Justdug sent me these pics his Brother took while up in Canada. Appears to be a 30 Model A pickup turned into a coupe...making a 3W out if it! Most the time the coupes got hacked into pickups, not everyday you see a conversion like this. Wonder when it was done....
I would imagine it started out as a Tudor or Fordor, it has the sedan/coupe spare tire bracket on it. Not that that stuff isn't easy to swap, but the front doors are all the same length on all three body styles. Those doors look like they have the additional reveal line that all my 30-31 4dr doors have on them, just below the window opening. The 3/4 view looks okay but I'd love to see a full side on shot of it.
Yea...the back of the "cab" is sedan...not pickup. Pickup back panel was one piece...not 3 piece like that one. Kinda neat anyway... Neal
I bet they did it during prohibition so they could hide all thier good liquor in the trunk rather than being exposed in the back seat. there is no other logical explanation.
Aren't the Chevy bottom panels below the deck lid not as tall. The one that I have only has like a 4" panel.
It might be homemade, when I look close at the deck lid it looks kind of wrinkly and looks like a couple three cap bolts on the edge of it there (the same type of ones you'd use to bolt the body to the frame).
here is a `29 three window that i saw online for sale , i'm thinking about going to check it out. appears to be a coupe or sport coupe with sedan parts added. what do you think?
Yeah, looks like 2 door sedan rear roof grafted on. Makes it look like a sport coupe with a metal top instead of cloth!
25 years ago my Dad, brother, and I went to a farm auction where Dad bought a Pickster similar to the thing at the top of the thread. It was a 28 roadster that somebody had cut the body just behind the doors and grafted in a 30 pickup cab. They then used the 30 hood and grille as well. With some steel treaded (not old Ford "steelies") wheels like an early tractor on the back. No idea what the purpose of this contraption was, but it soon came apart and provided some good parts. My brother still has the roadster back half and intends to weld it up with some more roadster parts someday. The Pickster's fenders now live on my brother's black A coupe that some of you have drooled over before.
Chances are that any true 3W Ford Model A Coupe would not have been simply a 5W Coupe with blanked quarters but rather a totally new body using Tudor longer doors and a shorter quarter to the top, different quarters in the back etc., i.e. a new body. All we've seen here are make-do, make-ups, and a few hic-ups.
There was another thread that had pics of a couple 3 window coupes that Henry was messing with- here's a Buehrig design:
Here's a picture of the 30 PU with a 28 Roadster back half welded to it that Alchemy mentioned. Ya gotta dig those big steel wheels. At the farm auction, besides this "Car" was a doodle bug made from an AA ch***is. It had a 28 cowl/tank hood and grille on it. I'm guessing that after they took the 30 cab off the big truck and put it onto the 28 roadster ch***is, they then used the leftover 28 sheetmetal and truck ch***is for the doodlebug.
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