Chrysler Pickup

[Richard1]

I'm likely going to buy this pickup to restore. Can anyone give me some help on where I'll find parts or manuals? I haven't found anything on google yet that resembles it

The owner has to dig out the paperwork, but remembers it as a 1927. His father drove it til 15 or 20 years ago. Has the Chrysler emblem on the radiator and dash, is right-hand-drive. It is prior to front wheel brakes.

[Dave Fields]

I am not aware of any Chrysler that only had rear brakes. If you can get a serial number or engine number, we can elp you ID what is was.

[keiser31]

Chrysler in 1924 and 1925 had only rear mechanical brakes. If you can post a good clear photo of the plate on the dashboard, we can possibly tell you what you have there. Looks to be an altered roadster.

[Bill Harmatuk]

Looks like the inside of my garage with all my treasures.
Nice. A jewel in the middle.

Bill H

[john2dameron]

I'm pretty sure you'll find that only 4-cylinder Chryslers of 1926-28 had 2-wheel brakes. All 6-cylinder Chryslers from 1924 on had 4-wheel hydraulic brakes.

[hwellens]

Looks like an Australian Ute with that right hand drive.

[Richard1]

A little more info:
It is a 4 cylinder with rear wheel only mechanical brakes. It is registered as a 1928.

The owner's father bought it in 1968 for his cousin, who drove it for 3 years. In 89 the cousin transferred it to him and it has been in his garage ever since.

[Jim_Edwards]

Looks like an Australian Ute with that right hand drive.

Most vehicles destined for the Canadian market prior to 1929 were right hand drive so it could well be Canadian. Canada reversed their highway system in 1929 to be the same as the U.S.

[Richard1]

The roof is one piece of steel, starting at the floor and curving up over the cabin. It has ribs and wood strips, I suppose for a headliner of some sort.

[keiser31]

The top is a non-original part of that vehicle.

[Jim_Edwards]

The top is a non-original part of that vehicle.

Good eye! It is really obvious when one looks at the windshield. That roof looks like something that would have been cut from something from a late 1930s or early 1940s coupe. Willys?

[keiser31]

Looks to be a 1924 altered roadster. It has the split windshield as in 1924. It looks to have a cowl mounted gas tank, maybe, which of course is totally incorrect. It has the incorrect headlamps, too. I see what looks to be a splash apron "kick plate" under the door. I think it used to look like this......except for the right hand drive.

[Jim_Edwards]

Looks to be a 1924 altered roadster. It has the split windshield as in 1924. It looks to have a cowl mounted gas tank, maybe, which of course is totally incorrect. It has the incorrect headlamps, too. I see what looks to be a splash apron "kick plate" under the door. I think it used to look like this......except for the right hand drive.

Maybe, but the top on that roadster in the picture is not steel. Chrysler did make light trucks for a couple of years before acquiring Dodge, but none look like the whatever it is in the Original Post other than the radiator.

[keiser31]

Maybe, but the top on that roadster in the picture is not steel. Chrysler did make light trucks for a couple of years before acquiring Dodge, but none look like the whatever it is in the Original Post other than the radiator.

As I said, the top in the car in question is not the original and so, that is why the car in the photo that I posted has a cloth top. Chrysler never had an all steel top until 1936.

[Richard1]

Summarizing a bit:
As far as I see, the split windshield is unique to Chrysler
Radiator and dash plate are Chrysler
Wire wheels were on many Chryslers of the period.
Chrysler in fact made 4 cylinder vehicles with manual brakes on rear only for a few years
Some Chrysler pickups were made before the acquisition of Dodge. Do we have any idea of what they looked like? I haven't found any pictures.
The cowl mounted gas tank appears unusual for Chrysler. Where would they have put it on those pickups?
The roof may or may not be original. But the car was apparently originally sold in a city where the mean annual daily high is 42F with the highest month being 51F. Snow falls every month of the year.
The country where it was originally sold drove on the left until 1945, so RHD would be normal.
I understand that some of the Chryslers had custom bodies by Loche, Dietrich and La Baron, but it looks like those were luxury models, not pickups.

Where would I look for a VIN, serial #, or whatever they called them?

[keiser31]

Summarizing a bit:
As far as I see, the split windshield is unique to Chrysler
Radiator and dash plate are Chrysler
Wire wheels were on many Chryslers of the period.
Chrysler in fact made 4 cylinder vehicles with manual brakes on rear only for a few years
Some Chrysler pickups were made before the acquisition of Dodge. Do we have any idea of what they looked like? I haven't found any pictures.
The cowl mounted gas tank appears unusual for Chrysler. Where would they have put it on those pickups?
The roof may or may not be original. But the car was apparently originally sold in a city where the mean annual daily high is 42F with the highest month being 51F. Snow falls every month of the year.
The country where it was originally sold drove on the left until 1945, so RHD would be normal.
I understand that some of the Chryslers had custom bodies by Loche, Dietrich and La Baron, but it looks like those were luxury models, not pickups.

Where would I look for a VIN, serial #, or whatever they called them?

Chrysler never made a pickup. The gas tank on that car would have originally been mounted under the frame at the rear. Probably a rectangular tank. The car in question is altered, but not by a custom car body company. The "Chrysler" plate on the dashboard IS the serial number. You may have to look at it at different angles in the light to determine what it says.

[Restorer32]

No offense but you appear to be trying to convince yourself of the authenticity of this obviously cobbled together vehicle despite all evidence to the contrary. Still, it could be a fun project to play with.

[58Mustang]

The bed, with it's curved sides, appears to have come from a much later vehicle

[keiser31]

Can you get more and better photos?

[Richard1]

Not trying to convince myself of anything, just trying to reconcile information.
Here is the dash plate. When I took the pic I didn't realize it was the number plate.

What other areas should I hask to take pictures of (he has to dig through piles of junk).

[keiser31]

Well, it looks like it says "YC592R" in which case that makes it a 1926 F-58 series. The numbers went from "YC200P" to "YR056S.
Engine numbers went from "F-25000" to "F-110000".

[Foggy norm]

I like it! It would be a fun project to do without so many rule's to follow.

[keiser31]

I would get it running, lose the top and drive it like it is.

[hchris]

I was going to say what you have is absolutey typical of what we down here call a "buckboard". Generally these came about when a tourer (phaeton) or roadster reached the end of its useful life, the rear bodywork was removed and a tray or well sided structure was fabricated in its place.

On second look however, what I see in the rear bodywork looks a little more professional than we come to expect in our home made conversions. Certainly the fuel tank is wrong and has been transfered from its normal place under the rear chassis area, I imagine if you have a look under the tray at rear you will see the cutouts for fuel filler neck etc.

Yes the very early 58 models came with rear mechanical brakes only, as this was a variation of the Maxwell 25C which the Chrysler replaced.

[1939_buick]

The country where it was originally sold drove on the left until 1945, so RHD would be normal

Argentina ? I note you are in Bolivia (which others do not seem to have picked up)