LT800

This low-tilt-cab Louisville truck nameplate was introduced for the 1970 model year as part of Ford’s heavy-duty L-series family. It filled the medium/heavy-duty role below the larger tandem and vocational variants, and was sold in both gasoline and diesel configurations across its run. Early Ford master parts catalogs show the nameplate in the 1970-1972 era, and later Ford truck manuals and data books continue to list it through the 1970s and into the early 1980s. By the mid-1980s, Ford’s medium/heavy truck line had shifted to newer LT/FT nomenclature, and this particular nameplate disappears from Ford’s 1985 medium/heavy truck manual coverage. Enthusiast interest in these trucks comes from their rugged vocational use, their Louisville production roots, and their long service life in dump, grain, boom, and tractor applications.