the old black ford truck

larry@stinescorner · Oct 25, 2015

I think it may be done,it hasnt been used in two years

i do have a story about it. Many times I helped the neighbor get it started by towing it with a tractor. It didnt have any brakes until it ran for a while,so I always drove the tractor.One day his brother in law helped him,but drove the truck to start it,It started,ran into something,smashed the raditor pretty good,that was the beginning of the end of the old black ford

heres an older picture I Had on file of the old ford in use

larry@stinescorner · Oct 25, 2015

I hope Billy in NY sees this,he likes those old ford trucks!

Gary Mitchell · Oct 25, 2015

Larry, I appreciate your choice of subject matter and skill with the old "Kodak."
The photo of the inside of that truck reminds me of pop's old 58. The only thing
missing is the tarp strap to hold it in high gear.

gm

JD Seller · Oct 25, 2015

A friend has a Ford like that one. The starter ring gear is bad. He uses it every few days. He just parks it on the slope of his bunker silo and roll starts it. I bet that he has done that for ten years now. He hauls silage to another farm with it every few days.

rusty6 · Oct 25, 2015

Looks about a 1966 model. At least these can be worked on and fixed. No computers or electrical gremlins hiding in miles of wiring.

Billy NY · Oct 25, 2015

I'm watching Larry, (was actually watching a bit of the NFL game in London on the PC, checked YT at halftime LOL !) you don't forget much, that is for sure. Like all those old Fords '61-'66 and the model you posted, single and tandem axle. Old hard to kill, gas hogs, friends dad had a fleet of them, big V8's and 5x4 transmissions. I even ran a tandem of the model you posted that was a factory automatic and had a 318 Detroit in it. Kind of like an old bus or firetruck, Detroit and Allison Automatic. It ought to take a lot more than that to side line that truck, they'll miss it, always handy to have a single axle, on or off road if you have land.

Looks like it needs hood spring or hinge, one of mine bent over and its a bear to set back down right if you are not careful.

I have a '64 F600 but its been at the other place awhile now, planning to move it home soon to get some use for hauling firewood in from clean up needing to be done here.

David G · Oct 25, 2015

Be careful with the bed blocked up like that, a guy in my hometown got crushed when he was bent over and the blocks failed.

Goose · Oct 25, 2015

A few days ago, I bailed out a damsel in distress in a Chevy that looked worse than that. She ran out of gas near our driveway while hauling corn to a nearby elevator. The gauge no longer worked. She said she just put a hundred dollars worth in it three days ago. I put in a few gallons of lawn mower gas I had sitting by my shop.

She wasn't sure how it would start after running out of gas, so she asked me to try it. It sputtered a bit and fired right up. Regardless of looks, it sounded great.

Barkeep1977 · Oct 25, 2015

First vehicle I drove other than a tractor was an old Ford about that same age range. I remember that you had to pump the brakes the first
time you got it started for a long time just to get it so you had brakes when you actually wanted to stop. I think I was 10 or 11 the first
time I drove it and that thing was the most miserable thing to drive.

Dalex · Oct 25, 2015

That looks like an F800 Super Duty ? We had one at work that we delivered fork lifts with , it was a wonderful truck , The air brakes and power steering were good features , and plenty of power . We traded it for a Rollback L8000 after a few years ...

Scott 730 · Oct 25, 2015

Thanks for the picture Larry.
Super Duties were 850 and up. Had 401,477 and 534 engines. Also had shutters in front of the radiator instead of a sheetmetal grille.

The one in the picture is a 67 or so as it has the raised roof.

JMOR · Oct 25, 2015

That pull start incident left the old boy with that half a grin!

DR. EVIL · Oct 25, 2015

HA-HA!.... Dad used the tarp strap trick to hold old IH CO-190's into 5th gear he drove hauling livestock.

I did a search on Google the other day on CO-190, not much out there! Anybody who was around them wants to forget them!

I drove a mid-60's vintage Ford F-750 Super-Duty, 6V-53 Detroit & 5+2. Pretty crude old truck!

Ande · Oct 25, 2015

When men were men, and Fords were Fords, one tough truck, probably a 390 engine

ShadetreeRet · Oct 25, 2015

Nah,she ain't done yet! Just a new set of seat covers and she'll be good for a few more years! LOL When I went to work for the local dealer in 1993, there was a grill like that one hanging from a rafter upstairs. I guess it was trashed when we relocated.

stonerock · Oct 26, 2015

dad had one I could be wrong but I though it had a 574 v8 gas motor in it tri axle 5 speed with a 4 speed

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