The Ford Barn

Bruce · 09-03-2015, 08:11 AM

I got a car quiz by email this morning. It started out with familiar questions/answers. Good stuff, so I gladly read through it. At the bottom was this statement followed without credit by Paul Harvey's sign-off line:
Trivia...

Ford, who made the first pick-up trucks, shipped them to dealers in crates that the new owners had to assemble using the crates as the beds of the trucks. The new owners had to go to the dealers to get them, thus they had to "pick-up" the trucks.
And now you know the "rest of the story"
Obviously, this would refer to a Model T. But that this was the source of the "pick up truck" vehicle designation was news to me.

09-03-2015, 08:11 AM	#1
Bruce Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Sun City West, AZ Posts: 491	Thought I'd heard it all ... I got a car quiz by email this morning. It started out with familiar questions/answers. Good stuff, so I gladly read through it. At the bottom was this statement followed without credit by Paul Harvey's sign-off line: Trivia... Ford, who made the first pick-up trucks, shipped them to dealers in crates that the new owners had to assemble using the crates as the beds of the trucks. The new owners had to go to the dealers to get them, thus they had to "pick-up" the trucks. And now you know the "rest of the story" Obviously, this would refer to a Model T. But that this was the source of the "pick up truck" vehicle designation was news to me.