Fabrux

I can't speak for anywhere else, but around these parts the GM dealerships we used to have were Chevrolet/Oldsmobile/Cadillac and Pontiac/Buick/GMC. Saturn, of course, had its own dealership.

Plate JJZ 109 will be coming up soon here in NB, if it hasn't been issued already...

The stepside bed doesn't have ANY filler caps!

I actually have one of those, a 1989 Mazda MX-6. Sadly, the system was broken when I got the car and the previous owners said it never worked for them, either. The parts to fix them are few and far between these days and those that have the parts won't sell them as they need them to maintain their own cars!

My guess about these trucks was that they are for hauling high volume, low weight loads, which would fit the description of large fibreglass cabs and tonneau covers for pickups and what not.

Nothing here so far although down the shore they're issuing rainfall and flood warnings so the storm's coming....

Define "short haul". To me short haul would be a day cab...

I've randomly sighted trucks of this configuration driving around but this time around I finally managed to snap a picture of one to hopefully understand why trucks like this even exist... The truck was a regular Freightliner Cascadia, standard bunk, single rear axle. The trailer is a drop-deck curtainside. Company is these guys: Truck Accessories Group.

That I did not know. Any F-250s that I've gotten close to were 4x4; never got too close to 4x2s.

Twin Traction Beam is correct, sir. Basically Ford took the Twin I-Beam suspension and integrated a drive axle into it. Improves ride quality and still offers off-road capability. Although most serious off-roaders replace it with a solid axle.

F-series trucks were straight axle from 1948-1964. In 1965 they switched to twin I-beam, which lasted until 1996.

One piece for full width beds and multi piece for stepside beds. When I build multi piece full width beds I glue them all together before paint anyways.

Twin I- beam didn't show up until 1965. If you're looking for a better detail chassis and a source for the Y-block you can use the Revell 1956 F-100. The only other engines available 1961-64 were 6-cylinders.

I have one and started to build it up to full detail, can't seem to find pictures of it right now. I'll snap some when I get home this evening.

Most certainly not.

That's my dad's name...

From what research I've done, engines of this era were painted GM Corporate Blue.

After combing through brochures for '61-'66 F-series, I can now see that the separate-bed trucks used the same bed from '57-'63. Brochures for the F-series for '64 proclaim a new body with single-hand tailgate latch.

Another fabulous looking kit from my favourite style of F-series pickup... From my understanding of this style of truck, the bed as depicted was available from start of production in '61 with the unibody; the '57-'60 bed was used for 4x4 applications. Unibodies were only from '61-'63, the bed above was '61-'66 and I think the '57-'60 bed was eventually phased out on 4x4s. The bed I like the most, however, is the one used in Argentina-produced trucks. They only had short beds and it used the same panels as the unibody, only it was a separate bed.

For 1953-1979 the bed is essentially the same, with some actually rather important differences that probably won't show up in scale. Once into the '73 restyle, the bed started getting a little bit taller and a little bit wider. For instance, a tailgate from a 73+ bed won't fit on, say, a 56 bed. I believe that for the 1980 restyle, the rails were flattened and the fenders changed (finally). This bed was used from 80-87 (87 had one-year-only fenders). Stepside beds were dropped from 88-91, reappeared again for 92-09 and now here we are without them again...

Oops, my bad. Either way, a rat rod has an icky GM motor.

If you want to play semantics, my definition of a 'rat rod' would be one with a 'rat motor', your typical small block Chevy. Since this most definitely doesn't run a SBC, it can't be a rat rod, now can it?

^You are correct; TTB was new for 1980. I'm not entirely sure, however, when they switched from leaf springs to coil springs for the solid front axle.

Looks to be the Monogram GMC pickup with a Chevy grille. Cool beans.

To myself and my club, when we're judging our show it depends more on how the final product than what went into it. Contestant A built a stock kit and made it beautiful while Contestant B used resin parts, photo-etch, 3D printed parts, etc etc but the final product looks crappy. It doesn't matter that Contestant B spent all the extra time and money to utilize all those extra bits if the end results is poor.