Ford is busy retooling and getting ready for the all new aluminum body F-150 pickup truck.

Carefully choreographed chaos is under way in and around Ford’s historic Dearborn Truck Plant as the automaker races to get it ready to build a very different F-series truck.

On Saturday morning the last steel-bodied 2014 Ford F-150 rolled off the line and workers were ripping up equipment behind it.

Ford has just eight weeks to remove all the equipment and tooling and replace it with new machinery to make the all-new 2015 F-150 with an aluminum body.

I really like the idea of an aluminum body. Since I live in upstate NY, the road salt puts a real beating on vehicle paint systems. I am lucky to get ten years out of a vehicle before they develop “skin cancer”. Now if Ford could drop a small in-line six cylinder diesel in this truck, with a manual transmission, I might buy one. That will never happen.