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1950 Ford F-Series pickup. This is the first generation of Ford's long-lived line, and they called the F-1 the "bonus-built". Before this, their pickups were largely car front ends with truck beds on the back. This was state of the art at the time.Available options included "See-Clear" windshield washer spray (you stepped on a plunger), passenger side tail light, and hey - passenger windshield wiper and sunshade.
I guess that's if you thought enough of your passenger - I mean as someone other than the person who had to get out to open and close the field gates.
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Thank you, I'm glad you like it.
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Beautiful hunk of truck. One of my favorite years!
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I usually see the next generation (1953-56) tarted up. For some reason, I've never seen one of these in anything other than bone-stock or close to it.
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I have had the same experience. For some reason, they are just not that popular. I remember people who still had these trucks in the late fifties and early sixties that loved them. In 1957, Ford outsold Chevrolet. But today, i rarely see a '57 Ford...whereas the '57 Chevy is an icon of the period. I guess some styles just do not set in with the public.
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I agree. I think it depends on the memories of the people who end up collecting and restoring. I'd love to get one of these, and do some custom work to it - not that I'm much able to at the moment. I wasn't around when these were new, but if you were a farmer at the time, and had kind thoughts toward Dad's old Lizzie, and then bought one of these to find that they could work for you, you'd love them for it. But as you got on, your kids would love them for the memories, and maybe their first vehicle. Someplace I've got a 56 Fairlane that's all about going to a drive-in joint (window trays, too). People today don't really know what those were, but the owners of the car remember.
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I just happened to see a window tray on display at a car show last weekend on a '56 Chevy. Had one of those old, thick, A&W mugs on it. Well, like you said, i guess these things live on in memories until that generation dies out. And there are some places that try to hang onto pieces of it...as in Litchfield, Illinois, along historic Route 66, that has a drive in movie theatre. I the day will come when only gray cars that all look the same will be the only ones remembered. Perhaps going to a gas station to put gasoline in a car will be a distant memory!
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Do they still have A&Ws in your neck of the woods? I know of a couple here, but not close.
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Our last free standing A&W closed about ten years ago. We have three in the area that are linked up with Long John Silver's. That's a fast food fish place.
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I ran into Long John Silver on a trip to Ohio back in 78 or so. But I didn't know they were with A&W. I was a bit surprised to find the A&Ws in a town my daughter lives in. I'd thought they were another thing that had passed while I wasn't watching. I stop in now and then.
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I know they are still around in the midwest, and some out west, too. They are still in Illinois. I like to stop on my way up to Chicago or Wisconsin.
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Thank you! I was looking at a movie that had been shot in color, turned to B&W, and then had color selectively added for the period feel. Idiot that I am, I thought, "Hey..."
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Great idea you had!! the result is awesome, you really managed to make us feel in the sixties !!!
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