1947 Ford pickup with car front clip

Shame on ya! Some FNG guy comes up with an idea and you go and steal it. Just because you managed to do the 300 hrs work overnight, that don't let you off the hook.

 

Thats nice.. Like it a lot.

 

Knew a guy in 'Vegas a few years back,name of John Petigo,had one very much like yours,less the hood side louvres, I may have a picture,let me look.

 

Great job of creating a neat truck.

 

Maybe you could call it a...... Ranchero? I like it a lot. Very cerative and well-done.

 

Now I have found where that front end meets my liking. Great job.


Too many cars, so little time!

 

Very well done, Standing Ovation for you sir.

 

a very nice job on the front clip . if you didnt say anything ,im not familiar with this year truck and wouldnt have realized it had a car clip , just thought for some reason it looked better than it should

 

Thanks everyone. I think I'll call it a 47 Deluxe. Im running the Deluxe hubcaps and Deluxe emblems on the hood

 

She is very cool and an improvement from the stock front clip for sure!

 

You'll have a TON of people asking you if it's one of those "Mercury" pickups from Canada.
It looks GREAT!!

 

That looks damn good!

 

That looks good. Thats alot better than the stock truck front end, I think they are ugly.

 

Great look-just wish you had some shots of the modifications. Obviously you had to to graft the front of the passenger car hood onto the truck hood but what else?

 

what the hell else is in your scrap pile?!

 

Thats EXACTLY what I was wanting to do- how much fabricating was involved? WE NEED TO TALK

 

It does look great..I wonder if it would look out of proportion on my 0ne-ton panel truck

 

Very nice love it! Thanks for sharing

 

Not only are the car front clips gonna go crazy, a lot of the unwanted trucks are now going to be sought after...

 

Holy sh*t!!!!! your truck is awesome, never thought of that! Congratulations on the build, very nice looking, I´ll go and get mine! Thanks for sharing!

 

I almost bout a 47 as my first hotrod (got my 53 wagon instead) but the limiting factor was that ugly front end. wondered if a car front would work. I would own a 47 now after seeing your picture

 

I like it, looks like it came that way. Nice work.

 

That is bitchin looks stock

 

Great idea and looks like some good workmanship in implementing it. Looks like it was born that way. A '41 or '42 Ford car front end or any of the '41-'48 Mercury car front sheet metal would look good as well. I had never seen it done but often wondered if it would work, and wondered why Ford didn't do it in the first place. Hudson used passenger car front sheet metal on pickups up through about '48.

 

That does look good! Very good!

 

WOW! That looks really good!

I have to admit, I scanned over your text quickly and didn't really pay attention before moving on to the pictures. I guess I thought you put the car suspension on the truck frame, but when I looked at the pics, I was like "wait, is this some weird Canadian model '47 Ford that I have never seen before?" Haha, man that really makes an ugly truck look beautiful, I'm blown away!

 

It sure looks good a true Phantom body style.

 

I really like what you had done!!! very cool

 

Wow great job looks spot on...

 

Thats how ford should have built them..... way better than the stock UGLY front clip............