68 F100 Revival (20 Years Forgotten in the Woods) - We Drive Her Out!!! Grassroots Roadkill 

Good job buddy, great video. Thanks for saving some metal and showing the younger generation not everything needs bought!

Soon as I seen the inline 6 I knew it would run...lol most underrated engine but by far one of the most reliable and indistructable little engines ever made.

I love watching people bring cars left for dead back to life. Thanks for posting this!

Always feels great to see something run after a couple of decades. I did that with a 1949 Ford 8N tractor, it hadn't run in 30 years.It was missing the distributor so I bought a new re manufactured. I did all the wiring, tune up parts, oil change, carb kit, cleaned the gas tank and mounted a GM alt. One thing about the Ford 8N and 9N tractors, they make almost literally everything for them still today. It started in 4 cranks, it was unreal and so satisfying, there is nothing like that feeling it's so exciting! I love to see resurrected vehicles and sometimes it takes little effort and some mechanical minded people and the love of antique vehicles to bring them back to life. I really appreciate the ingenuity of the early engineers, It's incredible! great Job guys!!

Impressive. You guys got that ingenuity, the patience and perseverance . Rock and Roll them Ovals!

This brings back memories of tooling in my parents garage with my old man and how rewarding it is to work on and rebuild your own trucks the points and distributer brought back memories of the matchbook gap and really made me smile thank you great video miss those dad moments

One of the best resurrections I have seen. Big smiles every time you drive that truck.

Thanks. Really good vid. that old girl was basically buried alive and didn't want to die so young. She came back to life with minimal resuscitation. GREAT old truck. give Her the life she deserves.

Love it when an oldie gets a new life. Awesome job getting her running again after all these years, well done guys.

valiant effort and brought back hilarious memories! in 1970, our mom, who couldn't drive a standard, bought a magnicent 2-speed Powerglide Automatic 283Ci Impala Convertible for $600. Car was perfect! We learned to drive in it, but we felt less than manly because we couldn't drive stick. My brother and I scraped up $200 and bought a 1962 beater Impala Convertible with 3 on the tree. In retrospect, I can't imagine a 62 impala - which was a premium car when built - having a column-shift standard. After much clutch-burning, we taught ourselves to drive this piece of crap. Problem was that the shift linkage on the fire-wall regularly would, bind and one of us would have to get out and shake the he'll out of it to get it back into first. In PA in the early 1970s, you couldn't get a Temporary Tag on a car sold privately, and the seller kept his tags. The state of PA expected 16-Year-olds to wait a month for tags before driving the car.... for a teen that's 2 centuries in adult years. The solution was simple: We were in a junk yard searching for parts, and found a perfectly current plate from a 1962 Renault, which one of us stuffed down his pants. We were driving around, the clutch linkage jammed, the cops pulled up to help, and we spent a night in jail for driving a Chevy with a salvaged Renault plates. I learned a lesson that night, but damn, I wish I could do it again!

Great and powerful big I/6 , they went in f250 ( at a time you couldn’t give them away ) for a reason, absolutely BULLET PROOF!

steering held together with zip ties, cannot see out the windshield, no brakes, and drive on a flat tire. Sounds like something I would do. Loved it!!

Love to see these American made hard working classics get second life well done fellas.

You see these old vehicles in yards everywhere. Nice to see you guys bring one back from the wooded purgatory. Good job!

Wooohooo! Beautiful! This made both me and my girlfriend happy. We have a 1969 f100 that me and my dad rescued after 20 years of sitting between some trees.

Dude! A 300 Straight 6!!! Best Engine ever built!!!!

Nice work!!! I bought a 1987 cougar that was sitting in the weeds for 10 years for $250. I made it run with a new fuel pump and some other minor things. Runs and drives.

looks like my grandpa's truck. Love the zip tie fix on the rag joint. True day Z rig.

This was great. Learned to drive on a 76 F100 with the 300 6, 3 on the tree. Different body styles but many of the same parts. I wish you guys were my neighbors.

I loved this video! I have always had such a soft spot for 60s and 70s Ford trucks and I especially love them with a 3-speed on the column. It really warms my heart to see you guys work to get this great truck back on the road.

glad you put this video back up. inspires us to get off of our lazy asses. Never let the old Fords die!

