Longtime Hauling Career Over, This Ford Prepares To Meet The Crusher

Murilee Martin
by Murilee Martin

After 45 years of work, it’s time for this 1965 F-100’s steel to return to the foundry. Will it be reborn as a shiny new F-150… or as a FAW Tianjin Weizhi?

It seems unlikely that this 240-cube six will be rescued, but you never know.

This appears to be one of those “The Goddess Is Alive And Magic Is Afoot” bumper stickers, which isn’t quite what you expect on a beat-to-shit old pickup truck in Colorado.





Murilee Martin
Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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  • Moparman426W Moparman426W on Jan 13, 2011

    Jeffer, the 300 used the same head, as they were both the same engine. The only difference between the two was the 300 had a longer stroke.

    • Jeffer Jeffer on Jan 14, 2011

      Yes that's true but the combustion chamber on the 240 head is smaller, and when put on the 300 it results in a compression ratio 0f 10-10.5 to 1.

  • Joeaverage Joeaverage on Feb 11, 2011

    I am surprised that this era trucks aren't getting snapped up and restored since they are so much easier than the 1930s cars we've been building since the 80s. Those cars are SO much older and worse off. This truck would be a pretty easy build and would have wide appeal once done (easy to sell post recession).

  • Joe This is called a man in the middle attack and has been around for years. You can fall for this in a Starbucks as easily as when you’re charging your car. Nothing new here…
  • AZFelix Hilux technical, preferably with a swivel mount.
  • ToolGuy This is the kind of thing you get when you give people faster internet.
  • ToolGuy North America is already the greatest country on the planet, and I have learned to be careful about what I wish for in terms of making changes. I mean, if Greenland wants to buy JDM vehicles, isn't that for the Danes to decide?
  • ToolGuy Once again my home did not catch on fire and my fire extinguisher(s) stayed in the closet, unused. I guess I threw my money away on fire extinguishers.(And by fire extinguishers I mean nuclear missiles.)
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