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SCG Classic Car Restoration: 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Truck Restoration Project

Read our beginning-to-end series on our 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Truck Restoration Project.

1952 Ford F1 Truck Restoration Project Part 16: Test Driving our Ford F1 52 Pickup No, we didn't finish our truck project while you weren't looking...we just want to check things out before moving on to the next phase . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 15: We Tackle Some Sort-of-Forgotten Body Work 52 Pickup We decided early on that we'd be uncomfortable tooling around sitting on top of our gas tank. So we decided to move it elsewhere, but that left us with a big hole in the cab... . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 14 - Our Ford Truck Needs to be Cool 52 Pickup We want our truck to be really cool.... Of course, that means air conditioning . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 13 - What Should Have Taken an Hour... 52 Pickup To move along toward our next milestone, which is testing our chassis, we set out to rebuild the steering drag link and install the steering box. Simple, huh? Maybe not . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 12 - Progress Report (or lack thereof) 52 Pickup The truck project has slowed down a bit. But now that summer's about over with, we hope to pick up the pace. Here's what we've done . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 11 52 Pickup We haven't forgotten our truck project, although other things like press events, vacations, parts ordering and a host of other diversions have delayed work for awhile. Anyway, we're back in to the swing of things and got to work putting some brakes into the . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 10 - Rolling Right Along 52 Pickup Whaddya know, the darn thing started right up! . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 9 52 Pickup We're finally getting back to the truck project! After a brief delay while we installed a furnace in the Second Chance Garage annex, we trying to get back on track . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 8 (Sort of) 52 Pickup We were going to publish the next part of our Ford truck restoration project in this issue. It was going to cover the final assembly and test-firing of the engine. It was going to be pretty cool...then it got cold . . .keep reading 1952 Ford F1 Pickup Restoration Project - Part 7 Making the Hood Ready for Paint 52 Pickup Two-thirds of restoration is cleaning stuff, especially sheet metal! This part is tedious, dirty and otherwise unpleasant. That's why it's important to do it right . . .keep reading