View Poll Results: What is Your Favorite Year?
48-50
34
17.09%
51-52
32
16.08%
53
15
7.54%
54
8
4.02%
55
13
6.53%
56
48
24.12%
57
9
4.52%
58
9
4.52%
59
15
7.54%
60
16
8.04%
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Favorite Year
Junior User
Joined: Sep 2003
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From: winnipeg, manitoba
My vote is for the 51-52, Just love the toothy grill look, and besides, that is what is in the garage.
Intresting note; I just received a princess auto catalogue, and guess what was on the cover, A 51-52 in about the same stage of progress as mine.
Paul.
Intresting note; I just received a princess auto catalogue, and guess what was on the cover, A 51-52 in about the same stage of progress as mine.
Paul.
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Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 45
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From: arkansas
My favorite is the 53 because as a boy my father told me we would build one together. I had a model of one but he passed away before we had the oppurtunity to start the project. I since have purchased a 54 effie and this is my crusade for him
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Joined: Aug 2003
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From: High Park, Toronto
Re: Favorite Year
Since you asked for that range of years in whatever make, even though I may get my membership revoked for saying this: The second best are the 55 - 57 Ch*vy's. [/B][/QUOTE]
I have to agree, the tri-5 bowties are good lookin' trucks, second only to the '53-'56 Ford & Mercury.
1953 Mercury M100 is my favourite because it's my birthyear, but I have to say I like the grill from the '55 best of all!
I have to agree, the tri-5 bowties are good lookin' trucks, second only to the '53-'56 Ford & Mercury.
1953 Mercury M100 is my favourite because it's my birthyear, but I have to say I like the grill from the '55 best of all!
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From: La Verne, California
I'm the 3rd family member to own my '58 M-100, that's 46 years, liked it the 1st time I road in it back when I was a Pup.
Cheers
Colonel Flashman
Red '58 Mercury M-100 w/ 223 I-6 & Merc-O-Matic
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Colonel Flashman
Red '58 Mercury M-100 w/ 223 I-6 & Merc-O-Matic
Originally Posted by kooper909
27 years? Wow! Very nice. I'm in love with mine after 10 months. 
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From: SANTA ROSA, CA
My favorite Ford truck is the 1948 F-1, and it's been my favorite since it was new. The first all-new Ford I saw in a dealership was a Glade Green F-1 in the showroom at Ellis Motors in Lone Pine, California. I was 10 years old and already car crazy, and that new pickup just knocked me out! I visited it every day on my way home from school for the couple of weeks it remained in the showroom. On that fateful day I showed up and the truck was gone, the dealership's lone salesman, who had witnessed all of my visits, gave me a new-truck brochure to get me through my "loss." I still have the brochure, nearly 57 years later.
About a decade after my beginning love affair with the F-1, my dad had an early '50 that he shared with me on weekends, so I could transport my dirt-track motorcycles to and from races. He permitted me to have it repainted from Palisade Green to white with red wheels (the colors of my racing club/team). I fronted up for new big-and-little wide whites, and it was a stunner, and as sharp as any of the F-100s in shared pit space with.
Over the years I've owned two other F-1s prior to my present 1948, and I've also owned four early F-100s ('53 with a Chrysler Hemi and LaSalle three-speed, '55 with an L79 SBC, '56 NHRA S/G -- unfinished, and a '56 BW with a 428). All the time, I was looking for, hoping for that very special '48 F-1, one like the new one in the showroom at Ellis Motors.
Not long after SCTA Speed Week last year my F-1 showed up for sale in a town just West of me, 20 minutes away. When a pal told me about it, I thought it was worth a look, but at the quoted price I was expecting yet another project and wasn't terribly excited -- until I saw it. Even with the paint uniformly oxidized it was still a righteous F-1! I began to get excited! The seller moved several other vehicles out of the way in his croweded yard and I backed the '48 out the street and took it for a test drive. It was a sweetie! No rust perforation, no collision damage, great-running original V8 and driveline, excellent brakes (!), good steering (with only a touch of wander) . . . almost too much to hope for in a 50-plus year-old truck that hadn't been restored, just maintained.
Shortening this already long story, I bought the F-1 the next day (cash transaction), drove it home with a face-busting grin all the way, and have not stopped smiling each time I think about, work on, or drive my '48.
BTW, it's Glade Green . . .
About a decade after my beginning love affair with the F-1, my dad had an early '50 that he shared with me on weekends, so I could transport my dirt-track motorcycles to and from races. He permitted me to have it repainted from Palisade Green to white with red wheels (the colors of my racing club/team). I fronted up for new big-and-little wide whites, and it was a stunner, and as sharp as any of the F-100s in shared pit space with.
