Just wanted to post some pics of the 1959 f100 short bed I've been building. I used a totaled 95 crown Vic undercover police interceptor as the doner. The frame was scratch built and incorporated the front and rear suspension off the Vic. Used the 4.6 fuelinjected v8. Chopped the wire harness...
This is the engine bay after the 1959 f100 / 1995 crown Vic frame swap.
Mine is a short bed 95 f100. The wheelbase is 4" less than the 95 Vic.
I cut the front and rear off the Vic frame and used box steel in the middle..
I just finished a 1959 f100 short bed/1995 crown vic doner swap after a year of wrenching nights after work. I made my own frame with the suspension parts and the drive train from the vic. Kept the fuelinjection and disks but put in line locks and lost the abs.The rear is a triangulation 4 link...
Been working on this 1959 Ford F100 resto mod for about a year. Got it with the paint you see on it--appearing to have been put on 20 someodd years ago under a shady tree. It had no good glass, the interior was roached and it was not functional. But it existed and had a title...I took the body...