Here is some 70′s Ford fire truck photos from my collection. Do you have any to add?

I do not get onto the RC forums very often, but this build from Scale 4×4 RC caught my eye. Being that the 1967-72 Ford Bumpside F100 is one of my favourite truck body styles, I fell in love with this buildup! I love the pantena paint! What a great job!

Race Dezert user Bringtheruckus posted some photos of F100 Ford race trucks that his family used to race to this thread on Race Dezert. The thread covers bumpside (67-72) and dentside (73-79) Ford race trucks. Some are new trucks being build while some are restorations of desert race trucks and prerunners from the 70′s and 80′s.

After our Bumpside Dually Crew Cab article the other day, I came across Old Ford Crew Cabs.com What an interesting site! While browsing through the site, I found out that Ford started producing crew cab trucks in 1965 and there was even a few companies converting Ford trucks before that. Hopefully we will soon be featuring a few crew cab trucks from the 59-60 era.

After seeing his truck in the lead photo in our 67-72 Ford 4×4 Truck Photos article, he sent in some photos and a great writeup on his truck. In fact, I will let him tell his story…



John DeKeersgieter, 42yo, Yorktown VA, computer programmer. I’ve been into cars and truck since I was little. I also own a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner 383 4-speed, and my daily driver is a 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 V10 4×4.

1968 F100 4×4 details and photos:

The F100 is a western truck. It came out of Northern California and I learned about it while I was living out there 1998-2003. The previous owner was my wife’s boss. It had been in his family as a daily driver 1992-1996. Starting in 1997, they restored the truck, rebuilding the engine, repairing bodywork, repainting the truck to a 1990s turquoise color, etc. I did some of the suspension and brake work for the previous owner, in 2001 and 2002, which is how I first came to know of the truck. I moved to Virginia in 2003 and the previous owner retired and moved to Oregon in 2004. By 2007 he wasn’t driving the truck much. He knew I wanted the truck if he ever decided to sell, so we agreed on $7500 and I had it shipped to Virginia.

The truck’s data tag is still present, and it decodes as:
- 68 F100 4wd
- 360″ 2v 179hp
- San Jose assembly plant
- 131″ (long) wheelbase
- U color code, Lunar Green
- 5600lb GVW (heavy weight rating option)
- New Process NP435 granny 4-speed
- 3.50:1 axle ratio (Ford 9″ rear, Dana 44 front)





The transfer case is not called out on the data tag. It is a Dana 21 single speed model. With the low-gear 4-speed and light use, you can get by with the single-speed transfer case, but it’s not a good, strong unit for serious four-wheeling.

The truck had 15×6 steel wheels and mid-70s truck wheel covers on it when I got it.

The 5600lb weight rating includes heavy duty 9-leaf rear springs which give the truck a pretty good rake. I wanted to level the truck, so I installed a set of Skyjacker +2″ front coil springs. A set of Skyjacker shocks were added as well.

To fill the wheelwells better, I mounted 31×10.5 BFG All-Terrain TAs on a set of 1990′s F100/Bronco 15×7.5″ polished wheels.



The engine is the original FE-series 360″ 2-barrel.

Bedliner is by Line-X, in a light gray color. I think the light gray color works much better than plain black would be with this truck.





The interior is standard bench seat, but it has been recovered with new vinyl and cloth inserts. I upgraded the seatbelts with a set of shoulder harnesses from RetroBelt (not shown in photos below). The rubber mat is a reproduction and I really like the truck that way, I wouldn’t want to install carpet instead.

This truck is a true beauty! Great job!

After seeing our recent articles on 67-72 Ford trucks, this reader sent in photos of his 1972 F350 Ford dually crewcab 4×4. What a tank! I can only imagine how much land it takes to turn it around, never mind with a trailer on the back! I can totally visualize this truck with a 10′ 70′s style camper towing a 67-72 race Ford truck or 66-77 race Bronco….I can dream can’t I?

After seeing our article about 67-72 Ford trucks, reader Kyle McGriff sent us in some photos of his 1972 Ford F-100 LWB. The truck has a dana 44 with front leaf springs over axle, disk brakes, and power steering. The 400 big block is slighty warmed up with around 372Hp and 353Ftlbs. It is followed by a 4 speed tranny, NP 205 Transfer case and a Dana 60 rear with 32 spline axles, a locker and 4:10 gearing. Great looking truck Kyle!

While I do feature a lot of Dodge Power Wagons on this site and they are one of my favourite trucks, I am going to have to say that the “bumpside” 67-72 Ford trucks are probably my favourite. Recently, a thread on Fordification with a ton of photos of 67-72 Ford 4×4 trucks caught my eye. There is some beautiful rigs there! Hopefully we can do some feature articles on some of them. What is your favourite body style of trucks?

It has been a while since I checked out this thread on Desert Rides about 70′s Ford prerunners and it has grown to 58 pages! What started out as a question about fiberglass flared fenders for 70′s Fords has turned to an incredible show and tell of early model prerunners. There is a some great old school rigs there, along with some neat vehicles that have a mix of old school and new school.