Re TudorTom "[They were selling the standard type US/ Canadian steel cab & deck then which is the type mostly seen]", I don't recall ever having seen a NZ new 35 pickup with Canadian steel cab and deck but the 35 pickups that I have seen were all sporting coach-bulit cabs and decks. Some were unique, presumably by independent builders, who knows when, and others with cabs built to a pattern that I attributed to the Colonial Motor Co. Yes, the 1936 pickups and heavy trucks are often seen with steel cabs but the pickup steel decks were not Canadian, they were manufactured locally. These steel 36 trucks would have been assembled in the Ford plant at Seaview and there are photos that attest to this.
Colonial were certainly importing Canadian all steel pickups in 1934, but not in 1935, nor 1932 or 1933. About 25 years ago, Michael Gibbons, CEO Colonial Motor Company, showed me the 1935 production records for the Timaru assembly plant (one of only a few records to survive the head office fire). I was astounded by the number of convertibles. I gained the impression that they didn't sell well and many were simply converted to pickups.
Some may remember that there was a 35 pickup with a roadster cowl and similar body to this one sitting in a paddock below Mt Cargill Rd Dunedin in the 70s. It probably rotted away.
Anyway, very attractive pickup truck.
John
go the kiwi,s trev