Over the years I've owned two other F-1s prior to my present 1948, and I've also owned four early F-100s ('53 with a Chrysler Hemi and LaSalle three-speed, '55 with an L79 SBC, '56 NHRA S/G -- unfinished, and a '56 BW with a 428). All the time, I was looking for, hoping for that very special '48 F-1, one like the new one in the showroom at Ellis Motors.
Not long after SCTA Speed Week last year my F-1 showed up for sale in a town just West of me, 20 minutes away. When a pal told me about it, I thought it was worth a look, but at the quoted price I was expecting yet another project and wasn't terribly excited -- until I saw it. Even with the paint uniformly oxidized it was still a righteous F-1! I began to get excited! The seller moved several other vehicles out of the way in his croweded yard and I backed the '48 out the street and took it for a test drive. It was a sweetie! No rust perforation, no collision damage, great-running original V8 and driveline, excellent brakes (!), good steering (with only a touch of wander) . . . almost too much to hope for in a 50-plus year-old truck that hadn't been restored, just maintained.
Shortening this already long story, I bought the F-1 the next day (cash transaction), drove it home with a face-busting grin all the way, and have not stopped smiling each time I think about, work on, or drive my '48.
BTW, it's Glade Green . . .
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From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Originally Posted by av8ford
My favorite Ford truck is the 1948 F-1, and it's been my favorite since it was new. The first all-new Ford I saw in a dealership was a Glade Green F-1 in the showroom at Ellis Motors in Lone Pine, California. I was 10 years old and already car crazy, and that new pickup just knocked me out! I visited it every day on my way home from school for the couple of weeks it remained in the showroom. On that fateful day I showed up and the truck was gone, the dealership's lone salesman, who had witnessed all of my visits, gave me a new-truck brochure to get me through my "loss." I still have the brochure, nearly 57 years later.
About a decade after my beginning love affair with the F-1, my dad had an early '50 that he shared with me on weekends, so I could transport my dirt-track motorcycles to and from races. He permitted me to have it repainted from Palisade Green to white with red wheels (the colors of my racing club/team). I fronted up for new big-and-little wide whites, and it was a stunner, and as sharp as any of the F-100s in shared pit space with.
Over the years I've owned two other F-1s prior to my present 1948, and I've also owned four early F-100s ('53 with a Chrysler Hemi and LaSalle three-speed, '55 with an L79 SBC, '56 NHRA S/G -- unfinished, and a '56 BW with a 428). All the time, I was looking for, hoping for that very special '48 F-1, one like the new one in the showroom at Ellis Motors.
Not long after SCTA Speed Week last year my F-1 showed up for sale in a town just West of me, 20 minutes away. When a pal told me about it, I thought it was worth a look, but at the quoted price I was expecting yet another project and wasn't terribly excited -- until I saw it. Even with the paint uniformly oxidized it was still a righteous F-1! I began to get excited! The seller moved several other vehicles out of the way in his croweded yard and I backed the '48 out the street and took it for a test drive. It was a sweetie! No rust perforation, no collision damage, great-running original V8 and driveline, excellent brakes (!), good steering (with only a touch of wander) . . . almost too much to hope for in a 50-plus year-old truck that hadn't been restored, just maintained.
Shortening this already long story, I bought the F-1 the next day (cash transaction), drove it home with a face-busting grin all the way, and have not stopped smiling each time I think about, work on, or drive my '48.
BTW, it's Glade Green . . .
About a decade after my beginning love affair with the F-1, my dad had an early '50 that he shared with me on weekends, so I could transport my dirt-track motorcycles to and from races. He permitted me to have it repainted from Palisade Green to white with red wheels (the colors of my racing club/team). I fronted up for new big-and-little wide whites, and it was a stunner, and as sharp as any of the F-100s in shared pit space with.
Over the years I've owned two other F-1s prior to my present 1948, and I've also owned four early F-100s ('53 with a Chrysler Hemi and LaSalle three-speed, '55 with an L79 SBC, '56 NHRA S/G -- unfinished, and a '56 BW with a 428). All the time, I was looking for, hoping for that very special '48 F-1, one like the new one in the showroom at Ellis Motors.
Not long after SCTA Speed Week last year my F-1 showed up for sale in a town just West of me, 20 minutes away. When a pal told me about it, I thought it was worth a look, but at the quoted price I was expecting yet another project and wasn't terribly excited -- until I saw it. Even with the paint uniformly oxidized it was still a righteous F-1! I began to get excited! The seller moved several other vehicles out of the way in his croweded yard and I backed the '48 out the street and took it for a test drive. It was a sweetie! No rust perforation, no collision damage, great-running original V8 and driveline, excellent brakes (!), good steering (with only a touch of wander) . . . almost too much to hope for in a 50-plus year-old truck that hadn't been restored, just maintained.
Shortening this already long story, I bought the F-1 the next day (cash transaction), drove it home with a face-busting grin all the way, and have not stopped smiling each time I think about, work on, or drive my '48.
BTW, it's Glade Green . . .
