Learn all there is to know about the most popular vehicles in history. Ford's F-series pickups are simply the most popular vehicles ever. The F150 set a modern-day single-month sales record for the industry with 126,905 trucks sold in July 2005, the most sales of any single nameplate in any month since the days of the Ford Model T. The F-series has been the best-selling vehicle in the world for most of the past forty years, and to date Ford has produced nearly fifty million models. The Complete Book of Classic Ford F-Series Pickups covers all the classic models in Ford's popular line of light-duty trucks, from the first F-1 pickup of 1948 through 1976.

Collects photographs and histories of classic pickup trucks built in the United States between 1913 to 1960.

Mike Mueller tells the complete history of these light trucks in an engaging text filled with facts, legends, and lore. Over 100 color and 100 historical black and white images complement the text. This book makes a wonderful addition to any vehicle enthusiast's library, and the useful and exciting information throughout will charm any lover of American history or Americana. Few vehicles are more American than the pickup truck. It takes its rightful place among other popular modes of transportation such as the muscle car and the convertible. America created the pickup, and the convertible. America created the pickup, and vice-versa. A true workingman's friend, pickups have helped to make this country all that it is. This fascinating book will carry you down the well worn paths of pickup history.

This essential guide for owners of Chevy trucks built from 1955 through 1960 provides step-by-step instruction on frame and chassis cleaning, suspension rebuilding and upgrades, rebuilding steering, upgrading brakes to front discs, rebuilding the engine, cooling system upgrades, transmission choices, electrical rewiring, and much more.

In 1948, the Ford Motor Company restyled its pickup line and identified I each model with an F designation, from F-1 for their half-ton to F-8 for their three-ton. The fresh design of the F-Series quickly won the hearts of thousands of pickup buyers and, with only minor tweaks and updates, the basic design remained through the 1956 model year. That classic era of Ford pickups is captured in this color history devoting one chapter to each year in the F-Series first nine years. Featured are interviews with retired Ford designers and engineers, period advertisements, technical details, and sidebars highlighting little-known and interesting facts about this revolutionary era in pickup design. Modern color photography of restored pickups and archival black-and-white photos are accompanied by engineers' original drawings and artists' renderings.