The Ford C-series of medium and heavy duty trucks is kind of legendary. Produced from the late 1950s into the 1990s only the W900 Kenworth and Mack R-Model have been produced longer than these venerable Fords. Used in a variety of roles from beverage truck to fire engine and everything in between, this is a wrecker version that actually began life as a fire truck. How do we know? There are some tells like the huge front bumper, the red inner cab, the markings on the side of the cab, the big space between the wrecker unit and the cab, etc. Being a 1978 model we’re guessing that this has a Ford “391” (A 390 with .002in more stroke) for power as the 370 engine was not introduced until 1979.

The seller claims that the truck was only used for winching over the years and has always been kept in a climate controlled garage. That certainly rings true if we’re talking about a vehicle that lived in a fire house for that many years and then ended up in the loving hands of a body shop. The wrecker unit itself is kind of neat and cartoony looking, not one that seems as though it were designed for serious heavy duty towing.

This is a really neat truck that we’d totally cruise and perhaps modify. We think it would look really good with an upgraded set of wheels (some Alcoas) and an aluminum deck flatbed with short well finished wooden stake sides to trim it out. Pull the 390 out, spruce it up with a cam, some heads, and all the other stuff we’d want to do to it and then cruise like mad. That sounds like a winning formula, right? Good, we thought so!

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