My truck has been in the family since November 1988. It was purchased at Wood Ford in Trumann, AR, for $13,800. The restoration has cost $10,300, of which about $6500 came from LMC Truck. This project took about 3 1/2 years to complete. My wife and I have raised four children with this truck, and now have nine grandchildren. They all know this is Paw’s old truck.

But now it is retired like me. The truck has 482,889 miles on it. It even smells new on the inside and the doors won’t close without rolling a window down a little. The rest of its life will be for shows now.

The list of the rebuild:

-Disassembled and rebuilt: engine, transmission, transfer case, front end, rear end
-Removed and painted: bed, cab, doors, front cap
-Frame was completely cleaned and repainted
-Inside of cab was completely disassembled, cleaned, repainted
-2 new front fenders and bedside wheel arch openings, new hood, grille, bumpers, headlights, tail lights, all windows, all rubber products, new gauge cluster from an original Ford, seat recovered, original factory carpet (just cleaned)
-Outside is original paint code
-Running boards and sun visor are from LMC