Shared by @ALittleMoore07. The timeline and plans reflect the owner’s original account.
KathrynAnn knew exactly what she was looking for. Her dad built a 1977 Highboy when she was five. She watched it come together from the ground up, learned to drive in it and rode with him while it served as his daily driver for about 13 years.
He sold it when she was 23. By then it was rusted through and worn out from farm use. He did not want his kids spending money to fix it. But the rides had never stopped being fun for KathrynAnn, and the shape of those old Fords still reminded her of him.
The work and the years behind it
They had also started working on a 1967 as her first truck, but did not finish it. Years of searching eventually led her to this 1972, with no rust and a clean interior. She bought it as it sat, with the plan to rebuild it as a replica of her dad’s truck.
The ’72 is not the same truck he sold. It is her way to bring back the one she remembers, doing the work herself. She shared the story as @ALittleMoore07.
Read the owner’s original account and build details
The memories behind the truck
Hey! Thank you. To be honest I bought it as it sits. I am planning on rebuilding it to be a replica of the truck my dad built when I was a kid. I’m not sure how much of a story I have forgot 😅
Uh no. My dad built a highboy when I was a kid - I’m rebuilding the exact truck. So I knew what I was looking for when I bought it. I looked for several years before finding one with no rust and a clean interior.
No he sold it because it was rusted through and was a warn out farm truck that he didn’t want any of us kids wasting money on fixing.
He built the 77 when I was 5 and sold it when I was 23 - I loved watching him build it from the ground up. The over all look of them is what won my heart when I was a kid. Now I just love that they remind me of my dad. That was the truck he taught me to drive in - it was his daily for like 13 years. It was always a blast going places with him in it, that never wore off for me. He also had a 67, we started fixing it up and redoing it to be my first truck but unfortunately that didn’t get finished. So I found my 72 and I’m doing it myself!
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