A t age 15, Ventura, California, construction services contractor Jim Wachsman purchased his "first car" (actually a '49 Ford F-1 pickup) from his father for the princely sum of $250. The truck had ...

Long before urban cowboys began invading the highways with person use pickup trucks, farmer Peyton Estle — a man for whom working pickup trucks were built — bought a 6,800-pound gross vehicle weight ...

Larry Mason of Lake Isabella, California, wanted to build something a little on the heavy-duty side, but he wanted to keep it on a small scale. No problem, he started with '49 Ford F-6 that began its ...

Larry Fischer of Terre Haute had a lot of fun restoring and driving this 1949 Ford pickup truck in the late '60s. "The pickup was in pretty bad shape when I bought it," Fischer said. "I had no ...

The 1949 Ford, affectionally tagged as the ‘Shoebox,’ stands as a timeless piece of the American automotive mosaic. This classic car didn’t merely add a new model to Ford’s lineup; it revolutionized ...

The historic hill climb at Pikes Peak once again demonstrated its perilous nature this year when a 1949 Ford F1 racing truck drove off the cliff due to a mechanical failure. Scott Birdsall’s endeavor ...

ENID, Okla. — Local resident Phil Johnson has fond memories of a red 1948 Ford pickup his dad bought for the family’s Lahoma farm after returning from World War II. Unfortunately, Johnson said he was ...