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[Big Jim F150]

If anyone would like to check out my truck, it's a bright red 1978 F-150 Ranger Lariat. There are six pictures in my gallery for everyone's enjoyment. Please feel free to enjoy, I've owned this truck since last June, I had bought it mostly restored, but it just needed a bunch of little detail stuff done to it yet, but I'll get those things done as I go along, especially with all the ideas and useful tips that I've read here. Thanks Ranger429 for the delightfully inexpensive way to restore my speaker grilles on my door panels, with the 1/8 inch wide chrome pin striping tape. I decided to use your idea on my door panels, after I had read your post on that, especially with the brown door panels being hard to find, especially for the Ranger XLT , and the Ranger Lariat.

 

[Blue Goose]

Very nice, Jim! If you want to post your pictures in a thread, copy and paste the BB code within your post...

 

[blacksnapon]

Very nice looking truck!

 

[Beach66Bum]

Very nice looking truck!

 

[kiwi f150]

Really nice looking truck

 

[DNFXDLI]

Nice truck, really like that color.

 

[keithgonzales]

Nice truck, love the color. Is that the original ford red from that year?

 

[Big Jim F150]

I think that might be a red from 78, but the truck was that color when I bought it last summer, it was originally a brown and beige two tone combination, but the previous owner didn't like that combo, so he had it repainted that pretty red that it is now. My interior is a brown with beige accents, but not too much, just enough to complement the red.

 

[LEB Ben]

Very nice...looks like a helluva cruiser.

 

[460Trucker]

Beautiful truck, Sir!

 

[fatherdoug]

Very nice truck! I had a '79 for a short while with brown and beige(cinnamon and crème). The brown(metallic color) looked very nice when buffed out, but I didn't care for the crème.

 

[Big Jim F150]

Thanks guys, you all have some beautiful trucks too, especially the one that fatherdoug has, which is a 78 F150 Ranger Lariat like mine, but a four wheel drive version, and a black one, where my 78 F150 Ranger Lariat is two wheel drive version and a red one, and another difference between mine and fatherdoug's truck is the grilles, his is stock, and mine is a custom billet grille, fatherdoug, I see that you have the wheel opening trim, and the racetrack style body moldings, at first I didn't think that combination would look good together, but it does, and it got me thinking about getting the wheel opening trim for mine, to complement the racetrack style body moldings on mine, although mine does look pretty sweet without them .

 

[fatherdoug]

Thank you, Sir. I've thought about going with the billet grille. There is another black '78 or '79 south of town that has been sitting for the last ten years with an older style billet grille. I like the way they look.