Customs Bobber Trucks. Are They HAMB Rods?

I've noticed more and more bobber trucks over the last few years. Everything from a 48 Ford and beyond. I'm curious to know if they're a HAMB era rod, custom etc. Never seen a old photo of one or heard guys talk about them. Is this a nice way of saying I can't afford the rest of the truck? I'm sure its a taboo subject on here.

 

Whatsa bobber truck… I know what a bobber MC is but nothing else..

 

Also known as Farm Rods.

 

I think they're bad ass.

 

Basically invented by Rudy Rodriguez in the 90's and copied but ususally not successfully by many.
The 'Rudy Truck.'
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/revisiting-the-rudy-rodriguez-35-ford-truck.1216610/
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/rudys-truck-w-hookers.125335/
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-hot-rod-that-started-it-all-is-for-sale.4672/
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/when-did-the-bobber-truck-style-begin.348452/
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/trucksters-traditional.677979/
etc

 

My attempt at a bobber truck…

 

Personally I like 'Em a lot! I've seen some great examples especially of the '30-'34 variety.

 

While they aren't that traditional, they do make for an interesting ride out of an otherwise hard to deal with 2 ton truck.

 

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They are as traditional as the '58 Buicks turned into "gassers", or a fordor anything turned into a hot rod. It's a case of just using the raw materials available in a new fashion.

 

HAMB Rods? Nope!

 

Here is one from the mid-50's. It is hard to get the proportions correct on those.

 

Used to be a channeled fender less '36 Chevy pickup around here that was built in the early '60's. I wanted it but felt the price was way too high. Don't know if his estate ever sold it.

 

Now if the modern interpretation was built exactly like Marty's pic, then I'd accept them. It needs no chop, a stock bumper on the front, no grille over the radiator, and really tall headlights.

 

First one I saw was in my home town in Canada in about 1964. It was a fenderless, hoodless lowered hot rod with some kind of 40s pickup cab, varnished wood box 3 or 4 feet long and a Dodge hemi. It was painted medium blue metallic and well finished not a rat rod or field truck. Sorry no pictures as I did not have a camera back then.

 

a little inspiration....yes, it's different...but you get the flavor, sort of

 

don't like them

 

Classifications? It would help to lose that 'traditional' term. Cleanly done & a true driver interstate all day is acceptable. Desirable. Some cases irresistible. Should go without saying by now, w/this place going on for 20 years what is & what is not.

 

Love em.

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

I guess technically, wouldn’t a T with a “bobbed” bed be considered a bobber truck?

 

Or a 58 Pontiac gasser




the last thing anyone ever built was a 4 door Packard.

 

When I was a teenager the guy who ran the Shell station in the middle of town had a chopped and channeled and bobbed 36 Ford pickup at his station that ran well enough to drive it out of the lube bay in the morning and back in at night. Painted a Marina blue I thought that truck was as cool as all get out.
To me a real bobber truck is chopped and channeled and has the shortened (bobbed) bed.
Also the front axle has to be where the truck was designed for it to be and not a foot out in front of the radiator shell.
I see this little Chevy at a couple of local shows every year and every time I see it it grabs my attention even though it is a simple little truck.

 

SORTED!!!!!

 

I like em' a whole lot more than traditional hamb hot rods.

 

Ever get the feeling you're in the wrong place?

 

Not at all.

 

In all honesty, finding a pre 1965 pic of a post war “bobber” truck might be a little hard.
seems there are a several pre war trucks built that can fit the timeline here.
But build whatever fits the wallet.

 

Trucks had a longer life span than cars. While coupes and sedans were replaced with new cars every few years, and could be had cheaply, trucks were kept around, regardless of appearance, for utility use, same as today. Combined with much lower productions numbers, it's no wonder less were hot rodded.