of trucks, is silly. It’s just not there,,,yet. Good luck, these are the “salt of the earth” trucks, and being this nice, I certainly wouldn’t give it away.
That’s a great price Howard, you should show us some pictures.
Yeah, that was kind of the exception at $1,400, and it was a “who you know” deal.( caught it before it hit the internet) I’d like to post pictures, but for the life of me, can’t figure out how to get them from my camera to here. Most of my neighbors are older folks too, and this stuff baffles all of us, so no help there.
Howard,
Shoot your photos. Remove card from camera and plug in computer, or use USB cable to plug in the camera itself. In BF, click on “choose file”. Find your camera card in the same place as the various hard drives (“C”, “D”, etc.) Usually it will say “No Name”. Look for a file that says “DCIM” and there are your photos to select that are labeled “IMG” for image. (scroll to bottom to see the latest ones). There are also hundreds of how to videos on Youtube on how to do this, like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT9n23RGs04 Hope this helps!
i also have not figured out how to upload a photo. I get an error message that says the size of the photo (.jpeg) is too large to upload to Barn Finds. These were scans of photos taken many years ago. I have no idea how to make the file size small enough to upload. But others have clearly figured this out.
I use the share feature, if your phone has it, and the Gmail account registered on my phone emails them to my email address.
Thanks Howard the truck is completely drivable. It has been maintained and run over the years. You could drive it to Colorado 😄
What I see looks good but it’s pretty vague. It looks like a Sport Custom with extra trim but it would help to know for sure. Is it a 360 or 390? Manual or automatic? A-C? All of these could factor an asking price. I saw a lot of pickups with a similar bed cap/camper shell which didn’t cost very much new. Ford brought out its own factory shell in ’73; a truck with one of those in original condition can command a premium today.
There. I wasn’t able to lock onto the site at first. Now, some questions got answered. Sport Custom, non-AC, auto, but still don’t know what engine is under the hood. I see it’s set up for a trailer. I well remember those all-business trailer brake controllers.
Excellent truck, the market is improving for these, my concern is the oil stain on floor underneath. That indicates a rear engine seel. They typically dry out on engines that don’t get started often enough. With this in mind the dual tanks are full of old gas or worse the tanks are not full of fuel. Then the heating and cooling creates condensation that leeds to rust.
As this truck sits not running $4k. Running driving $12-18k.
Paul, when you are unsure of the value of a vehicle, a good way to determine it for sure is to auction it at a GOOD local auction. Doesn’t have to be Barrett Jackson! After a quick Google I found both Mecum and Van Der Brink in MN. I’ll bet one of them could get you top dollar for the truck at the right auction. All it takes is two or more motivated bidders. Just be sure to have the truck professionally detailed and ready for the road.
The engine is a 360 and an automatic. No AC. I will be providing more pictures as soon as I can. I’ll check on the camper info. Thanks for the comments.
I would not take it on the road without replacing tires and checking brake lines and coolant hoses
The 10 grand “baloney” is the number.Detailed and sorted ,maybe 12,but an “ask ” of $9750 would be appropriate ,based on what we can see.
Mainlymuscle there’s a name I haven’t seen on this site for a while. Thanks for the expert opinion.
There is a Facebook site called
BUMP Nation ’67-’72 Ford F-Series Trucks!
It gets lots of traffic and would be a good place to post this.
The bumpside Ford’s have always lagged behind the Cheveys of the same era but that is changing and nice trucks like yours seems to be are climbing in value. Nut they are o ly original and one owner once so it will never ne worth less than it is today. Why the rush to sell? Hang on to it for 10 more years and it will be $20,000.00 truck. Today if it cleans up nice and is not rusty it is worth 8 to 10.
Don’t underestimate the value, the bumpside Ford’s have increased nicely in value. The work required to get it up to par after sitting is shadetree mechanic level, and none of it requires big dollars. Put it out there at $10K and test the waters…much less and it’s flipper fodder…. better yet, keep it if you can.
You might want to cruise over to Ford Truck Enthusiasts (https://www.ford-trucks.com) and ask. Those guys know EVERYTHING about Ford trucks.
Try this website – it’s where I went when I had my ’68 F250.
http://www.fordification.com
OK I’m not sure what a bump side pickup is. Is this one and what’s with the name?
The body line at the sides ‘bumps out’… in ’73 it became ‘dented in’…hence, Bumpside and Dentside… prior to ’67 it was a Smoothside.
Mark s–“As this truck sits not running $4k. Running driving $12-18k” ??? That’s quite a blanket statement and sure to bring the conversation back to…them over the top asking prices for salt of the earth trucks on this site. In the $4k range this truck will go to a handy person who most likely do the repairs themselves. At $18k, I’m turning the page and looking for something else. Nice factory color combo, and a practical truck, but… And TV auction guys aren’t going to consign this for any auction unless the detailing work has already been done. Even then, its an honest workhorse, not a Ferrari GTO.
I’ve been trying to post more pictures and this web site is not letting me. I’m done with it. Go to ford-truck.com the pictures are there.
So Paul how did this work out for you? Did you keep the truck or sell it?
I looked at the additional pics you posted. It’s a nice truck. I’ve sold about 20 F series trucks in the last year or so over here on the East Coast, so I think I’m pretty plugged in to the market (at least over here). What I can say about your truck that’s unique (other than the low miles and condition) is the color combo. I look at around 50-100 trucks a week, and I can say I’ve never seen that color combo before. As noted on the Fordification site, this looks to be a DSO special order for the colors. That’s quite rare. How much does that add to the value? Eh, can’t really say, but it is unique in a good way.
You also have power steering and power brakes, a big plus. This truck should be equipped with disc brakes on the front.
As to price: it does vary by location. Here on the East Coast, trucks like this are very hard to find. You would most likely do best financially to sell it over here. The nicest F series truck of this era I have sold brought $8000. It was a 75 and an F100 but with a 390, factory A/C, 68k miles, and in very nice shape (though your truck is in better shape). It took me about a month to sell that truck, and I started at $9950. I would say your truck is worth around $10,000-$11,500 over here on the East Coast. But start higher, you can always come down, but you can’t go up. It also depends on the platform you use to sell your truck: I have had absolutely 0 and I mean 0 luck with Ebay in the last two years. CL is where I have had the best luck, though enthusiast sites like Fordification and such are not a bad way to go, either. Also keep in mind that the higher your asking price, the slower the sale will go, but don’t panic. You have a very, very nice truck there and if you choose to sell it, the right set of eyeballs will see it at some point. Make sure to get close up pics of the rockers, the area under the rear window, cab corners, rear wheel arches, radiator support, and of course the underside of the truck (frame, floors, truck bed, etc.).
Good luck and I hope this information has been helpful.
Thanks so much for the info. Nice stuff to know. At this point we are going to have the truck detailed and bring it to a local car club show. Hopefully we can get some ideas on price.we probably will be storing the truck this fall, unless someone makes a good offer, and put it up for sale next spring.
Paul, what ever happened with this truck? I have a similar one and was curious how much to ask.
Long story but the truck went to one of 3 siblings. It was determined that it was worth between $15-$20k so he paid the other siblings $10k for it. Not much help for you.