Nice Stu, thanks form sharing. How about that tandem M-H dump truck!

 

 

What do you suppose that front bumper hitch was used for? Maybe launching a boat?

 

I bet it was used to better see and direct the travel trailer to where it was to be parked. Seeing out the back of a panel truck backing up isn't easy. Stu

 

 

 

in one of the earlier ads it said the average life expectancy for the ford trucks was 10.18 years. time to recalculate!

 

Dang, that hurts just looking at it. Good thing you've got wrecker pics to go with your wreck pics.

 

Great thread, guys! Thanks for sharing!

 

 

 

That monkey face don't have snorkels on the front of the hood?

 

Good eye! Also no FORD letters on the front, or hood side trim that I can see. Also kinda looks like a 51-2 front bumper. Paint looks really shiny too.
Someones "Custom"?

 

What looked like an NHRA logo on the trailer got me searching. It was the 1954 NHRA Drag Safari. Well known hot rod photographer the late Eric Rickman and Bud Coons crashed coming down the "Grapevine" near Bakersfield on the journey from L.A. to Oakland Roadster Show.


So definitely "custom".

 

Nice stock 54 push truck.