1976 Ford Courier

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1ton-o-fun

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Unique rare find!!!
I would have to whip out some white paint and put some quotation marks on the tailgate. "FORD" and then below the letters R and D some parentheses and whatever the Japanese symbol for LOL is.

I bet it gets AMAZING gas mileage!
At the car shows you mention, it would be funny to stage it like this is pulling the Chevelle on a trailer!

Found a Google pic:

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UPDATE:

Probably thee most reliable truck/vehicle I’ve owned. Jump in and flick the key on for 4 seconds, prime up and turn to start...Fires every time.

Brought the paint RIGHT back from 1976 with some Adam’s... I can hear Led Zepplin and Lynyrd Skynyrd through the paint. Now that’s it’s nourished again I can really get into it with the polisher; speed, grit and heat.

Still no rear glass, probably be nice for the summer anyway.

Seat, door panels and visors are all getting upholstered soon... stay tuned, probably be something cool? Let me know what you think.

In case y’all buy one, O’reilly’s Edelbrock external fuel pump will fit exactly where the OEM goes. Even wired it into the OEM wiring! Nifty,
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Still have no brakes, been living without them and dreading beating these drums off as they are CEASED onto the truck. Been making due with the parking brake... you know the little clampy guy that just grabs the driveshaft? Was it made for that? Sure.

Old fuel tank is a no go as well, don’t really feel like going through the trouble of getting a salvage yard tank either just for it too be trashed like this one. I’ve opted into turning the garage trash can into a fuel cell that will mount in the bed! You may ask, “what is the shop trash can?” That would be a old, old... old Texaco multi grease drum.
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For reference, this was the remainder of what “Rejuvenated” when I put fresh gas in the tank... I’ve seen varnished fuel, but never this... it was clay, mud, silt, cancer. Add about 5 pounds of that “stuff”. Tank is unrepairable.

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New fuel tank/cell. Don’t hate, I’ll make it work.

Don’t even ask about the running gear... better yet, don’t ask the, “what fluids am I running?”

Truthfully, I don’t speak Japanese so the underhood label that I’d assume refers all those things and information in great detail. Yeah, I’m going too ignore and run about 4 1/2 quarts of what I’d call “motor resurrection”. Something along the lines of 10w-40, marvel oil and a lot of zinc additive. She LOVES it.

The transmission is all kinds of messed up too, it was perfect until I started “dicking” with it. It’ll run through gears but a guys gotta use both hands and a foot when shifting in an out of gears, still just enough to get too the liquor store and back though.

No, I don’t have a title...still and it’s definitely not licensed and insured... I told a cop that the other day.

Any questions? Awesome... am I talking too myself? More then likely.

More to come y’all, I’ll feed you the content if you enjoy.

Bryce,


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Had a used Courier Blue in the 70s, it was in my Ma's name. She did like the stick. so never piloted it. Great little cab to get high on Gold.
 

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Buddy & his brother bought a '73 in '77. Teenagers.
Had about 20,000 miles on it. $300.00.
Why so cheap?
It had been solely used in an open-pit mine. Up until the brothers bought it, it had never seen a public road in it's life.
It was BEAT!
Every panel on that thing was smashed, bashed & crashed. No tailgate.
The box rails were 10" wider at the back than the front. (We made one out of plywood & some channel, but it could never be removed. Needed 3 people to get it back on. 2 to push the box sides in far enough so the 3rd could get hooks we made on the top of the tailgate to grab the tops of the rails.)
The interior had never been cleaned. Mud pit. Cracked windshield, of course.
Drove like it had 200,000 non-maintained miles. A million different noises. It rattled.
But hey...20,000 miles, new tires, new clutch, new brakes & new fluids.
For $300.00! $150.00 each. Yea!
A diamond in the rough!
So...one weekend, a carport, some hammers & a come-along, 4 gallons of bondo(!) 16 cans of bright yellow Tremclad, a Craig Powerplay underdash cassette deck, some 6x9's in boxes & a whole lotta beer later...
'The Corky' was re-born.
There was so much bondo in the hood, the springs wouldn't hold it open. That's what the broom handle in the box was for.
We tried to kill it from the day it rolled out of the carport.
It hung around for 10 years.
Clutch drops, donuts, power shifts, bush bashing, beach parties, camping, the box loaded to the rails with beer, or people. Usually, beer AND people. Along with all the drunken foolishness it had to endure, too. Driven like a stolen rental!
We had it 4' off the ground, at speed,(speed?!?) several times. In a row! Jumping berms in a gravel pit.
It had been laid over 2x. Separate incidents, different sides.
The extra truck anyone could borrow when they were moving. The keys were always in it. Go ahead. Steal it. It was worth more on paper!
Anyone & everyone drove it. Only rules were, fill it afterwards & fix what you break. (There's bailing wire, pliers, a hammer, a screwdriver & some duct tape behind the seat.)
At times it had been so loaded down, the frame rails were on the axle tubes. Picture The Beverly Hillbillies.
It didn't corner too well with a full 250 gallon water tank in the back.
In the end, it didn't die of 'natural causes'. T-boned in the passenger side by a '70's Cadillac. Buddy walked away from that. He even had the piece of mind to run around & pick up a bunch of the larger chunks of bondo laying in the road! Like 2'x2' & 1" thick chunks! Lol! 'Keepsakes'!
Some of those pieces ended up being a trophy for our old car club.
We called the trophy 'The Corky'. A survivor award. For the person &/or their vehicle that had been through hell that year & manged to make it through, none the worse for the wear & tear.
 
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