1961 Ford F100 – Bernier W.

This truck has an incredible history: manufactured in the United States for the US Air Force, it was later sent to an American military base in Germany. When it left the factory, it was equipped with a 3.7-liter (223 cubic inch) engine, a three-speed column shifter, and a Dana 44 differential. I don’t know exactly when, but its original gearbox was replaced with a GM SM420, with modifications to the mounts to adapt it to the Ford clutch housing. It then arrived in France about thirty years ago and has had two other owners. I bought it completely disassembled; the body had been treated and primed. After a year and a half of work, weekends and during my holidays, cataloging the many missing parts, finding them (not without stress) on the other side of the world, painting it, putting everything back together, fixing the small problems and solving the more complex ones, completely redoing the electrical wiring, the brakes, the upholstery…My “big truck” is finally almost finished, and I love it! I hope to travel the roads of the west coast of France for many years to come!