My fellow Hoons, if back in the day you owned a farm truck up in the great state of Illinois and needed to patch the floor of it, nothing works quite like a state of Missouri license plate.


The other weekend while this olelongrooffan was attending the Spring Fling out at the Daytona International Speedway, I came across this barn find 1950 Ford F1. I am especially fond of these old trucks as we had a 51 F1 growing up on the farm and one of my older brothers had a 48 F1 he hand painted in yellow with orange fenders. Yeah, memories.

As I was looking around this truck, I spotted a couple of older guys sitting on lawn chairs, I know they were lawn chairs and not beach chairs as they were from Tennessee and the last time I checked, there are no beaches in Tennessee. But anyway, I got to talking with one of them about this truck.

It seems one of his buddies spotted this in a barn on an old farm while purchasing some hay for his livestock. He called his buddy in Tennessee and that dude went up to Illinois and purchased it. He mentioned he put new plugs, plug wires, distributor, points and condenser and with some fresh gas, it fired right up! The old dude mentioned it still was running pretty rough so they rebuilt the carb and fuel pump, added a couple springs and a new fuel filter and all was well.

They drove this four tail light possessing farm truck up on a trailer and drug it home. Incidentally, our old F1 had the same rear bumper!

And how does this olelongrooffan know it was trailered? I am fairly certain there are not 20 highway miles left on those dry rotted Mud + Snows on the rear of that sweet F1.

It did have a couple “pin holes” of rust but overall that 61 year old farm truck was in pretty damn good shape.

It’s possible that extra set of tail lights is explained by the after market turn signal indicator mounted to the steering column. And I remember that old F1 on our farm possessed the same style steering wheel and it was cracked up all to hell, just like this one.

And I have to extend my thanks to that old dude enjoying that cold beverage for bringing this out to show all of us. Oh yeah, 4,500 bucks would have bought this truck that day.