5k: EcoSuck: 1962 Ford F100 Pickup
This next feature comes to us from a friend of the Daily Turismo who explains that he is selling his classic truck because he has picked up a van and needs the money for some custom air brush art scene on the side (maybe a Wizard, Centaur, Aztec ziggurat or all three?). Anyway, time for seller Jeff G needs to sell his derelict pickup to afford his van for picking up derelicts. Find this 1962 Ford F100 Pickup
currently bidding for $3,500 with 4 days to go Oakland, CA.
Ford’s latest light duty pickup offerings use a green leaf emblazoned marketing ploy called EcoBoost to highlight their use of newfangled turbochargers, direct injection, quasi-miller cycle, and engine downsizing to achieved ecologically friendly motoring. This F100 uses something called EcoSuck which is the exact opposite of EcoBoost and uses a tremendous V8 to drain the earth’s reserve of fossil fuels so quickly that global warming will be moot in a few months.
What the heck were they thinking at Ford’s engine department in the 1950s. Hey, lets wrap the exhaust from left bank to right by routing it around the front of the block next to the fuel line and water pump instead of running dual pipe. Sure, lunch? This is a 292 cubic inch Y-block V8 that was rated at 186 horsepower when new.
The interior of this pickup looks like a perfectly good place for home depot runs and it even has seat belts that could be used to secure child seats in place. Looks perfectly useable for what it is.
The seller has even put some recent money into it, including:
-New (re-built) carb
-New windshield
-New fuel pump and lines (previous owner)
-New crossover pipe (quirk of the y-block engine)
-New front king pins and bushings.
-Alignment
-New front brake hoses
-New front shocks
-New front and rear brake shoes and wheel cylinders
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| picture from Fotor Motor Company |
Just a quick image of what this pickup looked like when it left the Ford factory 52 years ago. See a cooler old classic pickup? tips@dailyturismo.com
This would make a great weekend hauler for sure. Isn't this the generation where Ford messed with making unibody F-series pickups? Is this one of the body-on-frame or unibody examples?
Vince – the example image you posted above is the "unit" body pickup that Ford released just prior to this '62. JBC – the "unit" pickups still had a separate ladder frame underneath, but the cab and bed were combined into a single entity (notice the lack of gap in the b&w pic above). Unibody is a bit of a misnomer; would be more accurately described as an "integrated" body or something like that. Regardless they are all body-on-frame.
Also notice how the bed doesn't match the cab styling on the truck for sale – that was a result of Ford's quick-fix to offer a conventional separated cab/bed configuration once the "unit" trucks started cracking due to chassis flex. They started up the old '57 bed production line to fill in the gap while they designed the complimentary new bed that replaced it in a later model year ('64?).
Where in the world did you find a Crossover pipe from that Era! You can only find those in junkyards if you're lucky. Did you fabricate your own or what?