Don't limit yourself to the early 70's, as they were still simple, and reliable into the late 70's as well. Dad's got a '77 F350 with a flat bed with, I believe the 400 gas engine. The thing is a beast when it comes to hauling. Like the first reply to your post suggests, it's a gas guzzler but for what it will do it's a fair trade off in my opinion.
Too unless your just a fan of the Fords, the Chevy's weren't bad back then either. My first service truck was a '78 C30 with a 454 gas engine. Again it would drink the gas, but, being a service truck, I was also driving it around loaded all the time.
All that said when you get into the late 70's you have to deal with a little bit more of the emissions crap than was present in the earlier ones. Even then it's nothing more than a few vacuum lines, etc to deal with so with a Chilton's or hayes manual and a little bit of common sense and mechanical ability, repairs aren't all that bad for anyone to do.
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