Does anybody have one of the Midas Touch custom factory trucks from 1978?
My brother had a blue version. Looking for one now.

 

Never heard of it.

Must have been a private company that did it up.

 

It was a Ford thing. The ones I saw were 78's. They were short bed 4x4's. My brothers was the popular dark blue in those years. The graphics on his were light blue. There was also a Black base color with red grahpics. They were three of them around here. The ones I saw had roll bars in the bed and wagon wheels. I can't remember for sure the tire sizes. I remember seeing one in 4 Wheel and Off Road Magazine. It was Ford endorsed.

 

Perhaps you are thinking of the free-wheeling package.

I have the 78 brochures and there isn't any Midas truck package listed.

http://mil1ion.clubfte.com/78FeaturePhotos.html

 

Dennis,
I think it was probably one of those "local deals" where FoMoCo licensed somebody to do custom work thru a dealer or dealers because doesn't show up in options or VIN S/N decoders. So it was bolt on or paint on like Tasca Ford in Rhode Island used to do. Some dealer options were pretty profound back in the day. . . .

FBp

 

That's what I said in my first reply but it was disputed. so I thought maybe it was something else.

From my comment I meant that it wasn't a Ford assembly line truck



I have seen the newer trucks with special Alberta... Western Related Packages.

Back in the 70's I think it was few & far between

 

I've never seen or heard of one either. But you never can tell what Ford was up to then. The 1968 Mustang California Special was called something else in Colorado, and something else again in Texas.

There were also several special Ford Explorer F100 packages offered in the 70's for CA buyers.

 

If there isn't a mention in a brochure for it.....then Ford assembly plants didn't make it.



That Mustang is called the: High Country Special

 

Hold up, Mil1ion, I wasn't disputing you. What I was saying that it wasn't a one truck deal. There were several done and they went through a local dealer, I was told. No, I am sure there wasn't an RPO but they were sharp trucks. I had a picture of the truck but we can't find it. If we do find it. I will share it.

 

Here you go. One of our members came acrossed it one of our members galary. My brothers was the blue scheme.

 

No pic shows up. I'm curious to see this.

 

He has a ton of code attached to that url

the image won't show because the attached the wrong address.

It is a web mail file

 

Too bad. I wonder what it looks like. I wish people would make sure stuff they post actually works!

 

some of us are new and still learning how

 

When I look at the reply from my com. the pic is there.

Somebody tell me how to post the pic. I have it saved on my machine as a JPG.