Features Pictures of Old SCTA Push Trucks

Rick, this is classic! Barely visible behind the two guys in orange shirts is Tom Beatty's 40 sedan delivery, with a blown Olds, probably one of the fastest push trucks at Bonneville...

 

Lou Bingham's coupe, around '52. His push truck was a '27 roadster pickup that Lou bought to tow the coupe to Bonneville, and the story of this adventure still makes good reading today (think it was in Hop Up)...Lou was originally from La Canada, but moved to La Jolla in the late '50s, and his Bonneville roadster was always parked in front of the Flying A station he ran...

 

Another great photo !

 

I tried to model my truck after the ones I remember seeing at Ascot and El Mirage when I was a kid.


I made the sideboards after seeing the Jot Horne ones my buddy has that used to be on Jot's truck.

 

Love this 41'

 

My god, I have never seen this picture of the Ex-So-Cal coupe before !
What else does D-Rod have in his bag-o-tricks ???

 

This pic is pretty cool, pre-hammered chop!

 

That IS a fine old truck!

 

Really good pictures...it is very interesting, too, that there is no evidence that anyone other than Ford made trucks back then! Ford ruled absolutely, then went to hell in a handbasket right after these pics were made.
Look in the Genat Book on dry lakes...there are occasional glimpses of the trucks in there, including some very nice ones.
Old HRM's from the fifties are another good source of support truck pictures, as many classes of drag cars were push start and the trucks are lined up with the racers in the pictures.

 

Somebody must have shot of Tom Beattys hoodless panel delivery with the blower sticking out,,,rumered to have pushed some cars faster than they could run,,,,,,,,,,,

 

And then...not a truck, actually...but that early streamliner being pushed off by a tag team consisting of '51 Chevy pushing a Model A roadster up to its starting speed so it could shove the streamliner up to whatever large number its gearing required...!!

 

Absolutly amazing pictures you guys come up with. I have plenty of ideas to work with for my truck. Now I want to rig my Model A up so I can tow it around behind the truck.

 

What the Hell...one more for the road.

 

Are there any rules regarding the push bumper size, height, etc?

 

The last time I checked there were no rules, but it had to be high enough and wide enough to match the car you had to push or the car didn't move. If you want a pretend push bumper just make it a sensible size, proportionate to your truck.

 

If you could find one of these...

 

Anyone notice every truck is a ford.

 

Awesome thread, cool picks. I’m sure it was more than Fords working as push cars, but as we can see Fords is dominated so far. It’s cool for a Ford nut to see those old Fords doing the job.

 

Yeah, I noticed the majority were Fords!

 

yeahhhh ,one chevy and 30, fords ,,, lovin this '''

 

Tom Beatty

 

Ok its not from back in the day push truck, but thats what we use it for.... I have thought many times about having it lettered up, just have not found what I want to put on it...