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from 1910 to 1973 This page covers 1940 to 1949 |
Some of the trucks that you will see on these pages
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page calendar that showed all the Ford
pickup trucks from the first one to the present day. I thought , what a nice idea. I thought that I might try something similar with some of the car pictures I have collected. I have been collecting pictures of Studebaker, Packard Nash, Hudson, Jeeps and pickup trucks for some time now and I first wrote a web page on the Studebaker. Then one on Jeeps , Packard and the Hudson and Nash followed. Next came the Kieser and Henry J. Now I with the help of one of my visitors have written on on the Crosley Now I thought I would try a web page on the Pickup Trucks of the 1940's to the 1960's. I also included some panel trucks and early SUV's of this period. They just seemed to fit right in with the pickups. These pictures came for a number
of sources including
I would like to invite any one that
has a favorite Pickup Truck of
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A Brief History on the Pickup Truck
| Pickup trucks as we know them go back to the
early days of the automobile industry.
The first civilian Dodge Brothers' Commercial was the famous Screenside introduced in 1917 as a 1918 model. Dodge Brothers' famous Commercial Panel followed six months later after the Screenside. Dodge Brothers Company entered into an agreement with the Graham Brothers Company in 1921 whereby the Grahams would manufacture one and 1 1/2 ton trucks from mechanical parts supplied by Dodge and with cabs and bodies manufactured in the Graham's plants. The 1924 3/4 ton Dodge Brothers' pickup was actually built by the Graham Brothers. Also in 1918 Chevrolet brought out it's
model 490 Light Delivery chassis cowl. The chassis cowl consists of the
painted metal parts. The wooden cab and pickup type body were purchased
from an aftermarket manufacturer.
The first Ford pickups to hit the streets
was in the mid 1920s. Back then they came in one color, one model, and
without much equipment.
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This page was last updated on May 15 2009
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This truck is owed by Al, Casco, ME USA
and is a work in progress. The pictures were submitted by Susan Casco and she had the following to say about the truck that they call "Ben" "Benny is one of those "thumbs-up" rides. Al and Benny don't go far. Home Depot is the preferred destination. Even when the snow is up to the running boards, Benny will go. Benny is now 4-wd. It's a '94 Jeep suspension -- tranny and transfer case were changed too. My favorite feature is the crank-out windshield. Yes, Benny is a work in progress. I would really like a wiper on my side and some tunes would be nice too." |
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This truck is owned by Bob Moon. Bob just completed a body off restoration
and is missing only one small part to make it complete.
"I am looking for a correct 1940 Ford Horn Button for a 1940 Ford Truck which is BLACK WITH A RED V8 ENGRAVED LOGO.? A brown horn button is reproduced for the standard car; however, it is incorrect for the pick up which is black and the logo is a little larger on the truck.? Hopefully, one of you may know where a parts truck is with the button still in tact.? I do not care what condition it may be in; they do repop a plain black one that I can have engraved if I can find the original button for the engraver to go by." If anyone can help bob you can email him at. Bob Moon @ moons99@webtv.net |
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by Pat Durkin |
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| This truck is owned by Will Moltz of Austin Texas, USA | |
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| This 1941 Ford Express has
an interesting story behind it.
