Drag-Prepped 1969 Ford Ranchero Aims High With $33K Price Tag 24 Feb 2021, 9:50 UTC ·
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Ford is historically linked with utes. It was its Australian division that came up with the concept of a passenger-car-based truck, a coupe utility as the western world now calls them. You know, the type of vehicle used to go to church on Sunday, and worked like crazy for the rest of the week. 21 photos
Ford’s first ute came about in the first decades of the last century, but it wasn’t until the late 1950s that the carmaker built up enough courage to make something similar for the home market. Ranchero is how it was called, and for a brief moment, it seemed it would create a market. Its initial success was also its doom, as rival Chevrolet took note and launched the El Camino, which eventually would drive the Ranchero into the ground.
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Up Next 23 Feb 2021, 10:44 UTC ·
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The build you’re looking at is based on a pre-war Chevrolet truck. It came about a decade before the bowtie carmaker opened the doors to a flood of incredible machines that would go down in history as Advance-Design, Task Force, or C/K.
We don’t get to see many of these around, and we’re pretty confident in saying that except for this one, none of the others come wrapped in a two-tone paint scheme in pink and dark blue. And you ve also never seen a 1937 Chevy truck referencing an ad campaign from the 1980s, the Heartbeat of America.
autoevolution 22 Feb 2021, 11:30 UTC ·
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Throughout February, as part of our Truck Month coverage, we’ve brought you a flood of half-tons in various shapes and sizes. We ve also featured a decent amount of tow trucks, army trucks, trucks that you’d have a hard time taking out for a night in the city, but still look damn great in a collection or some show.
The GMC we have here is at the very top of the list of such machines. Titled as a GMC 630, it is part of the truck family the carmaker has been producing back in the 1950s for the U.S. Army. We have no record of where it served or for how long, but the dealer currently selling it in Detroit, Gateway Classic Cars, says it was in service with the American military that decade. Later, it ended up in the parking lot of a community college somewhere.
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Up Next 19 Feb 2021, 10:40 UTC ·
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The full name of this AM-General-made military machine is High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle. Soldiers call it HMMWV, but the rest of the world came to know it as the Humvee, and for a good reason, came to mistake it for the civilian Hummer. 23 photos
AM General started making Humvees in 1983, and it does so even today. Over 280,000 of them left the assembly lines since entering service, making the multi-purpose machine one of the most widespread military vehicles on the planet. There are countless variants out there, from the omni-present troop carriers to the more specialized ones like TOW missile carriers and ambulances.
Camaro-Powered 1950 Dodge Truck Is Like No B Series You’ve Ever Seen 18 Feb 2021, 9:49 UTC ·
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For a while now, Dodge has been a brand most people associate with performance vehicles. It is presently best known for the holy trinity of American-made cars, the Challenger, Charger, and Durango, but there was a time when it made trucks too. 15 photos
It’s more than a decade now since Dodge stopped selling trucks wearing its name and shifted things over to Ram. And it was quite the move, considering how the company has been in the business of making pickups since right after the end of the Second World War.