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GEJD60

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Guys,

I had posted a couple weeks ago about a 1600 loadstar and ford 600... your responses were helpfully and yesterday I bought by first grain truck and drove it 60 miles home... Its a 1972 Chevroley C50 with a 350v8, 4spd +2 and 14" bed. I am attaching a couple pics.. what do you think for $1800?
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Excellent. That would be my choice.
I can't imagine how many F600's, Chevy 50-60's, IH 1600's etc. were sold nationwide to farmers. That's one thing I've seen on here that seems fairly universal.
Unfortunately here in NY they're all rotted away.
 
gejd60,
Great solid truck, Easy to work on, get parts for and use. A perfect little farm and ranch truck for many, many uses. I would rather have had a C60. but I do not think that would have weighed too heavily if I had purchased it. Great buy!
Later,
John A.
 
That truck looks like it's been parked in a shop its entire life and hardly drove. Immaculate for its age! You practically stole it for only $1800.
 
I found it on craigslist. In talking with the gentleman that was selling it I learned that this truck was used to haul fescue seed and that he bought it from the same guy I bought my Allis All Crop 60A last fall. This week or at latest next weekend the two will be paired up after years of being seperated to help me harvest my first ever grain crop - wheat!

Here is a pic of the combine that will be filling the C50 with wheat!
 
go to vintage photos and search 60A to see the 1950 combine that will be used with this truck. Sorry I can't seem to get the picture to post here.
 
Nice buy! Dad had a 68' C-60 dump truck for several years, it was an old township truck and tough as nails. The one thing I hated about it was the vacuum splitter rear axle. I worked one summer in a truck garage and stripped several trucks before they were junked. I called old Charlie and asked about one of the electric splitters I'd removed from a couple old GMCs a few years previous. He said come up and look. I found one I had tagged and he gave it to me. I set it up on Dad's truck and I loved it. (so did Dad even though he b***hed about me putting it on). Old farmers never die they just b***h about everything new and better!
 

As a teenager, our small truck was a '51 Chevy 1 ton pick-up, converted to a grain/stock bed but still had the single tires (split rims).

Normal load was 100 Bushels/ Soybeans and it did it well..

That 216 6 would top the hill across the river at 13 MPH in High Gear every time..on the way to Lewis Center Mill..!!

Be GLAD you have a 350 V-8..!!

Ron..
 
You Did Good , Now ,.. Get a wagner power painter and spray down the bed and anything else harboring rust with used motor oil... everthing i do that to lasts forever and stays sweet ..
 
That cab is immaculate. Just needs a little race glaze wax. Everyone I ever saw at least had the bumper bent. But not this one.
 
(quoted from post at 08:47:24 06/18/11) Guys,

I had posted a couple weeks ago about a 1600 loadstar and ford 600... your responses were helpfully and yesterday I bought by first grain truck and drove it 60 miles home... Its a 1972 Chevroley C50 with a 350v8, 4spd +2 and 14" bed. I am attaching a couple pics.. what do you think for $1800?
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Looks good!!!! Get you a bottle or two of "scratch out" (or if your wife has a tub of pumice paste/gel in the kitchen) and get rid of the faded stuff then wax it. It'll look like new with a couple hours work. No reason a work truck can't look like a sunday driver.

Good Find.

Dave
 
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