Description
Author: Dam Samchez, ISBN: 9780760344316, 240 pages, published in 2014, Hardback
Learn all there is to know about the most popular vehicles in history. Ford's F-series pickups are simply the most popular vehicles ever. The F150 set a modern-day single-month sales record for the industry with 126,905 trucks sold in July 2005, the most sales of any single nameplate in any month since the days of the Ford Model T. The F-series has been the best-selling vehicle in the world for most of the past forty years, and to date Ford has produced nearly fifty million models. The Complete Book of Classic Ford F-Series Pickups covers all the classic models in Ford's popular line of light-duty trucks, from the first F-1 pickup of 1948 through 1976.
Synopsis:
FOR OVER FIVE DECADES, Ford's F-Series pickup trucks have been the bestselling and most recognizable pickups in the world. Now, look back to the F-Series' roots with The Complete Book of Classic Ford F-Series Pickups.
In 1948, Ford debuted the F-1, the first utility pickup truck intended for the average American driver. Ford had been building trucks since 1917, but they were considered commercial vehicles, sold specifically to ranchers, fleets, and businesses who needed larger vehicles to haul their wares. But Ford saw an opportunity—could comfort, style, and affordability not be made accessible for a much wider audience?
With the F-1, Ford introduced a new paradigm into the American pantheon of vehicles. The new light-duty, 1/2-ton pickup at once set and raised the bar for the future of American trucks, as features such as road visibility, greater cargo capacity, improved engine efficiency, and additional safety measures debuted.
With over 300 photographs from Ford's archives, as well as full-color ads and engine details from over three decades of research and development, The Complete Book of Classic Ford F-Series Pickups tells the story of one of America's greatest vehicles to date and explains how Ford changed not just the way driving looks and feels in modern America, but how and why it got that way.
