The owner of the 1964 'Ranger" ADMITTED to Don and I he had it made up.

Don, you have forgotten, but I have not: The owner made no mention of having the Warranty Plate made up.

In fact, the Warranty Plate is original to this truck, and has an E81 BODY code:

E = Red Crush Vinyl & Red Check Pattern Woven Plastic / 81 = 81B Custom Cab.

If this truck came from Ford with bostrum seats, there would be no BODY code, all there would be is a blank space.

 

He actually patterned if off of a 66 rangers trim and DSO. So the pattern truck must have been a fake. It is a new warranty tag, I was not aware of that 2 years ago when i first starting busting your hump about it. My bad and i ap....

Get Digging in to that dealer order number, inquiring minds need to know.....

Ps. I called Green, Holy **** on that part for the crew cab... 150 bucks..... Thanks for the info, but i can repair it with oil impregnated bronze bushings for about 20 bucks, i plan to do it this weekend. MAybe write a tech article on how to fix the white metal crap.

Garbz

 

Garbz...On the Edsel..it started as its own division...M-E-L...the edsel was NOT a Ford...like a Galaxie or Fairlane...it was an Edsel with 4 sub models...junior series cars...Ranger(which I believe is the first use of the name) and Pacer, Sr series...Corsair and Citation...I wont bore you with the wagon info...but they had different names.
Edsels were made on the same lines though as big Fords which as I understand the lore frustrated the workers alot.
61-2 trucks were available as integral bodied stylesides as they were known in F100 and 250 series...62,410 F100 and 10,008 F250s
61 4WD stylesides(57-60 type box...F100..255, F250 4WD...149, F350...1191, 4WD was not offered in F350 series. These are stylesides ONLY...no Flareside in these numbers...seperate prod. figures...

1962...F100 styleside...68,983(integral bodied truck), F100 styleside...24,810...THAT figure makes me wonder if 62 wasnt a partial transition year...food for though..My source doesnt mention 4WD by model...but given 61 and 2 had only the integral bodied stylesides and the 4WD stylesides with 57-60 type box...I would love to know more on that figure...
F250...Integral bodied styleside..10,703, styleside , 6002...again, no specific mention of 4WD by model...
F350...styleside...1503...

Now...for something I know you will be interested in...1963...aka the transition year between the phaseout of the integral bodies full size truck and the conventional seperate bed and cab.
F100 integral bodied truck--40,535
F100 styleside cab-pickup---76,728
F100 4WD styleside cab-pickup...2,809


F250 unit-body pickup--- 5,456
F250 styleside pickup--- 14,159
F250 4WD styleside pickup---1,835


F350 styleside pickup 1,470

You inquire about how many "additional light truck lines" Ford ...well...lets look...going by what I believe to be basic trade definition of 'light' trucks...in Ford speak that would be F350 and lighter in F series, E series, Bronco(debut in 1966 model year in 3 models) and Ranchero.

If you disagree with 'light trucks'...go check out my gallery...these are the models Ford advertised as such...so, Ford had plenty of other light truck lines.
additionally from my understanding of basic production line pick order..you didnt get one line of strictly F100 and another for F250 and another for say F500...they all came down the same line end to end...it was the pick/firing order that determined the actual assembly line sequence...so...looking at your trucks last number...the truck following it could have been an F350 or F250 and so on...ive always looked at the firing order when I look at the trucks I see in the wrecking yards and trucks for sale...always hoping to find the one leading or trailing mine on the line...found one built super close...23 units away after mine...it was also a special order 3/4 ton...and one rusty pup I might add unlike mine. So there were other lines to pick up the slack during the changeover...I would also think that the switch was woven into the pick sequence...a few integral bodied trucks, a couple cab/bed trucks and so on...till the integral bodied trucks pick was run out...my guess is whatever was left in parts became service parts for them and some might have been destroyed...only the line workers would know that stuff though...pure speculation on my part...but it makes sense...I used to work on an assy line...so i do know a bit about how picks and firing orders work...but I dealt with mondo big vehicles at a lot slower build rate.

anyway, the figures I think you will find most interesting...esp. for the 63 trucks...


- cs65

 

Bill...I woulda swore he said he had that plate made for the truck...oh well...we know its not a Ranger which is the main thing.



- cs65

 

CS, you are not mistaken.. It is a new Warranty plate.

I am aware of the production numbers. there is some discrepancies between what source you use but it is apparent that 63 is the major transition year from model 66 production to all model 81.

Can you not agree that the uni is the worst failure of any truck ford ever made. As this site is called Ford Truck Enthusiast we can leave crappy cars like the vega, pinto and edsel out of it.

Garbz

 

Doug's truck was optioned out like a Ranger, He made the plastic ranger badges to fit in the '64 hoodside bezels. The warranty plate is a repro made from identical numbers from the worn original.. They may or may not have called the bucket seats/console/carpet option a "Ranger" in 64, but it is as real as the nose on your face.

 

In 1956, Ford formed the E-Car (Experimental Car) Division with James J. Nance (formerly Packard's prez) as its president.

When it was decided by FoMoCo to name the new car the Edsel, the E-Car Division became the Edsel Division.

Ford expected to sell 200,000 Edsel's in 1958, but only 64,110 were sold.

Because of poor sales, in late 1958, the Edsel Division was folded into the Lincoln-Mercury Division to form M-E-L, and Nance was fired.

The Edsel was not a Ford, but...under its sheet metal skin, it uses the same structure as Ford passenger cars.
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The first use of the Ranger name on a Ford product occured in 1950, though not (officially) by FoMoCo.

In 1950, Marmon-Herrington converted some Ford F1 panel trucks to 4WD. Two windows were installed on each side in the blanked off panel area.

M-H named this conversion the Ranger. A picture of this truck is shown on page 86 in the Standard Catalog of Light Duty Ford Trucks.

The Numerical Sequence of Assembly (Serial Number) applies to all Ford trucks, not just the F Series. The same sequence was also used for Econoline's (1961 to date) and Bronco's (1966/96).

1957/79 Ranchero's do not use the same sequence, because they were based on passenger cars (station wagons).