History of Ford Trucks | Truck History Episode 14
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The Ford LTL 9000 was the best looking truck ever built.
*yes*
GMC general 😉😉. R model Mack/ late 60s KW
It is a really nice looking truck
give me some old rusty retired trucks like one Ford LTL9000 and CLT9000 or CL9000 and I’ll restore ‘em
The Aeromax looked awful
I’ve always loved the way the LTL 9000 looks. My dad still drives a ‘78 Ford L9000 tri-axle dump truck with a Cat 3406 and a 13 speed
Missed the fact that the Aeromax was the first class 8 truck to be built with composite headlights
Excellent video, I spent 40 years at Kentucky truck plant. Thanks for sharing and you did our men proud
So back in the old days semis were built there in addition to the f250/350
The Ford L9000 Aeromax is the best looking truck on the road, to this day. That setback axle, wraparound bumper and fillet corned grill! @7:14
LTL 9000 is the best looking semi ever built. My dad built them at KTP.
The LTL9000 looked awesome!
Yes
Skipped right over 1957-1960 F-700-1100 when the Super Duty engine was introduced and the cab first became a full size.
Ford used to make everything from tractors, mowers and snow blowers to otr trucks and economy cars. Used to be a proud company making products for workers....
Now ford sucks just like the rest of these huge corporations
@@williamschirmacher6526 I don’t think so.
@@timonraccoon As a Ford guy, I think it's safe to say that Ford does suck in 2021! In fact, I don't see myself ever buying anything made after 2010, no matter what brand it is, unless these companies drastically change their approach to building vehicles. And 2010 is very generous.
@@Mephilis78 yeah well it’s not gonna change over the years. Either way the ford is still the best selling truck in America. I’d say Ford is one of the best vehicle makers out there. Their explorers too, cops use them because of their durability.
@@timonraccoon they have the highest production. There is a reason they sell the most 😂😂😂. They also have the most recalls in history
I hate it when Ford sold everything to Daimler, I always loved the Louisville line of truck, its too bad Ford ended up as Sterling
Elizabeth Cherry I didn’t, it’s what they had to do, the Ford guys never could work out how to stop the inside of the cab fogging up when it rained. Every damn one I drove did this.
@@bobbob-fg5wy, I always cracked a window and ran the defroster with the sun visors pulled down. Actually that's how I did it in every truck I drove except the M35A2 which didn't come with them. Pulling the visors straight down helps to trap the warm air on to the windshield from the defroster.
@@bobbob-fg5wy every vehicle does this...
Alex Trainor true, but the the cab on these trucks was the worst and the demister system was terrible
Sterling was basically a Ford vehicle?!?
Such a well prepared video, and thank you for posting! I've always loved the LTL 9000s.
STUBBY BOB! ! ! . Love seeing Mike Finnegan's F6 (2 Ton, Flathead, 4speed+2speed Rear) with it's unavailable, though I find highly desirable, wheel base.
Thank you,, it reminded me of the blue mule on the movie ""white line fever""
Love that old movie.
Always loved ltl9000 series drove a few off them
There is one pulling logs where I live.It was converted from a wrecker to a log truck.
How do they drive and I have a picture of an ltl9000 at a Walmart
my dad still drive's a 95 Ford LTL 9000 potato truck with a 13speed Cat 3406B 400hp sound amazing
I love the old Ford cabovers...C800, W9000, CL9000 are my favorites. 😍They sure made some good looking trucks...when they made them. Tis a shame that they stopped! Sad day for truckers!😔🥺I really wonder what kind of trucks they would’ve made had they stayed in the game.🧐
I drove an Aeromax in 1994 and it had the second best riding seat I've had in a truck. Overall the truck was a comfortable ride and backing with it wasn't too bad either.
Id love to have me an LTL 9000
Wow, a ltl 9000 was 1st semi truck I drove in the late 90s
Best looking truck ever built
@@michaelc9128 I drove a new LTL9000 in 1986, a day cab, it was a very good truck .
I'm the proud owner of a CLT-9000. She's not nearly shiny enough yet though, gonna have to change that.
