Hot Rods From Banger to Boring or A Guy just needs a drive anywhere Pickup

TERPU · Jun 11, 2025

Nothing like "last Minute"

Let's see if I can get her broken in correctly before a 4 hour journey....

TERPU · Jun 11, 2025

We shall see.

Blues4U · Jun 12, 2025

Awesome! I love that truck, what a great stance it has. I hope to see you at LARS, I will keep my eye out for your truck. I'll either be in my truck, or if the wife decides to come along we'll probably bring the 47 coupe, she hasn't committed yet.

TERPU · Jun 12, 2025

Blues4U said: ↑

Awesome! I love that truck, what a great stance it has. I hope to see you at LARS, I will keep my eye out for your truck. I'll either be in my truck, or if the wife decides to come along we'll probably bring the 47 coupe, she hasn't committed yet.
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Thank you for the compliments. I'll look for you and your Truck. We've a long way to go to make sure it'll be there. But hope is high. Either way we'll see you at LARS.

A Boner · Jun 12, 2025

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Hello,

Great photos of your truck and location. That would be cool to drive to the rock to check out the surf on a daily basis. We have been there many times on our road trips up and down the coastline. But, we never got to surf this location. It looks like your trips are full of fun in the Model A Truck.

This was one of our first choices as we were building our 40 Willys Gas Coupe. We decided that the 58 Impala was nice for a tow car, but delivering and transporting parts in the trunk was not going to get it done over time. So, we decided that a Model A Truck was going to be our solution. We had sold a Model A Coupe we had purchased a few years earlier and that was going to be our first hot rod build, with an SBC motor and Paxton supercharger.

But, as things work out, the Model A was sold and the 58 Impala took over our lives until we found a 40 Willys Coupe in almost the same house as the Model A Coupe. (A few doors down) As the Willys Coupe was in its build stage, the Impala was the work horse. Parts runs to Reath Automotive across town, to local speed shops for other parts and so on. The trunk got more use than those teenage hiding days of the drive-in movies.

Jnaki

The motor set up would have been what we put into the Willys Coupe at the beginning. Except that the dual quads would have been in place of the 6 Strombergs that ended up on our 283 motor. The one thing we noticed in the Model A Coupe for two teenage boys sitting side by side, that it was a little tight inside the cab. We moved the seats back as much as we could, that helped. But, overall, it was tight. Not that the Model A cab would always have two tall teenage boys riding in it all of the time in the future.

So, my brother had plans and those got tossed as he drove up with his new 58 Impala and the other two cars were gone to his friends to supplement his new purchase.

Note:

One day, we were talking about a parts car for our small business. We like the Model A Coupe and the style of that line up. So, we looked at a truck and found a nice one. The thing we noticed was the room or lack of room inside when both of us sat inside of the truck cab. To us, it felt less than the coupe we had earlier. So, that was not going to work. We were stuck…
View attachment 6390166 We even thought of a Model A Woody, but that would (pun intended) that would not be good for our engine building business/parts company, we were starting. So, a Model A Woody Pick Up was tossed around. One of our friends had made a similar rack for his longboard on a small sporty car to hold his surfboard. So, that would give us some room inside and in the bed for our future uses. But, after our Willys Coupe accident, my brother said he was anxious to get back to building something, so more ideas were tossed around. It looked to be a very long project.

Then years later, an art project came up and I modified a Model A Truck to make it roomier and still keep the look of the good original design.
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To keep the proportions nice and tight, the bed had to be shortened. By this time, our surfboards were quite a bit shorter and would still stick out, but less so, even with a shortened bed. YRMV
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Sorry…the before pic looks best…IMHO! More room for people and cargo too.

TERPU · Jun 12, 2025

A Boner said: ↑

Sorry…the before pic looks best…IMHO! More room for people and cargo too.
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I have the wheels still................

phartman · Jun 13, 2025

Brother-from-another-mother:

TERPU · Jun 14, 2025

That is beautiful!

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