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The old F6 was a fairly large truck. Ours had a hydraulic dump body for hauling grain and we also had the stock racks for hauling cattle. This 1949 F6 was the first new truck my Pop purchased when he took over the family farm after the war. It was a bright yellow truck so it stuck out like a sore thumb but Ford used to have demonstrator trucks that were about the same color of yellow. I didn't learn about the demonstrators until old yeller was already traded off for another big Ford truck. I don't know if it was a demonstrator or not but it did come with the fire extinguisher and it was still in there when Pop traded it off.

The three F1s we had were purchased used but the 1952 F3 was purchased new. It was my Pop's first new pickup. It didn't come with a fire extinguisher but it may have been optional.