Texas Truck was an easy name for this ’52 Ford F1 pickup. It’s from Texas and, besides, it’s written on the original plate. After much searching for a body with just the right amount of ‘weathering’, Tim from The Krysler Shop found this one in the tiny township of Little Elm on the outskirts of Dallas–Fort Worth. After a few phone calls, there was a driver on the way with a bundle of cash to make the exchange.
The truck was imported in 2017 for a local Mount Maunganui customer, the brief given to Tim being simple: “It needs to do skids and tow a trailer, and I have a fuel card.”
Being a Ford man himself, Tim knew the only option was to build it with a 460-cube big block. The truck had already been rodded way back with a Ford 289 and three-speed Toploader but, as expected, there was some typical angle iron engineering from the era that needed to go west.
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