Fun Fact: Back in the late 80's and early 90's there was a famous 4X4 exhibition pulling truck called The Budweiser Boss which was owned and driven by Gary Collins of El Dorado Springs Missouri. The Boss as it was known was based on the Ford L9000 and the Aeromax 9000.
No mention of the Budd cab...Nor of the fact that the C series vehicles were the longest production run of any Ford product.
Man I love the look of those ltl9000 trucks ❤️🙉👌😍
You Missed the 337 CI Flathead V-8 used in the early heavy F series trucks.
Thanks for the video. Some good memories. Owned a LNT 9000 for about 20 years.
I love the old W-series trucks. But where's The BLUE MULE? that rig mast be mentioned. Can you do a video about the W-series trucks only, and introduced The BLUE MULE? Just asking if it's okay with you that is. Please and thank you.
I remember back in the early 90s I ran a 1988 Ford LTL 9000 with a 444 cummins with a 13 speed, and to this day there was only 1 truck that I liked better than that Ford LTL 9000 and that truck was a 1990 Marmon 57P with a 3406 Cat with a 13 speed.
my 1st truck was a '72 L9000 with a 318 Detroit and 13 speed I bought used that was a Ryder truck. i hauled sod with it and that truck bought me several more trucks that started my business.
Fantasic memories in there for me. Thank you.
I drove a company owned LTLA AEROMAX with a 550 cummins and 18spd road ranger for 7yrs, it was my allocated truck. In that time, apart from normal "wear and tear", it never let me down. Oh, exept once when the jack shaft (the drive shaft in between the rear diffs) through a universal joint. Not bad when concidering I had put over 1 million kilometres on it in that time. The "stirling" was a big heap of shit compared with the LTLA, it was all plastic, rough as guts and you just couldn't get a good wheel alignment, it consistently wondered and even ford couldn't fix it.
In 1965 Ford UK introduced the D series trucks, which were very popular in the UK and some other countries. the D series was replaced by the Ford Cargo in 1981.
I worked at a tile warehouse in Nth London in the 80's and occasionally i would go out with a driver as a mate to help handball. Those trucks were so slow! I remember once going up a not very steep long hill and the Police pulled us over as we were going so slow they thought we were overloaded. We were in fact empty! Those poor drivers that spent their days on those things! Awful.
Glad the Ford of Britain developed Cargo was included here.Drove these back in the UK until the mid to late nineties.One of the best trucks l ever drove,especially with the small Cummins V8 fitted😎👍!
I had a cab over Freightliner with a 318 Detroit and 13 sp Fuller. I sold it and bought a new LTL 9000 conventional with a 400 Cat and 13 sp Fuller. It was, to say the least, a big change from a 318 Detroit to a 400 Cat.
Back when I was 3 I remember seeing a lot of Ford C-series driven by Roadway in Atlantic City.
5:37 damm what a thing of freaking beauty gorgeous truck
Very well done. Wish all of your truck histories were of this quality!!!!!!!!
The CLT9000 Was one good looking truck
Would love a little more in depth video about the ford medium duty trucks, axle options, engine options, etc of the 80-90's f600-f800
Cool stuff! Love the LTL9000!!😉
Not the biggest, perhaps, or the most powerful, or the flashiest, but for me the Ford C900 is the quintessential truck... It just exudes good looking 'truckiness'. In the same way that if you say 'pistol', my mind's eye sees a Walther ppk, when you say 'truck', I will always picture one of these beauts.
THAT WAS GREAT MAN. THANKS
A good looking orange '96 LTL9000 Detriot/ super10 hoping still out there. Custom install of long Western Star tanks required all kinds of replum and wiring. I couldn't believe labour cost Mag-Drill. Great result.
Wow! Candy for the eye (and ears!!) Beautiful! 👍🏻
I’ve driven many Ford trucks...C800 with a 391 gas engine, pickups with 302, W9000 with 318 Detroit and a CL9000 with Silver 92 Detroit. All good trucks and good engines. Ford has made some awesome looking trucks over the years . My favorite Ford would be a cabover with a Cat 3406 engine. I’m glad that there are several of the old trucks around, but sad that they no longer make the heavy duty trucks.🇺🇸🤩
W-Series, F600-700 & The CLT-9000 My Top 3.
Cool video. Thanks.
