Ford Tough: 100 Years of Ford Trucks tells the entire Ford truck story from the very beginning, when Ford got its start in truck production.

Learn all there is to know about the most popular vehicles in history. Ford's F-series pickups are simply the most popular vehicles ever. The F150 set a modern-day single-month sales record for the industry with 126,905 trucks sold in July 2005, the most sales of any single nameplate in any month since the days of the Ford Model T. The F-series has been the best-selling vehicle in the world for most of the past forty years, and to date Ford has produced nearly fifty million models. The Complete Book of Classic Ford F-Series Pickups covers all the classic models in Ford's popular line of light-duty trucks, from the first F-1 pickup of 1948 through 1976.

Ford Trucks Since 1905 James K. Wagner.An extremely comprehensive collection of words and pictures portraying the unique history of North American Ford Trucks. A culmination of untold hours of research, this history follows the entire lineof Ford trucks year by year 195-78. The most thorough reference available on these very collectible vehicles also includes Ford buses, vans, tractors, and heavy haulers. Hdbd., 8 1/2"x 11", 416 pgs., 2,+ ill.

A 52 page booklet by Howard Towne covering details of the 1940 and 1941 Ford pickup trucks. Reprint by The Early Ford V-8 Club of America

The complete history of the world's best-loved trucks. Concentrates on the familiar--and collectible--pickup-truck models, but also includes Ford's medium-duty workhorses and big-rig 18-wheelers. » Popular picture-caption format. Hundreds of vintage and modern photos, period ads, informative text. » Features the most-famous and collected Ford trucks, including the classic 1948-52 F1, 1956 F-100, and modern high-performance Lightening.

In 1948, the Ford Motor Company restyled its pickup line and identified I each model with an F designation, from F-1 for their half-ton to F-8 for their three-ton. The fresh design of the F-Series quickly won the hearts of thousands of pickup buyers and, with only minor tweaks and updates, the basic design remained through the 1956 model year. That classic era of Ford pickups is captured in this color history devoting one chapter to each year in the F-Series first nine years. Featured are interviews with retired Ford designers and engineers, period advertisements, technical details, and sidebars highlighting little-known and interesting facts about this revolutionary era in pickup design. Modern color photography of restored pickups and archival black-and-white photos are accompanied by engineers' original drawings and artists' renderings.