Love seeing old trucks like that rescued, good job.

I have a Identicle 68 F100 as far as paint . Mine has 27,XXX original miles and has a factory 390 /C6 combo with gear vendors over/ under drive and a semi floating 5 lug Dana 60 with 3.50 gears and a Factory Power Lock limited slip diff. It now has a 268 h comp cam , Comp valve springs , adjustable 1.76 rocker arms with new hydraulic lifters, Hooker headers , dual flowmasters , recurved big cap and cap adapt duraspark distributor conversion , MSD 6al box , streetmaster intake, Holley 670 cfm carb and dual fresh air ducted airl cleaner. It will fry the tires and fishtail if I stab it at 40 mph . Its ran a 12.22. 1/4 mile pass @ 114 mph with a .541 reaction time. total sleeper with its hub caps and clean original look .

Man... that brought back some memories. I had an old '61 Ford with a straight 6, probably essentially the same engine.

That's definitely amazing. Great job bud, bringing back a piece of family history.

Ive watched your video till the end and i am telling yah i enjoyed it a lot. I am studying automotive for this reason to build and fix old cars like these. Thank you very much for the video. God bless.

Got rid of my 67 F-100 240cid, 3-on the tree. 34 years ago. I'm almost crying. I miss the ol' girl now. Thanks for reviving the memories. That'll be #1 priority if and when I win the lottery

I want to say thank you for getting this old beast back from the grave, its so nice to see trucks like these

Im such a nerd. At 9:38 I felt happiness and actually out loud, said "Hell yea!" Like I was actually there helping you.... Yes..I have mental issues.

throwback to this summer. here is the full video all parts 1,2,3 put together into one - please stop asking now.

I looked long and hard for THIS VIDEO IN PARTICULAR just to watch it again> 2 years ago I found and bought an 88 F150 someone had totally ripped down and gutted to make a show truck out of it but passed away sadly before they could do much of anything with the truck. I HATE FORDS I REALLY REALLY DO but this truck it called to me begged me and I felt sorry for it so I took it home. 2 weeks ago the weather warmed up A LITTLE and a few days prior to that I committed to go rescue another FORD truck which is a 1991 short bed for a friend that begged me to help him. He knows I have trucks and construction tools because before becoming a retired and mostly unemployed bum I was a contractor. So I set out on the morning of the big wreck here on Rt 81 in Pennsylvania for Pine Grove where this truck was lodge inside a partially collapsed garage so we could rescue it with my best FORD buddy. The only reasons I even took on the challenge is my best FORD buddy knows FORD TRUCKS like I know Silverado trucks. In the future I will need his help with my truck ya see the deal we made??? Well the weather turned to howling winds and blinding blizzards with 50-60mph wind gusts and by a stroke of sheer Gods magic hands the lord actually helped us lift the largest part of the collapsed roof right off the truck. The wind gust that lifted that section of roof was so strong the piece of roof landed 10 feet away from the building that is how strong the winds were not to mention we were stuck there another 5 hours after hearing all the sirens the people we bought the truck from came over to tell us the hiway home was closed we would have to use the back roads to get home... . I was fearing we would have to hook my truck up to move that big piece roof which would have hurt the truck. It was so slick and got so icy we never would have been able to use my truck to lift that piece of roof off it. We did manage to pull the Ford truck out but we had come back for it which we did Wens after noon because it would not start or run Typical Ford. My trailer was so slick with ice we never would have gotten the truck up on the trailer like that not safely. Turns out my Ford buddy is also going to have a nice build and his truck is not nearly in as many pieces as mine is in... We worked 6 hours to get that truck started so we could get into position to get it on that trailer. I was just a bad cumpooter as I call em and my Ford buddy had 3 of em along too bad only one of em was still good.

That’s one thing I love about those old fords, those doors shut like new even at a old age. Awesome truck👍🏼

Yeah... The master-cylinder reservoir bowl is not really where you want to find dirt and debris like that. I don't envy you the *tons* of brake work you have ahead of you -- I just replaced the entire brake system in my '68 Ford Galaxie (factory front discs, too) and am still working out the bugs. It's a long process. But super job getting that thing running and rolling under its own power!! Loved the fact that you detailed everything you did, but didn't go overboard with every last little tiny nut and bolt -- a good combination of summary and detail, I thought. Enjoyed watching it!

love those old 60s and 70s ford cars, specially the F100 pickups

Always wonder why people are so amazed to see these old Vehicles fire up and drive. This is when stuff was made good!! Some easy labor of love and some very affordable parts & most of the time you're good to go!!!!

