America is its largest market by a long shot and over 40 million examples of the F-Series have found a home since the first-generation model entered production in 1948. Since then, the F-Series has gone through 13 generations, it has been offered in dozens of configurations ranging from basic to high-performance and it has become an indelible part of the American landscape.

As Ford prepares to introduce the 14th-generation model, which will bring massive changes to the pick-up segment, we’re taking a look at how the model transitioned from a tough farm truck to a do-it-all daily driver that’s equally at home in a dense forest, at the mall and on a construction site.