This week’s Throwback video takes us back to 1975 for a new Ford truck commercial that is designed to show off the high tech suspension of the F Series. To do so, they set up a display with a bunch of man-made bumps on the test surface, a bunch of balloons attached to a wall along the test surface and a pair of flame throwers attached to the 1975 Ford truck.
My buddy had a 1979 F-150 back in high school but it didn’t look anything like this wild and crazy white beast at this year’s SEMA show. For starters, the engine wasn’t chromed out, but it did fit inside the engine bay.
This week’s Throwback video features a 1985 Ford F-350 Flatbed tow truck doing donuts in the snow and the action has obviously been captured on Betamax film, as the quality is pretty much the polar opposite of high definition. The video quality is awful, but the content is pretty awesome as you don’t often see […] More »
This week’s Throwback video features a 1978-1979 Ford Bronco taking on the slop of the Back 40 Mud Bog in Michigan. With some steep banks and some deep muddy water, the classic Bronco makes the first pass through the mud bog at low speed, easing through the mud and up the embankments that make this […] More »
Fact: Drag racing is fun. Fact: Mudding is fun. Combining the two feels like the most natural progression there could ever be. It’s almost as natural as a Ford beating a Dodge in a drag race. BOOM. Seriously though, the lift kit on the F-150 definitely helped out a lot. I don’t doubt that the […] More »
This week’s Throwback video turns back the clock to 1978, when Ford took interesting approaches to show off how tough the new F Series was back then. Most importantly, they drop the truck at the beginning of the commercial and while we can’t really tell how far the Ford F Series pickup falls – it […] More »
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