So a buddy of mine bought a 1978 Ford F250 off his girlfriend's grandfather in Wisconsin last year after wrecking his 2001 Jeep Cherokee. The truck originally had a 300 CI I6, and was used as a farm truck all it's life (until now). It had 87,000 ORIGINAL miles on it, and her grandfather was the original owner, drove it off the lot in 1978.

Back in summer of last year, he decided to fully restore the truck to it's former glory. This was a free time thing, but his flexible ROTC and signing bonus helped greatly. Below is a link to the build thread he has going on Lonestar Jeep Club.

http://www.lonestarjeepclub.org/boar...ad.php?t=44453

After having it finished for not even 2 full days, a guy at the local O'Reilly's offered him $25,000 on the spot for the truck. Needless to say, that made him love it even more! (He figures he has roughly $17-18K in it right now).

The truck is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I had the chance to test my skills with my first photoshoot. Some of them turned out pretty well for the lighting (cloud) conditions we had to work with. I plan on taking some more next week, hopefully.

On to the pictures!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5784354284/http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5784354284/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/derek_ogburn_photography/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5784353526/http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5784353526/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/derek_ogburn_photography/, on Flickr

More pics tomorrow when my Flickr upload limit resets. :o

 

Beautiful truck!

 

That is one sharp truck! He did a great job on it.

 

Thanks fellas. This is his pride and joy.

Will, he lives off Crowley-Cleburne Rd on the north side of Crowley, so you may see the truck around.

Now he gets to focus on his "Jorp", which is his 1990 Jeep YJ with an entire Ford F250 drivetrain and susp/axles.

Those HDR pics are the only ones I have uploaded right now. I will get the rest up tomorrow.

 

that is sweet..a buddy of mine lives in crowley, this might be a good reason for me to go visit! anyways, seeing that truck makes me want to get my '78 back on the road even more!

 

That looks awesome!

 

Well come on!!

 

Gorgeous, more pics please!!!

 

Coming tomorrow.

 

Beautiful truck! But the true "highboys" were not produced past 1977.5.

 

That's one things I could never truly figure out, was what made the truck a highboy. You wouldn't happen to know, would you?

 

Exactly what I was gonna say before i scrolled down to the responses. So I will just quote you.

 

Wow! Really nice ride, I can see why someone offered him $25k

 

Here are more pics of the truck. These are the better of the 20 I picked to edit for him.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786179851/http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786179851/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/derek_ogburn_photography/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786733716/http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786733716/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/derek_ogburn_photography/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786733476/http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786733476/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/derek_ogburn_photography/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786733294/http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786733294/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/derek_ogburn_photography/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786178553/http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786178553/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/derek_ogburn_photography/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786178203/http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_ogburn_photography/5786178203/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/derek_ogburn_photography/, on Flickr

 

Great looking truck. I didn't read the 38 page resto, did he stick with the 300 6?