I've been toying with this idea for a few years, don't think I'll get to it but it would be cool....Based on an F-1 pickup, chopped with a '41 Merc front end and cowl. Mild custom that would be used as a shop truck, swapmeets, towing etc. Drawing by Jon Fisher... Found this one done in the 50's with '41 ford sheetmetal.... Photoshop by Zach Suhr.....
Man, I almost flipped past thinking it wouldn't be my cup of tea, but I gotta say that photoshop with the '41 Merc sheet metal IS cool as hell!
Just the kind of custom shop truck that a body shop that also did a bit of custom work might have back in the early 50's built out of leftover pieces. The front half of a 41 sedan hit hard in the rear and the back half of a pickup with a smashed nose equals a potential custom shop truck.
That's an awesome truck, Lynn, but don't you already have a shop truck? You truck hoarder! Naw, seriously, build it. Why not?
Just stumbled across this... the article says it was built pre-war. Is that not the case? Would be a neat truck for sure.
Rear end is 57 but almost everything else is 48 or earlier. It may have been started before WWII when the car was new or nearly new and got hit in the back end hard enough to make it not worth fixing back to original. My dad told a story about being at a dealership here locally about that time to drool over the new offerings and watching a guy roll out of the dealership in a just purchased car and get nailed by the car he pulled out in front of. Car was totaled before it got all the way in the street.
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