My 1984 Ford F150 is an excellent utilitarian vehicle. It is a full-size, with a bed about 6 feet wide, but a short bed so it is fairly easy to maneuver. This model has the well-known 300/4.9L straight 6, one of the most reliable engines Ford ever produced. It has as much or more torque than the V8 options for the same year, but gets notably better mileage - the 3.08 Differential gears and automatic overdrive transmission both help in this area. This truck is the base model, without A/C or most power features - in a 30-year old truck, that means that everything works as it should. The interior is a two-tone vinyl that looks nice after all this time, is easy to clean, and matches the white/light blue (I think the interior blue is closer to a royal as are the interior plastics). It has real solid steel bumpers - the rear one has an integrated hitch/ball and I suspect that it will pull more than I'd ever try to (reports from other owners confirm this). It came with a nice factory bed liner that seems to hold up to fairly rough treatment and keeps water from collecting in the actual steel bed. The equipment appears to all be original, aside from a plastic overlay for the dash which is frequently found on any vehicle that has lasted this long and sees sun on the plastics regularly. Everything seems to work as it would have straight from the factory and is getting right around factory mileage (~16 or so highway, a bit less in town) with no more than very basic maintenance (plugs, oil change). I regularly hear examples of these inline 6 engines going for many hundreds of thousands of miles, and it hasn't reached 100K yet (it will reset to 0 when it does, but the minimal wear on interior and pedals indicates that it is likely not to have reached such yet). This F150 performs like a truck, as it should - I wouldn't expect it to win any races, but it gets up to and maintains at least all legal speed limits around here (I've probably gotten it up to 75 or 80 with no issues, and it would likely go at least a bit faster), and it will easily haul the half ton it is rated for without much loss of acceleration (all that torque really helps!) - The transmission shifts smoothly reliably. All lights and wipers function well (I had to replace a taillight from where it had been hit, but it is not hard to find a taillight for a common model like this at a parts yard). Braking is fine for an old truck - I am planning on doing the front brakes soon, as the current ones are noisy and a bit softer than I prefer, but there is no indication of leaks or performance issues. The foot-actuated emergency/parking brake is effective and will probably be even better once I adjust the rear brakes.

The truck is pretty good overall. It looks fantastic and that is one of the reason I bought it. Also, I heard from my friends that the truck is really reliable, so I decided to look up some reviews of the truck myself and watch a couple videos on it and I was really fascinated and intrigued with the truck. Everything looked just right. The reviews said it was a really reliable truck and it is really built really well. After I bought it, I could feel how sturdy the truck really was and after about 2 years of having it, I could really recommend this truck to anybody. I haven't had any problems with it and it has been the most reliable truck I have ever had. No problems at all and it even looks great, so that is a plus for me as well.