1948 Ford F-100 User Reviews

Big Red 1948 F100 — couldn't be more fun. Completely modernized with power everything. A/C blows cold and Heat blows hot. Kicks down good and has plenty of go. The Air ride system keeps all my teeth in place. My bluetooth radio plays my music from my phone!!

Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)

Good Old Beater Truck For Hauling Wood And Going Out In The Woods. — Here again this isn't the truck but looks similar to the one I had. I paid $100 for this truck but it had a blown 271 ci engine in it. I got a 318 ci engine out of a 1959 Plymouth wagon from the wrecking yard as it had the same bolt pattern for the existing adapter bell-housing.

Primary Use: Utility (towing boats, transporting cargo, etc.)

1939? 1940? We'll Never Know — Me and Don were at the diner one night talking cars... what else. I said I wanted to get an old pickup and make a hotrod out of it. Out of nowhere, a guy on the next stool says "excuse me, I couldn't help hearing...I happen to have an old Ford pickup I want to get rid of". Yeah, those things happen. We got his info and drove up to see it the next day, about an hour away. It was a rusty 1940 or 1939 Ford...never did find out exactly what, it was all sorts of parts put together. Gave the guy $100 and drove it home with his old California plates on it. I worked on for about a month until it got a pile of parking tickets on it one weekend. That kind of took the shine off the idea, and I sold it not much after that to a friend of the police officer that wrote the tickets. Hmmm...I smell a rat??...well, not really, he wrote the tickets up wrong so they all got dismissed. It helps to be buddies with the boys in blue sometimes.