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02-11-2013, 04:00 PM | #1 |
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AA Advise on Body Style
I was given a rolling chassis for a short AA and will also get a long chassis. I will be given many parts but the main thing I am missing is the body. The short frame will be as stock as possible.
The long frame I was hoping to make a crew cab style. Has anyone done such a thing? Do you have photos?
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02-11-2013, 04:16 PM | #2 |
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Re: AA Advise on Body Style
There was a picture in one of the national magazines a while back that depicted exactly that. They had taken a fordor body and put it on the AA frame with a pickup type bed behind all that. Looked pretty neat!
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02-11-2013, 04:50 PM | #3 |
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Re: AA Advise on Body Style
Carl G, that was my vision. I was wondering if the back should be flat or rounded. It is a 1931 AA. I want my kids to be able to sit in the truck in the back where it is safer and still haul loads. My children are 5 & 8.
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There's a picture of one in the Nov-Dec 2010 issue of Antique Automobile on Page 63. I know I've seen better pictures of it, just haven't run across them yet.
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02-11-2013, 10:53 PM | #5 |
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Re: AA Advise on Body Style
Of course one might find a Bus body and use this to re-create what might have been. It wasn't that long ago one of the Model A Magazines described someone who "found" a period bus, was able to buy it, restore it, and got donated to a club IIRC.
Or even create a body with this thought. The Cretors Popcorn bodies come to mind. You might not want so much glass. Still, you'd have free admission to almost ANY carnival nationwide. "Excuse me, do you have any parking inside?" The AA trucks really do lend themselves to just about anything you want to do - except maybe go over 45mph. Joe K
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02-12-2013, 12:59 AM | #8 |
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That was my idea just maybe not so fancy...more of a work truck hauling kids, hay and parading. I think I'll have to consult my friend Pat t see if he wants to help build it.
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02-12-2013, 10:01 AM | #9 |
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I have an idea if you are good with wood. I'm selling a rare 1929 AA Mail Truck Body, that fits the shorter AA chassis. I also have a '31 commercial cowl and it could be built as a '31. It comes with all the steel brackets, gussets, hinges, tracks, etc. and all wood for patterns. I live in the San Diego area.
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02-12-2013, 11:13 AM | #10 |
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That's the same truck as I saw in the AACA mag, just a lot better shot of it.
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