OT Ford truck 1953

I bought this old 1953 f250 truck at an auction this
summer. With a friends help it is now operational.
New brakes engine stuff etc it is mechanically in
great shape and I like the old look. The horn
button say ford anniversary which matches the
jubilee.

Just thought I would share as I am having fun
cruising around town with the kids getting ice cream
etc.

Last pic is as purchased.
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I had a 1953 C-750 Big Job that had the same horn button. I sold it to a guy for $800.00. He took the cab and set it on a late model chassis, tilted the front end and put a 3208 TT engine in it and made a motorhome out of it. Spent close to 40 grand on it I'm told, but it is a beautiful one of a kind vehicle. I wish I had a picture to post.
 
The 53 Ford was their 50th year anniversary model with a special horn button and was the last year for flathead V 8 and first year for the overhead valve V 8. They must have used several grills in trucks in 53 because my 53 (F 350) doesn't look that with bars .Mine has a grill like the one in picture I posted.
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(quoted from post at 20:33:58 08/26/16) I like the spot light, always wanted one for my truck,

Great looking truck

Spotlights were really common back then. Nobody had yard lights, and the country was dark. This is my 1951.
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(quoted from post at 21:57:07 08/26/16)
(quoted from post at 20:33:58 08/26/16) I like the spot light, always wanted one for my truck,

Great looking truck

Spotlights were really common back then. Nobody had yard lights, and the country was dark. This is my 1951.
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fredstev, this is the Ford Forum. You should not post Chevy's here.
To prevent future occurrences you should deliver that thing to my place.
I will store it out of the weather for you and make sure it gets
started and driven occasionally just for the antique value.
Sound good? LOL Beautiful truck!
 
Sure wish I could find an old Ford in that shape.
A local guy had a mid 50's F100 for sale.
Said the body was from Texas.
Had a Chevy V6 in it if I recall correctly.
Was asking $6000 for it last time I looked.
Repainted white with mag rims and white letter tires.
 
Nice truck. I'd like to find a '53 to go with my Jubilee, or a '48, like my Grandpa had. Checkbook says I better not look very hard just yet.
 

It's lurking (and leaking) in my barn as we speak. It's 10 years older than my Ford 871, so it holds seniority.

Sorry, Royse - you can't have it. :D I worked for Chevrolet for 37 years, so figured I had better be seen in public driving one. I'm a closet flathead V8 fan, though. . . .
 
Very nice Jason. Is that what you'd use to come and get that engine from me? :)
I had a couple of old trucks in the past. A 46 3/4T GMC and a 48 1 1/2 ton Diamond T. I don't have a photo of the Jimmy but do have one of the Diamond T.
I drove it to Alaska and back. Had it for 17 years but sold it as I rarely used it.
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"Apparently all us old guys with old tractors like old trucks too."

I think so. I don't have any trucks that old anymore. This '79 is it at the moment.

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Probably not. That would take ages to get there at about 40 miles an hour.

Thanks for the great comments. Old trucks and tractors go very well together but let's be honest. Tractors go with everything.

I would love to have a Chevy of the same year or so. Trucks are much more interesting to me than old cars until you get to the muscle stuff.

Jason.
 
Nice looking truck, and I LOVE nailheads! They are torque monsters but not well suited to hot rodding due to the small valves and exhaust ports.

At a local car show a couple of months ago, I saw a 66 (last year for the nailhead) Buick Riviera GS with dual quad 425 nailhead. In my opinion, it was the best of show.

There was also a rat rod made from a 1952 Buick special with 26? straight eight with eight side draft motorcycle carburetors.

When small, my Father had s 51 Buick Super with hydraulic lifter equipped straight eight and Dynaflow. Nice car in its day.

Dean
 
Great looking old Diamond T, Jerry.

Was it a big flathead 6?

Were the wipers vacuum or manual?

Dean
 
It had a Hercules JXB in it when I bought it. 6 cyl flathead. I don't remember the ci but at 98 hp it was severely underpowered. I upgraded it to a Herc JXLD - a bump of about 30 hp.
Ultimately I broke a rear axle shaft and couldn't find a replacement. No internet then.
So I bought a 1970 IH 1600 with a 345 and set my cab on that. Put a 4 bbl and manifold from a Scout in it. About 170? hp.
The IH originally had 8.25x20 rubber on it but I found a set of 11x22.5 tires and rims and put those on it. 5 sp Clark and 2 sp Eaton rear end in it. It would roll all day at 80 no problem and still had plenty of power in lower gears. Painted it twice in the years I had it. Second time red with black fenders. New white oak bed. It was a big hit everywhere I drove it - car shows, hauled floats in parades, etc. But i had to keep commercial plates and ins on it which was pricey. Lost my indoor storage so it sat outside. Finally let it go. Don't miss it much. Had my fun. Let someone else have some too.
I still have a nameplate from one. Solid brass.
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Back in my college days, I worked at a Standard Oil Station to help pay the bills.

The owner had two International Scouts with which he plowed snow in the winters. One was a 1970, the other, maybe a 1972. Both were V-8s, one a 304, the other a 345. IIRC, one a 2V, the other a 4V.

I remember putting a clutch in one but cannot remember which. Both were three speed floor shifts.

The short wheelbase Scout was a nice platform for plowing snow.

