Ray May, Jr., of Vanceburg, Ky., suffered a bad case of seller’s remorse, but he eventually cured it with a stunning 1969 Ford F-100 pickup truck.
After turning 16 years of age and successfully acquiring a driver’s license, May’s parents gifted him with the family’s 1977 Ford F-150 Styleside shortbox pickup truck. After graduating from high school in 1998, he sold the pickup to a classmate during what he refers to as his “young and dumb years.” That 1977 Ford F-150 held a special place in May’s heart from the memories he made with it during his ownership and his parents’ ownership periods. The reality that he had let it go festered for years. Once into adulthood, May made a plan to acquire another classic Ford F-Series pickup as a replacement for the truck he let get away.
The nearly perfect, meticulously restored 1969 F-100 Ranger Styleside featured here was purchased by May to help lessen the pain and loss of that 1977 F-150. May bought the ’69 F-100 in 2011, and over the course of more than a decade,
