[Fred K-OR]

Rick,

I don't know if any of the clubs recognize hucksters. But the history of the hucksters is that they were produced by a number of companies back in the early 30's. These companies would buy the chassis from Ford (much like today where motor homes are put on chassis). Then these companies would build the wooden bodies on the chassis. One company was the York-Hoover company which built a number of these type of bodies. They also built mail delivery vehicles, and a number of depot hacks for the hotels to pick up people from the trains to bring them to their hotels. So this is just a short history of this type of vehicle and as you can see, I don't have a lot of details. Hope this gives you some idea how these body styles came about.