A few 1929 CCPU questions

It's a 29, has the original engine in it and it is 5-01-29. It has the original steering wheel and column, both 29 items. It came with two crazy looking air filters from way back. One is on it and the other is in an old Montgomery Wards box. This is fun!
 
Couple more questions, it appears the truck was a little worse than the owner described regarding the drivers side door and cab conrner. Apparently is was put in a ditch in the 50's when the owner had a few too many and he said the door got bent up. Okay, it came with an extra drivers door so no problem. I got a good chance to inspect it today and the accident did a little more than was reported. The mirror got ripped off the front post and ripped one of the d-nuts out which caused a prety good size dent. The top of the door is missing and the door itself is very out of square. The door post wood is broke about 5 inches down from the roof and the wood rail from the front to the back over the door is broke in half just before the rear edge of the door. The cab corner is really dented up and tweaked. The rest of the truck is really, really nice. I really don't want to use an aftermarket cab corner, I am going to replace the wood and the door with the other green one and patch in the paint. I like the old weathered girl. Where would I find an original cab corner?? The rest is just wood and tiny stuff.
 
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Couple more questions, it appears the truck was a little worse than the owner described regarding the drivers side door and cab conrner. Apparently is was put in a ditch in the 50's when the owner had a few too many and he said the door got bent up. Okay, it came with an extra drivers door so no problem. I got a good chance to inspect it today and the accident did a little more than was reported. The mirror got ripped off the front post and ripped one of the d-nuts out which caused a prety good size dent. The top of the door is missing and the door itself is very out of square. The door post wood is broke about 5 inches down from the roof and the wood rail from the front to the back over the door is broke in half just before the rear edge of the door. The cab corner is really dented up and tweaked. The rest of the truck is really, really nice. I really don't want to use an aftermarket cab corner, I am going to replace the wood and the door with the other green one and patch in the paint. I like the old weathered girl. Where would I find an original cab corner?? The rest is just wood and tiny stuff.
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I would start with Bert's in Denver.

Pluck
 
Just called Bert's and Steve says he has a couple sets of originals so he is going to go look and grab me the nicest one. The original on my truck is just too beat up to restore. too many folds and creases.
 
Hi Vanspeed,
I have a friend here in Florida who has the cab corners you may be looking for. If you are interested he wants $150. for the pair. If you give your email or call me at 321.454.4490 I can send pictures of them. They came off a Ohio CCPU that he is modifying with 6" extension corners to give him more leg room, so he has no use for them.
Regards,
Bill Huminski
 
Thanks Bill, I will give you a call. Interior is mostly gone, there are parts of the original door panels hanging on, the back of the cab interior is there under the map pockets but it is crusty.
 
If you don't want the cab corners I would be interested in them. I also need at least the upper center panel. Mine was used as a pickup and the back of the cab and box is pretty beat up.
 
I bought the cab panels from Bill's friend but I did get someone on here that pm'd me saying he has all the back panels. I will try to find his name for you.
 
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His original back metal is in the for sale section but it is pricey - 500.00 His user name is poweredbylincoln
 
Nice looking truck. My Huckster started out as a 1929 CCPU when my cousin gave it to me back in the 50's. But when I got it there were many missing parts and it was not together. So in the 50's I tore it apart more-cut the top off the cab, through away the fenders, plus a number of other abusive things and it sat in our barn till 2009 when I rebuilt it as a Huckster.

BTW I have a set of 29 headlights that are in fair shape but they are not painted black like the CCPU should be. If you are interested, PM me.

Good luck with your new truck.
 
Thanks Fred but I did find a correct set of commercial lights locally and they are already on the truck. Also a correct original commercial grill is now on it!
 
I went today and picked up the new motor for the pickup. The original motor is in pieces and I think it needs a rebuild so I picked up this running motor for 300.00. It looks like it is in pretty good shape. I am going to strip it down and paint it the correct ford green and paint the rest the correct colors. Might do a gasket set too. Just looked up the motor number and it is a 1930, around septmeber.

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Looks like a interesting motor. If I recall, they said that rebuilt motors back a few years were painted blue. So if that is true, it was rebuilt somewhere along the line. Good luck with getting your pickup up and running.

I just did the same thing. I picked up a running motor for my coupe. Don't know what I will do with it yet. May have a guy the knows much more than I do about this sort of thing, take it apart to see how it is. Then put in in the coupe.
 
I do not know if it was rebuilt but it came from a member on here from California and I called him and he said he did see the motor running, and it did not smoke or knock. He said it ran good but dripped a little oil. The truck came with a complete gasket set so I am going to use it. As far as I know, these are the correct colors, correct me if I am wrong:

Ford Green -

Engine block, head, goose neck, water outlet, waterpump, pulley and intake.

Black -

Pan, oil return tube, distributor case, carb, starter and generator.

Also going to make all the bolts heads natural, not painted.
 
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