Model A pickup with a twist

31Abone

31Abone

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was it a coupe to start with ? wheel type ?
 

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
BILL WILLIAMSON said:
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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Poor in the pocket but rich in spirit !
Wayne
 
JohnLaVoy said:
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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Here's a couple more:
 

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