Best Looking truck ever made.

Budnicks

Jackstand racer #1 & proud of it, Sir Posts A Lot
FBBO Gold Member
Local time
3:46 PM
Joined
Jan 16, 2011
Messages
66,921
Reaction score
89,647
Location
NorCal Sierras
67 A-100 WS Gill Plunkit.jpg
 

440 4 speed

FBBO Gold Member
FBBO Gold Member
Local time
4:46 PM
Joined
Oct 20, 2019
Messages
2,800
Reaction score
1,832
Location
Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada
pretty well done Bel Camino
truck-lite

View attachment 1470208

View attachment 1470209
In the mid sixties we had lots of cars made into front seat vehicles only.
Ross Thatcher, leader of the Liberal Party became Premier of the Province.
They brought in purple gas that farmers could use in equipment and trucks that only had one front seat. This purple gas was about .32 cents per gallon. Regular gasoline for non farm vehicles was about .47 cents a gallon. So the farmers cut the roof’s off lots of late 40’s cars and even some up to 1959. Filled in behind the back of the seat, cut the doors off at the bottoms of the windows and kept the back end. Made a filler for the interior. Uou could also get a cheaper farm licence plate. They were commonly called Thatcher wagons. In 1971 we bought a 1958 283 Bel Air Thatcher Wagon from my wife’s uncle. 125.00 sold it In 1975 for 100.00.
 

Budnicks

Jackstand racer #1 & proud of it, Sir Posts A Lot
FBBO Gold Member
Local time
3:46 PM
Joined
Jan 16, 2011
Messages
66,921
Reaction score
89,647
Location
NorCal Sierras
In the mid sixties we had lots of cars made into front seat vehicles only.
Ross Thatcher, leader of the Liberal Party became Premier of the Province.
They brought in purple gas that farmers could use in equipment and trucks that only had one front seat. This purple gas was about .32 cents per gallon. Regular gasoline for non farm vehicles was about .47 cents a gallon. So the farmers cut the roof’s off lots of late 40’s cars and even some up to 1959. Filled in behind the back of the seat, cut the doors off at the bottoms of the windows and kept the back end. Made a filler for the interior. Uou could also get a cheaper farm licence plate. They were commonly called Thatcher wagons. In 1971 we bought a 1958 283 Bel Air Thatcher Wagon from my wife’s uncle. 125.00 sold it In 1975 for 100.00.
cool story, sounds like you did well, adapt & overcome
farm/country boys are resourceful types :thumbsup:
no matter what the govt. tries to do to them
 

Builderguy

Builderguy
FBBO Gold Member
Local time
6:46 PM
Joined
Sep 5, 2017
Messages
1,565
Reaction score
1,924
Location
Alma, mi
I owned one when I was just a teenager! Man I loved that truck. Still love the look.

1976_ford_f-100_1569939005dec12a1.jpg
 

YY1

FBBO Gold Member
FBBO Gold Member
Local time
6:46 PM
Joined
Jun 26, 2010
Messages
23,556
Reaction score
17,623
Location
FL
Them "original" Jeep trucks are very attractive IMO.

...and that body ran for ever.

What- 63 to 89?
 

guy gadbois

Well-Known Member
Local time
11:46 PM
Joined
Apr 7, 2021
Messages
320
Reaction score
836
Location
Principality of Sealand
Best looking TRUCK? Late 70s Peterbilt conventional.
Best looking full size pickup? 69 to 72 Chevrolet ; Im partial to the 71-72 models.
Best looking not full size pickup? Jeep MJ [comanche] hands down.
 

chargervert

FBBO Gold Member
FBBO Gold Member
Local time
5:46 PM
Joined
Jul 31, 2008
Messages
8,585
Reaction score
16,072
Location
Rhode Island
Best looking TRUCK? Late 70s Peterbilt conventional.
Best looking full size pickup? 69 to 72 Chevrolet ; Im partial to the 71-72 models.
Best looking not full size pickup? Jeep MJ [comanche] hands down.
Best looking TRUCK? Late 70s Peterbilt conventional.
Best looking full size pickup? 69 to 72 Chevrolet ; Im partial to the 71-72 models.
Best looking not full size pickup? Jeep MJ [comanche] hands down.


The Peterbilt conventional tractors were awesome and the cab over Pete's were just as cool. When I was a kid my step father was a service manager at a Peterbilt dealership and used to bring home brand new Peterbilt trucks with the plastic still on the seats and take us out for a ride in them.

My little red express truck has it all over those Chevy trucks, but as far as the Chevy trucks go, the 67/68 trucks are better looking than the 69 to 72 trucks are. The hoods were way better on the 67/ 68 Chevy trucks were. The guy who designed those trucks was so pissed off,he quit his job at General Motors when he found out that they changed the design of the hood for the 69 model year.
 
Top