| matt47025 | -- 03-20-2014 @ 3:55 PM |
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I am currently looking to buy a 48, 49 or 50 F1 1/2 ton. Its important to me that it is completly stock. Not an easything to find these days. How can I be sure the motor is original to the truck? A 49 I was looking at has a wood bed and a 50 i looking at has a metal bed floor. When did they stop using wood and start using metal for the bed floor?
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| CaliforniaBorn36 | -- 03-20-2014 @ 6:35 PM |
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I am certain someone will chime in with the exact year that bed floors went to metal, but I owned a fairly original 40 half ton and the bottom of the bed was metal, it had factory stamped ridges and a fuel sending unit access plate. It is very misleading as many install wood planks over a metal floor for appearances. In the '40 there were actually wooden boards under the metal.
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| Norm | -- 03-22-2014 @ 5:05 PM |
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I have a very original '48 F-1. It has a metal floor in the bed. It is embossed with the profile of the strips between the wooden planks. There is a complete wooden floor beneath the metal. You have to look underneath the truck to see the wooden floor. I don't know when Ford stopped using the metal bed floor, but I think it was in production for quite a long time. Folks like to expose the wood because it looks nice varnished with shiny strips between the boards. Not original, though! Such a floor would not hold up very well under the punishment these trucks were exposed to in actual use. They were built for service, not beauty!
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| trjford8 | -- 03-26-2014 @ 8:21 AM |
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I believe the metal bed floor disappeared in 1953.
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| supereal | -- 03-26-2014 @ 12:31 PM |
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It was not unusual for an owner to install a metal floor over the original wood. My father-in-law owned a creamery in the 50's and had the metal installed in his trucks so heavy cream cans could be slid into place. Many farmers also did it.
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| trjford8 | -- 03-26-2014 @ 1:08 PM |
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Diamond plate was the most commonly used on pickups. My dad had some in his 51 F-1.
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