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One has to admire the love Americans have for their pickup trucks. There is no other nation on the planet that spends so much energy and money to keep such vehicles up and running, and we couldn’t be more grateful this is so.
Without that love, machines like the 1974 F-100 Styleside we have here would have been eaten by rust, or crushed, or lost to history some other way. So would all the other countless pickups of old we’ve featured this month in our Celebration Month coverage, not to mention the ones we missed. But things being as they are, we are now able to enjoy the beauty of this nearly half of century-old pile of metal.
Sitting proudly on 15-inch wheels wearing BFGoodrich All-Terrain KO tires, the F-100 looks so fresh thanks to a restoration process conducted a decade ago. It was then when the red paint was sprayed on the body, the chrome made to shine again, and the truck brought back to a general tip-top shape.
That happened on the inside too, where it received a reupholstered bench seat, an aftermarket stereo, and new carpets, headliner, and door panels.
The stunning example of half-ton F-Series moves under the power of a 289-ci (4.7-liter) engine, one that is not original to the truck but was “installed under previous ownership” and linked to a four-speed manual transmission and a two-speed transfer case.
All this work is still relatively new, as since its restoration, the truck was used for just 38,000 miles (61,000 km).
The 1974 Ford F-100 was listed this month on Bring a Trailer. The auction for it concluded on December 15, and someone managed to snatch it for $24,250.
Knowing how these things work, there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing it back on the block sooner or later, hoping to make a profit for its owner.
Sitting proudly on 15-inch wheels wearing BFGoodrich All-Terrain KO tires, the F-100 looks so fresh thanks to a restoration process conducted a decade ago. It was then when the red paint was sprayed on the body, the chrome made to shine again, and the truck brought back to a general tip-top shape.
That happened on the inside too, where it received a reupholstered bench seat, an aftermarket stereo, and new carpets, headliner, and door panels.
The stunning example of half-ton F-Series moves under the power of a 289-ci (4.7-liter) engine, one that is not original to the truck but was “installed under previous ownership” and linked to a four-speed manual transmission and a two-speed transfer case.
All this work is still relatively new, as since its restoration, the truck was used for just 38,000 miles (61,000 km).
The 1974 Ford F-100 was listed this month on Bring a Trailer. The auction for it concluded on December 15, and someone managed to snatch it for $24,250.
Knowing how these things work, there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing it back on the block sooner or later, hoping to make a profit for its owner.
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