1925 Ford Model T Pickup (w/ startup)

A black 1925 Ford Model T pickup starting up and leaving Clearman's restaurants during the 2024 Holiday Motor Excursion presented by the Horseless Carriage Club (HCCA) of Southern California. Ford introduced the Model T pickup, its first factory-produced pickup truck, in April 2025. Previously, pickups were built by owners modifying their existing Model Ts. The factory-built pickup shared the affordability, quality, and reliability of other Model T variants and was met with commercial success with 33,800 examples sold in the first year.

It's too easy to forget the significance of this old truck. First of all, it's about to turn a century old. Also, it's an early example of what's essentially the direct predecessor to Ford's highly popular modern pickups. Most people generally trace the Blue Oval's pickup heritage back to 1948 when the F-Series name was first used. But it was actually over two decades earlier when Ford first began offering this factory-built pickup - something that in its time was considered a fresh new concept. Oh how times have changed! And it happens to have a convertible top too - something rarely seen on a pickup today - simply because that's how cars were generally built back then. It's always fun to see antique cars start up and run on their own power, and I'm glad this Model T, which began life as a humble and economical means of transportation, has survived for all these generations and still brings smiles to people's faces today.

Would you have bought a factory Model T pickup in 1925 or built one yourself using an existing Model T? Leave a comment on YouTube and let me know!