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1951 Ford Five star pick-up

It can be a little intimidating to set up a gallery at first, but once you figure it out, it's not too bad. I'm sure your daughter can help.
Jeff

I learned to drive on my Dad's '51. (See my gallery.) I still have the brochure that ford5star is reading from. While this is a keep-sake, I would rather have it in the possession of someone who will use AND share the information. (I'm currently working on two '60's Ford trucks, so I do not get on the '48-'60 forum very often.)

I will send this brochure, free of charge, to the first poster on this thread that commits to make copies for anyone else that requests them. (Sort of an F-1 chain letter - I KNOW it will bring you good luck.)

First poster gets it and everyone else interested can ask him for a copy.

If you do not want to commit to make & send out copies, just get on the list for a copy. (I am OK with the copier charging a reasonable fee to cover copying & mailing costs. It is six 8.5" x 11" pages, so $1 should cover it.)

P.S.: If no-one wants to do the work, I'll distribute copies for $1 to those who post asking for one.

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Originally Posted by acheda

If you send it to me, I can color-scan it to a PDF and mail it back to you. I have a '52 so it wouldn't be right to keep it. Is it this brochure?

I AM STUPID! My scanner is only a few feet away. Let me leave the offer on the table, but I will scan it and e-mail a copy to anyone who PM's me their e-mail address.

I will still send the original to the first '51 F-1 owner who wants it to keep with his truck.

P.S.: Mine is different - I'll scan my cover & post it here in little while.

This one is dated 10/50 (& is 8 pages not 6):

https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...id=148615&.jpg

ALBUQ F-1, You suggest a pdf format; is there any reason not to just do jpeg's? (I know that a pdf can be multi-page, but they get pretty big to be moving around as e-mail attachments.) I am working on a Mac, so perhaps I could sent my TIFF scans to someone to package for the PC users.

PDF's tend to be a lot smaller than TIFF's, as little as 100k per page (color). JPEG's are OK but to get to that size you have to reduce quality. (which is what the PDF does automatically)

I'll take some scans! I've never seen that one.

PS -- PC's can handle TIFF's

I think Irondragon has all the 52 brochures from F-1 to F-8. Just he doesn't have a good scanner.

I am in the process of sending the 8 TIFF's to 51dueller - he was the first to get a request in. When he has them all, I'll let him post where we go from here.

Meanwhile, I am using up all my bandwidth . . .

OK - it took me 1.5 hours because I am on a dish (Hughes) & uploading is about 1/10 of down-loading speed. If you guys can pass it on from here, I would appreciate it.

I sent a pm. I would love to get the F6 one from Irondragon.

I've already got it in PDF form and have just sent a copy to Acheda. You guys can also PM me for a copy.

OK, thanks to Nathan, we have a 3.3 MB file to share around instead ot the 100+ MB of 8 TIFF's. I zoomed in tight and am impressed that nothing was lost in all that compression. (If you need the TIFF's, ask Nathan - I do not want to spend another 1.5 hours sending them out!) I think I sent one to everyone that asked, but if you asked & did not receive, just ask again.

I am still willing to give the brochure to someone with a '51 F-1 who will "give it a good home".

I got the PDF's, and they are excellent!

By the way, based on this brochure, it appears that the base cab was the 5-Star, and the "deluxe" cab was the 5-Star Extra. I always thought the base cab was the "Standard", and the deluxe was the "5-Star."