Volkswagen's small Type 2 Transporter vans and pickups sold surprisingly well in the United States during the late 1950s; Detroit took note and began working on its own competing designs. The Transporter had a usefully flat floor, achieved by putting a boxer engine in the rear, and General Motors copied this layout with the Chevrolet Corvair van and pickup, which debuted for the 1961 model year. Ford was ready with a Transporter rival that year as well: the Econoline. Most 1961-1967 Econolines sold were vans, but a pickup version hit American streets as well. I've found one of these now-rare pickups in a family-owned boneyard in the Colorado High Plains, and it has stories to tell.
GM didn't bother to make pickup versions of the ChevyVan/Handi-Van, though the Corvair Rampside pickup held out through 1964. Chrysler sold pickup versions of the A100/A108 through 1969.
The warranty tag tells us that this truck has a 90-inch wheelbase, is painted in Caribbean Turquoise, was assembled at the Lorain Assembly plant in Ohio and sold through the Salt Lake City district sales office.
If an Econoline pickup had a factory radio, it would have been a single-speaker AM-only type. The owner of this truck remedied that problem by installing this aftermarket FM/cassette underdash unit, probably in the late 1970s. Don't touch that dial, it's got KOME on it!
This engine appears to be of later vintage than the 170-cubic-inch (2.8-liter) Thriftpower straight-six that was in this van at its birth, but it's a member of the same family. 1961-1967 Econolines never got factory-installed V8 engines, although many such swaps have been performed by owners.
There's a Datsun B210 Honey Bee hubcap in the bed.
These trucks are worth good money when in nice condition. This one appears to be too rusty to be worth restoring, sadly.
All the way new, to save four big ways!