Can anyone identify this truck?
Can anyone identify this truck?
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RDMcG

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229 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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Was driving past a horse ranch in Arizona this morning and noticed this...taken with a telephoto...no idea what it is:


ZesPak

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Monday 19th December 2011
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Looks like an old ford?

Possibly a late model T?

RDMcG

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Monday 19th December 2011
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ZesPak said:
Looks like an old ford?

Possibly a late model T?
Wrong rad shape I think...the top of the T was curved in a constant radius

ZesPak

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Monday 19th December 2011
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RDMcG said:
ZesPak said:
Looks like an old ford?

Possibly a late model T?
Wrong rad shape I think...the top of the T was curved in a constant radius
Agreed, and upon further inspection the fenders aren't right.

It doesn't look very refined either, judging by the shape of those fenders. Possibly something pretty obscure, probably early '20s?

RDMcG

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Monday 19th December 2011
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ZesPak said:
Agreed, and upon further inspection the fenders aren't right.

It doesn't look very refined either, judging by the shape of those fenders. Possibly something pretty obscure, probably early '20s?
I would think that's about right.

DavidHM

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222 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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I can't fight this feeling any more... it may be an REO Speedwagon.

Seriously.



Circa 1924, as above.

Buff Mchugelarge

3,316 posts

172 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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Reo speedwagon? Actually a genuine 'Lol' from me there!

OP said:
Driving past a ranch in Arizona..
That just sounds like a different world to the misrable, cold, drizzley, dull one Im in now! Jealous!

Attym3

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190 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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DavidHM said:
Speedwagon.

Seriously.
hehe

heebeegeetee

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270 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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DavidHM said:
I can't fight this feeling any more... it may be an REO Speedwagon.

Seriously.



Circa 1924, as above.
Yep, me too, I think that's an REO Speedwagon. biggrin

DavidHM

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222 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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Pistonheads. Speedwagon matters.

The Nur

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Monday 19th December 2011
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The top of the windscreen/roof thing on the speedwagon is curved. The pictured vehicle has this part as being straight

U T

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172 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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Looks to me like a Bitsa. Bitsa Ford, bitsa GM, bitsa whats ever going.

During the depression of the 30s everyone was potless, so vehicles were make do and mend, with various spare bits being bent into shape to fit vehicles of a different make. And lots of home made spare parts.

ZesPak

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Monday 19th December 2011
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U T said:
Looks to me like a Bitsa. Bitsa Ford, bitsa GM, bitsa whats ever going.

During the depression of the 30s everyone was potless, so vehicles were make do and mend, with various spare bits being bent into shape to fit vehicles of a different make. And lots of home made spare parts.
I don't know what's funnier now, the speed wagon or the bitsa hehe

Edited by ZesPak on Monday 19th December 17:31

Twincam16

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Monday 19th December 2011
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wolf1

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272 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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Worst, enjoy the stty weather in the UK whilst I'm in Arizona suckers, post ever. biggrin

RDMcG

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Monday 19th December 2011
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wolf1 said:
Worst, enjoy the stty weather in the UK whilst I'm in Arizona suckers, post ever. biggrin
Well..I have a house heresmile

RDMcG

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Tuesday 20th December 2011
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I am thinking that it might be a White:


ZesPak

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Tuesday 20th December 2011
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RDMcG said:
I am thinking that it might be a White:

Fenders, among other things, don't match.

U T

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172 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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It's a Bitsa! Like 90% of all pre depression American vehicles.