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From: Ashton Crusher on 23 Dec 2009 16:40 On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:52:19 -0800 (PST), phaeton <blahbleh666(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >On Dec 23, 2:45�pm, Nate Nagel <njna...(a)roosters.net> wrote: >> Hachiroku ???? wrote: >> >http://www.kisberenterprises.com/portals/0/Vehicles/39studebaker/39st... >> >> Ah, yes, the Coupe Express. quite possibly the most beautiful pickup >> truck ever made. �I don't blame you for wanting one, but if I come >> across one for a reasonable price, I apologize in advance for not >> calling you. �(I'll probably rip the motor out and put in a later 245 >> flathead six though - or if it's a real dog, a Stude 289 V-8) >> >> nate >> >> -- >> replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.http://members.cox.net/njnagel > > >It's funny how that up until the semi-recent "truck craze" that pickup >trucks were considered "unsightly" and it was a serious community >offense to park one out in front of your house. > >-J Back in the 60's, even in our lower middle class neighborhood, my dad carved out a space in the alley behind our house so he wouldn't have to park his truck in the front. I can't think of anyone else on our block who even owned a truck, at least, none that were visible from the front. No one had a garage to hide them in either.
From: in2dadark on 23 Dec 2009 17:00 On Dec 23, 4:19 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:43:33 -0800, in2dadark wrote: > > On Dec 23, 3:09 pm, phaeton <blahbleh...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 23, 2:07 pm, phaeton <blahbleh...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> > On Dec 23, 1:28 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote: > > >> > >http://www.kisberenterprises.com/portals/0/Vehicles/39studebaker/39st... > > >> > Nice! > > >> > Any historical reasons why it resembles a 39 Ford, or is that all > >> > coincidental? > > >> > -J > > >> Oh nevermind, I guess it doesn't. I'm high on smack.... > > >> -J > > > You and the OP... > > Thanks a lot, guy. Why do you say that? I think it's a cool looking truck!- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Usually when you start a post with ' I want one' I'm glad to see something really cool and I usually agree.. But I'm just not a fan.. Obviously it's an aquired taste....
From: AMuzi on 23 Dec 2009 17:03 > Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote: >> http://www.kisberenterprises.com/portals/0/Vehicles/39studebaker/39st... phaeton wrote: > Nice! > Any historical reasons why it resembles a 39 Ford, or is that all > coincidental? http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1939-studebaker-champion.htm -- Andrew Muzi <www.yellowjersey.org/> Open every day since 1 April, 1971
From: Mike Hunter on 23 Dec 2009 18:08 Studebakers advanced designs were often copied by others, look at the 1947 as an example that they all copied. "phaeton" <blahbleh666(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:643fa3c6-f558-4259-bb78-f15394a945a7(a)p8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... > On Dec 23, 1:28 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote: >> http://www.kisberenterprises.com/portals/0/Vehicles/39studebaker/39st... > > Nice! > > Any historical reasons why it resembles a 39 Ford, or is that all > coincidental? > > -J
From: Mike Hunter on 23 Dec 2009 18:10 Ford trucks were branded a Mercury's in Canada "phaeton" <blahbleh666(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:605c7ee4-e082-4ffd-906d-b39962bd172a(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > Actually Mercury did make trucks. Maybe not as far back as the 30s, > but I think from just before WWII on up through the mid 60s. They > were obviously almost identical to the Ford counterpart, but > nonetheless, Merc they be. > > I think the "pickup truck taboo" ended in the 60s when people were > putting camper shells on them or towing boats and stuff. That > transitioned them from a farm/work/delivery vehicle to a recreation > vehicle for the more affluent. > > -J
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