I'm not really into cars and trucks but I love seeing old forgotten about things like that saved! Good work!

They sure don't make 'em like they use to, and probably never will again. good video....

I am such a huge fan I am only twelve and I have my own ford ranger 1971 it was sitting at my grandpas house and it was for sale but nobody wanted it so I begged him if I could have it until he said yes

I just love the fact that there's two guys that really like Ford's the straight six not a bad motor and of course your motto the 289 one of the best small block Motors ever made.

I bought a identical color and scheme 1968 Ford F100 Ranger Short box. It had a 390 / 2 barrel carb with C6 auto and a Dana 60 semi floater 5 lug rear diff with 4.10 gears and a Power lock diff. I paid $800 for it and its super clean with only 27,658 original miles. I bought it from the original owners widow. Her husband ordered it in 1968 and it was his 1 and only new vehicle. Unfortunately he died of a heart attack in 1971 and she had his truck parked in the barn where its sat for 40 years prior to my buying it. It now has a 4 barrel carb and intake, comp 268h cam , ceramic coated headers and the C6 has been rebuilt with roller discs, instead of friction discs. Shift kit, manual valve body and stall converter. Rear diff has been changed from 4.10 to 3.73 gears . She will really move now. Just like her gas gauge lol

"Big fat bag of nope" Haha love it!

Hey man awesome build I'm very glad this thing runs like a champ. I'm a ford lover and I'm just delighted to this ol girl run

You gotta love those old Ford F-100 Trucks while they lacked a lot in the luxury department compared to today's trucks if they were taken care of they would last almost forever, What killed a lot of them was rust from road salt and just plain neglect, These old trucks were easy to work on and even an amateur back yard mechanic could take one apart and make repairs easily, The 240 engine like the one here was one of the most reliable engines that Ford ever made they were used in everything from large commercial generators to commercial air compressors, wood chippers etc. and a lot of the older F-100 trucks had them, I had two of these trucks with this same engine and they both had over three hundred thousand miles on them when I sold them and both were still running perfect with good manifold vacuum pressure and excellent compression and burned no oil, Keep good clean oil in this truck and you had a vehicle for life, On both of my trucks the engines had never been taken apart or had any major work on them, One needed a new heater core and the other needed a new radiator that was it. Another thing is that this engine could be easily adapted to run on not only gasoline but also propane and natural gas. I wish I still had them they were a pleasure to drive

that steering joint fix is fucking on point. you earned that "homebrew" roadkill title with that honestly

Nice job and great video coverage. Such good info for younger mechanics starting out on a budget. Nice home and shop. Best part.... no filthy language. I loved it.

i was smiling big seeing her coming out of the woods please restore the truck

One of the best auto "revival" videos I've ever seen.

I had a 68 Ford in High School....great memories! Thanks for this video 👍🏻

Awesome video!!! I love seeing the dead come back to life!!

Nice job fella's... One thing to remember "Safety First" Laying under the truck without proper jack stands jacks and uneven ground etc was very dangerous. Please be careful. Other than that, nice video and it's amazing what zip ties can do aint it?...

The soul of that truck is screaming thank you!

I like this. Some of the "truck rescue" videos either have filler or don't progress fully through the resurrection. This is no nonsense. Now my question is why I am attracted to restoring old trucks. I wish I had one like this but I haven't finished with the one I have!

Very nice job!!! thank you for giving at this nice truck a brand new life :D sorry for my english, im watching from Italy :) Wish i had a truck like that here!!!!! i hope i can see more detailed videos like this in future!!! Maybe post a video with the truck repainted etc...thank you and enjoy your brand new truck!

bravo brothers...great job..gotta show my kid this...he wants an old truck.😊

40 min of worthwhile entertainment. Thanks!

It brings a tear to my eye!

Beautiful please restore!!! Those are amazing and very rare!!

