To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the F-Series truck, Ford is going to offer a special Heritage edition, which will be available in five different colour configurations.

Hard to believe, but the F-Series truck is 75 years old. The model was born at the turn of the Second World War, when Ford decided to get a real truck, that is to say, one built on a more-robust chassis, ready for big jobs.

There had been pickup trucks before this, of course, but they were based on car chassis, as with the Ford Model T, for example.

Ford’s new truck model launched in 1948. The basic half-ton version introduced the F-Series that we know today under the name F1. The three-quarter ton models were called F2, and so on. All in all, counting the heavy trucks in the range (from F4 on), we got to F8.

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