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Truck Of The Day: October 6, 2009; Racing Champions '59 Ford F-250 Bucket Truck
Topic Started: Oct 6 2009, 04:00 AM (352 Views)
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Today's Car Of The Day is Racing Champions' 1959 Ford F-250 bucket truck.

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The truck was restyled again in 1957 with a hood that now sat flush with the fenders and a new chrome grille. In the back, the traditional separate-fender body was now called flareside, while a new smooth-sided look was known as styleside. Four wheel drive drive-train, which was previously outsourced to Marmon-Herrington, was produced in-house by Ford Motor Company beginning in 1959. Ford still offers a "Low GVWR" version of each model. In May 1957 Ford discontinued building trucks at the Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. All heavy trucks were transferred to Kentucky Truck Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky. All light and medium trucks were transferred to 10 other plants in the USA.

Third generation trucks were built in Brazil as the F-100, F-350 & F-600 from 1962 to 1971.


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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-series

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A very nice casting from Racing Champions, this is a modification of their existing 1959 F-250 tooling (this tooling is now in the Johnny Lightning line, though without the bucket truck rear end).

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A cherry picker (also known as a boom lift, man lift, basket crane or hydraladder), is a type of aerial work platform that consists of a platform or bucket at the end of a hydraulic lifting system.

It is often mounted on the back of a large vehicle such as a truck (in which case it may also be called a bucket truck), or sometimes on a stand-alone trailer or self-moving platform. The bucket is designed for a person to stand in and work from. Often a duplicate set of controls that are used to manipulate the position of the bucket will be available to the person in the bucket, allowing the operator to position himself. The lifting arms of some cherry pickers are capable of telescoping to adjust the reach of the device, usually with automatic safety controls to prevent tipping over. Articulated boom lifts are more appropriate than stick booms when operating in tight spaces or when clearing nearby obstacles is necessary.

Cherry pickers were originally designed for use in orchards (though not just cherry orchards) where they are still heavily used. It lets the picker pick fruit high in a tree with relative ease. Similar devices, also known as 'cherry pickers', are used to service telephone, cable television and electrical equipment on utility poles. Christmas light displays and banners can also be affixed with the use of a Cherry picker. An advantage of bucket trucks in this application is that the rubber tires can insulate the truck and operator from the ground, so if the bucket or operator touches a high voltage wire there is no path to ground for current, possibly preventing dangerous electrical shock.

Some fire trucks have a cherry picker (known as a snorkel) instead of a ladder and some window cleaners also use them. Cherry pickers are also used in mining, construction, exterior painting, and sometimes by arborists to work safely in otherwise unclimbable trees.


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I do have to wonder about an electric company founded in 1972 using a truck from 1959. Must have been very low on start up capital.

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Opening hood and working cherry picker complete the package. The custom Texas license plate is just the icing on the cake.

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James
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Very nice casting, Pity JL deleted the box and aerial working platform from there releases.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
The original RC mold didn't have them either. This was a later addition- something Tom Z. could work into the JL line eventually.
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Sak
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Ezekiel 25:17
Now, THIS is really nice! I love it!
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jedimario
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My Aunt runs my grandfather's electric shop in Galax, VA...Fielder Electric. The funny thing is that her married last name is now Johnson! I should find one of these for her as a joke or something :lol:
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craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

Was thinking someone mentioned on JLTalk about using the '59 casting in this manner. Regardless, this looks really cool and something you don't see often in this scale.
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ErnestHughes
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that's really cool! wish I had one. EH
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