Projects Truck bed trailers?

I'm not sure if this thread is on topic or not, but it's something I've been mildly interested in lately and have finally gotten around to building one. I wanted to see if anybody has pics of ones they've built from old school parts to pull with their rods.


Heres the scoop on mine:

My Grandpa's neighbor gave me an "'ol trailer" that was sitting in the woods. I went over with the golf cart and hooked up a chain to drag it home. The first thing i noticed is that it had 37-38 chevy style wheels on it and an octagonal axle and 20's-30's style grease fittings on the shackles. Through all the research i've done comparing pics, I'm about 99% positive that it's a 30's GM "trailmate" (spelling?) factory trailer but I'm not positive because the bed was gone. I brought it home and have welded up all the riveted seams in the frame, mounted a step side bed from an '80 Ford, with quad '65 Impala tail lights, the hubs are old as hell and missing the dust caps but I found a pair from a '30 ES*** that fit and got some steelies and new tires from a '69 Datsun of all things. I still need to ditch the fibergl*** fenders for some old school ones, but it's looking pretty cool so far. (I need to get some pics taken.) I don't actually own a truck to pull it with, just my '57 hard top and my Lincoln mark VIII daily, so I guess they need trailer hitches now. Anybody else build a cool one?

 

lets see some pic of the old trailer ,,, the 80 ford isnt much of a conersation piece

 

No but seriously, anybody have any cool old ones?

 

Is that bed the one with the separate fibergl*** fenders? If it is, it's the same bed as used on all late 50's to 80's trucks, only the fenders were changed out in the 80's to the fibergl*** ones. There may have been some slight differences in the stampings, but the bed size is the same. Any steel Ford fenders should work on it.

 

here is my studebaker. yes, the wheels are going away for steel ones soon,

 

Heres where I'm at on this thing. Ford used the same basic bed from '53-'87. '80 was the first year that they changed the fenders, up until '79 they still had the same fenders as a '53. I'm trying to recycle as much stuff as possible on here so it's pretty much all stuff I've scrounged.

 

Yup, that's what I was talking about. If those fenders are in good shape, they should bring you a buck or two because i don't think that anybody makes repops of them. I just got rid of a 84 4X4 that had that bed on it, and still have my late son's 82 2X4 stepside.

The old style fenders should bolt on, but you might have to drill the mounting holes if they don't.

 

Yeah, that would be cool if I found someone interested in them. I guess until I find someone theres no point going to all the trouble to pull them off. I need to quit messing with this thing for a while and get back to work on my car, and mow the gr***.

 

I Bought a bed for my truck that was made into a trailer many years ago. Turns out it was a '37-38 Chevy they used. Works great for me as it had a mint set of fenders. SCORE!!!

 

turns out this trailer is older than I thought, the hubs are 1927 and earlier hudson/es***. So I REALLY need to get those fibergl*** fenders off of it. I'm thinking a pair of T or A rear fenders would look good.

 

Not exactly what you had in mind but I made an enclosed trailer out of a 24' body from a truck that was damaged from an underp*** accident. I mounted it on a striped down flatbed trailer. It ended up a little heavy, (5000lbs) but he only uses it once a year to go to the salt flats, so for the money, a real bargan.

 

Here is my '46 Studebaker truck with matching trailer. Someone had converted the bed into a trailer long ago. I bought it out of a junkyard and had to relocate the axle, add the fenders, and add some bracing. Looks cool pulling it with the truck.

 

This look's sweet

 

for years the guy who owned the junk yard around the corner from my shop would call me when a "pickup trailer" was towed in or he was sent to haul one away. i gave him a set value no matter what it looked like. i have 3 built from late forties/fifties fords. 2 late sixties chevy, a dodge of the same era, a chrysler product from the early thirties, '34 ford bed and a ford from the late seventies. i use them around my yard to move/store material and firewood.

 

You can make a "new" truck bed into an old truck bed by sticking on a set of old fenders and step sides and then getting a little creative on the tailgate and bed rails. The box is easy to shorten to fit the stepsides.

 

I'm on the look out for a TriFive Chevy unit. Need one to go behind the 55 Camper to haul the pig roaster to Famoso

 

Here's one I dug out of the desert a few years ago. I need to build a frame with some suspension and it'll be good to go



Bobby

 

You guys have built some really sweet trailers ...




Jim

 

...here's one a lil difrent made from a panel truck body and rear of a Pontiac sedan, originally built by a group of Boy Scouts.

 

I pull a 32 ford pickup bed on a model A frame around it sure pisses alot
of old guys off .But nobody has offered enough to take it off my hands .

 

That would make a really cool camper.

 

Ill grab a pic when I think of it but in high school I built a motorcycle trailer out of a (I think) model A axle with a set of 35 wires. Lately I've been thinking of tearing it down and doing a small enclosed trailer with the good parts, or maybe a late 30s-40s pickup bed. Not as cool as rustys panel truck trailer though.

 

I got this a couple years ago;



The tongue and framework is wood;



1951 trailer license plate;



I think it's 1930 Chevy.

Same bed shortened;