Ford F 100 cars for sale in Oakland, California

Ford : F-100 1956 ford f 100 pick up

$15,000

Oakland, California

Here is a bit of the truck’s history. My father owned the truck for approximately 35 years. My Dad was a partner in a company that made crates for produce. The company was located on Diesel Street in Oakland. The truck for many years had a flat bed. It was a working vehicle to lettuce growers in Dinuba. The owner of the truck was a farmer that owed my Dad money, couldn't pay him so he turned over the truck in compensation. In later years, when the truck was used for city driving, my Dad retrofitted the flat bed with wood rails. When my Dad closed the company, he then worked in San Francisco at my Uncles restaurant. My Dad drove the truck every day to San Francisco. It became iconic as it was parked front in center on Stockton Street in North Beach everyday. In fact, a restaurant patron who was a commercial photographer used the truck in a Double mint gum commercial. I often thought I could market the truck to be rented by studios in LA for film, I never got around to doing that! When my Dad retired, I took the truck. I am emotionally attached to it, I can remember my Dad and I driving around in it from when I was a little girl. I did a full blown restoration, in and out to stock original. I had the entire truck bed blasted down to the metal and had all rust spots repaired and painted in and out. I replaced the flatbed with the traditional steel bucket bed with an Oak liner. (You can get fiberglass kits, I opted for steel) I replaced all the windows, including the windshield and side view mirrors. I bought new original hub cabs and I found a new floater for the gas tank so the reading on the dash is now accurate! I replaced the liner of the glove box, and installed a heater (an original I found on eBay). I fixed the interior light and replaced it with a new cover, installed the original cardboard head liner. I put in a new clutch and an original in line straight 6 motor. The original motor had already been rebuilt so I could not rebuild it again. I did tons of research, found a person in Lee's Summit, MO that had two 1956 F 100 pickups like mine. One of the trucks he was saving for parts, the other was to be converted to a hot rod. Via a vintage truck web site, I learned of him trying to sell off old truck parts. I contacted and after several emails, videos seeing the truck running, etc. He sold me the motor and told me it had only 50,000 original miles. He seemed honest, he was an architect from H.O.K. The 50,000 miles could be disputed but after we had the motor shipped in a crate via Yellow Freight from MO to SFO and installed it, it seemed to be true. We rebuilt the transmission and installed new fly wheel pressure plate, etc. It's "3 on the tree". The truck runs great. All hoses, seals etc, where also replaced. We set the odometer to 50K. Since the restoration, mid 2000's I haven't not put but more than 75 miles at best. My interest in selling it are two-fold: The driveway too narrow and it takes an effort to get it in and out of the driveway. It also takes up the whole garage. It is not driven much and we would like to see someone will truly enjoy it. Since having it restored I caused 3 dents on the truck, all from me trying to back it out of the driveway. I have every invoice, touch up paint color and a cover for it. In addition to web sites for parts, and manuals and catalogs. If I were continue working on the truck I would do the following: fix the dings, put carpet on the interior floor and re upholster the seats. There is nothing wrong with the interior seats, no rips or tears, I just think something more original could be done. Lastly, the driver window needs to be replaced. I have replaced it once, it was not installed properly and after a couple of times rolling the window up and down, it cracked horizontally middle of the window. Not an expensive replacement. I also think white wall tires on it would look great. There are steel belted white walls. Sorry this email is so long, but with something so old, it has a history.