This medium-duty conventional-cab nameplate first appears in Ford truck literature for the 1967 model year, where it sat in the heavier end of Ford’s truck lineup. In that era it was part of Ford’s working-truck family and was aimed at vocational and commercial use rather than personal transportation. Early references place it alongside other Ford medium- and heavy-duty trucks of the late 1960s, reflecting a period when Ford sold a broad range of straight trucks and chassis for hauling, service, and upfit applications.
The nameplate then reappears much later in Ford parts and fitment references for the 1980s and 1990 model year, showing that it was not a single uninterrupted run. During that later period it continued as a medium-duty conventional truck, typically associated with commercial bodywork and chassis applications rather than a retail-oriented consumer model. That later history also overlaps with Ford’s broader F-Series medium-duty evolution, when the company’s truck lineup included numerous vocational variants for dump, stake, delivery, and other fleet uses.
Because the nameplate is documented in separate eras with a substantial production gap between them, it should be treated as a multi-period model history rather than one continuous run. For publication purposes, the safest summary is that it originated in the 1967 model year, returned in later decades, and does not have a single definitive final year that can be stated without collapsing those separate periods into one.