Ever Seen a Hot Rod Ice Cream Truck?

[carlbugs]

saw this on the Hub

[NITROFC]

[owlseye]

Yes. The truck in reply#48 is owned by Jim Trotta the "Ice Cream Man From Hell'. He lives in Bunnel Florida. The truck was designed with the help of the late Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth. It is fully street legal and just one of his many custom vehicles. For many years he lived in Flagtown NJ. Jim's wife Anna drove a Good Humor van style ice cream truck plus she owns a classic all stock 1953 original Good Humor jump style truck. They do many cars and bike show worldwide.
And yes it's fast, No you can't drive it.

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"Ever seen a hot rod ice cream truck?". We built the damn thing. This is the original, all others are merely duplications. More pictures to come.

[spoons]

Thats one BAD truck!! Saw it @ Norwalk and even got a Ice cream bar out of it as he was crusing. Then Proceded to Boil the hides in the burnout box ..COOL

[61bone]

Not exactly an icecream truck, but---

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heres some more

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and more...

[Fordguy78]

For some reason Ice Cream trucks to me always scream horror movie.

[Nogo]

I Just picked up another old ice cream truck project. Man my garage and driveway are full of these things now.

It's a 1959 Ford F 350 Step Van old Mister Softee truck. Too cold for ice cream right now, but once it gets warmer I'll go over it and figure out what to do with it.

[HealeyRick]

Check out this Austin Mini ice cream truck on escrewed UK: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...Category=43123

[OGS41]

Syracuse 09 show winner and winner of the burnout contest

[gimpyshotrods]

Ry Cooder's "El Chavez Ravine".

[Mark H]

This milk float,originaly driven by an electric motor and slow as shit(10mph?),was built in the mid '70's in the U.K. by a guy called Ray Christopher.
It was powered by a blown SBC.The Jag rear was driven by a blower belt from the rear of the gearbox.
The milk churn on the bed was the gas tank and a milk crate was used as a battery box.
If I remember correctly,one of our car mags of the day took it to Brands Hatch for a road test.
Seriously quick but ,I don't think it liked the corners!




Cheers,
Mark

[capogniracing]

This is my van no where near as crazy as the supercharged vans, and its still in its building process, 1965 grumman with a 5.9 cummins on bags, might give someone some ideas

[ExplorGM]

Hi All,
I've visited the site in the past but this time I registered. The photos are of a truck owned by the company I work for, Cold Stone Creamery. The truck was built on the Monster Garage Show with Jesse James. It was built as an Ice Racing Ice Cream Truck. Originally built with a 600HP Hard Core 454, 1050 Dominator, Single Plane, TH400, High Stall Converter, Currie Rear End with 5x5 bolt pattern, Ron Davis Radiator, Morrison 4 link, Wilwood front discs with a Wide 5 bolt pattern hub in the front, roll bar, racing bucket, B&M Slap Stick, etc...The original engine, a 6 cyl was cut out and dropped to the floor during the episode and the new parts installed along with 2 freezers, a mixing stone and a generator.

The truck was sent to the midwest to "race" with Jesse. He made a lap and then plowed it into a snow bank. The motor was overheated and the truck taken to a shop for repairs. Unfortunately, the guys that took it to the shop knew more about ice cream than auto mechanics and gave the shop the ok to replace the motor. The shop took out the $14k motor and swapped in a stocker! The HardCore 454 dissapeared into thin air and the truck went into hot rod storage for a few years.

Last year I was given the fun job of resurrecting the truck from the storage yard. This is when I discovered the parts swap. I actually found a flyer from the swap shop and called them. The gentleman admitted that they took out the big motor and put in a rebuilt and feigned ignorance as to what they did with the high dollar motor and parts.

With a stock manifold and Rochester I was able to get it smogged and with some elbow grease and some busted knuckles it was back on the road. I took it to a couple local car shows and we took it to a national golf event to show as well.

This year I asked for some more latitude to bring back some of its former glory and add some jewelry. I added the twin Edelbrocks and Wiend tunnel ram in the photo, swapped out the HEI with an MSD, Used some REAL wheel adaptors to match up a set of wide 5 wheels which were powdercoated to match the wide whites from Coker. In the photo the truck is in my driveway annoying the HomeOwner's ASSociation who sent me another nasty "get that Commercial Truck out of our neighborhood" letter. One of the more interesting things I found this year was the infestation of Black Widows in the undercarriage after sitting in front of our office near the desert for a year. Even 30 minutes of powerwashing did not clean out all of the webs! Each wheel was also infested with literally hundreds of baby spyders of some sort when I took them off the truck. Soaking the under side of the truck with 2 gallons of poison has still not cleaned it out!

The photos on the golf course and rear view are from last year prior to the wheel change.

Thanks for looking!
Rick

[Mullins]

I just built this old Freddie Freeze Ice Cream truck for everyone to enjoy at a local car show. Now I've had so much fun with it I doubt I'd ever sell it.
My friends and myself handed out over 2000 treats during the pumpkin run nationals. Then for a Halloween trick or Treat cruise in I handed out new hotwheels and candy. This old Ice Cream truck has put a ton of smiles on everyone's faces.
Of course I had to put a 1000watt stereo in it with outdoor speakers!!! Van Halen "I'm the Ice Cream Man"
Hope you like it!!! Powered by a 5.0 ford C6 trans!!! Next venture shall be the race track just for laughs.