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Originally a ’50 Ford F3 farm
truck, Andy’s pickup just looks WHERE TO FIND IT: ISSUE #44
RIGHT. Mean, angry… and
ultimately driven. Featured way OWNER: BILLY DAWSON
back in Issue #5, we don’t really
PHOTOGRAPHY: ROBIN
know where this truck is today –
but we’re guessing wherever it is, HETCHLER
it gets plenty of road time.
Everything’s bigger in Texas,
and this ‘55 Ford COE is
proof of that. It was built
to look similar to what ol’
Henry Ford would have built
if there was a market for a
COE pickup in the mid-50’s.
Power is from the king boss
daddy of LS motors – 8.1
bowtie power.
A Mercury pickup? liters of brute-force
Surely, you must be kidding.
Nope...leave it to those
crazy Canadians to build
Mercury trucks. This one’s
been mated with the chassis
and drivetrain from a ‘92
Dodge ¾ ton pickup and
knocks down almost 30 MPG
cruising across the
Great White North.
WHERE TO FIND IT: We don’t have to say
much about this beast
ISSUE #16 from our issue #16 Walker
OWNER: PERRY County super-feature, as
STEWART Perry “Hot Rod” Stewart’s
PHOTOGRAPHY: bad-ass truck speaks for
CHAD TRUSS itself. It’s a ’29 Ford 4x4
AND KEN ADKINS big block-powered daily
driver, and it ROCKS.
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