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1937 FoMoCo Freighter is a Slice of Hot Rod History

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1937 FoMoCo Freighter is a Slice of Hot Rod History

1937 FoMoCo Freighter is a Slice of Hot Rod History

Daily Slideshow: Most magazine custom trucks from the '60s are long gone. But this famous Ford looks no worse for wear!

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1937 FoMoCo Freighter is a Slice of Hot Rod History

Daily Slideshow: Most magazine custom trucks from the '60s are long gone. But this famous Ford looks no worse for wear!

By Brett Foote - January 15, 2019

What makes this a 1937? The front end is from a 1940 Ford Passenger Car. The bed is from gawd only knows what.

The cab might be from a 1937, or might not be. The huge rear fenders look out of place, what they're from, I haven't a clue. Tail lamps are from an early 1960's Mercury.
 
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But that's the spirit of hot rodding---making something better or different just because we can!

That's odd looking for sure, looking a bit too much like a early VW beetle but I've always been a big fan of those bulbous fenders so I might be biased?
 
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i think Robert Redford drove one in the Great Gatsby
 
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