Good job boys. Tlc. Revived the old truck. So satisfieing isn't it? Good vid. Thanks for uploading it.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I like how you went one step at a time, slowly and methodically, fixing one thing at a time, making it right, then on to the next step. I've got a 1967 Ford Econoline van that was ugly as sin when I found it. Sitting on one brake drum and two flat tires with a dog living in the back. It had a 240 CID straight six. I gotta tell you, those 240 engines are really well built. After all these years, mine is still ticking right along. Regards, Tom

My son and I did a resurrection on a 1968 with the 360 cubic inch engine. It was in better shape at 350,000 miles than my new 1993 F-150 with 60,000 miles. This was in 1994 and she's still running strong in the 1969 Mustang!! I'm restoring an 03 Mustang GT at the moment. Fords rule all else drool!! I'm a new subscriber and I love your content. Would love to meet you and Junkyard Digs!!!!

this is cool love seeing cars fixed back the way it was i like that year of truck

i like whole video ,and especially this moment 40:13 , totally agree with you , modern car will not afford 20 years )) ,modern car will be dust in 20 years :D :D :D

Great video! I can't believe you were able to drive that truck out of there!

One of the best resurrections I have seen.

That was fun watching!

New subscriber... good stuff! like to see older cars/ trucks revived from the dead ..👍

Awesome video guys loved it ! I’ve got a 74’ (351 CID) That I am learning on . Your videos are a huge help thanks again

I brought my 1954 F100 back to life after i6 223 engine was completely locked up.. transmission and brake fluid flooding cylinders for weeks and finally got flywheel to move.. after full rotation and unsticking a couple valves she runs good.. Great job guys.. Older vehicles are a lot of fun

i have a feeling this is the new christine

Guys this is an exciting video, brilliant you both are, thanks for making it and posting it.

Nothing better than watching a old ford coming back to life

That was awsome! Just goes to show you that you cant keep an old truck down. Very cool thing to see young guys in this day and age working on old school vehicles.

built Ford tough. very cool.

Great job bringing the ol gal back around 👌😎

Awesome video! I subscribed, I love this stuff. I've done two so far, an 83 Toyota 4x4 with the 22R that sat for 12 years and just finished a 79 GMC 4x4 with a 350 that sat for 8 years.....Both are running great! I. I'm on the hunt for another one......

THESE ARE " THE GOOD OL' AMERICAN BOYS " STAY IN THOSE WOODS BOYS ....YOU MAY BE NEEDED TO REBUILD AMERICA AFTER WHAT'S COMING !

Awesome job! Great video.

Man Im so glad to see someone else appreciating an old Ford like this. I personally drive a 1968 F250 Camper Special with a 361 with the three speed hydro-glide transmission and man do I love it.

he is the reason junkyard digs exists.

Cool! You guys got it going

"big fat bag of nope." Haha I love it. Great job, the 400-something dislikes are from the sore Chevy owners who hate seeing an old ford inline 6 come back to life

I absolutely LOVE it when these guys find fix these old cars and trucks! AWSOME!

I just found your channel this is awesome

Why so many thumbs down? This was pretty damn cool!

Most ppl don't know if the filter is straight up and down its a full filtered system and if the filter is horizontal it's a partially filtered system that's why some filters aren't straight up and down :)❤

Great job guys this takes me back...late nights as a kid working on cars with my friends just shooting the breeze figuring things out on a budget etc.

Great video and outstanding work, you should upload a video of y'all power washing it and cleaning it up. I'd love to see it. You've earned a new subscriber

Amazing job well done

I like this person for thinking twice about the environment

That old ford was damn determined to make it out of there, it was angry it was out there so long lmao I tell ya old trucks have a personality

Great job. I enjoyed this video.

super video man great to see the old girl running again,now for the rebuild me thinks!?

Love this kinda stuff, nothing better than an old Ford truck to go back roading in!

Love to see them brought back to life. I actually have a small oil filter type wrench for Ford fuel filters.

First start is at 31:08

you can't kill an old ford truck!

Really enjoyed that. I have so much respect for cleverness with old machinery and also people who like to explain all this stuff. You Tube is great when it comes to learning. Thanks for getting this filmed, uploaded etc. Oh and Hi from the UK = )

Excellent JOB! My 69' says "BLESS YOU!"

So what are the plans for this truck? A proper restoration I hope?