NOS Horn button pad [what's with the John Deere bezel?]

[1986F150Six]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1978-1986-Ford-Pickup-Truck-F150-F250-NOS-Horn-Button-Pad-with-cruise-woodgrain/123722951455?hash=item1cce766b1f:g:NB8AAOSwwpVcpsoR

[Gary Lewis]

That doesn't look right.  Not Rosewood.  No part number, although I might could look up the ID # if anyone is really interested.  But, at that price.....

[grumpin]

John Deere?

[salans7]

That pattern is what came on the Econoline vans, but could also have come from a passenger car as well.

[Dyn Blin]

Now that's very interesting.

That's definitely a post-1968 logo (used up to 1999).  I wonder if it could have been from the era when they were building RV chassis under a couple different brands and outfitting them with Ford powertrains in the 80's ?  

My grandfather owned the local John Deere & Caterpillar dealership in the little town where I grew up.   I recall that Deere had some kind of agreement with GM in the 80's where they supplied an option for Deere-branded diesels in their pickups.  My grandfather mentioned he politely declined the offer on a deal to have these for local deliveries given his preference for Fords.

There was a 20 year period in that decade and the one prior where they licensed their logo to go on all kinds of merchandise they didn't directly make, but I would imagine there's some specific cross-over related to that wheel.

I wish he was still around to ask, he would have been able to explain it in an instant.

[Rembrant]

Dyn Blin wrote

I wonder if it could have been from the era when they were building RV chassis under a couple different brands and outfitting them with Ford powertrains in the 80's ?  

I betcha that's what it is from.