Willys77 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Came across an interesting Pickup Truck on the internet some time back ~ a 1935 REO! 1936 is the same? (appearance wise). How many were manufactured? Reminds me of the 1934 ~ 1936 International style wise. Any info available, somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willys77 Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 back to the future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Photo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 (edited) Not many of them around, if your speaking of the little 1/2-tonners. There was also a badge-engineered Mack Jr. The tale starts with the 1933 REO Flying cloud sedan and REO's failing fortunes in the car market. REO ordered 2,000 bodies in the white from Hayes Body Co. for 1933. Unfortunately they could only sell 1,300 of them, and the 1934 Flying Cloud was restyled, preventing them from carrying the 1933 bodies over to 1934.With 700 leftover four-door sedan bodies, REO's solution was to cut the sedan body vertically at the B-pillar and make a die to stamp a back-of-cab panel. They welded the new panel to the cut-off sedan and, voila, a pickup cab! ... all mounted to the Reo Flying Cloud sedan frame and front-end sheet metal.The engine was a Continental 209cid six-cylinder that was built just for REO.A man in southern Michigan owns two or three of them, at least one each of the Reo and the Mack. You can probably count the number of remaining examples on one hand.Green truck is the Mack Jr. Black is the ReoBoth 1936 Edited March 25, 2011 by West Peterson (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Ohhhhhhh maaaaaaaaan! Those are GREAT looking little trucks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Braverman Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 If there were more of them around, it might be interesting to make a Franklin Olympic truck. The Olympic was a Flying Cloud with a Franklin engine shoe-horned in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willys77 Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 Thanks, guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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