Well, it's like this... My 1986 GMC S-15 is gunna die soon, It has over 180,000 miles on it, and I don't know how much longer it's gunna keep running.

In February 2000, I ordered a Ford F350, superchassiscab, V10 gas
They told me 12 weeks... we shall see if they lied!

I ordered it from Ford of Westfield. I actually got a slightly better price from Family Ford of Chicopee, but Ford of Westfield is closer

For what it is worth, the worst price quote I got was from Nate, an AUTOBYTEL dealer who happens to work at Marcotte Ford in Holyoke. Nate quoted me about $800 more for the truck with only a V8 engine instead of the V10 that the others were quoting. It seems that before I ordered it, Forded dropped the V8 as a base engine, and replaced it with the V10. The V10 would have previously cost about $600 more so, the way I look at it, Ford of Westfield not only charged me $800 less than Nate at Marcotte wanted, but they threw the $600 V10 in for free.

Nate told me that Ford of Westfield would not be able to deliver on the truck with a V10 engine in it. I e-mailed FORD, and "Dee" called me. Dee assured me that any Ford dealer had the same deal as any other Ford dealer. Time will tell who was right.

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a stake body bed - SCOTT BODY, bought from ACT equipment in Westfield.

CB Radio - Ranger RCI-2950 - custom mounting bracket (pix to come)

Push bar - decided against one for now... the darn F350 grill looks too good to cover up with anything.

Stereo - Stock AM/FM - maybe an MP3 player to be added later?

on-board compressed air system - Thomas Compressor

underbody tool boxes - Woods

driving/fog lites - Went with KC Daylighters (Stainless steel) for high power driving lites to be mounted up on top of the head board. The 23 year warantee was a significant factor.

Also considering Catz XLD combo driving/fog light mounted in the lower part of the grill for more casual use. Maybe Hella Micro-DE's instead... dunno.

Air Horn - Hadley round dual (these are the air horns JC Whitney sells)

Seat covers - looking

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Well, it showed up after 17 weeks. Took another week for ACT Equipment to get the Bed/Underbody boxes on. They did a real good job! Another month or so for me to add all the extras...

the first pictures

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More to come as the story progresses and I have time to add to this page - suggestions welcome

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