About 10 years ago, Dennis Burkart and his wife, Marcia, got the itch to own a cool classic truck after a decade of owning and showing their early Ford street rods. Having already owned two Model A ...

The show judges—and everyone else who saw the truck at the Pomona Fairplex that weekend—were knocked out by the Modesto, California-based pickup with the just-right chop, rare Claro walnut bedfloor, ...

Long before the first passenger car-styled Ford Ranchero Pickup in 1957 and the first passenger car-styled Chevrolet El Camino Pickup in 1959, Ford Motor Company introduced the 1940 Ford Pickup. Prior ...

MODESTO — The city of Modesto, known as the home of American graffiti, is also known for its classic cars. Now, a truck from Modesto was named the most beautiful in the world. Out of several cars and ...

Before the Second World War, there wasn't much mechanical difference between a Ford coupe, sedan, drop-top, or even a pickup truck. Back in those days, you could get away with doing such things.

Beauty is in the flatbed of the beholder. Argue all you want about who’s truck looks the best, but yours is now officially not as nice as Greg Tidwell’s simple yet elegant 1940 Ford. The judges agreed ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BELGRADE — A 78-year-old Belgrade man driving a 1940 Ford pickup died in early September when he ...

Ford was founded in 1903, and its first mass-produced car, the Model T, was introduced five years later. That car — and Ford's assembly line process — revolutionized the American auto industry, and by ...

POMONA, Calif. (WISH) — Meticulously restored with a shiny, mint green finish, a 1940 Ford was named “World’s Most Beautiful Truck” at the 2023 Grand National Truck Show in Pomona, California in ...