A friend's neighbor is moving. He told me her ex left an old truck in her garage....he was gonna fix it up! Been there a for years. He doesn't know what it is, it's buried under a bunch of garage crap, but has the remains of a wood bed on it, regular sized truck, thinks it's from the early 1900's, headlights are mounted on the fenders, wooden spoked wheels, and the rear window is a round circle. This ring a bell with anyone? Yeah I know I'm shooting in the dark, but I'd like to maybe get an idea of what it could be before I go there. I'm going to try to find time to head over there and take a peek at it....maybe add it to my junk collection if the price is right, and see if the wife will make good on her threat to leave me
Downside to getting it before she leaves you, if that's really what you want, is she might like it and change her mind and, stay!
headlights on the fenders sounds like Pierce Arrow, but no memories of a truck offered ('course, I can't remember half the things I used to...)
I have heard of expensive cars like packards, peerless, pierce arrows, cadillacs, etc. made into wreckers and work trucks during the depression because they could take the weight. Who knows, maybe it's a duesenburg. Who cares though, if the price is wrong buy it.
Jeesh, I just realized that I labeled this thread as 'trunk', not 'truck'. I'm an idiot. I'll prob go over there tomorrow. Doubt it's anything as nice as Pierce Arrow or an early Packard.
Very early trucks usually have wooden cabs if closed cabs, c-cabs (wooden or steel), and often are chain drive depending on use, yard, hiway, local delivery. Rear window shape is not much of a clue because cabs were often made by local shops and installed on cowl/chassis units rather than from the factory. Identity is most often made by the radiator emblem or upper tank with pressed in logo up front.
Could be one of these: 1925 Ford Cab C Truck 1929 Pontiac Pickup 1936 International C-4 1936 Chevrolet Pickup 1937 GMC Pickup WHICHEVER one it is...what are you waiting for?
DING DING DING! We got a winner! It's an early 1920's Model T C-Cab. Don't know where my buddy saw lights mounted on the front fenders, personally I just think he's an idiot. It appears to be mostly there.....but the $5000 price tag is waaay to high. To much for a non-running, non-rolling, rust covered project vehicle. I asked her how her ex was going to 'fix it up', she said he was going to paint it, and put it on the dirt mound in front of his shop.
are model t c cabs worth fixing up? is that something people hotrod? I been trying all afternoon to dig the cab of one out of the dirt bank by the creek but it ain't happenin. oh well. too rusty anyhow.
Dunno, but the $5k price tag is to rich for my blood. This truck has been sitting there so long, there's a rectangle of rust particles on the floor underneath it.
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