I could never stop watching these truck shows . unless the day I die lol
How love how when we has talking about the F7 and F8 series he put in a picture of stubby bob
The post 1957 C-series Fords, also shared the cab with Mack N-series (for 2-3 years), and was built by The Budd Corp. (Famous for passenger train sleeper cars). Ford's were always a rugged built truck chassis. Wish they still made them. Still can't figure, how Daimler was able to use the Sterling name (which was owned by White Motor Corp, from 1950). Great video!
Well wikipedia has this little blurb regarding the trademark on the name (below). I'm was thinking trademark law was a use it or lose it kind of deal. Not quite like a copyright. So it could be that after a certain amount of time of White not using the name, and then Volvo not using it either, that by the time Daimler wanted to use it, the trademark might not have really been an issue anymore. Sterling trademark Following its last use in 1953, the trademark of Sterling would change hands several times, through White Motor Company and its successor Volvo-White Motor Company (itself becoming the North American division of Volvo Trucks). As the Sterling trademark had become dormant for so long, when Freightliner (whose own trucks were distributed by White Motor Company from the 1950s to 1975) sought to use the name in 1997, there were no grounds for objection from Volvo.
Well this is interesting. In the UK/Europe we never saw any of these trucks. We had the big Transcontinental though, which was based on the Renault 310 but powered by an American Cummins E14 engine, as seen at 06.24. We also had the Cargo, seen at 06.22. Liked
The Ford LTL 9000 looks awesome!!!
That totally makes sense now. I was in high school and started seeing ford cement trucks badged up as sterling and never put it together
Ford did not use an over head valve y block engine until 1952. In 1948-1951 Ford used a 337ci Flathead in F-7/8’s. In 1952 Ford used a derivative of the Lincoln yblock in the F-7/8’s, a 279ci in the F-7 and a 317ci in the F-8.
Great info!
Love all these trucks! Surprised no mention of the N series CrewCab that was avail special order. Very few were built.
My favorite is the L model trucks
Where’s the 61 thru 66 Super duty F1000 conventional with the 534 Gas Rig . remember you could get a 5and 4 transmission in them the good old days .
Ford Trucks in Europe ran a completely different and seperate history with Ford GB and Ford Germany having their own model ranges up until the early 1960’s when the D-Series and later the R-Series or Transcontinental became available across the whole of Europe. The Cargo originally replaced the D-Series and later larger more heavy duty versions the also replaced the R-Sreies / Transconti. After Ford sold their european truck operations to IVECO, the Cargo was replaced by the IVECO Eurocargo, but the Ford Cargo continued to be built and further evolved by Ford Otosan in Turkey. Now Ford have launched the F-Max, developed and built by Ford Otosan and Ford trucks are ne slowly returning to the rest of Europe!
Im fortunate to have worked on almost every truck ford ever made (waiting on the h and w series) best truck i can imagine is a c nodel with a 92 series detroit.
Man I always thought Sterlings looked like Fords, guess I know why now.
Not quite up to date, in Europe the lorry's were sold to iveco (Fiat) at around the same time however... Ford have just built a new factory in Turkey and are back into lorry's with a big cabover. Called f-max.
I used to own a CL 9000 with a Cummins 350 big cam😆👋👍
Though most of the video you showed a 48 though 50 model dump truck. instead of the trucks you were describing, sort of disappointing. I drove an LTL 9000 heavy hauler Dump and pup. with a three axle trailer and and a drop axle on the tractor. it was powered by a 3406 E. it was a damn nice truck easily as good as anything offered by the three OTR truck manufacturer's.
Im a Louisville lover 👍
I'm a simple man. I see a photo of Roadkill's Stubby Bob, I hit like. If I see a Bigfoot hauler (for the Monster Truck of the same name), I add it to my favorites
😂
Cool trucks. We had Ford Thorntons here in New Zealand. They were tandem drive versions of the "Jail bar" & "Bonus" ('47 & 48) Eaton two speed diffs I think. We also had Thames trucks from ford UK, petrol (4cyl & V8) & diesel Ford engines. These morphed into the "D" series, single & tandem drive. Some had petrol, diesel, turbo diesel (both 6 cyl) and V8 Cummins. Some were repowered with Cat V8's and a few with Perkins V8's. A very capable and easily maintained truck. Most towed trailers with a gross of 39 ton. A main stay of the '60's & '70's.
