This very colorful vintage Ford hauling a big trailer caught my eye. Who could miss it? Nice; and still hard at work. But what’s up with the badging?
Well, obviously it’s an F350, with the dual rear wheels. Presumably the front fender got swapped out at some point, and the donor was an F250.
The front bumper could use replacing too, or just driving it against a sturdy wall to bend it back into shape. That’s what I’d do, naturally.
Not exactly a stock exhaust system. They normally just exit down under the bed, behind the cab. maybe they really like hearing an FE V8 at full chat. I don’t blame them. The big single pipe from the 360 V8 in my ’77 Dodge camper exits on the driver’s side, a bit behind the cab, and the sound through a low-restriction truck muffler on it is delightful. Especially working up a mountain.
This truck works hard still, from the load in it and the big trailer. I can just hear it now.
The cowl badges do not match the grill. It could be a ’77 up truck with a 351M or 400, with earlier parts swapped on. Who knows. Truly workhorses, and most people with these do shop at the local U-Pull It
Agreed on the front bumper. Accidents happen, but I can’t stand it when people don’t bend body parts back at least close to their original shape!
Let’s just split the difference and call it an F-300.
+1. Actually, I think this is an F350 that was in a wreck and had the whole front end replaced, as that grille was never attached in the factory to a truck with that style of F350 badging. Those badges were used on the 77s and 78s only.
Add it together and it’s a F-600 Super Duty. Lot’s of built in protection with the extended home brewed 5+ MPH bumper.
Love it. Its my kind of truck.
The bent bumper kinda looks like a wind-up key, but when they fire that baby up there ain’t no mistaking that mill for no spring motor! 🙂
My brother put a ’70(?) F-100 cab on a ’71(?) F-350 mason dump truck. He went though hoops to get that truck on the road…. removing the outter dually wheels to fit it onto a narrow trailer. Then towing the truck to the Connecticut DMV for inspection & for them to put a new VIN sticker on the door jam, since the VIN nor any serial #’s matched & it was obviously NOT an F-100 pickup!
Always a treat to see a vintage vehicle like this still working for a living. It’s rare here on the East Coast, but every so often one will still see an oldie hard at work.