It’s a rare sight these days to see a first generation Ford pickup cruising down the highway or meandering through the city streets. With even the faintest sighting being highly unusual, it should come to no surprise that stumbling across a build for a 1949 Ford F1 pickup is certainly not common. Taking on a [...] More »

The 2015 Ford F-150 will introduce the world to the next generation of the nation’s bestselling vehicle and the next generation Super Duty should arrive for the 2016 model year. Those next generation Ford trucks – both in half ton and Super Duty forms – will likely all come with an automatic transmission and while [...] More »

Ford has had three different types of front suspensions for nearly all of their trucks. Each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages and in this article we’ll take a quick look into each one. We’ll start with the solid axle, and then go through the toughest independent system known as the Twin-I/Twin-Traction Beam. Finally, we’ll [...] More »

Check out this old ad for the 1961 Ford F-600 two-tonner. This baby blue behemoth is getting a hay-filled workout on a rather picturesque farm in this advertisement. The advert states that the “F-600 two-tonner offers a new power choice for ’61, including the big all-truck 152-hp Six (available about Feb. 15). And the longer front and [...] More »

This week’s Throwback video brings you a look at a television commercial for the 1953 Ford F-800 dump truck. While this might seem like an odd level of Ford truck for a TV ad – especially back in the early 1950s – but the Motor Company wrapped this Ford truck ad into a 2-minute video [...] More »

While off-road guys need absolute locked out traction; high performance drivers on a paved road need a differential that will still provide a forward lock and a limited amount of lock while turning for maximum drive off of the corner. So how do we achieve that hard lock out of a corner without having the [...] More »

This week’s Truckin’ Fast video is unusual as it starts off by showing a 2009 Ford F-350 Super Duty getting beat in a street race by a built Chevrolet Silverado 1500. I generally avoid featuring videos that show a Chebby beating an F Series pickup in a race, but this video ends with a second [...] More »