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So I bought an '81 Ferd F100 Custom the other day, and when I took it to the local mom-and-pop shop to try to find someone who knew about fords, I found out that apparently there was a recall issued in 1981 or 82 or thereabouts on the make, model, and year for a ridiculously shitty frame, various structural deficiencies, exhaust leaks, unsafe bits, faulty components, etc.
Ford does not have the model and year of truck on file, and won't tell me any more about it.
Wat do?

From the looks of the body your frame must be swiss cheese at this point. Hope you didn't pay more than 3 figures for that tetanus shot op

It is. I bought it to drive for a couple of months until I could afford something nicer. The used car market here is fucked. Everyone still drives their trucks until they die, or until the truck dies. This was the best used car I could get for under a thousand dollars.
I thought that I would need to pull off the bed, replace the electrical system, put new tires on it, fix the carb, replace the rear brake cable, and clean it up; but it turns out that the frame is rotted completely through, its just hard to see. The tires are mid-eighties vintage wrangler a/ts with literally no tread and I can't find tires in the proper size, the turn signals don't work and people call me a nazi and throw things at me when I try to use hand signals to navigate 4-way stops, the rear brake cable was cut maybe 20 years ago and has welded/rusted itself to the frame so I can't replace it, the front brakes are basically brand-new, but they can't overpower the engine, and I need to keep my foot on the gas or it will stall out, the floor is made of large, rusty holes, and I spilled monster on what was left of the floor this morning and it ate into the vinyl floor panels so now the whole cab smells like green monster, and I'm honestly more of a Chevy guy.

Its finished if the frame is rotted. You could try a junkyard for another similar f100 with a decent frame and swap good parts over, otherwise your better off driving it into the ground and getting something else.

what made you want to buy this? why didn't you go to a different city to buy a car?

I bought it to drive into the ground until I can afford something else, I'm just not sure it has enough life left in it for me to drive it that long.
I bought it because I live in NW Wisconsin, and unless you own a truck you are completely unemployable in this town. I can now go to another town for a car, but couldn't before because I didn't have a car, and the bus line and train service left town when the tire factory closed. The problem is, I now have so little cash that I can't afford another shit car in semi-driveable condition.
I have to decide between getting another shit truck soon, or risking it until I can afford a good/decent truck.

Look under the truck and see if there's bunch of holes in the frame. Some drunk engineer at Ford thought it would be a great idea to take a hole saw to the frame to make it lighter in 80 and 81 IIRC.

>that description
holy crap op

There are holes that are supposed to be there, and ones that are not. Why?

Scrap it and cut your losses. If everyone has a hard-on for pickups in your area get a small, fuel-efficient import.