I know a tudor wont fit between wheel wells in a pickup bed. Just wondering if anyone has tried rigging one down in the back of a modern pickup truck? I am just thinking out loud since I am in the market for a body. I am trying to find on in my area, but keep running across deals across the states. I am trying to hold off till next Hershey.
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I have wondered if they would fit but sounds like they won't. Could pallets be used to get the body up a few inches to where it would go between the wells but still not be too high in the bed. A model T will supposedly fit in a truck but the A must be bowed out at the wrong places.
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I wouldn't wait till Hershey, but would suggest looking around now. It has been my experience the last 2 years that their are very few bodies available there and the ones that are need a ton of work.
Regarding moving one you have plenty of options, including renting a trailer.3~ Tudor's & 1~ Coupe
Henry Ford said,
"It's all nuts and bolts"
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
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This is the card from the guy @ Hershey who brings these body's...They are not cheap and from what i saw they need a ton of work.
3~ Tudor's & 1~ Coupe
Henry Ford said,
"It's all nuts and bolts"
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Mitch's Auto Service ctr
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I have hauled several tudor bodies in the bed of my Dodge Dakota. They do fit between the wheel wells if loaded firewall first. Be careful not to get it wedged tight as you will dent the doors slightly. Rod"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." Thomas Sowell
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At the end of last week I received a 5" x 7" card in the mail in an envelope, with no return address ..... thought it was a Christmas Card ...... after opening same, don't know how they found my age; however, it was an offer to sign a Cremation Contract plus a subsequent offer buy an urn for my ashes!
Maybe not funny; but, I was glad to read further under the title above that the hauling of bodies in a Model A is all about hauling Model A bodies.
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Originally posted by H. L. Chauvin View PostAt the end of last week I received a 5" x 7" card in the mail in an envelope, with no return address ..... thought it was a Christmas Card ...... after opening same, don't know how they found my age; however, it was an offer to sign a Cremation Contract plus a subsequent offer buy an urn for my ashes!
Maybe not funny; but, I was glad to read further under the title above that the hauling of bodies in a Model A is all about hauling Model A bodies.
And even when you are gone, they will warm you up again.
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A bare Phaeton body, sans rear fenders, fit in a Friends' F-150, with tailgate straight out.
At first, I "thought" you were haulin' BODY-BODIES, like when Clint Eastwood hauled 9 BODY-BODIES, in an Old Wagon! The average BODY-BODY will fit well in a regular Pickup, I've slept in one in a rainstorm, with the aid of a War Surplus Tarp & a LONG, STRONG stick!
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I always haul my bodies in the trunk...reckon if i hauled them in a pickup bed a smart cop would see them..
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In 1964 I hauled a '31 sw body from Soquel, Ca. to Big Bear Lake,Ca. in the back of a "50 International p/u. It had a narrow bed sowe just laid 2'X4"s across the top of the rails and strapped it down. The top of the cowl was above the cab and we took turns riding in the sw seat while driving down Highway 1 along the California coast. No cops, no problems, just 3 young kids enjoying a trip.
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