Divco's have such a great personalty with a stock looking body. Your doing a great job good luck with the build. VERY COOL ................ CRUISER
wow it looked like a chicken coupe in the back of the pictures above , looks nicer with diamond plate
Contemplating a wedge chop on a Divco I had that never got around to because of health issues. After doing an editorial on how I always wanted to build a Divco Hot Rod since I was a kid and made 3-6 bucks a night helping milkmen out, I got flooded with mail and photos of Divcos, here is one we put in the mag along with a modified Div and a stock one. Enlarge IE to read the text. This is a stock Divco and the small shot is Kenny's Mikeshake under construction. These where back in 1989 I believe. Top upper left is the artwork my artist did of the Divco, to the right was the kid's drawing contest winner for a GCM T shirt. The lower photo was a premature prediction of the future of rodding if left to the government's tactics. This is one I just ran across somewhere on line. Maybe here.
Got a 47 Divco, doing a streetrod build, 454 big block, twin 4's on tunnel ram, ford 9 inch. Looking for ideas and other "nuts" that may be working on a milk truck.
Very cool. Street Rodder Mag editor has one, and has got a lot of guys interesred. Thanks for posting.
Divco13. I was going to try and install Commercial Model A headlights to emphasize the bug eyes along with some other tricks here and there.
So cool, there may not be words. It is just got a great look. Many uses, just imagine if you were a pinstriper and showed up in this? Plenty of room for all your stuff and think of the art you could put on it, what a canvas.
It's on a 1972 Riveria frame, shortened and boxed. Looking for some bumpers and trying to decide what to do with the rear panels. Welded the five peices of the nose together and it tilts forward. Welded the inner and outter front fenders together, the nose closes on top of the fenders which are fixed to the frame.
The Divco on the upper right was/is Ken Akenson's of Highland Park, NJ. It goes by the name, Milk Shake I believe. We had a shot of it in the mag bag in 1991 when it was being chopped. The bottom Divco was featured in the same issue #17 and was owed by Don O'Hara of Somer's Point NJ. It ran a 455/400 with 3:55 gears.
Divcos are great fun vehicles. They don't have to be modified at all except for drivetrain and nice paint to make a great impression as their "goofy" looks simply beg for attention anyway.
My story and love affair with Divco's is written elseware in this thread. When I first bought my two and editorized about Divco's, most everyone here on the Island thought I was nuts. Until I started getting mail and photos of projects and people saying they always wanted to also. We had them all over, delivering milk and then there was Dugan's Bread with their all brown Divco's. Sort of like mini UPS trucks. LOL.
The Milk Shaker has been owned a friend of mine name Bill from NYS since he purchased it back in the late 1990's and did a complete make over. The bottom truck is out of Sussex Co NJ ...
Ok Al, then your friend bought the Milk Shaker from Ken. I know Ken built and owned it. 2. When I did the feature of the bottom Divco it was owened by the O'Hares of Somer's Point, NJ. This was all back in 1991. Maybe they moved or maybe they sold it. I have the issues here, I did the photography and the write up on the article. You will note I also said.......was/is.
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