Features Roadster Pickup........picture thread

True, this is an original 32 RPU.

 

I wonder if we all see color the same? Both of my sons are Red- Green "color blind" so I suppose there are some differences in the rest of us. Just asking.

 

The research suggests we do, unless you're colour blind. Because colour is a wavelength of light and because of the way the cones of the eye receive and perceive that light, it's likely that we are seeing the same colour. There's a theory that you what one person sees as blue could be red to another, but the way we perceive and compare natural objects (the sky, trees, gr***, soil) to manmade things suggests that your red is my red.

 

Bob Lafay chopped the top of a '33 pickup to create this cool RP featured in the February, 1963 issue of PHR. Curious: We call a coupe that's been converted to a roadster a "coupster." What do we call a pickup that's been roadster-ized? A "pickster?" (I think that "truckster" has already been used...)

 

And right across the page is this beauty by Walt Pearce.

 

It says he cut the top off of a 33 pickup, but that's an original roadster pickup.

 

well-it alludes to him chopping it not cutting roof off--but now it looks like they made not only 32 but 33 as well--roadster p/u's- would love to see more pics of any of these!

 

Ford even made a few 34 roadster pickups. I believe that there is one in the cl***ifieds for sale in Hawaii currently

 

Here it is

 

I don't remember if I posted this one before, and I don't know how to check. Anyway, I built it in 1964.

 

Canadian goodness from the November, '63 issue of Popular Hot Rodding magazine:

 

I like it but the side view has some horizontal mixed messages. plugs a rear wheel placement issue. Maybe that is a photo angle thing.

 

I believe it is an angle thing, i bet the wheels /tires are wider than they look. The engine is at a steep angle...Still very nice. JW

 

The bed has a backwards slope and the radiator braces have a curve. For me the braces make the radiator shell look too high. Just some things I can't unsee.

 

I picked this up about a month ago...

 

If that was mine it would be very near done. Amazing there are still ones like that out there.

 

Yeah , I want to keep it as is on the outside except for a few small repairs.

 

They are only stock once and only survivors until someone with a big ego gets them.

 

Herm Rost '29 from the August, '63 issue of PopRod:

 

Very nice, Studebaker hubcaps!

 

Mrs W in my T about to do some laps on a dirt oval, she soon swapped the smile for terror. JW

 

The product of probably 8 yrs and 30 different deals . Hours spent in cl***ifieds and building in my head space . I love it.

 

Did the f1 conversion . Worked awesome . Brakes . steering box . Cross member. Column. Fun easy hot rodding .