Has anyone made a trailer using the rear of a car? I've seen some, and many using a pick-up box, just wondering how they came out and what was done to "finish" the opening where the vehicle was cut. Thanks
Rusty That's KOOL ! I have posted my old camper somewhere on here before. A farmer gave me the rear haft of a 36 delivery. So I made a camper out of it.The wife and I used it a lot back in the day. Now it's just parked in my little junkyard. It could make a 36 four door Dodge or Plymouth into a delivery. lol Ron...
I so wish I could have grabbed the 35-37 Ford pickup bed trailer that was on my grandfather's farm before it sold. The bed was solid and nice fenders. Not much to it. Main framerails cut and bent on to the x center. Hitch welded on to the x. Sent from my SM-G550T using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
http://www.kansas.com/cars/article1118893.html This guy made one out of a 63 Falcon to match his car that he converted to a retractable hardtop. Pretty wild setup. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
The Falcon Retractable Hard top is really nice. Incredible amount of work went to it. Love to see it in person.
I bought an OT car once, and used a bolt-on towbar that strapped to the bumper. I bought a plug from the camper place and wired the tail lights so I would have brake lights, running lights and turn signals. I only used it once as a trailer, from Yorktown, Va to South Carolina. People laughed about it, but it was cheaper than a one-way U-haul at the time. After I got it home, I put a battery in it and my little sister made many laps in the field beside the folks' house. My brother-in -law had a car the same model, and he robbed small parts off of it until I finally scrapped it. Best $50 I ever spent on a junk car.
I Google searched a couple for ya...... View attachment 3492210 Some more interesting ones turned up. They're not car bodies but interesting.
I have a longgg term 66 Suburban project and I drug home (don't ask) a 64 that had been cut off behind the doors and made into a hunting/camping trailer. You will thank me for not saving any photos of it. Its second life is probably as a couple of new Toyotas.
The Nomad one The shift wizard posted is beautiful. I've seen a few down here made out of glass bodies, T Bucket and 34 Ford. Sorry, no pics.
I bought a pickup box trailer several years ago. I pulled off the 50 something Dodge box, and sold the bare frame for the same price I paid for the whole trailer. I wanted the box. Sorry, no pictures. I think maybe it was before cameras were invented....Gene
I'll need to get pictures of its underside, but this is a little dump cart I picked up in Rhode Island in the Fall. It's an angle iron frame with what appears to be a 35/36 Fort PU bed that's been cut down both ways sitting on what i think is a narrowed Anglia axle and spindles. The ball hitch is a screw lock type.
Sadly, I do not have pics...But I did stand aside and watch a trailer made from a car being made back into a car...`30 Duesenberg Model J.
I guess my latest find belongs here. This is an online auction purchase. Basically a tudor body chopped at the door post, with fabricated panel type doors fitted in the rear. It was sold-at the same time as a tudor hot rod which I did not buy. I don’t see any reason to haul this around except to sleep in it. So I have to make it longer, and maintain some sort of ventilation options. I don’t really want to change the wheel location, but will be changing the wheels.
From a 1959 Popular Science article: Not quite what the OP asked for, but no more OT that most of the pics posted: Unfortunately, I don't have any information about it.
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