Dean
 
my dad had a 46 chevy panel truck. crank out windshield. I luved that truck. matter of fact I luved it so much I wrapped it around a t-pole. (ignorance of youth)
 
I enjoy my old ford truck too. Not as old as yours but old just the same. 1965 f100. Been a great old truck. Camper comes in handy too.
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a few pics of my '46 Ford - the first one is in '76 when I got it and the last two are today - 40 years later - where did the time go?
 
I had one just like that, color and all, less the topper. Had the hot water 6 but no heater, 3 on the tree, no radio. Figure that. Course down on the TX gulf coast it doesn't get all that cold. Paid $1000 for it in '67. Only repair in the year I owned it was a fan blade. 2 pieces of steel riveted together and ? came flying off one day at about 60 mph and cut into the driver's side inner fender. Lucky it didn't get my radiator.
 
a few pics of my '46 Ford - the first one is in '76 when I got it and the last two are today - 40 years later - where did the time go?

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Buick said that they used a high lift cam to offset the small valves. They were under square as I recall which doesn't lend itself to hot rodding.....pushing a land yacht Buick around at 100+, but not a 0-60. I had a 1956 Special with a stick shift. Used to drag 265 '55 chevys and lost my shirt every time.....daaa wonder why, Grin.

Had a guy from California (bragger type) that was in town and thought his Black '69 Biscayne, 348 with 3 deuces and 3 on the tree was hot stuff. Got out on the back road one night and the same guy that beat me beat him too.....had his mom's 4 door sedan with a Powerglide. Reason why he won, besides the fast switching PG was that he came off the line with traction where as the hot dog smoked his tires and went no where....except to the tire store for some more. Grin.
 
dtatum that's an awesome history in just a few pictures.
I don't see any pictures of the young man in today's pictures.
And given the 40 year difference I assume the faithful companion
is no longer with us. Sure looked eager to please in that pic.
Thanks for posting those!
 
I've still got the 1949 REO Speed Wagon that my dad bought new. He traded in a 1947
Ford with a grain box for the bare frame REO plus $200 to boot. When I asked him
why he did that, he said the Hudson dealer had it parked right by the livestock
unloading dock in town, and it looked so nice, he couldn't resist. He said
REO was the first company that claimed it was good for over 100,000 miles. I think
it has 29,000 now. He worked it hard. Not in the best condition. I don't know what
to do with it.

Pale blue over dark blue fenders.
 
Beautiful. How can you put a treasure like that on the "open road"? Surely you can't insure it for what it's worth (to you). I'd be "suckin it up"
every time a car got even close to me.
 
I lied, er ah, misrepresented myself, er ah was politically incorrect: Did a fact check and all the Nailheads were over square. Maybe I got the under square idea from the straight 8's; I got it somewhere online. Google Buick Nail Head V8 and you get some real "Hotrodders dreams" engine pictures.
 
The straight eights were, indeed substantially undersquare, a design necessary to keep the block length within reason.

The nailheads had small valves and small exhaust ports. Additionally, the exhaust ports made an approximately 90 degree bend from the vertical exhaust valve to the exhaust port flange. These characteristics limited RPM potential.

FWIW, the unique nailhead design resulted from engineering compromises dictated by marketing directives. Buick wanted to introduce the V8 engine in the 53 model year a year or two before the redesigned chassis would be ready in 54 or 55( can't remember). The existing chassis, intended for use with Buick straight 8 engines was designed with narrow frame rails. Consequentially, the new V8 engine would need to be very narrow for its displacement to fit between the narrow frame rails. Buick engineers came up with the vertical valve engine to meet this constraint. Various renditions of the nailhead engine were produced for another 13 years.

For a short period, nailhead engines were not uncommon for engine swaps into small chassis hot rods due to the relatively small exterior package size but they were quickly supplanted by Oldsmobile and, eventually the ubiquitous small block Chevy engines.

For a short while in the early 1960s, Tommy Ivo campaigned a 4WD exibition dragster powered by 4 injected 401 Buick engines.

Dean
 
Thanks Dean for that reply. I

liked the first one I saw which was in a friend's '53 4 door family bus. Thought it was neat and compact. Later on I bought the Special because it was a good solid purchase and had the turquoise V8.

I always wondered why Buick was the only GM brand to design an engine that peculiar and you just answered the question.
 
Both Buick and Pontiac V8 engines were offered as optional equipment in GMC pick up trucks in the mid 1950s.

Dean
 
I bought this 1951 Ford F3 in March for 700 bucks. Here is a picture when I started. I hope to paint it labor day weekend.
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Yeah, I bought it out of the junkyard. He bought it at an auction 25 years ago. Been sitting ever since. It was locked up, but not like you would think. The clutch came apart and was jammed up against the flywheel and starter bendix. Of course , new clutch etc.,starter rebuild, wheel cylinders, brakes, master cylinder, u joints. Drive shaft was bent, new spring bushings and pins, tranny seals, too much to mention, but that Flatty 239 purrs! Son in law re did the seat for me. Lots of welding patch panels on the box till I was sick of it. Man, glad I am getting past all the dirty stuff. They call it body WORK for a reason.. Hope.to get the box floor in it after the paint because I spotted some nice 1" boards I want to g et before they sell out.
 

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