West Peterson Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Any ideas on what make and year this would be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Sure has that Cushman-like windshield and top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Commodore Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 What does it say on the black and silver tag above the headlight? It looks "LTZ". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 Town & Country Auto Sales, Inc., Mechanicsville, VirginiaIt's just a dealer's sticker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintman Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Sure does look like a Cushman. Seems lots of models but attached photo below shows a lot of detail in common. Position of lamp, horn, cubby-hole, seat positions etc. This model is a Truscter but they also had similar Nordskog. Guess could be badge engineering??RegardsVintman (UK)www.svvs.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintman Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Sorry, 1960 Cushman Truckster.RegardsVintman (UK)www.svvs.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 Thank you. I think you nailed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Interesting...the original color looks to be almost the same on both vehicles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I have to disagree. I have owned many Cushmans over the year. This does not look like any Cushman that I have ever seen. The shape of the windshield and top is all wrong. You can Google "Cushman Truckster" and hit "Images" and see examples of nearly every model built. There is a pic of one of these,(the red one),but it is not, in my opinion, a Cushman. There were Nordskogs, Tapcos, Westcoasters and others built for industrial use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintman Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 As a Brit, I did just that before posting. Attached some other examples of Cushmans as found. The top one was marked Truckster and seems to me to be a copy of the enquiry vehicle. The lower ones have checker plate bodies but general configuration remains the same. I am therefore confused by your comments? Are the names you mention type models of Cushman? I believe Nordskog was.RegardsVintman (UK)www.svvs.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 How can my comments be confusing? The names mentioned were different makes. Cushmans were called, ironicaly, Cushmans. They were not, as far as I know, sold to others to be rebadged.One exception is, a few of their two wheelers were rebadged as Allstates and sold by Sears.The top one attached is not, IMHO, a Cushman. The yellow one, almost certainly, is not.All, small, industrial scooters are not Cushmans. It is not a generic term. All tiny cars are not Minis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintman Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 OK Folks, I am backing out of this one after this.RegardsVintman (UK)www.svvs.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Thanks for your help, Vintman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Youch!!! I was wrong as wrong could be. Apologies!!The Yellow one is a Cushman as the tag on the identical red one confirms. I still have doubts as to the original scooter posted, but my knowledge of Cushmans is, primarily, focused on street legal versions such as the many 3 wheeled Trucksters and 2 wheeled scooters. It looks like they built quite a few different industrial platform vehicles that I have never seen. The fact that I have owned 15 or 20 Cushmans over the years evidently does not make me an expert. I will now sulk, quietly, in my hole and do my homework. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Commodore Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 The first photo in Vintman's second series of photos is of the subject vehicle type. The photo came from this web site.http://www.microcar.org/1999/0399.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 One thing I love about this forum and the guys and gals who use it...we are willing to admit that we could be incorrect about some information. I will admit, sometimes I have thought of myself a bit of a 1931 Dodge "guru". I do know, however that there will always be something else to learn about them. When I first said Cushman, I was looking at the photo below. I had no idea what the one in question was. I just looked at the similarities and guessed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 My dad was a letter carrier in Glendale, CA. Often he would come home, pissed off. It may have been for various reasons, but one of the big ones was when he had to drive "one of those &*@#^@ Mailsters!" He hated them. I brought a few home over the years as a kid at home and later on as an, alleged, adult. He couldn't understand why I wanted one of those pieces of.....well, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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