Get Ford's complete story in Ford Tough: 100 Years of Ford Trucks and see why they've dominated the truck market, selling 1.5 million trucks every year in the US alone. In July 1917 Ford Motor Company introduced a one-ton chassis for commercial trucks, marking what many historians feel was its official entry into the dedicated truck business. Sure, after-market pickup beds could be added to a Model T car to convert it to a pickup, but with the debut of the
rugged Model TT truck chassis, Ford was firmly in the truck market.
Eight years later, Ford introduced its
first factory-produced pickup, a sturdy half-ton job the public loved. During the century that has passed since that first Ford truck chassis, the
F-series has become the
best-selling truck in the world, and the
best-selling vehicle of any type in America.
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. This book provides the
history of the wide array of models Ford has built over the past century, including the
Model A roadster pick-up, stylish
81C pickups, legendary
1948 F-1,
Bronco,
Courier,
Ranchero, and
Econoline.
