1925 Model T Pickup

[GTMust]

Here's the broken glue bomb I'm using for two builds:

I've cut the cab into 3 sections:

And glued two of them back together:

The fenders have been discarded (maybe used in junkyard dio later) and I'm now using the spare fenders and pickup bed from the 25 T "3in1" kit I bought recently. Here's a preliminary mock up:

More to come.......

[GTMust]

The cab body has been filled, sanded and first prime to check for flaws (I can see some that need to be fixed!).

I have placed the cab, hood and bed on the chassis to double check that it will all fit together!

I think I will finish this truck as a well used older vehicle, but not a rust bucket! Perhaps someone actually built this truck from an old two door coupe because they couldn't afford a new truck. Maybe as it could have looked in the late thirties after ten years of hard use.

[charlie8575]

I love it!

Charlie Larkin

[Modelmartin]

That is a very cool phantom Model T. Love it.

[Foxer]

I'm liking this ones looks.

[Dr. Cranky]

Oh that's smooth and sweet. It's gonna look great, all the right attitude!

[GTMust]

Thanks guys....

[hemi]

Nice save there man,it will look great.

[GTMust]

And now...... the rest of the story:

Bought new in 1925 by Herman Cola, a travelling salesman selling "miracle cures", the original two door coupe slid into a ditch in the early Spring of 1926, and Herman was trapped under it for a couple of hours until a passing farmer came across the accident. He managed to pull Herman out from under, but he had suffered major injuries from which he never recovered. (No one said this was a happy story....)

The bent and twisted Model T was towed to a nearbye garage, where it sat, unwanted until 1929. With the depression having hit the stock market, no-one wanted the "dead man's wreck" until the farmer who had rescued Herman asked what was to become of it. The garage owner told him to just "Get it out of my yard, and you can have it". The farmer's old horse was tired and could no longer pull the heavy cart, so he figured an "autimobeel" could be a lot cheaper to use than to buy another horse, so old Dobbin spent his last few, happy years grazing the back forty.

As soon as he got it home, he cut up the body and welded it back together into a pickup truck to use to take his produce to market. As the engine had only a few miles on it and the frame was not damaged in the accident, it didn't take him long to have it back on the road. He put many miles on the old coupe/pickup until he finally retired it and gave it up for scrap to the US metal/steel drive at the outbreak of WWII in 1942.

Now I know the full story about this truck, the build will continue to depict it as it could have looked in the late thirties, about ten years after the farmer built it.

(By the way, does anyone know if the Brooklyn Bridge is still for sale?)

[Nick Winter]

Funny thing is that sorty sounds and awful lot like the story of how the truck pictured below came together by by great uncle, except rust got it's back half, and it converted to a shop truckin the early 60's for my uncles speed shop in Smith Falls and for years never had a roof, until they hacked one off a wrecked '72 IH Scout Half cab, long story short, it now has been sold to a young man in Windsor who plans to get a proper '30 Ford Truck cab and restore it as a '29 Ford Model A pickup.

Maybe these pics will give you idea's, maybe not.

Nick

Sorry for butting in, thought this might help.

[GTMust]

Thanks Nick.... fantastic input!! Definitely got the old gray matter working!

I really like that tilt bed on the back, much better than the regular bed I was planning to use. And the plywood sides... was plywood around in the 1920/30's I wonder? Have to check that out.

Checked it out and found out that "Plywood was invented during the Second World War but it was primarily used to build PT boats and landing craft for the military. After the war they began using plywood for residential construction and furniture but by the end of the 1940's, there was a severe shortage of lumber suitable for making plywood. Particleboard was invented in 1950 as a substitute for plywood, but it didn't receive much public attention at first." Just an interesting side trip into history......

The later model spoked wheels (1929/30) and larger tires may be a great idea as well, which could have been used to upgrade my farmer's truck when the wood ones decayed.

Much appreciated input. Thanks!

[Foxer]

Neat side story Nick .. and some juicy photos to boot!

Back in the 30's a farmer would probably just use some planks for sides. They had WIDE boards back then.

[GTMust]

Inspired by Nick's pics (?) I have had a change of plan. Now the rear bed will be a wooden tilt bed. (Much more sensible for the farmer's use!)

I built a bed from 1/32" basswood, which will be scribed to represent individual planks, and framed it with 1/8" square basswood. A hinge was built from styrene tube, through which I poked some florists wire and bent it to lay within the side frames of the bed. The stryene tube was glued to the top or the chassis at the rear and after everything dries, I should have a hinged flat bed..... I hope!

Now to start building the sides.......

[Nick Winter]

Yep I took those pictures the day before she sold, Boy We sure do miss "Daisy"

Bed looks good but I think it needs scratched up and dirtied.

Nick

[GTMust]

Yep I took those pictures the day before she sold, Boy We sure do miss "Daisy"

Bed looks good but I think it needs scratched up and dirtied.

Nick

Definitely Nick. And the individual boards will be well weathered.

[Nick Winter]

Definitely Nick. And the individual boards will be well weathered.

Ahh I'm just getting ahead of your progress, my mistake.