"Oddballs" pics
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From: Pekin, IL
LOL your bodywork skills are amazing! and quick too! I don't have a clue how you do that! Looks like fun! I can't even multi-quote!
Laughing Gas
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From: Mid-Michigan
I see that the truck needed an extra axle... was it the added water or the 'flotation devices' that pushed it over weight limit?!
Nice! Were those Hudson trucks factory made or are they car conversions?
Nice! Were those Hudson trucks factory made or are they car conversions?
Laughing Gas
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From: Alabama
You know 35 to 40 years from now a bunch of guys will be on the FTE site in the 2000 to 2012 forum looking for odd ball pics and run across some of these photoshoped pics and post them up! I can just hear some of their conversations about the mad skills some guys had way back when! 
Logistics Pro
Joined: Apr 2010
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From: Pekin, IL
You know 35 to 40 years from now a bunch of guys will be on the FTE site in the 2000 to 2012 forum looking for odd ball pics and run across some of these photoshoped pics and post them up! I can just hear some of their conversations about the mad skills some guys had way back when!
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From: Buffalo
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From: SE Wisc. (the Rust Belt)
Wally,
Looks like I have some competition in the photoshop department. Nice job.
Keep everyone guessing.
"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone. "
Looks like I have some competition in the photoshop department. Nice job.
Keep everyone guessing.
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From: Buffalo
I would have gone with a Ford driveline, a 351, a C6 trans, and a 9" Ford rear end but he used a small block Chevy engine, trans, and rear end. Still nice but the whole Chevy in a Ford thing feels like you're screwing with nature or something.
Wally
1951 F1 - "Lucille"
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From: Austin
Hey Wally,
You have a beautiful truck - doesn't bother me that it has a chevy in it - It runs & looks good. We've been so busy working on getting our truck running & the exterior that I haven't really given the interior much thought. I'll just be happy when it fires up (which is soon). I ordered a 1940's Ford looking steering wheel I didn't even think about the color - Your's makes a statement - nice.
Ben in Austin
You have a beautiful truck - doesn't bother me that it has a chevy in it - It runs & looks good. We've been so busy working on getting our truck running & the exterior that I haven't really given the interior much thought. I'll just be happy when it fires up (which is soon). I ordered a 1940's Ford looking steering wheel I didn't even think about the color - Your's makes a statement - nice.
Ben in Austin
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From: Buffalo
Hey Wally,
You have a beautiful truck - doesn't bother me that it has a chevy in it - It runs & looks good. We've been so busy working on getting our truck running & the exterior that I haven't really given the interior much thought. I'll just be happy when it fires up (which is soon). I ordered a 1940's Ford looking steering wheel I didn't even think about the color - Your's makes a statement - nice.
Ben in Austin
You have a beautiful truck - doesn't bother me that it has a chevy in it - It runs & looks good. We've been so busy working on getting our truck running & the exterior that I haven't really given the interior much thought. I'll just be happy when it fires up (which is soon). I ordered a 1940's Ford looking steering wheel I didn't even think about the color - Your's makes a statement - nice.
Ben in Austin
Wally
1951 F1 - "Lucille"
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From: Buffalo
The radiator came out of a mid fifties mopar... got a little of all the detroit three representin' under that hood.
Wally
1951 F1 - "Lucille"
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I know some of the guys here are pretty die-hard Ford guys and would NEVER consider using a Chev motor in a Ford. The older I get, i kind of fall with that belief - keeping Ford stuff Ford, Chev stuff Chev and Mopar stuff Mopar. BUT, it goes with out saying that back in the time, and still is in some cases today, Chev motors were and are put in all kinds of toys, simply because they will fit and parts for Chev small blocks were more plenty.
So with all that said, I still love the truck.
Fritz
So with all that said, I still love the truck.
Fritz