Shared by @RedMackPumper. The timeline and plans reflect the owner’s original account.
Jeffrey first saw this 1972 Ford at a local garage when he was 12. Later, he learned to operate its towing and recovery equipment. His mentor Butch helped make the truck part of his life long before he bought it in 2017.
The Ford then sat for a while before Jeffrey began giving it another life. He wanted to keep it as original as possible apart from its tow boom, with shows and old four-wheel-drive recovery work in mind. Butch had died, and his name on the driver’s door kept the mentor’s memory and the truck’s history together.
Read the owner’s original account and build details
Truck year:
1972
Ownership when this account was shared:
Bought it in 2017 it sat for a while before getting a new life
How the truck came home
Definitely a highboy had one when I was 17 years old
The memories behind the truck
Saw a highboy when I was 12 at local garage and fell in love with it and later in life at same garage learned how to operate this same truck
Build details, in the owner’s words
Other than the tow boom it’s all original as I could get it
Plans at the time of the story
Just show it where I can get a little bit more notice of what it was like back in the day when it was the truck of choice for 4x4 towing and Recovery
More from the owner
Yes the guy who taught me how to use this truck and tow cars and winching out recovery’s passed and I put his name on the driver side door so he could be remembered and always be a little part of the truck and the history of why it’s been restored to the truck I learned a life long lesson from (Butch)
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