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This is ford ice cream truck, listed as a 58 but that grille looks like a 53 to me? and it's for sale for $4400 on craigslist in State College PA. I think it would be a great project however I got enough to do already with mine.
This started as a car but since it was used for hauling I think it could qualify as a truck.
A very unique 1940 Ford Super Deluxe Flower Car. If youre scratching your head thinking Ive never seen one of those before! Its probably because you most likely have not. This 1940 Ford Deluxe was produced by the Ford Motor Company and then converted by The Eureka Manufacturing Company of Rock Falls Illinois into a flower car. Essentially starting out as a 5-window coupe the conversion lengthened the chassis and the convertible rear casket compartment was created with metal rollers and pins to store the side rails that would hold flowers in place. This car had a dual use of being enclosed with the original canvas cover for the less elaborate funerals and having the rear compartment cover removed and side rails installed for a more elaborate send off. Flower cars were popular during the middle of the century and now are rarely seen in modern funerals. While most if not all of these conversions done by Eureka were on General Motors vehicles this one being a Ford and not a Packard or Cadillac makes this highly obscure and is believed to be the only one ever made. This car was purchased new in 1940 and check out the original photos of the car being delivered. Now fast forward 76 years and you will notice that not much has really changed. This is an original unmolested unrestored car that still retains the original paint original canvas cover original interior and powertrain. Now is your chance to own something that nobody else has and enter the world of Professional Car Collectors. Surely this will be the only one at whatever show you attend and thanks to years of maintenance and recent service work performed this car is ready for the road and will cruise at highway speeds. New parts include brake shoes wheel and master cylinders brake hoses rear axle seals new points set fuel tank fuel pump and carburetor overhaul. Located in our Chicago showroom this 1940 Ford Deluxe Flower Car can be seen including an HD video and pictures at Gateway Classic Cars. For additional information please call (708) 444-4488 or email chicago@gatewayclassiccars.com.
This is ford ice cream truck, listed as a 58 but that grille looks like a 53 to me? and it's for sale for $4400 on craigslist in State College PA. I think it would be a great project however I got enough to do already with mine.
The Parcel Deliveries did not change their grille every year. They used a 53 style grille for 53 and 54. They used a 55 style grille, like you see in this picture, for 55 and subsequent years on up to at least the early 60's. I am not sure how long they used that grille without going upstairs and looking in a book.
But beware! Don't think that this is a source for grilles for our trucks. These grilles were shorter in width by several inches. The headlights on the Parcel Deliveries were closer together.
Edit: I just went upstairs to look at James Wagner's book, Ford Trucks. I could find a picture of a parcel delivery with a 55 style grille only as late as 1959. This is not definitive but I think 59 might have been the last year.
This looks pretty residential. I was thinking oil for Aladdin lamps, (Kerosene?), and Diesel for heavy equipment, like maybe farm Caterpillars, and what's third? Gas for tractors? in 1936 a few places had yard tanks for tractor gas. Or motor oil, but not heating oil -- most people heated with wood or coal during the Depression. My uncle made a living delivering both with his '32 IH.
Remember too, back then a lot of engine oil was sold in bulk. Remember the 50-100 gal oil tanks where the attendant used a hand pump to fill the quart glass bottle with oil?
But, it does say "fuel oils".
