Merc engine and all. A bit overpriced for smashed fender and no title but still....

1940 ford pickup

 

Can find the same thing and better for a $1000 and under up here with title, just need some patience. Maybe some TV show will buy it and rebuild it on an unlimited advertiser budget.

 

Hmm, I guess the guy who came down from Canada and paid me $3500 for one doesn't know where to look. Mine was complete, straight and had clean paper.
I'll take all the $1000 ones like that you find, and come get them.

 

But its not a tonner. Different front end. IIRC GB wants one with tonner front sheet metal i.e 3/4 or 1 ton.

 

Hood is from a '41.........

 

Been gone a few days and now the listing is expired. There was a faded red one, maybe a '46 tonner express that was for sale in Texas a year or two ago. Someone bought it and it showed up here. I saw a brief photo of it yesterday on pinterest, but since I didn't join, the photo went dark. That's the one I want. Original, straight and rust free. Oh the other thing I want is enough money to pay for such a thing. I agree, one will show up and I do have one complete one already, but lots of it is really thin. I have another that is more solid, but I'd have to add the bed and running boards from the rusty one. Here are the two that I have. Both have titles. Thanks WB

 

I guess the whole story was missed. When another member asked if he should slam his or 4x4 it, GB said leave it stock with a Merc engine, like this truck.
And GB, I'm have a little brain fart here, what's a tonner express?

 

A tonner express is a '38-'47 tonner with an 8' pickup box, as opposed to a stakebed or panel etc. I think the nomenclature dates back to at least the model A days, for instance the Walton's AA was an express body.

 

Yes, I will also take one of those '40-'41's. PM me!

 

Yeah, I know about the TT and AA express but just wasn't sure when they quit using the term. I didn't remember every hearing 40s trucks referred to using express.

 

The term Express bed has applied as well to the 1948-1952 F-2 and F-3 pickup bodied trucks. Stu

 

This is the one that got away. Actually I saw it for sale in Texas, but during the 'great recession' I was selling trucks, not buying them. IIRC it showed up here or on fordbarn shortly after as a 'look what I just bought'.