She was grand, like a new child to the crowd.  There were several trucks that Ford had built, but the F5 was the first that made the transition to the “new, sleek, modern style truck”, that carried loads, and kept the people safe and the goods secure, whether flat bed, box bed, the enclosed bed, refrigerator truck or the biggest pickup to date. Approximately 140,000 were made, and a few still grace the land as running machines some seventy five years later.

Something of a cross, between the trucks of the forties, and a welcome step into the modern age of wheels.  One quick turn of the key brought life to the flat head eight beast, and an instrument panel like none before.

Nowadays, she looks old, retired, one of beauty and one of time invested in the concept of people, beat down but not beaten, by dates of what had been told, and parts that came to give her the carry ability, once again, to make the ole girl come to life once more.

Ralph Peck

Photo by Ralph Peck

Parked just South of Hiway 51 at the eastern edge of Stillwater, Oklahoma