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Book SynopsisGet 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 fro
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 EARLY ATTEMPTS: 1905–1916
CHAPTER 2 FORD ENTERS THE TRUCK MARKET: 1917–1927
CHAPTER 3 FORD EXPANDS: 1928–1942
CHAPTER 4 THE WAR YEARS: 1942–1945
CHAPTER 5 YEARS OF GREATNESS: 1946–1959
CHAPTER 6 FORD EXPANDS THE LINE: 1960–1979
CHAPTER 7 TROUBLED TIMES: 1980–1989
CHAPTER 8 GLORY DAYS: 1990–2008
CHAPTER 9 THE ROAD BACK: 2009–2017
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
