51 F-3 Ford Script stake Bed

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My memory for details on the beds is not as good as it used to be. I'm sure that Ford made flat beds but there were aftermarket manufacturers that installed beds with hydraulic lifts and other accessories in that time frame too. Most of them would have been for 1 1/2 ton or bigger trucks though. If you went to the local southwestern Kansas Ford dealer to order a truck, they would order it as a bare chassis truck and upon receipt they would send it over to the bed manufacturer of your choice for the installation.

The 1952 F-3 my pop had just had a long pickup bed on it. We built a stock rack set up for it so we could haul bulls between different pastures and in trading with other farmer/stockmen. The F-3 would haul a 1500 pounder with no problems and it was still a single wheel per side rear axle. We also had a big water tank we'd put in there. It was a pretty big tank for an F-3 but it would haul it with a full load of water. It was a damn good old farm truck. I just wish my pop had kept it.

As far as I know, the only Ford vehicle made in Canada with a 255 was the Monarch. Pickups & trucks up through F-6 (Both Ford and Mercury) would have had a 239 engine unless they had a special option with the 255. The Big F-7 & F-8 trucks thru 1951 had the Lincoln 337 just like the ones down here did.

Kerby