Nice! Thanks for sharing and watching! 😊
🤣👍Jeah!!Thanx from Germany!!!
The HN80 that they unveiled in 1995 was so far ahead of its time as far as design, you can park it at any truck stop today, 26 years later, and it doesn't look out of place among the new tractors, especially freightliner cascadia's (where did they get the design from?)
Really good history of Ford
Love the old F100 pickups. I sure like to have a cabover. Thanks for a great video. One source I read gave a plausible reason why we call them pickup trucks. It sounds more like an urban legend. Maybe someone can confirm this. Back in the 1920s if some one wanted a model T with a service bed attached, the dealer would order the bed and it would come created up with wood and the dealer would attach it to frame using the create it came in to build the floor for the customer. Thus the wooden floor till the 1960s.The customer would be contacted to come into the dealer to "pickup" the vehicle. The name stuck.
Bad ass thank you 🤟
Nice to see Stubby Bob got a cameo.
will never forget the old ford louisville
Great content
Used to see the LTLs everywhere in Australia.
interesting side note. If you play Fallout 4 (not sure if the same models were used in 3), the trucks in the game are clearly designed after those big round Ford cabovers.
Could you guys do a video of the Federal motor truck company. I have a 1948 model 16M.
I saw that roadkill f series
Hey Jack, did you forget about the 98 superliner?
I ran two Fords over the years one cabover which was really cool and a conventional both were good work horses and I'm a Ford man down to the 4 wheeler however when it comes to being a brute and off road trucking give me a Mack
LTL 9000 nice.
Class 8 might have been done for Ford in US in '98 (like most of you I hated that), but not worldwide. Cargo continued until last year or so. Now new F-Max is looking good in Europe/Asia. International Truck of the Year when debuted.
STUBBY BOB!🤘🏽
I just found a 1990 ltl9000 7/9 car hauler unit. she needs alot of love. but I wann get her to heal around my 9 70s ford pickups. I know it won't fit em all. it's a big cam 400, 13spd 4.10 truck.
Cool video
The CL 9000 with air ride cab. Was a scary truck in high winds.
It was tall as fuck!!!
LOL
I wish they would Ford would a big rig and triaxle again
What ford trucks had the fancy car like interiors?
Cool
well you kinda missed the whole blue diamond truck company stuff with navistar and now ford continuing to make medium duty trucks without them
Only focused on heavy-duty OTR trucks for the most part. We may do a whole series on medium and light duty trucks in the future.
@@jackschromeshop8296 I hope that is a planned episode, just hope the relaunched F-600 is out by then as that will be interesting to cover. Chassis and capability of the F-650, but sharing the standard super duty cab from the F-250+
Can y'all do a GMC truck ep
Cameo appearance from the one and only Stubby Bob!
cool you should watch big red ford concept truck with a turbine
Really digging on the 2-story Falcons
You don’t see too many of those here in Ohio, but think they are totally cool rigs! 🤩 I drove a C800 cabover with a 391 gas engine back in the day. They were the Falcons without the steroids! Hehehe 😎 They were great city trucks. I loved the flat floors in them.🥰
i learned on a L8000
The ltl 9000 not a bad truck but I really liked the LTS 9000 the one before the earomax it always performed well here in oz they came with different motors mine had the detroit 60 series then I had the hn 80 series then the sterling that's here in Australia
How about the history of Reo, Diamond T and Diamond Reo. Thanks !
We have an REO speed wagon at the farm. Interesting history on them. Ranson Eli Oldsmobile (REO)
Ford are now producing a 40 Tonne model in Turkey.. A Super lorry The F Max....... And a modern Ford Cargo... Both excellent....
Do Dodge and the Big Horn!!
My dad bought a Louisville in 98 just as Mercedes bought them out. We went to pick it up and they were taking the emblems off and putting sterling on. They asked if we wanted a sterling emblem and my father said No. He got a Mercedes payment book and joked that it was the only Mercedes he would ever own
Was this known as the paystar? Cause I remember these from when I was a kid .
What happend to the T series? Had one on our farm in the 60s. Nice compliment to the N series