I am looking for what I think is a 66 Ford F-100 with a chopped top, but not chopped doors. The bed has also been modified. The Truck was most like part of a fleet of 2-6. The trucks were used in Northwest Lower Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes.

See my photos below.

So am I wrong is it not a 66'?
Am I wong on the model? I'm sorry if this is on the wrong thread and maybe an admin can move it for me.
Have you ever seen one before?
Do you know where one is?

Thanks for the help.



A zoomed in photo of a postcard




screen shot of a Dunes wagon in action





A ticket for a dunes Wagon ride. Unfortunately they stop in 1979 or 1980

 

rogue_scholar321 Welcome to and the Slicks Forum.

The grill in the photos is 65 not 66. Truck very likely modded for the company that used them. Good luck on finding one and I would suggest looking in that area only. That is not a stock Ford truck in my O.


John

 

In addition to cutting off the roof it looks like they lengthened the frame/wheelbase about 2'.

 

I am guessing the 156" crew cab frame and maybe a good humor ice cream truck was used for the cowl forward. Then you bolt on normal doors. It looks like on the drivers side there is a piece cut out of a replacement box side. It kind of looks neat but apart from ordering a windshield cowl from Ford on a crew cab frame the rest was done by a custom builder. It would likely be hard to find an original but barns do hide stuff. No joke intended try contacting Antique Archaeology American Pickers) and add it to the wish list. Those guys get around and see a lot of stuff.

 

If I remember, Number Dummy said there was an option for a convertible top, but that he had never seen one. Looks pretty cool.

 

That was a recent thread about the rarest options. The convertible top was actually a canopy for on the box not the cab of the truck.

 

This Sleeping Bear truck is not a cowl forward, it's body style 81 Conventional Cab with the roof cut off.

Pic: Here are the other two body styles for F Series trucks:

Body style 84: Open Drive-Away Chassis & Cowl (no cab or windshield). An FTE member had a 1965 F250 Good Humor truck like this.

Body Style 85: Open Drive-Away Cowl & Windshield (with windshield, without cab).

 

I was only guessing but I do see the difference between the original op pic and the series 85 scanned picture. Definitely an 81 conventional cab with the roof cut off.

 

The stretch would almost never be done to an F 100, most likely, these were done to F250's. These stretched trucks were not manufactured by Ford, could have been done by anyone after the sale of the standard unit, however, reputable dealers would send them off to a professional builder who had a solid reputation in coachbuilding in this era. Chevy and GMC's suburbans were more commonly stretched for airport limo tours bus etc. type of work, since Ford didn't offer suburbans in the 60's. Stageway did the conversion on this F250 by purchasing an additional 8' styleside bed. I believe this one was stretched for Alaskan camper. These one off special vehicles will be very difficult to locate today, you will probably be forced to build one yourself, or find a truck builder-fabricator that would take on the challenge, if your that serious about one.

 

very cool vintage photos

 

The folks in northern Michigan were very creative in the "Dunes" vehicles. The founder of Haggerty Insurance was a big dunes fan and purchased several of them from various dunes ride locations.

 

I zoomed in on the second photo and it does look like "FORD 100" on the top of that fender emblem.

The second and third pictures in that first posting are the same driver and passengers, just a different angle and maybe someplace else along the route. Cool old photos.

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I love the old pics you dig up, "tripleframe", another nice example of white hub caps, black rims and lighter (silver/grey) lock rings.

 

Update: Still have not seen one in person, however I have a lead

 

Wow someone was reading my mind. I was just thinking about this post last night! That truck in the pic appears to have too much of a wrap around windshield to be a 65-66.