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09-11-2015, 04:28 PM | #21 |
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Re: Saving a family treasure...(1936 1and1/2 ton)
It's rusty of course, but I think it's very solid. I'm gonna remove the bed before long to get the crust off good and replace the wood down there. I'll be showing pics and getting advice on here and locally bout the frame when time comes! Thanks for the help!
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09-11-2015, 05:01 PM | #22 |
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Do take and post pictures as the restore progresses, looks like a fun project.
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Sitting in the vines like that, might want to look at the inner side of the window frame though. I love anything 35/6 truck! Have fun with the project. |
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09-11-2015, 05:26 PM | #24 |
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Sure looks like it could be a demonstrator from your pics. Your wheels have the same pinstripe. Pretty rare if it is as I imagine most demonstrators are long gone. Very cool piece of family history.
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09-11-2015, 06:26 PM | #25 |
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It's 95% cleaning and oil soaking and 5 % mechanical / electrical. Take your time and exercise patience. This is one strong truck.
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09-11-2015, 06:46 PM | #26 |
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09-11-2015, 07:06 PM | #27 |
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Great project and welcome. Just a suggestion, as you are doing this, keep a REALLY detailed log of everything you do to this truck. Photos, videos, receipts etc. You will be amazed at how quickly you forget things and a running log will prove a valuable, and entertaining asset.
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09-11-2015, 08:52 PM | #28 |
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Thanks for all the awesome feedback fellas I knew I come to the right place, I may be wearing you all out before it's over! I have thought hard about restoring it like my grandfather had it and putting his name on the side. What the truck is worth after we are done means absolutely nothing to me, my grandfather wanted this truck saved and that's the main reason I'm doing it ! I also have a six-year-old son to pass this down to, to me that means everything !
I'm going to try to work on it from time to time this fall but it will be this winter when I can focus on it like a job as it is my downtime on the farm you will be hearing a lot more for me then LOL! I do however nearly having engine ready to remove I'm going to try to get the ball rolling on that the carburetor is completely froze up I have seen where can buy new ones I may consider doing that but I'm going to soak this one first and see where were at |
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09-11-2015, 09:43 PM | #30 |
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Before you sand down that door, try to figure out the details on the lettering (size, etc) so you can replicate it.
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09-11-2015, 09:56 PM | #31 |
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Welcome. Best wishes on the truck. Does she have a name as yet? As you work on it, you will feel generations of your family about you
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09-11-2015, 10:44 PM | #32 | |
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There a number he wrote on the the top of the cab inside..72 and1/2, im guessing that is the number of bushels he was hauling of something possibly and he wanted to remember it? So many cool things about the truck, I have thought about doing the lettering like the original, that is what i'm leaning on doing. |
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09-11-2015, 11:13 PM | #33 |
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Great story......welcome......don't' be shy ask anything and search the old threads there is a ton of advice here!!
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09-12-2015, 10:31 AM | #34 |
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Great truck. My restoration expertise is limited to 1935 and 1936 Ford big trucks, hence my handle "Model 51". If you have any questions about your truck, I'm happy to give you my opinion. I have most of the Ford truck literature for these trucks and almost 200 drawings from the Ford Dearborn research library just on Model 51 parts. Your truck looks very complete and doesn't look modified which will be a great help in your restoration efforts.
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The stripe on the picture of the trucks front wheel while still in the brush, matches the strip that Bob C and Farmboy submitted. Apparently you do have not only a rare Demonstrator, but one with a lot of original paint!!!
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09-12-2015, 03:34 PM | #36 |
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Hi Everyone, farmboy, WOW, just WOW. You are a lucky guy.
Can't wait to hear how the story continues. Those pinstriped wheels are a smoking gun! I'm trying to find the word PALMER on the door, but just can't see it yet. What does the door say?
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09-12-2015, 05:45 PM | #37 |
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Wow, this is really getting exciting, the demonstrator possibility of this has me rethinking how I'd want to restore it. Made it official today with our cousin, and she brought some old pictures she found! Check this out, word for word what is on there. If u look on the driver door u can still make out this cursive styling faintly. Thing is, dad and the cousins remember it being blue as he paint brushes it blue it appears. The yellow can back after years in the fence row. I'm overwhelmed all the enthusiasm from you folks, I'm really excited, but wondering how I want to paint it now. Right now a ways to go before I do that, gonna check out engine in next week hopefully depending on work! Bret
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09-12-2015, 06:19 PM | #38 |
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As an "old" sign painter, I can tell you that the lettering on the door was not done by a professional sign painter of that era. That was probably applied by who ever owned the truck at the time (an amateur but a skilled one).
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09-12-2015, 08:27 PM | #40 |
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Can you leave POP Palmers writing on the truck. Can you carefully remove the brush blue paint and save the yellow? Ask the truck : she will tell you
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