1937 Ford Flatbed

[41chevy]

This is typical of what you would see all across America in the days around WWII. The truck represents a 1937 Ford Standard (single wiper, one sun visor and single tail light) 3 ton drop side. The cab was made from the Revell '37 ford Panel truck to get the length behind the doors. 85 horse power flat head V-8 wired and plumbed, 3 speed and 4 wheel mechanical brakes. Paul

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Nice loking old Ford!

[spadvii]

Cool. Mr Walton could've used one of those at the mill.

[41chevy]

Nov 28, 2011 20:12:28 GMT -5 spadvii said:

Cool. Mr Walton could've used one of those at the mill.

I kept thinking that too!

[bonze]

Hey where is John boy? Nice job Paul, neat lil truck

[Arnd]

hallo

grate work on that one. Is it wright that you used the revell opel frame with the tires? And did you reworked the fenders for the bigger tires?

so long Arnd

[41chevy]

The frame is correct as I added the Ford style X member. The suspension is border line, but was used by local shops to up the payload. The Opel Wheels and tires are standard Budd type wheels used by Ford,Dodge Chevrolet and a lot of smaller makes. Kind of the normal set up for the 30's ans 40's. see pic of 38/39 'ford 2 ton
The fenders were opened up for the larger tires and were also have a 3 mm piece added to the lower edges to stay proportional. Paul