Pickup roadster
- Thread starter Dave Mellor NJ
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mercman from oz
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mercman from oz
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The above Ford Model A Roadster Pick-Up is a forerunner to this similar idea 1937 Ford Coupe Pick-Up
updraught
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Marshall V. Daut
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This was a very common practical conversion in farming communities after the newness of the Model A had worn off and secondhand owners took possession of them. It happened to Coupes, too. Some conversions were done more skillfully than others. I have seen some really crude ones, as well as some that were nicely done with care and forethought. If you didn't know they were not available like that from the factory, you'd never guess they were conversions. There were advertisements for boxes that fit the Model A exactly, including installation instructions. The availability of such conversion boxes re-purposing the Model A is another reason so many of our beloved cars survived, while other marques found their way into the blast furnace.
Marshall
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Keith True
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My Coupe had a box in the back when my uncle gave it to me in 1968.He had parked it in 1954.He didn't put it in,the previous owner had done that during the war.That box was made in a factory diagonally across the street from LeBaron Bonney,just a few miles from here.So much rock was picked with that box that the sides wore down and rolled over,and the gutters and body edges were rolled over too.I put a closed cab body on for about 20 years,and now it has an open cab body on it.