12-15-2014, 04:32 PM | #1 |
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How did the term "pickup" come about.
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12-15-2014, 05:51 PM | #2 |
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Likely because you have lots of room to pick up stuff. I am sure there is no scientific explanation ( lol ) !
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12-15-2014, 06:05 PM | #3 |
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The first factory-assembled pickup was based on the Ford Model T car, with a modified rear body. It debuted in 1925 and sold for US$281. Henry Ford billed it as the "Ford Model T Runabout with Pickup Body."
Probably where the term came from.
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12-15-2014, 07:10 PM | #4 |
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There may not be a 'scientific explanation' (post #2), but there IS a socialogical explaition:
When rural famers in Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, etc. took their truck to town, looking for girls to 'pick up' , the name of the 'pick up' vehicle evolved into 'Pick-up' truck, then finally down to just 'Pick-up'. - Ewel Gibbons, Lake Woebegone, Minn. |
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12-16-2014, 12:13 AM | #9 |
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My guess is that the pickup truck is called that because it was designed for carrying goods in small quantities over short journeys. You'd take the truck to pick up the goods at various locations and deliver them to various locations. Being an open back it was easy to pick up load and unload items as opposed to a truck that would hold a lot more goods and transport them long distances.
You opinions my vary.
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12-16-2014, 08:53 AM | #10 |
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So, any ideas on where the term "express" body came from? The AA express body (through 1930) is basically a big brother to the A pickup body.
I don't think these body type names were necessarily initiated by Ford. Anyone know? The model T had both the "pickup" and "express" body types.
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Maybe the AA express term came from the Railway Express Agency using that body style.
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12-16-2014, 10:05 AM | #12 |
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It looks like Dodge and Chevy both beat Henry in the introduction of pickups, although theirs used beds from outside sources:
http://www.pickuptrucks.com/html/history/history.html
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I'm with Doug! Lets hear form some Canadians!
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12-16-2014, 05:26 PM | #15 |
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They're still not known as pick-up's down here. We call them utes, which is short for utility vehicle.
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12-16-2014, 05:46 PM | #16 |
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My great grandfather coined the phrase "pickup" and it caught on like wildfire!
Unfortunately, Les Paul stole the term for the electric guitar and life hasnt been the same since............. You aint nothin but a hound dog........................! |
12-17-2014, 04:09 PM | #17 |
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They are actually called pickum up trucks,drove one in highschool,did very well!
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12-17-2014, 04:25 PM | #18 |
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That's what my 95 year old Dad still calls them.
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My son found one of the salesman books at a swap meet for the 32 model years, sadly with many pages missing although the commercial pages seem complete, page 53 shows that it calls the 32 a heavy duty express body, has a taller cargo bed than the earlier years.
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