1935 Ford Pickup Truck
A quick tour of what's on this site. You can navigate using the menu at the top of each page, the buttons if your screen is larger, or click on the links below:
- A running commentary on fixing up this truck dating back to 1998 when my wife and I bought it.
- Pictures of Ford V8 flathead engines and antique cars, including some pictures of one of the complete French flathead engines.
- Pictures of hotrods. Not all of these are Flathead powered. This is where I have pictures from the Tyrods reunions.
- Pictures of antique trucks.
- Pictures of Ford Mustangs, mostly from the 1960's. I also have some pics of "modern antique" (mid 1950's or later) Fords and Ford powered cars here.
- Links to web sites and information on all of the above, include restoration parts for early Ford V8's
What's new?
- Overhaul the site to use currently available web site editing software and hopefully display better on phones and tablets.
- Repair or delete broken links. This is an area where the internet is very different from publishing books: you might have trouble finding an out of print book, but old copies of books don't get changed when a new revision of the book gets published. However, the "wayback machine" at the Internet Archive does keep old copies of many web sites. But back then, the archive tended to skip large images and would not try (or was blocked) from getting very dynamic sites. Still, the Internet Archive can be very useful. If you agree, make a small donation to them. I have.
- Where possible, replaced as many of the formerly "large" images that were 640x480 pixels with something larger (now limited to 1280x1024). Unfortunately, about 10 years ago I made a misguided attempt to save a little disk space by removing duplicate files and got many of the original pictures I had used from 1998 to 2000. Luckily, with the digital cameras I was using at the time, the "high resolution" pictures were either 1024x768 or 1280x960. Compared to cameras and smart phones today. Maybe some day there will nostalgia for these, if you can get them to work at all: one has no internal storage card and pictures had to be transferred to a computer using a serial cable. I think film photography will have a stronger fan base than these early digital cameras.
- If you have problems with the new site, or just comments or suggestions, I can be reached by email at tom@35pickup.com.
Plus a few things not deserving a place in the navigation bar:
- The Ten Best Tools of All Time What they never teach you in shop class.
- Some information on Ford Taurus SHOs (my former daily driver -- I'm not tough enough to use the 35 truck in the winter).
Hope you find the site useful and informative! If you have comments or suggestions, I try to respond to e-mail.
- Tom Teixeira