Hello ,
I'm looking to buy this F3 and wanted to know if this is the VIN and can someone decode it?
97HY 168145

The truck is very solid with the original flat head 6 in it and appears to be just about all original and unrestored. Just doesn't have the two piece rims but they are 8 lugs.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.
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Happy New Year to all of you who follow this thread.

My resolution is to get my 1949 F3 on the road. Right now it is hibernating in my "tent-garage" waiting for spring while I work on small stuff in my heated shop.

Thanks to all of you who have given good advice during the past year.

Carl Hanson
Bedford, MA
1949 F3 Express

 

It looks like it's been awhile since anyone posted here, but I'm new and really needed the info on the rims and brakes. Bought myself a '52 F3 as a Christmas present and am in the process of taking it all apart so I can put it all back together again! It has the 215 L6 with 3 speed on the floor, runs and drives, doesn't stop too well; at least it didn't before it moved onto the floor jacks in the garage!!

 

Yours and mine are in the same state. Mine is well on the way back, but still has many months of sedentary life before it's done. I envy you the 3HD tranny. I just finished rebuilding my spur 4 speed. This thread has become a foundation reference for us F-3 guys. Stu

 

Yeah, but it looks like you've got 4WD. I don't think I'd ever take mine 4 wheeling though!!!

 

Interest box modifications, do yo have any idea what the truck was used for? What is that at the front of the box?



I like the modifications, if it was my truck I think I'd keep them. They might be period modifications which are often accepted as being close enough to be original.

 

No, at least nothing close to serious four wheeling. Probably only to show that's capable of it and built to do it. Stu

 

bobj49f2,
It was owned by West Penn Electric from 52 to 59, and then bought by the family I bought it from. You can see the spotlight on the roof, there are some bolts thru the roof on the passenger side that I think was probably a ladder rack, and the box had arched steel pieces across it with a canvas cover like a wagon train wagon. The tailgate is kinda cool, too.

 

It would be good to reproduce those steel arches and get a canvas like original...

I wonder if West Penn would have pics in their archives...

 

I hope it knows we're doing this out of love!!

 

If you could find pictures it should would be unique to reproduce the truck as it was use in service.

Keep thinking that, it's the only way you're going to justify the time and money you're going to stick into the truck.

 

Welcome to FTE. Always enjoy seeing another F3 getting saved.

Doug

 

i have 17" wheels they are a one peas and some parts left over from my rat rod build started out as a 1951 f3

 

sent you a PM.

 

No they aren't. They are widow maker two piece, unless they are off a modern Dodge 3/4 ton which is unlikely. Look for the raised area that has the center riveted to it. That's the joint. Stu