Meet Mertin Grundy, formerly known for having a weird name and being small change at the bank where he was employed. That all changed when Mertin made the questionable decision to purchase a custom ...
Ford’s E-Series legacy continues even today – but only as a stripped chassis option. Oh, but it does not matter all too much – its timeless design was left mostly unchanged for more than six decades.
Although it’s currently only in its fourth generation, the Ford E-Series (aka Econoline/Club Wagon) has a multitude of real-world stories. After all, it’s been around North America for no less than ...
One of the more interesting automotive trends in the 1970s was custom vans. These vans typically had fancy paint on the exterior and interiors that were more like rolling living rooms than cars. An ...
Of course we all prefer the flatnosed pre-1968 Econolines, but the next generation of Ford vans got the job done too. After the passage of a few decades, we can start to pick out a bit of ...
The cult of the custom van peaked in the 1970s, but many such vans managed to keep on truckin' for an additional decade or three. Here's a '74 Econoline that got the full custom treatment at some ...
Even though "Beavis & Butt-Head" happened a decade after the decline of the custom van, this sticker still seems appropriate. This junkyard is located just a few miles from the site of Fordland, so ...
When Rick Kirk of Ripley, Oklahoma, purchased this '61 Econoline 100 pickup back in 1969, he had a specific purpose in mind for it: towing his '63 Galaxie around the drag circuit. It definitely wasn't ...
Venturing off the stable path of F-100s and almost any old Chevy, we find cast off in the nether regions the runts or "novelty" haulers, such as the Econoline, Corvair, and A100 trucks. When one of ...
View post: This 'Easy to Use' Tire Inflator That ‘Works Perfectly’ on All Sorts of Tires Is Now Only $15 02 – 1971 Ford Econoline in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 68 – 1971 Ford ...
This '61 Econoline pickup is owned by Rick Kirk of Ripley, Oklahoma. He's an avid Ford collector and historian. When he bought the truck back in 1969 it was a service vehicle for a plumber. The pickup ...
Howie Rowsell of Weymouth, Maine, sent a check for a two-year subscription to CCT (Actually the check was gone by the time the envelope got to the editorial offices, so we hope his subs show up.) and ...