The complete history of the world's best-loved trucks. Concentrates on the familiar--and collectible--pickup-truck models, but also includes Ford's medium-duty workhorses and big-rig 18-wheelers. » Popular picture-caption format. Hundreds of vintage and modern photos, period ads, informative text. » Features the most-famous and collected Ford trucks, including the classic 1948-52 F1, 1956 F-100, and modern high-performance Lightening.
Get Fords complete story in Ford Tough: 100 Years of Ford Trucks and see why they’ve dominated the truck market, selling 1.5 million trucks every year in the US alone. In July 1917 Ford Motor Company introduced a one-ton chassis for commercial trucks, marking what many historians feel was its official entry into the dedicated truck business. Sure, after-market pickup beds could be added to a Model T car to convert it to a pickup, but with the debut of the rugged Model TT truck chassis, Ford was firmly in the truck market. Eight years later, Ford introduced its first factory-produced pickup, a sturdy half-ton job the public loved. During the century that has passed since that first Ford truck chassis, the F-series has become the best-selling truck in the world, and the best-selling vehicle of any type in America. Ford Tough: 100 Years of Ford Trucks tells the entire Ford truck story from the very beginning, when Ford got its start in truck production. This book provides the history of the wide array of models Ford has built over the past century, including the Model A roadster pick-up, stylish 81C pickups, legendary 1948 F-1, Bronco, Courier, Ranchero, and Econoline.
Ford Trucks is a richly illustrated chronicle that celebrates a century of Ford trucks. From the Model TT to the 2017 F-150, it's a hundred-year story of marketing savvy, bold design, and engineering innovation. You'll find expert commentary plus many rare images from the Ford archives in this hardcover book. 144 pages Follow the story from the World War I era, when Ford made ambulances, through the prosperity of the Twenties and the subsequent Depression. During World War II, Ford was a major military-truck supplier, and then stepped right back into civilian production at war's end. The company's first modern light-duty truck, the F-1, bowed for 1948 and was a sensation. Ford built on that success with larger entries in the light-duty line, and also with heavy-duty jobs that dominated America's highways for decades. Ford eventually concentrated on the lucrative and growing light-truck segment. The car-based Ranchero had been a huge hit in 1957, and Ford progressed to an increasingly better F-150 and also scored with Ranger, Bronco, Explorer, Escape, and others. Today, the company fields a full line of light trucks, sport-utes, and crossover vehicles.
Subtitled: A Pictorial History from 1893. The complete and colorful story of Ford: the people, the times, and the products that together molded Ford Motor Company into one of the industrial giants of the world. Filled with all the greats, from the Model T
Hop aboard this lively, generously illustrated chronicle of America's most popular trucks. From the Model T to the latest F-150, it's a hundred-year story of marketing savvy, bold design, and engineering innovation. You'll find expert commentary plus many rare images from the Ford archives.
She might be small, but she's got it all—she's Kid McGear, Skid Steer! Kid McGear is the newest truck to join the Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site crew, and she's eager to help with even the roughest and toughest construction work. But when a steep cliff puts the other trucks in danger, can the new Kid on the site prove she's big enough for even this big, big job? Playful rhyming text from the bestselling team behind Construction Site on Christmas Night makes this thrilling tale of teamwork and the BIG potential in the littlest readers a must-have read-aloud for construction fans both big and small.
A year-by-year history of America's most thrilling performance cars, from the '49 Oldsmobile 88 to the present. Easy picture-and-caption format, featuring nearly 1,500 photos, most in full color. Handy timeline with an overview of each period's highlights. Original brochure and advertising artwork.
"This book provides information on the progress and evolution of the Ford F-Series trucks all the way from Ford's first one-ton truck to the 13th Generation"--
