is the "dream truck" the only all out custom 50s truck ?

Thats bad as%

 

What about the Alexander Brothers' shop truck?

 

I love the lil nugget...are those olds wire wheels??? What kind or wires are on there??? gold and wire wheels...everything looks cool with that combo.

 

The dream truck is probaly the only orginal around, the rest are make overs. There is a early verision of the Dream Truck out east also a make over. Danbury Mint has just made a model of the Dream Truck with Spense Murrary doing the set up for it, its great, better grab on if you want it, its very limited. Next will be Tom Vollgees Rdst and then the Kopper Kart, all very limited .

 

well i guess i got my answer that the "dream truck" is in fact the only all out custom 50s truck.

all the other trucks posted here seem cool and all but they are just mild customs.

 

So....

Left is full custom... right is "mild" custom pick-up????




And another mild custom pick-up




I think you need to do a little more research to make a statement like that!!!

 

I can hardly see how you could possibly call the Kopper Kart or the Mountain Pearl mild customs.

 

DreamTruck is NOT the only radical custom truck out there. Go through the little books and Hot Rod mags of the '50's. There were a couple of killer custom trucks per year per title. And there are more mag titles than Hot Rod or Rod & Custom. I'm looking at one right now on the cover of the May '58 Hot Rod magazine. Just some guy that owned a service station built a radical custom truck. But not one you'd ever heard of unless you have this particular issue of Hot Rod. Stuff disappeared when there was no innernetz. Doesn't mean it didn't exist though. Did you not see the Shoebox car conversion someone posted before you said "I guess the Dream Truck is the only all out custom truck..." nonsense? Turning a car into a full on custom truck is pretty radical. Especially when it's chopped sectioned and a car/truck.

You just gotta look around in the mags.

 

where's the line between a mild custom and custom?

change the grill, maybe different trim, nosed, decked, and shaved handles it's a mild custom?

nice paint, new pleated interior, chopped roof --custom?

 

The line is usually a major body modification ie. top chop, section etc.

 

Awesome.

 

Nope...new custom built in the late nineties.

 

nice thread.

 

i hear thru the grapevine that the pic of the dream truk and kopper kart, might have some compition coming soon. maybe a couple radical truks built in the old style might be comin down the pike..........stay tuned to the batphone for details.................maybe, if the joker doesn't let the cat outta the bag.............

 

Dave's radical custom truck is the only one in the Denver area that I know of that was restored from its former glory.I saw it when Edd just got it.It was a piece of custom nastelgia that needed a complete redo.It was cool seeing it the way it was. I really dig that truck.Don't ever sell it.Keep it in Colorado where it was built. Rick

 

chopped, sectioned, pancaked hood, tv, bar, upholstered fenderwells, molded, rounded, flaked and candied........

 

Radical enough?

 

Heres an earlier version of the "Drivin Deuces" 40 pickup which got wilder as the years went on! Anyone got pics of the Bernardo Bros shop truck from Conn?

 

gene's shop truck is sweet

 

check out rod and custom january 59 issue on custom trucks alota mid fifties fords but some early chevys too!also my pop and a buddy built a 52 ford in the 70s but kept a REAL 50s feel to it, its in a book called hot rods of the 70s, also in street rodder nov 74 issue, that truck was tits! saw it a couple years ago at paso its been parked in a barn since 76, ill try to dig up some pics

 

I've got a photo of what I am pretty sure was that same cover truck at a rod run at Arlington Stadium parking lot in Texas sometime between 1973 and 77 when it was painted red.