I am a 42 year old social studies teacher and lifelong car guy that has just acquired his dream truck. It is a 1950 ford f-3 with a flatbed and a flathead v-8 under the hood. I bring it home on sunday, so I can get more pics and get some more info on the truck. The truck was used in the movie Hoosiers! One of my favorite movies of all time! Here are two pics, the door graphics were added in the eighties- after the film. Garaged most of its life.


OK. I cannot see a way to upload pics, and I cannot go to a hosting site while I am at school. I can try to upload when I get home...or if someone is in a hurry I can e-mail them to them and they can post them. Either way...


Thanks

Randy

 

Welcome to the forum, and congratulations on your acquisition! Normally I couldn't stand the wait, but I have to go to town today, so I have something to look forward to when I get back.

 

You can email them to me at modelking2000 at hotmail dot com.

 

Thank you, sir. They have been sent!

 

I'm tingling with antici..

..pation!

 

Here you go. Decent looking truck. Check to make sure those wheels aren't of the widowmaker variety.

 

Welcome aboard! Looks like a nice truck.

That's a RARE TRUCK -- one of only 2500!! LOL... we know where two of them are now

1950 FORD F-3 (1 TON) SINGLE REAR WHEEL

 

Welcome! I have some family in Brown County, out near Grandview Lake. Do you have any footage of the truck in that movie?

 

Welcome . Thats a good looking truck . What are your plans.

 

Solid looking truck, nice to see another 3/4 ton on here.

 

Thanks for the compliments, it is a pretty solid truck. Garaged for most of its life. I do not have footage of the truck yet. It is in two scenes, one is it parked on the street the other is it driving down the road.
My plans for the truck are to get it running and driving safely and then rebuild the flatbed. I may swap out the rear and go to disc on the front. The timeline for that really depends on the condition of the current parts. I am leaning towards returning it to its Hoosiers livery, without the door insignia.

Thanks, lots of questions coming! Thanks!

 

My welcome too. Fine looking truck, and great history. I'll also echo Ilya's suggestion that you spend some Google time reading about your 17" wheels. Stu

 

Looks like a good start to a very nice truck. Nice to see another of the 2500!

 

Welcome! Count me in as one of the 2500! Randy I was very excited to see another F3 flatbed... and Hoosiers is also one of my favorite movies. Just shared that movie with my twin stepsons who are playing basketball for the first time this year. I'll have to go back and watch the movie again to spot your truck. Maybe we can get our two trucks together some day. That would be a great pic!

 

Welcome to the forum. Good looking old truck. I, too am kinda partial to the slightly larger trucks.
Yeah, we do need more pictures.