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And the Greatest Truck of all time goes to..............

Turtle_n_Peeps
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FORD

Not the one your thinking of though I bet. :B Payload seems kinda low to me?

I'm partial to #18, #12 & #15, #21 myself though. Hmmmmm, I think I see a trend for what I like?
~ Too many freaks & not enough circuses ~


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RobertRyan
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Lessmore wrote:
Back then just past the turn of the past century, many entrepreneurs, gas station owner/operators, farmers, tradesman and just regular guys made their own pickup by sawing off the back of a sedan or a coupe ...therefore creating the first pickups.

This is also how many early tow trucks were created....usually using older, big, heavy sedans like Cadillacs, Packards, Lincolns, etc....as they had heavy frames, large engines and could be fitted with rudimentary hoists, winches, etc.

This was before the collector car hobby was in full swing.


Welcome to the Australian Ute or Coupe utility. Not a Pickup(no division between cabin and tray)/ Later Ford Falcon Utilities were more like Pickups with a 2,700lb payload.

Turtle_n_Peeps
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Rick I actually saw that truck in person at the car show in Priest River when I was up there in 2010? or so.
NICE TRUCK!

I actually missed #16. Another one I would take.
~ Too many freaks & not enough circuses ~


"Life is not tried ~ it is merely survived ~ if you're standing
outside the fire"

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."- Abraham Lincoln

Water-Bug
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AUWing wrote:
O that Dodge Power Wagon . . . What a brute in the woods come time to load firewood


And when the drum brakes give out, just run over a few trees to slow it down. 🙂

Lessmore
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Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Looks like 6 Rams, 6 GM/Chevy, and 6 Fords to me. So that would be a three way tie.

Don


X 2.

Now the Ford Model T pickup, I would say, got the nod as # 1 due to the fact that it was probably the first manufactured by a company. I say probably, as back then there were many, many manufacturers...who may have been there first with a factory made pickup. I don't know.
You don't know, No one knows.... for sure.

But let's give the Model T the nod, as it was the first pickup manufactured in any sizeable numbers.

BTW, I'm a fan of the Model T...it was my dad's first car. A used 1926 'T' got him in the car world...1935 I believe.

Ran ok, except while driving, he had to keep chewing gum, in order to plug up a hole in the gas tank. He had to plug up the tank hole about every 15 minutes, as the gum lost it's ability to plug in that time.

Back then just past the turn of the past century, many entrepreneurs, gas station owner/operators, farmers, tradesman and just regular guys made their own pickup by sawing off the back of a sedan or a coupe ...therefore creating the first pickups.

This is also how many early tow trucks were created....usually using older, big, heavy sedans like Cadillacs, Packards, Lincolns, etc....as they had heavy frames, large engines and could be fitted with rudimentary hoists, winches, etc.

This was before the collector car hobby was in full swing. 🙂

AUWing
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O that Dodge Power Wagon . . . What a brute in the woods come time to load firewood
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Perrysburg_Dodg
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Looks like 6 Rams, 6 GM/Chevy, and 6 Fords to me. So that would be a three way tie.

Don
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45Ricochet
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What no PSD's :W

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