Paul, I recently got a 55 Ranger, the only one accounted for as of yet of the 53-55 type panel converted F100s known as the Marmon Herrington Ranger with the 4 wheel drive, extra side windows and full interior with two rear passenger seats. The side window conversion looks real nice. Much different looking contour to the added side windows than the 50 to 52 type Ranger. Mark

 

Mark - I can add a pic here of your '55 if you'll allow.

Camper shell - If any of you guys want to tackle the '57 - '60 pick up camper topper idea, my buddy Rusty has a '57 panel truck bare shell he'll be finished stripping parts off of in the near future. It's got a decent roof as I remember. It be a good donor for the pickup topper idea.

 

Nice pics Bob, thanks for sharing, it is a bit dark in the back of a panel, w/o those windows.
later Mike

 

Stu, Thanks, I've been out a few days. I think I figured out how to add a URL on my newest post, but still don't know how to add a picture right to the post. Mark

 

Yeah, I understand. Here's the pics of your '55.




And here's some factory pics of the 53/54. I don't have any factory pics of a 55. Stu

 

you need 5 more posts to private message support, etc..
to 'attach' a picture you need to contribute to FTE, otherewise you have to put it in a gallery, your profile, photobucket or somewhere then link to it..

sam

 

Thanks, Here's one more anyway, Mark

 

After some of those pictures I think it would be neat project.

 

Thanks Stu, The 53 shows the oval Marmon Herrington hood side emblems, and the 55 has the rectangular ones, I've wondered which ones they put on the 54. Can't tell from the 54 image posted, Anybody know?
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1950 1952 1955 V8 Marmon Herrington Rangers

Mark

 

3 more to go..

Sam

 

Yep Just a few more
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1950 1952 1955 V8 Marmon Herrington Rangers

Mark

 

Mark - A quick gallery search shows that '54s had the rectangle. And do you know if the factory pic in your avatar is your actual truck, or just another of the handful of '52s?

Sam - He's actually missing 4. A '51, '53, '54, and '56. Give him time. Stu

 

I was talking about forums posts to become a full fledged member of our little gang here..

Sam

 

Stu, It was discussed years back by Chuck with some old former Shop of Siebert employees that the 1956 Ranger was offered in the catalogs, but they recall none ever being built ordered. The truck in my avitar is a 1952 Sandpiper Tan Ranger, and has the small Siebert emblems on the cowl sides, seen between the door and the hood. Siebert, who did the body and interior mod portion of the conversion for the Marmon Herrington Company's "Ranger", was not actually allowed to put their emblems on the finished Rangers until the later F100s. My 52 was, and will be, the original Glenmist Green color. Hopefully the Ranger used for the Ford archives photo has been saved through the years by its passed on story of being a rare truck, and also being a Ford archives photo model.
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1950 1952 1955 V8 Marmon Herrington Rangers

Mark

 

Sam, I think this post will do it. Here's some history I chased down, and also some etc. on the 55 Ranger.

Douglas Williams of Ohio, said that it was previously owned from in the 1960s to 1973 by a newspaper employee in Riverside Ca., who got it from a utility company that had purchased it new back in 1955. Bought by Williams in 1973 for $75 when he lived in Riverside Ca., from a young newspaper management employee who said he had just gotten a promotion and wanted to get it out of his driveway because his wife and daughter had painted flowers on it, and he didn't want his new bosses to see it and think he had any hippie tendencies. Doug assembled the truck of which the motor was out and in pieces when he bought it, and drove it around in Riverside Calif. for a few years until he moved to Ohio. He had a got a couple of his friends to drive it to Ohio for him a short time after he moved there, where he kept it garaged and drove it only a few times a year. He sold it in 1986 to Walter Lee , who took it apart and started on plans to make it into a street rod, but never finished it, and sold it in 2006 to Tim Clark, who I bought it from in early 2009. I don't think any of the previous owners since the 60s, after the all wheel drive axle was changed, realized the significance of this truck.

Early on, somewhere between being owned by the utility company and the newspaper employee, the all wheel drive front axle was taken out and replaced with an original, stock I beam axle, likely because one of the axles CV joints got broken. They were easily broken if driven wrong, and parts were near impossible to get even back then. When Williams had the truck he said that the back end was real high because the all wheel drive lift blocks were still in place on the rear axle between the axle and springs. He had them taken out and cut down, in half he said, to lower it some.

Besides being in California for so long, I believe reason the body on this Ranger is in such exceptionally good condition, is because of the loss of the all wheel drive capabilities early on, which spared it from the twisting, bouncing and pounding that would typically cause any light duty truck mounted on Marmon Herrington equipment to "disintegrate around it", as expert Don Chew says, and also is likely one of the reasons why there are so few light duty M-H trucks left.
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1950 1952 1955 V8 Marmon Herrington Rangers

Mark