{"id":2641,"date":"2012-10-01T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2012-10-01T17:53:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:53:04","slug":"back-when-ford-trucks-were-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2012\/10\/old-time-trucks\/back-when-ford-trucks-were-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Back When Ford Trucks Were #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>uilt in the last year that Ford held its position as America\u2019s best-selling truck, this 1974 Ford WT 9000 cabover helped the company stay on top that year, and then helped Ford to maintain its third-place position in the heavy duty truck class in the years to follow.\u00a0 In 1975, only International and Mack sold more big iron than Ford.\u00a0 The W-Series trucks were extra heavy, forward-control tractors with tilt cabs and Hendrickson suspension.\u00a0 This Ford, owned by Art Culbertson of Frankfurt, KY, started life as a farm truck.\u00a0 Art bought his Ford from its second owner, Dave Thompson of Mt. Vernon, KY.\u00a0 Originally, the truck belonged to one of Dave\u2019s employees, who used it on his farm.\u00a0 The single-axle day cab Ford was in pretty rough shape by the time Art bought it, but the truck\u2019s Super 250 Cummins engine and 10-speed transmission were still sound enough to allow Art to drive it home.\u00a0 Art did a lot of repair work to the truck, which included new fuel tanks, replacing the brakes, and installing Dayton wheels with tubeless tires.\u00a0 After a friend gave the truck a fresh paint job, it was ready to go to the truck shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

uilt in the last year that Ford held its position as America\u2019s best-selling truck, this 1974 Ford WT 9000 cabover helped the company stay on top that year, and then helped Ford to maintain its third-place position in the heavy duty truck class in the years to follow.\u00a0 In 1975, only International and Mack sold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-old-time-trucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}