Back in the day most trucks came with only one key lock on the passenger door and thats just how it was. My dad purchased a brand new 55 Chevy pickup and as long as he owned it clear up into the 1970's we just learned to live with it.

 

Three pages and no-one has mentioned the hood hinges?

 

Thats got to be a definite bad idea, and never even gave it any thought, on this topic. The hood hinges, and I was giving serious consideration to the flip up hood because of that.

 

You guys do know you can lock the truck from the inside don't you? Yeah you have to unlock it from the right, but to lock it just reach over, it's not that far.

I think the way you lock the door on the inside, pull up on the door handle instead of pushing down, is a bad idea, because I used to get locked out by friends getting out that didn't know.

 

I am more worried about someone steeling my 2005 before my 1956. Hell they probobly would'nt even know how to start it-A choke how does that work?

Kyle

 

I personally don't like new stuff, i know i'm 16 but i love this old stuff. One thing you have to give old trucks is that they have stood the test of time. I love my 1957 F-250 and wouldn't trade it for anything new. Plus it's funny when ya beat new cars in something this old . Hinges, the springs wore out on mine, added extra ones.

 

sorry to get off the subject, I know this isn't Ford, but that other company, glues their doors on, I still shake my head in disbelief everytime I see one.....LMAO

 

I always wondered why they put that overly complicated B-W OD on instead of making a tranny with an integral 4th or 5th gear OD? Wouldn't it have been cheaper? For all the ink they gave economy ("Cost Clipper 6" etc) it doesn't seem like they ever really pushed OD's. Think how different our lives would be if an OD manual tranny had been an option on these old rigs -- we'd have nothing to talk about (no T-5 or AOD conversions!)

 

I used to have a 67 fairlane I left the doors unlocked all the time and the little SOB's in the neighborhood busted the drivers window one night anyway. I don't know if they did it for fun or if they were just too stupid to try the handle. There wasn't anything in there anyhow. If someone wants in bad enough they're going to get in. Personally, now I just shave the handles and try to confuse them. John (Black58)

 

ok, heres my take on the lock matter. it WAS a govt issue. back in the 20's when cars really became popular, no one needed a license. hell, think back what the tires and the roads were like. people would drive every which way cause nobody new the right way. many people were killed because of this. in the 30's,cars became faster and roads were better but the driving still was H.S. how do you think the name suicide doors were derived? my dad bought his license at a drug store in 1937 for a quarter. didnt matter if you owned a car or not.if you had the money, you got a license. so many people were being picked off by these so called licensed drivers that the govt. decided to do something. hence the single lock on the passenger side.every mfgr. had to do it. not just henry. my 36 pontiac had it. my 40 plymouth had it also. it wasnt until people had to take a test for the license did the govt relax that restriction. even today, you take your life in your hands trying to get out while people are whizzing by at 70mph. and thats on the residential streets.
ok, im done thank you

 

Oh yeah, I lived on the rough side of town for five years before I got married. Every vehicle I owned was broken into in one way or another except for my old truck. Why? Who knows? I still wonder.

 

I think the worst thing ford has done is start making everything plastic, I know, I know they had to for practicality, But I like my heavy old truck that only locks on the passenger side. For the most part-Ford can do no wrong.

Kyle

 

All I can say is I love my 54.

 

prior to 1926, ford open cars and trucks didn't have drivers side doors. some of the closed trucks didn't even have doors, just openings. i think these bodies were built by other manufacturers on ford chassis.

 

How about the good things like the ignition on the left side of the steering wheel, That way kids cant mess with it since there were no car seats back then (or so that is the story I have been told) The same person who told me that also walked uphill too and from school every day in ten feet of snow barefoot on a road made from glass shards

Kyle.