This picture is making its rounds on social media. Thought you guys might enjoy it.

 

Patrick Swayze in the black tee, Tom Cruise on the left, Kevin Bacon with the smoke, Emilio Estevez next to Cruise?. What movie?

 

Looks like widow makers? F3?

 

Emilio Estevez, Ralph Machio, Rob Lowe, and Matt Dillon with the smoke?

 

The Outsiders, 1983.

PS -- looks like a steel-floor, flat-sided F-1 bed to me (6-ft), yet has the bigger axle?

 

Must be that angle thats decieving on the length. Definitely f2/3. It has the right fender ( you can see how narrow it is and how close the wheel opening is to the body line), and you can see the middle stake pocket on the passenger side.

 

Yep, now I also see the wheel tub on the PS side. Did F-2/3's ever have steel floors, or is the floor just covered with something (dirt)?

 

At least my 49 F2 has a metal bed floor now, but it was added at a later date. The wooden floor is still there and it looks good from underneath, too. I do not know why the PO welded a steel floor in. Must have taken them many hours of cutting and welding to do it.

 

The early 48 to ?? had steel floors over the wood. At some point, I don't know but a 48-50 guy might know, they just went with the wood floor.

Or plate steel may have been added to this truck later as the wood rotted away.

 

The 48-52 F2/3 pickup beds all had wood floors with the metal strips like the later trucks. I believe the truck in the picture has had plywood or something covering it, added by owner, which was very typical of the time especially if one was hauling trash or heavy things that could damage the floor.

It's kinda funny, we're probably the only forum where this photo is posted, where the truck is more "important" than the people in the pic.

 

I'm not an expert on the 48-52 trucks, but I do know this. 48 trucks had a metal sheet over the wood. At a later year, I'm not sure when, Ford eliminated the metal bed.

I had no idea the pic was from a movie but I thought the one guy resembled Patrick Swayze. My wife and I don't watch many movies or current TV shows. For instance this young actor, Jussie Smollett, that faked an attack (allegedly).... I never heard of him nor his show called Empire! So if he did it for attention and publicity, it worked. Will I watch his show? Nope!

 

The metal floor was an early F-1 thing, Abe, but I've never seen it on the F-2/3's.

 

A little Brylcream (a little dab will do ya, use more only if you dare), Butch Wax, Vitalis (the 60 second workout), Wildroot hair tonic, or Groom and clean, and I forget the others, would keep your hair in place with the ventilators all open in our old trucks. Im surprised an old tube or bottle of the stuff hasn't turned up in a cab of someone's build, or has it. Edit oh and didn't the F1 go from steal to wood mid year in the 1950.

 

OK, I knew the 48-52 experts would be here to straighten me out and set the facts! Thank you. I did not know the F2/F3s didn't get the metal bed.

Anyone know why the F2/F3s didn't get metal beds? Too much cost for the bigger beds?

 

That's interesting about the bed floor. I knew the 1/2 tons had the metal over wood floors, I just assumed the larger trucks did too.
If anything I would think that the larger trucks would need the metal flooring more so than the 1/2 tons

Bobby