There have been numerous examples of local dealers appending various and sundry new pickup trucks with paint or a wrap trying to capture the two-tone color schemes of the ’80s and early/mid-’90s. Thanks to the body lines of modern trucks, the results can be varied.
Ford wants in on the action, choosing to celebrate 75 years of trucks with a Heritage Edition of its popular F-150 which attempts to recreate the look
While the demarcation point of color isn’t billiard table flat or completely rectilinear as it could be on the squared-off brutes from thirty-plus years ago, the so-called A-B-A paint arrangement does a decent job of recalling the past – even if it reminds your author an awful lot more of an SUV with a black roof (of which there are many) than his grandfather’s truck. In any event, we’ll give ‘em an ‘A’ for effort.
Upper and lower parts of the truck (read: Roof and rockers, essentially) can be painted either Carbonized Grey or Agate Black. The latter can be paired with Atlas Blue, Avalanche, or Area 51; the former with Race Red or Antimatter Blue. Props to Ford for offering some real colors with this package instead of the typically muted palette of greys and silvers. In addition to the roof and rockers, Heritage Edition trucks will also have their bumpers and lower doors dipped in the contrasting paint.
This package will appear as an option on XLT-grade pickups, with all its attendant features, though there’s no indication of with what it can and cannot be combined in terms of other packages. While there are approximately eleventy-billion ways to configure an F-150 or any pickup from the Detroit Three, there are often certain options that cannot be mashed together. Some make sense – like street performance tires on a Tremor – while others defy logic. Consider the fact that, for a hot minute, one couldn’t get towing mirrors on a factory-equipped Silverado Z71 until someone woke up at their desk in RenCen and rectified the situation. Dealers, meanwhile, were more than happy to retrofit after the fact.
We’ll also note this is not the first time in recent memory Ford appended a ‘Heritage’ to its F-150. When the new-for-2004 truck appeared, execs weren’t wholly convinced all hands would cotton to the new look, choosing to produce both the old and new body styles side-by-each for a single model year (or they had a lot of leftover 10th-gen body parts, depending on who’s telling the story). The old-school pickup was called the F-150 Heritage and sold for fire-sale lease prices. Ram employs a similar trick today, making bank by hawking a machine that first saw the public light of day in January 2008 and passing it off as a new truck 14 years later.
Ford says pricing for the Heritage Edition package will be available when order banks open in mid-July, with production planned to start this autumn.
[Images: Ford]
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I notice that all of these include body-color bumpers and trim rather than chrome. I wonder if they will rectify the odd quirk, which has been there for years, that if you want the Max Tow package you have to accept a ’59 Cadillac’s worth of chrome, and can’t specify body-color bumpers.
Ford is having vehicles stolen from holding lots because they choose to not fully build them meanwhile they are coming up with appearance packages.
Glad to see their priorities are straight.
@EBFlex – Question: If people are stealing them doesn’t that mean they are desirable? (Shutting up now)
@ToolGuy–EBFlex has so much hatred for Ford that had to comment. He can’t help himself.
“@EBFlex – Question: If people are stealing them doesn’t that mean they are desirable? (Shutting up now)”
Where did I say they were undesirable?
“@ToolGuy–EBFlex has so much hatred for Ford that had to comment. He can’t help himself.”
Once again, someone can’t debate the point so they have to launch personal attacks. You are so predictable…comrade.
So Comrade you now like Fords. It’s hard to give up those Ladas and Volgas.
“ So Comrade you now like Fords. It’s hard to give up those Ladas and Volgas.”
You would know better comrade.
And thanks for proving my point above.
When are you going to realize that posters on here are getting tired of your constant anti-Ford tirades?
We get it already.
It’s not “Heritage” unless it’s all-steel.
And Ford should run down to the RenCen to market these — since it used to be their building. (‘Heritage HQ’)
Little-known fact: When Robert Strange McNamara (formerly of Ford Motor Company) was prepping to invade Cuba, the Soviets *already had* small nuclear missiles on the island and would have used them in defense. Crisis narrowly averted. (Watch the color drain from McNamara’s face when he learned this fact years later.)
Dude, this is 2022. Who cares about Russians and nukes?
Ford puckup body lines are more suited to a tu-tone retro wrap. The one’s I’ve seen look good. I’ve seen Chevy trucks with a “centre band”. Those look bad because the stripe does not blend with the shape of their wheelwells and body lines.
So now we have to watch a video about some cheap Chinese tires? Sailun = garbage.
They missed a great marketing opportunity to hire Christopher Cross. “Saaaaaailun takes me awayyyy to where I’ve always heard it could be.”
I was waiting for two of the tires on the Accord in the video to blow sky-high, and watch that thing pirouette like a ballerina!
I’m sure that they come with a 5 mile limited treadwear warranty, and you’ll be lucky to get THAT!!
Will it still have a solid front axle? Too many death wobble videos of new 250s for me to buy one.
When was the last time it did? 1963? The danger of death is about zero, more of an annoyance, common to Wranglers too.