I have found a 41 chev truck and I was toying with different build ideas and I was looking at a previous post from leadsledmerc with his chevy build and it got me thinking if there have been many taildraggin trucks built? grumper
Most customized trucks from the taildragger era were lowered evenly front and rear. The long straight line of the cargo bed looks odd at an angle. I have seen some lowrider trucks displayed this way, but it looks funny to me The customized cars of the period have more gracesful "S" shape to lead the eye to the ground. The other reason not to do it: the cargo will slide out the back!
Maybe that's my problem, my tail is always draggin' and my cargo always slides out. I used to see 'em at the big indoor car shows once in awhile. but the only ones that looked right were the extreme ones with custom beds. IE rounded off and using backwards car hoods for a cover. Don't know if that's a good explaination of the look. I wouldn't thibnk that you would want an extreme reverse rake to one, maybe lowerd all around and the rear just a little lower than the front. Thiose long teardropped shapped fender on the '41 would lend itself well to the look, maybe reshape the rear of the bed rail to mimic the shape of the fender, and a mild section and streach to the fender itself, you would want the fender to extend to the rear of the bed or maybe a little past it.
The 49 chevy 3 window that creeper larry is going to buy this weekend is a taildragger.. dropped 7 in in the rear and 3 in front!!! looks *****in... I can post a pic if ya want
yea post a pic. I wanted to see it out in the light when you posted the ad. I still think that's a sweet little deal for someone. Glad you made it happen.
Get that pic posted RENORAT! I'm going the custom route with my soon to be collected 40 ford pickup and not sure whether to go flat lowered or a slight tail heavy bias so keen to see that pick. Agree with porkn******, tailgate needs to be dealt with, a full suction station wagon type door or summit similar, Kutty Noteboom style. Gotzy
Here's a few photos I've borrowed for inspiration, haven't found any talidraggers, only low and level customs. Anyone go any evidence of early taildraggers trucks, photos or memory, or was taildraggen for cars only which kinda makes sense? Low and level seems to suit trucks better, what do you reckon?
wow this is funny how i just found this post cause i want to even out my 64 chevy truck. I wasnt even lookin for this post. Anyways my truck is lowered with 3" drop coils in front and 4" drop coils in rear. I just got 6" drop coils for the rear and I have not put them on yet. Do you guys know if it will be even out with the front of my truck or lower in the rear than front? Soon to find out this saturday.
When I was an overly-opinionated teen in the sixties, I thought tail dragger cars and trucks looked like a baby dragging a ****ty diaper around half off his ***. My opinion about the trucks hasn't changed. Thinking back, the only trucks I remember seeing dragging "diaper" were the ones with the cooler in the widow and accessory bumper guards on the bumperguards and visors and dingle balls in the windows, the Brahma bull decal on the door, and the chrome chain frame around the FRONT BC license plate. I think a pickup truck should always remain capable of doing WORK. A truck is a LOGICAL cargo transportation TOOL and should look the part. Even if it's customized, Kustomized to the hilt, or a tricked out Troca. My mental/logical criteria for a 1/2 ton pickup truck to look "right with the cosmos" is to load 750 lbs* in the bed, centered right over the rear axle and then have it sit dead nuts LEVEL. To me, (of course, who else is writing this) tail dragger trucks don't look "cool," they just look OVERLOADED! They look overloaded to cops too, making that just one more thing to add to the list of what you can get cited for. *A 1/2 ton load capacity is 750# over the rear axle and 250# over the front axle. Drivers/P***engers are considered part of that 1/2 ton. I didn't know that either till I read it in the operation manual of a 1/2 ton Chevy Van we had for a parts truck at a dealership I usta work at. I thought it was funny since a typical "truck driver" could easily overload that front axle!
Dr J thanks for the advice. So i now have my mind made up. I am lowering the rear of my truck to try to level it out
I've seen lots of Lowrider Bomb style trucks with a taildragger rake, mostly 40's era Chevs. Check out Chevybombs.com for some pics. I like the look, I like every truck that's been posted so far as well. Full skirts are the key. Bags in the rear would even you out if you did have to haul something.
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