F-250 tipped the scales at 3,563 lbs. Of course, four-wheel-drive versions were a bit heavier. Ford only built 1,806 of these trucks with four-wheel drive. The base price of the F-250 Styleside Pickup was $2,245 and adding four-wheel drive was $609 extra.
Ford built just 1,806 of these trucks. Chicago, Ill. The total included 196,516 light-duty trucks up to 6,000 lbs. GVW and 51,362 in the 6,001 to 10,000 lb. category. Ford was also number 2 in registrations for 1960 with 280,501 compared to Chevy’s 316,962. J.F. McLean, Jr. became Ford’s truck marketing manager that year. The V8 version of the F-250 was designated Model No. 25 Body Style No. 83. It had a 118-inch wheelbase and a 7,400-lb. GVW rating. The Styleside version had a pickup bed with smooth, slabsided outer side panels, rather than fenders and running boards. The bed was 8-foot long and the truck was 203.2 inches long overall. Originally, 6.50x16 six-ply tires were mounted. The standard
Don Schweitzer, Sr. of Oconto Falls, Wis., was driving a 1957 Ford pickup when the 1960 models came out. He visited Jacobson Ford, in his hometown, to purchase a Caribbean Turquoise four-wheel-drive F-250 Styleside pickup. He had no idea it was rare. He just wanted a four-wheel drive truck for his fishing and duck hunting trips in Canada. “What I can’t get over is him driving the truck that far,” says the truck’s current owner--Don Schweitzer, Jr. of Clintonville, Wis. “It’s a hard-riding truck and it isn’t very fast. It must have been miserable for him when he was driving it to Canada.”
Don’s dad would take a friend along to Canada and they would take turns driving and sleeping. He had a camper that he would put on back of the truck and that made the truck even heavier and slower. Plus, the truck lacked a full tailpipe, so whoever rode in back would get a heavy exhaust smell. Don Jr. says they didn’t mind it too much and considered themselves lucky because few families had their own campers back then. His dad would drive the truck to a spot near his favorite Canadian fishing spot and then take a train to the place. In the beginning, they built a cart that fit on the train tracks and they would load it with their gear and push it to the final destination. “Dad found out it was Truck was originally white and was changed to red and then turquoise blue.
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