Would love to have this made into a big pickup.
Antique Truck Ping!................
The boys at Count’s Customs might be willing to fix that up.
Way cool! Old iron rules!
“Iām surprised to see such a cool truck bidding at just $15,500”
I’m not....I wonder how many spare parts are impossible to get your hands on.
Nowadays you can’t even get a wrench under the hood it’s so jam packed.
If it had an electric motor, maybe.
I need to relearn HTML so I can post some photos of my 1968 Chevrolet Step Side that I bought new and we are currently restoring. Paint and body work is done and the upholstery is in the process.
I am 88 and losing brain cells faster than I can replace them...
I wish someone would stand next to it for scale...
Would love to have this made into a big pickup.
Years ago, I learned how to drive in an F-2 series pickup (which was virtually identical to the F-3 series, except for much heavier duty suspension and wheels from the larger F-Series trucks). It had the old flat-head 6-cylinder, and was geared down enough so it was possible to start off from a level start in fourth gear. There was no such thing as “synchro-mesh”, so it was necessary to practice up on a technique called “double-clutching”, in which the clutch was depressed, lever moved to neutral, released while allowing the engine RPM to change to a speed appropriate for the next higher or lower gear, depressing the clutch again, and moving the lever into the next desired gear. Just like slicing a knife through hot butter. Simply jamming into the next gear resulted in a rather nasty sounding gear grind.
With practice, it even became possible to shift from one gear to another without even USING the clutch, if you listened carefully to the engine note relative to engine speed. Also smooth as butter, until it wasn’t.
125 HP. Lol. Younger people have no idea just how slow cars were just a few decades ago. Most mid-sized cars in the 50s and 60s had 6 cylinder engines of around 130-140 hp and weighed like 3500 pounds or more. You could get V8s in some cars but most people didn’t. My Dad had a 1959 Chevy station wagon with the 140HP 6cly, 20+ sec 1/4 mile performance. 4000 lbs. Many hours spent in it with the family and a trailer grinding up mountain roads in second gear. Lol.
A 50s era pick up truck would have a very numerically high rear end ratio making freeway speeds near impossible. A friend’s 55 Ford would rap out at about 55mph. You could haul most anything in it though. I think 1st gear was lower than reverse.
When engines were simpler! What a beauty that thing is!
Brings tears to my eyes...
Ford might have considered building a few prototypes, to compete with the Dodge Power Wagon. By 1954 Ford came out with the overhead valve V8 that replaced the flathead, while Dodge was still using a reliable but outdated flat 6.
Put a 460 in that thing.
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brings back memories for me... back as a kid I remember goin down to my daddy’s(The Late Freeper BBPark) steel fab shop on weekends. when they had to haul a steel beam that was too long to lay up on the rack over the cab and on the far back edge of the bed, they used to underslung the beam to the axles and drive down the road with 10 to 15 feet extending out the front and back of the truck!! lol... something no one would get away with in this age!!