My Buddy owns this truck. It was built by a friend of ours that has passed away. That friend was really good at building cars with parts that he scrounged from just about anywhere. We thought the dash was a stock 50 Ford Pickup dash, until someone said it wasn't. We looked at a stock dash, and this isn't one. It could have been pieces of multiple dashes welded together, we cant get a good look at the back. So what is it? Thanks for any help.
Great! Thanks. This is the best I can do for a back window picture, so they might be of no use. As you can see in the one picture the truck is a bunch of different year parts.
The 51 has the larger back window. The front grill opening is from a 51 and the rear fenders are from a 53 -56. If the firewall tag is still on it, you can decode and see what it originally was. It has the 51 dash as stated.
And the grill might be 195? Ford car. I don't know what year but I've seen that grill somewhere. Hood is also 51/52.
Those same rear fenders were used until ‘78. The bed is late’50 up to around ‘78 as well. On post ‘56 truck the running board bolt location was different for full boards vs the “steps” on ‘57 up.
Front fenders are 3/4 ton. Headlight buckets and park lights are stock '51-2 pickup. Nice chop and channel, section the hood.
It's titled as a 50, but I don't think much is from a 50. The back window is the bigger back window. Neat story on the rear fenders. Joe, the builder of the truck was cleaning out an old garage for someone, and those rear fenders were in the rafters. They are original Ford red paint. They were pulled off a brand new truck and put up there years ago. I don't remember what year, but I think maybe the 70's. The truck is on an 80's Cutlass or Monte Carlo chassis. Joe could put the craziest parts together and make them look good.
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