my Father and I recently bought a 1954 F100 project. On the cab above the windshield but below the roof channel the word "Power Steering" is stamped into the cab. My Father and are wondering if the cab came off a larger series truck because it also has the turn signals on the fenders. If any one has any information, we would greatly appreciate it.

Jared

 

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Cab has been swapped. T/S lamps mounted atop fenders...not a good indicator (pun intended), as they could have been installed on any truck.

1954/56 trucks available with optional P/S: B750 School Bus; F750/800/900 Conventional Cab; C750/800/900 Cab Forward; T700/750/800 Tandem Axle.

F100's are conventional cabs.

 

Is it actually "stamped" or just had more/less weathered than the rest of the cab? Kinda looks to me like someone at one time had a vinyl sticker on it and that's why that area is different than the rest of the cab.

 

When you say it's "stamped", do you mean pressed into the metal? Why would they do that, Bill?

 

All my big jobs have power steering from day one, I sever seen that.
I think its no different than Ford pickups running around here with a yellow hat on the roof and we all all know who that is.

 

It doesn't appear to be stamped, sorta looks to be either hand painted or a faded decal.

Used truck dealer applied 'Power Steering' moniker to roof...as a sales draw. Selling one a these behemoths with M/S no EZ task after P/S became readily available.

Company has a fleet of trucks, some have M/S, some have P/S. Without lettering, lookin' under the hood only way to know.

Dumb theories, but cannot think of any other reasons why.

Yellow hat on roof of pickups? Never heard of or seen same in CA, must be a MA thing.

 

Maybe an early rental, like they put "automatic transmission" stickers on rentals today? You would need to compare wheel arch size in the fenders to know what model they are from. All the conventional cabs in 54 were identical as were the hoods, all the different model fenders fit as well. The differences were the wheel arch size was larger on the larger models to clear the larger tires, and the fenders were wider on the real big jobs as well.
The wheel laying in the grass out front is five lug. If the wheels on the truck are also 5 lug, that would indicate that the chassis at least is an F100. The wheel base on an F100 can be 110" with a 6' bed or 118" with an 8' bed all larger (F 250 and F350) pickup models will be 118" WB with the 8' bed but will have 6 or 8 lug wheels. Thru the years many model parts were interchanged on what were basically utilitarian work trucks as needed to keep them operating. You can look for a rating plate attached to the inside of the glove box door for more info and/or for the serial # stamped into the top of the passenger side frame rail near the firewall (will start with a "star"F#########"star"). The serial # in the frame is the "legal identifier" for the vehicle and contains info on what model it was, the year, the assembly plant, and the sequential production #. If the rating plate is still there and the serial# should match the one in the frame if it was from the same vehicle, but even the rating plates and/or the glovebox doors were sometimes swapped. The cabs themselves do not have any permanent unique identifier markings.

 

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