Hot Rods Field Cars.... NOT Barn Finds!

Is that a one ton or 3/4 ton.

 

Jeff, it's a 1 ton. Very few of them were made.

 

Field Car

Field car

Field Car (truck)

Ditch Car


All of them are on the road today.

 

I thought the rims looked like one ton versions and 1/2,3/4 and one tons all had six lug rims. Years ago someone on one of the forums I frequent had a 37/38 frame they were trying to identify and get rid of and it had two of those rims on it,I knew about the 3/4 tons and it was the first I ever seen those one ton rims. What gear ratio does the one tons have,my 37 1/2 ton had 4.10s so I could imagine the one ton has at least 4.56s.

 

Jeff the gear ratio was 5.14. It had a granny 4 speed. With the throttle control knob, the farmer used to walk it across the field and fill the grain box from the combine. Top speed was about 45 mph.
Now it has a '56 GMC 270 with the matching 3 speed and a '58 Chevy 3.90 axle. I have since changed the rims to 16 inch. There was only 1 place in town that would change the old rims.

 

2 I am working on now. Just finishing up the brakes and the 59 will be driveable. Found it on a ranch in Montana, last tagged in 79


Found the 40 Panel setting in a pasture about ready to become a sign, hence the slathered on blue house paint. It's slowly getting de-smurfed.



Found this old Imp beside a barn last year, sold it but it's still here.

 

found in the woods a few towns away. used parts from 5 trucks to put it together. i don't have digital photos of it before, but this is 100k "working" miles after getting it on the road.

 

Pretty nice when photos can all most tell the story,so that's cool,on many of these posted above. !
I didn't have a camera with me much at all back the 1950s{read as near never},when my eyes started looking for any old junker that could be got some how ,that would also fit into my idea of a hotrod at that time. After seeing a really messed up 28A roadster junker in a farm field,I keep going back tell finely found the farmer there too ,an asked about getting the old car remains from him. He said"I'm using it",well being a teen I couldn't leve it at that,seeing as how in was sunk down in the muck to the bottom of the doors, no motor or rad,missing seat an windshield,plus the back of it was crushed acrossed the hole trunk. So I asked what ya using it for? "It's watering the field",so I ask how? he says"She runs the pump"pointing to the old shed about 50 or so feet away! me"I don't mean I want the motor,just the old body",,,,,," Well get that out of here then!!!!" . So I got me my first hotrod body,but it took two of my buddys to help dig it up an help tow the junk home. Got it all together by 1959 for highschool with lots of other parts found in vacant lots on dumped cars. Still drive it today. Never did even try to fix the crushed trunk,just cut off what I could not fix an built the kind of fixible part.

 

Found a 63 Falcon Sprint in a field, missing, fenders, hood, eng and trans, doors ,deck lid. Shell was rust free, I found all white,same color as body, parts to put it back together. Had several engs in it over the yrs.Gone to a better home now.

 

Dana
I don't think I've ever seen an A bucket that I like better than yours. You really got it. All the lines right on and you still have it and drive it. Some of us just hang onto our rods. Take that any way you want to guys.
Gary

 

my sons hardtop 62 catalina not so much a field car. More like a toxic avenger out of Newark NJ. My car was a New Mexico field car.

 

Yanked from a field in Montana by a guy in PA (which is where I got it from)

 

That's one damn fine Binder.

 

Here's some of my field cars

 

It's cool but it needs a front bumperlIf you still have the large cow catcher that you found it with,it would look great chrome plated!

 

I love the old 4x4. That's kind of unfair, though. I've observed that a field car from out west fairs better than a barn car from Missouri. Humidity does terrible things to steel.

This was proven to me by comparing the Diamond T I found in Utah to the ones found in Missouri and further east.

 

A few cars I have run across...most I bought, some I did not, a couple were cars friends got. But none were staged

 

Some more

 

More

 

And my Dads 23 T he got in the seventies. It was his first old car, and the car that got him into early Fords. He still has it

 

Found this in a field less than 3 miles from my house in Boise. Also got a one ton frame from the same location - now it's a '40 Tonner!

 

Chris,
What's the story on the 56 Chev? I seen it sitting there and figured he must get asked all the time. I'd think he'd be tired of people asking.

Also what's up with the convertible caddy?

 

Man, that's just plain bad ass.

 

I stopped on the 56, old lady said it's her son in laws and not for sale...she said people stop all the time.

Caddy is long gone, I took that pic 6-8 years ago. It was in St Maries

 

'57 Plymouth 2dr wagon

I can't say it's A LOT better, but it's better. It's the car version of my favorite old pair of jeans.

 

That thing is killer ^^^^^

 

Here's my '57 New Yorker. It will be a pretty nice car, someday.

392 with a Tremec






The other side is just as nice, I promise.

 

Your builds have a lot of style so that means a lot. Thanks!

 

That New Yoker is even cooler! Gotta love a big fin car! Is that Royal Lancer I posted above anything special? I thought it was neat being tri-tone and a hemi car. It's probably still sitting there...guy had a few of them and some other Destotos and Mopars.