It's owner by John P. Phillips of Detroit Michigan USA. The vehicle was originally purchased in early 1941 by the Detroit Times News Paper Company. It was to be used in the delivery of bundles of newspapers. Click here or on any of the above pictures to read the complete story. |
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| This truck is owned by Bob Sheets, Maquoketa, Iowa |
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| Bob had the following to say about this 41 Ford
"I thoroughly enjoyed your great picture review of old pickups. One of the most extensive and complete I have seen. I am 1945 vintage from Windom, Minnesota. My dad sold Mobiloil products from 1941 thru 1968. To start his business, he bought a 122” long express series one ton ford pickup for $938 dollars. I still have the registration and owners manual. Mobiloil evolved from a parent company called Socony Vacuum oil company which stood for Standard Oil Company of New York. The vacuum name dealt with greases and heavier oils. At any rate as I grew up, Dad would leave notes on the kitchen table for me when I came home from school. I wanted to canoe up river and spear fish but the notes always kept me delivering barrels of Mobiloil to Dad’s customers while he was off delivering gas and fuel products with a larger bulk truck. I even dated my wife in this red little jewel. Figured if she would go with me in the “tonner”, she must like me. Well, dad past on 20 years ago but I have kept that 41 running ever since he retired back in 68. I didn’t want it at first because it conjured up thoughts of lost canoe trips. But as time went on, I realized it was a big part of my teenage years. So I asked Dad if I could have it. He laughed – knowing how I complained as a kid- then he said It was mine if I paid the $2 inspection fee. Since then, I have invested several thousand dollars into it to keep it running and looking good. The 1941 bundle truck story on your home page gave me the initiative to send these photos to you". |
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This truck is owned by Steve Giannini |
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| This UTE is owned by Lang Kidby, Brisbane, Australia
This Coupe Utility was built by GM -Holdens in Melbourne Australia. Continued as civil production after the war until the body style change in 1946 (but still continued as a model in that new style). Lang has restored it in it's WW2 colours and is shipping it to Istanbul, Turkey in Feb 09 to drive all the way to the 65th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy France. Seats on side are standard GMH and were offered after the war to civil market as the "wellside" option. |
This truck is owned by Scott Grainger, Mesa, AZ |
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James says the following. "It is all original except it has a 12 volt system and a key starter instead of the floor starter. My father had a truck like this , although it didn't look anywhere as nice as this one." |
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by Doby |
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| This truck is owned by Jim Belway
of Ontario Canada
He had the following to say about his truck. " This truck used to be a lumber and feed truck from Athens Ontario and I found for sale on the side of the road pretty much dead and ready for the scrap heat. After 12 years of fun this is how it looks. My wife named it "Altlas" and bought me the decal just ahead of the door." |
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| This truck is owned by Daryl Day from Australia
These trucks are a bit different to the USA pickups as they have a small quarter window behind the door, with a large parcel shelf behind the seat. This covers the front 12 to 18 inches of the bed and gives weather protection to what ever you stored there. Shopping, dog, tools, etc. The mag wheels were the only non-standard parts on the ute. |
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| This truck is owned by Don Dezenski of Traverse City, Michigan USA | This truck is owned by Morgan Evans, Listowel, Ontario, Canada |
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Visitor Mel Van Overbeek, Sun
City, CA sent in this picture along with the following description.
"I was able to paint a picture of the "House
Car" and Tag-along trailer that my father bought for our first trip to
El Monte, CA, where his cousin and family lived. I spoke to my older brother
who said that the House Car was built onto a 1947 Chevy truck bed. It was
a 6 cyl, 3-speed truck. The back of the cab had been removed. The
prefab trailer body was bolted to the truck bed and the windshield of the
cab with extra braces on either side. The trailer part had a full
size bed that folded up and then, a table with benches folded out to take
its place. There were cupboards, closet, sink, butane stove, oil heater,
and ice box. We four children sat on the benches playing games or coloring
as Dad drove. They slept in the Tag-along. Later, they bought a 17
foot trailer. It was quite a sight on the road in those days, and we had
many visitors looking at it, as well as at the sights.
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1946 Crosley Fleetside , 1948 Crosley
roundside pickup
These pictures were taken at the Crosley Nationals at Wauseon, OH in 1999 and were submitted by Barry Smedley from Borden, IN. |
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This truck was owned by Buzz Beckman of Manitowoc, Wisconsin and has been donated to the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend where his son Andrew is the archivist. |
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| This truck is owned by John Hoer Newport News, Va, USA | This picture was submotted by Karl Bartels, Haslett Mi |
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| This truck is owned by Tim Bach of Slinger, Wisconsin, USA | |
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| This truck is owned by Steve Willadsen
The truck was built in Canada and has a 9 foot bed with a dump body |
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| This truck is owned by Burt Hood who had the following
to say about his truck.
"Thought you might want to add a rare 1948 GMC P/U. I have been working on it for 5 years and it is in it's 2nd restoration. Parts for this truck are hard to find, but I find a few here and few there. It is a restorod, if you know what I mean." |
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Harvey Cox from Calgary, Alberta, Canada This truck has been recently restored. |
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1949 Studebaker 2R5 |
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| This truck is owned by Peter and
Susan Cumberland
of Langley BC. Canada Peter also took this picture and had the following to say. "You might also be interested in knowing that this truck belonged to my wife's Grandfather who bought it new in 1949. We sold it, unrestored in 1993 and only recently found it in 2004 and brought it back into the family. In that intervening 11 years the person I sold it to had completely re-built the truck as a street rod but regardless, we are happy to have it back in the family where it will stay." |
This truck is owned by Morgan Evans, Listowel, Ontario, Canada |
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| These pictures were submitted by Cliff green.
There were taken near Au Gres Michigan |
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