Half-Ton Heaven

If you’ve read these posts for any amount of time, you might know that I dig 50s shop trucks, station wagons, sedan deliveries, panel trucks, and anything else that fits the dual-purpose custom  ‘business & pleasure’ vehicle scenario. Today’s submission is from the December 1958 issue of Rod & Custom with a feature on Dallas builder Jack Simon and his THREE shop trucks- All were salvaged from nearly-new, wrecked passenger cars and converted to custom parts haulers. Jack’s first build was the 1956 Mercury that looks like it started life as a 2 door sedan perhaps? The goal was obviously to make it look like a factory bodied car that didn’t exist. Next up he took a ’57 Mercury with some ’58 bits that has a very unusual front end look. The last conversion is the “Merchero” which takes a ’57 Ford Ranchero look with a Canadian Meteor grille and custom trim… I think its the cleanest and nicest proportioned of the three.

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