Barn find..Towed home today

Great find. Keep us posted with pics.

 

Just goes to prove how stylish mid to late 30's pick-ups are! You are truly one lucky guy, although I'm sure it took a lot of time and cunning to make the deal!

 

I plan on getting her running today...I think that will be easier than getting the truck stopped...Brake fluid that has sat for 40 years can't be good... I will have disconnect everything and total flush it..I will post updates....EVILT

 

You guys really have no idea....this truck is just nuts. I was with EVILT in the barn, it is one wild place but the owner is a tool (no offense to tools). The stuff in there is just amazing and there are boxes everywhere, many of which may have parts in them. I doubt the owner will ever let another car go though. He wouldn't even let me come back with J to pick up the truck.

EvilT is a barn find magnet. He can find anything and everybody will sell to him, it is nuts.

And the truck is perfect. We worked for a while on it today, lights working but no sparkie. I think that we will have it running tomorrow when all of the tune up parts arrive. Pretty sure there is a dead mouse in the radiator though....stinky.

True

 

nice score, congratulations

 

Hell, I like to think I know Mopars (I have a '57 Plymouth) but I didn't know that Plymouth had a truck before the '80s POS Scamp.

http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/Plym.../1983 Plymouth Turismo, - Scamp pg 11_jpg.htm

But that thing is friggin SUH-WEEET!! I love it. Old Mopar flathead six? You should be able to get it running, I've honestly never seen one with a fatal internal injury.

 

man..thats the ****.. barn fresh... there not to much like that her in mo.. but theres alot of fence row non fresh... i dont give a ****...i draggem home anyway... nice......

 

oh wow my ol` man had one of those when i was a kid! green cab ,black fenders ,the exhuast was split behind the manifold and there was a stack pipe on the drivers side. The ol' man put a 53 plymouth six in it and ran it great. he got it from a family friend who was selling their farm and asked him if he wanted it. of course he said yes and the rest as they say is history. sure wish I had kept that one.

 

SCORE!!!!!! Great find bud! I just scored a '46 Chevy and a '49 Ford F-1. I'M IN LIKE STINK!!!!(wish I knew how to post pics!) AL

 

Very nice find! my wife loves pickups, She will keep on lookin??

 

i want that truck!!!!!

keep on working at it you will get it going eventually

 

SSSsssweeeeeetttTT find! Why does this stuff always happen to others and not me?

Nik

 

Cool score. Can you get any pics of the Buick?

 

i'd love to have some info on the oakland...is it original?...can't say i ever saw a coupe.

we have a 28 tudor sedan.
thanks,
george

 

Nice find... time to start trolling the area looking for barns.

 

Saw one of these in Bailey, CO last year. It was for sale at the time. The guy said they were originally produced for dealers to use as a parts runner and were not actually offered for sale to the public. I really like the lines of the grille and front fenders. Hope you can get it to fire up.

 

RE: "1938": '38s have a very unique grille where the splash apron 'terminates' the grille, which is very vertical:

'36s have fender-mounted headlights:


Tho the grille (the angled bars & the grilled center section) don't match anything in my resources exactly, it definately looks much more like a '37:

 

Hey that last pic looks just like the '37 Plymouth Sedan delivery that I'm building! Thanks for posting the pic! I wouldn't even think of keeping the original flat 6 engine though! Gotta be MOPAR though. I'm looking pretty hard at slipping a 360 Dodge V8 and 833 4 speed in my '37.

 

Well, seen as I have the truck in front of me....The firewall plate says it is a 38. I have ran all the numbers and it comes back as a 38..I have several do***ents showing it is a 38. I have pics of 38's that look just like mine. I have also seen them with your grille. The family I got it from has owned it forever. I have the original paperwork with the date it was first bought from the dealer...Guess what.... It's a 38....The dealer's family had it until 1966 then it was sold to the family I got it from in 1966...Then put in the barn in 1967...Sat there till 1 week ago....I am the third owner...Just goes to show you(WQ59B) When you think you know everything about a specific model....something new pops up.I have been told by a few diff. Mopar nuts, That these trucks were built from parts they had to use up..So the same model year could have diff. grilles or front aprons.etc depending when in the year it was built...EVILT

 

Here's some inspiration for you...

Ben

 

Very nice...But for now I think it is gonna stay how it came out of the barn.. I have a 27 chrysler coupe I need to build first....EVILT

 

Here is one I painted not too long ago..they make neat little rods...

 

Nice find, glad you are bringing it back to life.

 

Fair enough- same thing has happened a few times in history: late '69-style Camaros & Firebirds were coded, ***led & registered as '70s due to the strike that delayed the next generation. I have never seen any of them referred to as "'70s" since then however, and I'm surprised there are dual ( '37-style & '38 style) '38 truck designs readily considered so today, especially when Plymouth used model years instead of series (as Packard did). Live & learn... good luck with the truck.

 

I love seein this ****,it gives me hope someday I'll be in the right place at the right time. Nice find ! Gary

 

http://www.oldtrucks.com/index1.shtml

Here's a site that would like some pix of your truck -- not many Plymouth's out there!

Man, what a find!

 

Thanks wildturkey. I have been looking at a bunch of old truck sites lately. EVILT

 

so does it run yet, if so have ya gone for a round the block joy ride?

 

as cool as it is with the origonal 6 I'd just have to transplant a baby Hemi.and a 4 spd. I'm thinking either a 241 or a 270. Either would have a tri-power and as much as I'm not a fan of air ride I'm thinkinking it would be cool to have on this truck for slow speed cruising.

Congrats, That's probably a once in a lifetime find.

Frank

P.S. Call or PM when you want me to pick it up. NO rush, enjoy it for awhile, I'm patient.

 

I think 36 was the last year for the crank out windshield. Definately a must have feature.