My redneck trailer

I've seen a million trailers made out of things like that. cheap and gets the job done.

a 360 will work just as good. Try finding a 428 crank... you can't find one very easily. Can't even order one in a rebuild kit at any parts stores/catalogs.
I built a pretty stout 390, but I wouldn't hesitate to build a 352 or a 360 with the same parts I used in the 390 and I'd expect it to run just about the same

 

The '69 needs a ton of work. It's probably got about 450,000 miles on it, and threw a rod. it hasn't ran or drove since '99 and would need a total frame off restoration now. My uncle gave it to me for parts (the same one who has 400,000 on his '00 F150 now).

A great site for the '67-'72 pickups is http://fordification.com/

 

A guy here made a trailer out of a yugocut it about halfway under where the front seats would be.Cut off the roof too.He pulls it with a 4-wheeler when they go camping(two people can sit in it,plus all the gear they stuff back in the "cargo" area.Now THAT'S redneck!

 

I had one of those trailers for years. Paid $150 for it and hauled everything from railroad ties to wood shavings in it. Put a topper on it and would go to the sawmill and load up with shavings. Stored it behind the barn and used it for years. Great storage unit.

Jim

 

Great site - thanks for the link.

 

thats why i have a spare running complete 390 out back, all the FE blocks are getting hard to get parts for. sounds like jamies needs a rebuild no matter what size he goes with.....

 

Hey Jamie - Do you have anything to trade for my 2Mavs? Come take a look - you may want them.David 770-889-6645

 

Hey David, long time no see. I'd love to have them, but I don't really have anything to trade and being totally honest with myself, about the last thing I need right now is more Mavericks. I need to thin out the heard I already have. Good luck.

Well, I left straight from work yesterday afternoon and went straight to NC. I was tired when I left work, and after a 90 mile drive it was all I could do to keep my eyes open by time I got up there. I had intended on coming back last night so I could get over to Jaguar and get an early start on this thing, but I got as far as hooking up the dolly to the truck, then went inside to see my grandparents for a while. Last thing I remember is sitting down on the couch, then my grandpa waking me up about 10:30 PM and telling me to go to bed. So I got up at 8 this morning and hit the the road. Got down to Jaguar Performance about 11:30 A.M. and did some fancy backing up with a loaded car dolly and dropped the dolly there, then went in to shoot the $#!t with the crew for a while and go eat lunch with them at 12. After lunch I ran over to Northern Tools down on Peachtree Industrial Blvd. and picked up a trailer hitch. Got back over to Lawrenceville at 1:45 and got to work...



If you had seen how far I backed this thing up, you would be impressed. It's very difficult to reverse a loaded car dolly. Everyone was saying I couldn't to do it, so I had to prove them wrong (I didn't really know if I could either). I pulled into the parking lot of the building across the street and got it all nice and lined up, had a couple of guys stop traffic, and backed it up across the street up into the parking lot at Jaguar.



Then I cut it in half with my trusty sawzall and got all excited and forgot to take anymore pics until after I finished it and drug it home.











I V'd out the frame on top and bottom so I could push them together, then took the pieces I cut out, set them on top and welded them back on for added strength. Did the same on the bottom side as well.

Anyway, it pulls great, you can hardly tell it's back there. Just need to run to Wal-Mart and grab a trailer plug so I can plug it into the existing plug on the truck, then wire up the tail lights. Then fill out the paper work for a home built trailer and go get a VIN and license plate for it. I was going to take the front half of the frame down to Blaze and get whatever they would give for scrap, but the guy that runs the shop next door came over to see what I was doing and said he wanted it. So I swung down to his shop after I cut the frame in half, and he unloaded the front half off the dolly for me with his fork lift and traded me a nice electric hydraulic pump for it. Got some plans for that already.

I also priced a trailer of similar size to this one while I was at Northern, $729. If you even want to factor in what I originally gave for this truck back in 2003 ($75, and I got a good engine and trans out of it for my other truck), I currently have like $105 in this, and this one can haul more weight and has shocks. Not to mention other truck trailers like this are going for $200-500 on Craigslist around here, so it's a win-win all around.

 

that is awesome! maybe if i ever come across a cheap truck i'll do that. my grandparents own a business that does welding, exhuast, and hitches so it would be basically just the cost of the truck

 

Thats pretty neat , are ya paint it or just leave it like it is ? I have a 3/4 ton version of you`rs but after years of hard use on my grandpa`s farm you can hardly tell if its a bump side or a dent side .

 

Yea, I'll clean it up and make it look a little nicer. Probably just spray bomb it flat black. I've got a nice chrome bumper for the back as well.

 

Well I pulled it down to a car wash this evening so I could clean it some and pressure wash the black goo out of the bed. I'm glad I decided to bring the original bill of sale from when I bought the truck with me when I towed it down from NC... On the way back home from the car wash I had a Lawrenceville cop follow me for a couple of miles, then he sped up and got right up close to the trailer, I knew he was about to pull me over so I just pulled off into a gas station, he followed me in and flipped his blue lights on.

Says he pulled me over because there's no tag on the trailer. I told him well sir, I just built it yesterday out of an old pickup truck, and have all the paperwork to register it as a home made trailer. He said, "so it dosen't have a VIN on it or anything?" Told him No sir, not yet. "Do you have any way to prove the truck wasn't stolen?" So I gave him the bill of sale with the trucks original VIN on it, along with my license and everything, and he goes back to his car. About that time a second cop pulls up behind him and flips his lights on as well. The second cop walks up and starts looking the trailer over front to back. After a few minutes the first cop gets out of his car and walks up to the second cop and said "He says he just built it yesterday" and they stand there for a minute with their flash lights looking at the tongue of it. Then he walks back up, hands me my stuff back and says "Well Mr. Miles, I see you have all the lights working and it looks like you did a good job on it. Make sure you get it registered as soon as possible, have a nice night". Told him thank you sir, I'll get it registered first thing next week.

That went smoother then I expected.

 

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Wow. What a mess. :16suspect
Here a trailer is a trailer - no tag, no title - atleast on trailers of that sort anyway. Glad it worked out.

 

We have to register our home built trailers also. But we pay a one time fee on all trailer tags anyways.

So basically you tell them you got a few dollars in it, the length and number of axles, and go about your business