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03-05-2015, 12:54 PM | #1 |
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Model A pickup with a twist
was it a coupe to start with ? wheel type ?
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03-05-2015, 01:20 PM | #2 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
Saw that one on eBay this morning:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171705435796...:SS:SS:US:1120 Looks like it started life as a coupe, would actually look better if the extended wooden box were eliminated and a regular tailgate put in. Have no idea what the wheels are. Weird.
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03-05-2015, 01:26 PM | #3 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
18" Divco milk truck wheels?
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03-05-2015, 11:44 PM | #4 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
Oh, the poor thing !
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03-06-2015, 12:52 AM | #5 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
the more you look the uglier it gets ! Wayne
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03-06-2015, 12:57 AM | #6 |
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03-06-2015, 05:55 AM | #7 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
Not in the least bit appealing.
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03-06-2015, 09:06 AM | #8 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
There were a lot of coupes made into pickups. When gas rationing was going on during WWII if you had a "service" vehicle like a pickup you got a larger gas ration so this was a popular conversion during the war.
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03-06-2015, 09:14 AM | #9 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
Heck I like it, its more useful like that. But, I'd do as Carl and make up or get a normal tailgate and drive the heck out of it. I'd have to change the color I think.
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03-06-2015, 09:17 AM | #10 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
Very, very rare! Only one built. A flash mob lynched the designer after seeing the first model come off the production line.
Actually some of the pickup conversions are really neat, this one though really does somehow fit the ugly bill. Last edited by eagle; 03-06-2015 at 03:35 PM. |
03-06-2015, 09:37 AM | #11 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
In Oklahoma, cars were converted to "FARM TRUCKS" & got more gas stamps & a special "FARM TRUCK" license plate, which was cheeper, also! Sedans were cut off & many of the cabs finished off with wood. Talk about WOODIES! Some back windows were cut off to the LEFT, so the driver could see better! Much of the wood was ROUGH SAWN, by Neece Bastible's (Chief's lifelong friend) homemade sawmill! TALK ABOUT RUSTIC PATINA!!!!!
Bark covered "slabs" that DIDN'T quite make it for a board, were put in a "free" pile, & used by folks for "siding" for out-buildings & smoke houses, etc. We were "re-cyclers", as the bark gradually fell off the siding, it was saved for kindling, to fire up the cook stove & the big cast iron heater! Their popularity waned, when someone began selling the tar paper type "BRICK" siding. The siding was a GODSEND, in keeping crappy old houses free of the CHILLING NORTH WIND, sent from an ARCTIC EXPRESS, down from the Midwest!! I tole you that we were POOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!! Bill W.
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03-06-2015, 10:24 AM | #12 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
I love all versions of the A. I've seen many homemade pick ups. I'd leave as is and enjoy.
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
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03-06-2015, 01:14 PM | #14 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
Don't like the color or the wooden bed extension.
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03-06-2015, 02:34 PM | #15 |
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Re: Model A pickup with a twist
Here's a couple more:
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03-06-2015, 03:22 PM | #16 |
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Well for goodness sakes paint that car another color!
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03-09-2015, 07:24 PM | #17 |
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Did Sear's sell a kit to do This? I remember a few when I was short in the tooth
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03-10-2015, 07:29 AM | #18 |
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Divco rims?!?
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