Cars to hay wagons and other conversions

[AHa 528]

Can anybody recognize this chassis? The hubcaps should be a giveaway. It looks like the motor is running but the vehicle is setting at an odd angle to the work to be driving it.

[58L-Y8 1,538]

1 hour ago, AHa said:

Can anybody recognize this chassis? The hubcaps should be a giveaway. It looks like the motor is running but the vehicle is setting at an odd angle to the work to be driving it.

The power transmission is by a belt drive running on a pulley mounted on the short drive shaft to the drum on the thresher or elevator pile up into the silo.  They had to be parallel to make it function.

[Ben P. 605]

5 hours ago, kgreen said:

....Speaking of rust, I hear a lot of 50's and 60's cars rusting but was salt used as much in the prewar years as afterwards?

I was going to say that salt had never been used before WWII, but I was wrong.

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr235/017-030.pdf

Apparently it saw its first experimental use in 1938.

 

In the winter of 1941 RI was the first state to adopt use of it and nationally a whopping 5,000 pounds of the stuff was used (I think my street alone sees 5,000 TONS per year today).

 

In other words, NO. 🙂

Edited November 14, 2020 by Ben P.
Link, typos (see edit history)

[TAKerry 365]

One summer, probably around 1978/79, I was a laborer for a local stone mason. He had a big old mixer that he welded a Model A axle onto for highway speeds. One evening on our way home from work the tire went flat and it was riding on the wheel. Everyone that pulled up beside were sure to tell us that we had a flat. Roy ( the mason) just smiled and grinned. When he got home he cut it off and put another complete axle off of another junk car he had laying around. He said that was easier than finding a tire and tube.

[kgreen 1,830]

This conversion is better the the universal SBC swap although the resultant horsepower suffers.

[Fossil 449]

2 horse power and EPA approved. 😄 Love it.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2020 by Fossil (see edit history)

[dibarlaw 1,896]

1923 Buick Model 35 Touring made into a pretty neat pickup.

 It showed up for sale several years ago. I wonder who has it now?

Edited November 25, 2020 by dibarlaw (see edit history)

[3macboys 475]

6 hours ago, Fossil said:

2 horse power and EPA approved. 😄 Love it.

 

 

 

 

 

I thought that the exhaust had to exit behind the passenger compartment for a safety though

[Fossil 449]

1 hour ago, dibarlaw said:

1923 Buick Model 35 Touring made into a pretty neat pickup.

The long box and wheel base would be a nice option. 

 

[Fossil 449]

This is some pretty neat conversions in this thread.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/great-depression-homemade-trucks.1156761/

[plymouthcranbrook 866]

9 hours ago, Fossil said:

2 horse power and EPA approved. 😄 Love it.

 

 

 

 

 

Not EPA approved until the horses have diapers.  

[Haisley 5]

On 10/10/2020 at 9:08 PM, dustycrusty said:

OOOOOOO, Doggies! That woulda looked powerful sweet behind the Clampetts rig. Then they could brought all a' Ellie Mae's critters wit 'em!

 

They are super cute furr babies!

[Terry Harper 659]

A few years ago I came across the remains of this Franklin Doodlebug in New Hampshire