1960s era Ford N-series trucks are some of my personal favorites. They have an almost cartoonish style about them that you can’t help but smile when you look at and they were used to haul around some pretty awesome stuff. Shelby had an N-series rig to drag his cars around with and he wasn’t the only one. Unlike the higher number F-series trucks, the N-series jobs were full-on heavy duty rigs. This N-600 had a GVW of around 20,000lbs or so if I am remembering this stuff correctly. This truck, despite it’s “Reynolds” name on the doors is in needs of a paint job. The brown and tan program is not working here. The lettering can come back when this thing is painted a gleaming red or some other vibrant color that’ll draw people’s attention as you roll down the road or take up a corner at a car show.
As you can see in the photos, the truck has a five speed transmission with fifth being an overdrive gear. Blind guess here but perhaps that is a Clark transmission in there? True Ford experts will no doubt correct me if it is a Spicer or something else. This truck has a cool old sleeper on the back of the cab. It doesn’t look like it would be the comfiest thing to spend the night in but the reality is that truck drivers did not have the “deluxe” accommodations of today back then. They had a small space to lay out in, catch a quick nap, cook their log books, and get back at it.
The truck is powered by a 352ci FE engine which is kind of neat because in BangShift land that means we can jam a hot rodded 390 or 427 or 428 in there for fun. This truck looks like it is in pretty good shape and it does not appear to be that far away from road worthy condition. In typical big truck fashion we bet that this truck will sell for a song and we hope it goes to the right guy who will inject some love and attention into its life before making that 352 bark between the gears again.
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Cool truck, never seen such shift pattern before.
It’s kind of an oddity, but I think it ties into the way things had been done with older industrial drivetrains. I’ve seen a few big trucks with that same shift pattern, and it kind of makes sense: if you’re backing a trailer up into a loading bay, it would be easiest to toggl;e between first and reverse.
That’s just my hunch, though.
I kind of like the paint scheme. Kind of understated.
That thing is totally cool!
Not a New Process transmission, for sure. At least it’s not the flavor that’s in my heap. My Stubbaker has a 5 sp NP and I neglected to pay mind to that fact (np is over and up) while backing the truck into my driveway during the day with no brakes. Pissed off a few people, but no one was injured, aside from a temporarily bruised ego. I’m surprised that there isn’t a split rear on that heavy a truck. Maybe there is but I didn’t see the switch. Cool truck. I’d keep her as-is ugly, though. Kinda cool.
is it for sale?I would be glad to try to buy it.
There is no link to eBay can’t find it there