I purchased this 1986 Ford F150 just over a year ago as a project to fix up to take my family camping and for hunting and fishing trips. I used to own a similar truck in high school and was excited to get into a truck that wasn’t often seen restored. When I purchased the truck, it looked rough, but wasn’t as bad as it looked. The previous owner had done well mechanically maintaining it, and after converting/recharging the A/C, replacing a couple of gaskets to stop an oil leak, replacing a header, a tune up and fluid flushes, along a few other small items I had a great running truck with just over 120k miles.

I then started working on the interior and exterior of the truck. My goal was to do as much as I could myself. I put in a new dash cover, door panels, visors, headliner, fixed the cruise control, installed cab lights, a new dome light, repainted the gauges, shampooed the carpet, installed new door speakers and new fabric on the seat (the seat I hired out). I had the interior looking pretty clean.

Exterior was more of an extensive project. A buddy of mine used to own a body and paint shop and so on the weekends and a few week nights over the next 8 months we took care of all the rust spots, cleaned up the frame, removed all the dents, primered and painted the truck. I wanted it to look original so we used the same paint colors as the original paint but I did use a different scheme.

In the end I am quite impressed with how it turned out. I get quite a few compliments on the truck. Without LMC Truck this would have been difficult. I ordered almost everything from your catalogs.