did the military use f250s?an if so wat was the differance bou tthem an a highboy?

 

The only military pickups I ever see around here are Sqaure body Chevy's from the 80's.

 

Befor the Chevy they had Dodge power wagons.

 

I recently built a 74 F250 Highboy; used the complete chassis & drive train, with a 76 F150 body. My chassis truck is a military version; been told by vin number it was destin for overseas. Its in my gallery.

Mitch

 

During the 70's I worked for a Truck Fleet Sales dealership that sold IHC Ford Chev Gmc.
Ford was by far the most expensive to sell to fleets.
Ford would not give volume discounts for fleets sales like the others would.
On a large order, Ford was about $700 more per truck than the competition.
Now on retail sales they were pretty competitive priced, but on volume, Ford would not budge.
Due to the higher price I think this made their sales rare to the military.

 

I'd love to have a military chassis for mine.

 

Ford has sold gazillions of trucks to the military. For one example...during WWII, Ford assembled and sold more Jeeps to the US Gov't than ******-Overland did.

If the truck was ordered by the US Gov't, the DSO code will reflect that.

Because of franchise laws, all fleet sales were/are conducted by the individual dealers, not by FoMoCo.

One dealers fleet price may not be the same as another's.

I once worked for a dealer that had the Hertz account, they got it by underbidding other dealers for it.

This dealer didn't make too much money from the sales, but it gave them bragging rights.

When they got the Hertz account, they became the largest selling Ford dealer on the planet.

Most vehicles sold to the Gov't were/are "strippers" the absolute cheapest trucks imaginable.

In the 1970's, these trucks would have come with standard equipment only, which included heaters, 3 (or 4 speed...if specified) manual transmissions, some with 4WD (if specified), and that was about it.

El cheapo's: No radio, no power steering/brakes in most cases, plain jane vinyl interior, rubber floor mat, no exterior trim of any kind, and no rear bumper.

A 4WD chassis on any US Gov't purchased vehicle would not be anything special. In fact, it would most likely have the lightest GVWR.

Mitch: How can you tell by the VIN...that the truck was destined for overseas...or anywhere else...for that matter?

The 11 digit VIN's used from 1961 thru 1980 have the series, engine code, assembly plant code, serial number...and that's it.

What is this truck's DSO code?