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The Ford F-Collection has been the best-selling car in the USA since 1977, with over 40 million bought since first rolling off the meeting line as a 1948 mannequin. The sixth technology of F-Collection vehicles have been produced within the 1973 to 1979 mannequin years, and junkyard examples of those vehicles have turn out to be fairly uncommon lately. Right this moment's junkyard gem is a 1974 3/4-ton from the technology that saved the F-Collection topping the gross sales charts, which was not too long ago present in a Denver-area self-service yard.
The construct tag says it was constructed at San Jose Meeting in California, the place the Nice Mall is now, and bought by the Denver gross sales workplace.
The engine is a few member of the Ford FE V8 big-block household; Whether it is unique plant (doable however unlikely, given how regularly these vehicles had engine swaps), it’s a 360 or 390.
The transmission is an efficient previous four-speed handbook, driving the rear wheels.
The bottom trim degree was Customized, and that's what this truck has.
There's an historical camper unfolded on the mattress.
The rear window of the shell has been changed with plywood and secured with a hasp-and-padlock rig.
It seems it was bought south of Denver, inside a couple of miles of its final parking zone.
The camper shell got here from Flint, Michigan, house of GM's Buick division.
Judging by the rotted snow tires and considerable rodent nesting materials, it seems this truck was parked outdoors for many years earlier than arriving at this location.
The keys have been nonetheless in it when it bought right here. Perhaps it was nonetheless a runner.
Beaver Liquor remains to be out there in Avon.
The silent movie period was about 50 years earlier than this truck was made new, or 1974, about that removed from at this time.