A Ford L-Series Medium-Duty truck located in Elkhart, Indiana:
Category: Ford Motor Company
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A Ford L-Series Medium-Duty truck located in Elkhart, Indiana:
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I am very happy to hear that Ford’s Medium-Duty truck business is being resurgent for the first time since they had sold their original foray into this business to Daimler/Freightliner to become Sterling in 1996.
I am also happy to hear that consumers are moving from companies whose core business is producing Medium & Heavy-Duty trucks (such as IH/Navistar, Freightliner, and PACAAR) to Ford’s Medium-Duty trucks. 20 years ago, this was not the case as around the time Ford had sold their original Medium & Heavy-Duty truck division to Daimler/Freightliner in 1996, and the years in the 1990’s leading up to it; Ford was losing market share to these companies whose core business is Medium & Heavy-Duty trucks; as was also General Motors before they had exited the Medium-Duty truck business in 2009.
Ford had even helped Daimler/Freightliner develop their FS-65 School Bus chassis & cowl, but had then figuratively stabbed Ford in the back in terms of eating away Ford’s market share of the Type C School Bus chassis & cowl market entirely; and had helped spell the doom for GM’s presence in the Type C School Bus chassis & cowl market, which was already strictly limited to Blue Bird’s usage of it as a result of an agreement that GM and Blue Bird had signed in the early 1990’s to be the sole user of their chassis & cowl.
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As you may be aware of if you’ve been following this blog for a while, I don’t have any interest in Walt Disney World.
I am writing this post because pictured within Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground on their property in the Orlando suburb of Lake Buena Vista, Florida is a new-generation aluminum-bodied Ford Super Duty towing a Fifth-Wheel trailer.
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I am happy that the Ford Motor Company is celebrating its 100th anniversary in Ireland, and that the great-grandson of Henry Ford and the Executive Chairman of the Ford Motor Company-William Clay Ford Jr. will be visiting Ireland to take part in the festivities put on by the company in celebration of the 100th anniversary of their presence in Ireland; and also to visit the Ford ancestral home in Cork, Ballinascarthy County.
The plant in Cork, Ireland; along with the plant in Dagenham, England and later in Basildon, England is where Ford had manufactured their tractors until the 1970’s, when tractor manufacturing began to take place solely in Basildon at this time.
Source: MONDAY APRIL 17, 2017 IS CENTENARY DAY FOR FORD IN IRELAND | Ford Media Center
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The last of the Crown Victorias that were ever built being transported on a car hauler in Detroit City Proper as seen in this rendering from June, 2011.
These Crown Victorias were built just as the Panther platform was being put into retirement by the Ford Motor Company.
The Panther platform, a platform that dated back to 1979 and was the arch rival of the General Motors B-platform.
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A Ford Medium & Heavy-Duty truck dealer located in Lansing, Michigan that had transitioned to selling Sterling by Freightliner once Ford had sold that division to Daimler/Freightliner to become Sterling in 1996 alongside coeval Ford Light-Duty trucks, was, at one time; co-owned with the Curtis Ford passenger car dealership that was located in Lansing, Michigan, and was later sold at some point in time; where this dealership became known as ‘Central Ford Truck’ from that point forward.
Ironically, there is a Ford L-Series with a dump body owned and operated by the Michigan Department Of Transportation (MDOT) painted in Safety Orange driving right in front of this very dealership at the time these photos were taken. The Michigan Department Of Transportation, being based in Lansing, Michigan; could have very well likely taken delivery of this L-Series chassis & cab at this very dealership.
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A Ford F-Series Medium-Duty with a Flatbed body and an L-Series with a Flatbed body, both of which are located in Detroit city proper in Michigan.
Both of these trucks are equipped with my personal favorite type of wheel on a Class 6-8 vehicle-the Dayton wheel.
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3rd generation Ford Focus Estate/Station Wagon in the town of Hesseng, Norway.
Since the advent of the One Ford Plan, the Ford Motor Company has reunited the North American Focus with the European market Focus for the first time since the 1st generation was produced; and after there were two entirely different Escorts for the North American and European markets from 1982-2000.
To my advantage, because of the Focus that is manufactured and sold in the United States as part of the One Ford Plan; Americans are forced to tolerate the European character and nature of the current generation Focus, whether they like it or not; and they no longer have a crummy washing machine vis a vis the North American Escort that was produced from 1981-2000, each and every vehicle on the K-Car platform that Chrysler has ever produced, Neon/PT Cruiser, every vehicle on the J, L; and N platforms that General Motors has ever produced, and the Chevrolet Cobalt that had succeeded the Cavalier.
Since the Focus was introduced in 1998, it had surpassed the Volkswagen Golf as the #1 selling car in the world, knocking the Golf to the #2 spot.
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A Ford F-Series Medium-Duty truck with a diesel engine that I like-the Brazilian built New Holland 7.8 liter diesel.
This truck probably has a 6-speed Spicer manual transmission.
1990 FORD F800 WITH 1500 GALLON ROSCO DISTRIBUTOR – Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1726703
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For those of you who are not in the know, and are not from the United Kingdom; ITV, along with Channel 4 are the UK’s two private television network’s; as opposed to the BBC’s television service; along with it’s domestic radio service and international radio (World Service); are owned, operated; and controlled directly by the British government.
Below is a video of ITV promos and identifications from December, 1989.
Occurrences in the United Kingdom in the year 1989 that are as equally important as ITV running these promos and identifications as of this time are: Land Rover having introduced the Discovery, and the Discovery having gone into production for the very first time this year; how many Range Rovers Land Rover had sold this year, this being the last year that the conventional Land Rover would be known as the Ninety & One Ten before it would be given an actual name-Defender a year later; how many conventional Land Rovers the company had sold this year; the Honda/Acura Legend-based Rover 800 passenger car having replaced the SD1 (which had shared many parts with the Range Rover) a few years earlier in 1986; how many cars Volkswagen/Audi had sold in the UK this year (including Golfs, Passats; and Transporters), and how many cars Daimler-Benz had sold in the UK this year (including UK sales of the W201, W140; and W126).
Furthermore, more occurrences in the United Kingdom in the year 1989 that are as equally important as ITV running these promos and identifications as of this time are: how many Fiestas, European Escorts, Sierras, Scorpios, Transits; and P100s Ford’s European arm had sold in the UK this year.
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A Ford L-Series Medium-Duty Truck with a Dump Body.
This particular one has the 429 cubic inch Gasoline V8 engine that’s part of the 385 engine architecture that also include the 370 and 460 cubic inch Gasoline V8 engines.
The Ford L-Series, part of Ford’s Medium & Heavy-Duty Truck division that they had sold off to Daimler and to Freightliner to become Sterling in 1996; was produced from 1970 up until 1995, when the Ford Louisville Series had replaced the L-Series.
The Louisville Series was what was included in the sale of Medium & Heavy-Duty Truck division that they had sold off to Daimler and to Freightliner; and would live on in Daimler’s hands as the Sterling Acterra.
1991 Ford Dump Truck – Salem-Keizer Public Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1741237
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The all-new 2017 Ford F-Series Super Duty – the toughest, smartest, most capable Super Duty ever – has won the 2017 Motor Trend Truck of the Year title – the first time the Super Duty has taken home this prize.
Source: All-New Ford F-Series Super Duty Earns 2017 Motor Trend Truck of the Year | Ford Media Center
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