Ford 'Big Red'

[Grey Havoc]

Meant to create a topic on this after creating the one on the Kenworth-Boeing gas-powered turbine truck earlier in the year. Like that program this one had its origins in an USN requirement, albeit a later one.

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Ford’s ‘Big Red’: A Super Transporter Nearly 30 Metres Long

Meet Ford Big Red. A lorry prototype designed by the engineers at Ford, nearly 30 metres long and 4 metres high. In front of you is a semi-detached house on wheels.

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MotorCities - Remembering Big Red, Ford Motor Company's Concept Truck | 2020 | Story of the Week

By Robert Tate, Automotive Historian and Researcher Images courtesy of the Ford Motor Company Archives Published 11.11.2020 Fords Big Red turbine truck prototype, 1964 (Ford Motor Company Archives) The Big Red concept truck was designed and engineer...

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The Story Of Big Red - A Turbine-Power Truck That Almost Disappeared @ Top Speed

big red was a massive, beast of a truck that had a promising future, and then, all of the sudden, it just disappeared. this is its story.

www.topspeed.com

We Found Ford's Incredible Turbine-Powered Semi-Truck 'Big Red' That's Been Lost for Decades

The 40-year search for an unbelievable piece of history is over. You have questions? We have answers.

www.thedrive.com

The adventures of finding Ford’s ‘Big Red’

The automotive writer who tracked down Ford’s long-lost turbine semi-truck, ‘Big Red,’ says, “There is more to come.”

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Amazing Restored 1966 Footage of Big Red Turbine Truck from Ford Archives

After The Drive located Ford's original "Big Red" experimental turbine-powered truck, which had been lost for decades, Ford Motor Company digitized and resto...

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Ford Releases Footage Of Long Lost Big Red Gas Turbine Truck: Video

Ford has released vintage footage of the long lost Big Red gas turbine truck concept after it was recently found following decades off the map.

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A couple of related reddit threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/icuhi8

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/icuhi8/fords_giant_turbine_semitruck_big_red_is_lost/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/mcaoyw

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/mcaoyw/the_drive_found_fords_incredible_turbinepowered/

 

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[Grey Havoc]

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