Amazing what people do with some of these old cars....
www.ebay.com "Cadillac-Other-Great-for-a-pickup-Conversion"
www.ebay.com "Cadillac-Other-Great-for-a-pickup-Conversion"
'56 Flower Car ?- No, Butcher Job
- Thread starter Kerry Bogard
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Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022
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Need a better Ebay address no can find
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Kurt Arends
PCS Elected Director 2021-2024
Someone wasted a lot of time and money building that!
Wayne Krakowski
PCS Member
Looks like you would need 40 acres to turn it around ,noting how close the trailer is to the rear bumper,other than that I am not impressed.
that it does till you see it was most likely a convertible body. it's wider then the car. the tail light is inside it. built to have it look like one long car going down the road. flat tires on the car snows on the trailer. this was done a few years ago. now that it has out lived it usefulness it's kind of a dead horse. toss the trailer and maybe it would be a cute shop truck. but not for that money.
Jerry Jacobson
PCS Member
Convertible or limo (note vent)?
I noticed that the vent was placed back on backwards. The vent was only used on the air conditioned cars, and it wasn't used on convertibles, so that leave us with either a 4 door or 2 door car. Based on the size of the only door showing, I am inclined to believe that it was crafted out of a 4 door sedan. The work appears to be well done, and it is only the color that I believe is going to hurt the value. Probably, when this project was done, these cars were in every salvage yard, and not very rare or desirable. Only after they were all scrapped, and there were few survivors, did they become desirable and expensive.
Jerry Jacobson
PCS Member
I meant that the trailer was crafted from a limo because of it's vent. Sorry for the confusion.
Kurt Arends
PCS Elected Director 2021-2024
As Paul stated, these same vents were used on every model that had A.C.
thought it was only the rear air ones
but any way the pickup which I sure is a shorten 4 door sedan would swing inside the back glass curve.. with the built on covers it would give you a big trunk. but for me this body has to one of the least desirable one they produced,painted the robins egg blue makes it doubly so.
but any way the pickup which I sure is a shorten 4 door sedan would swing inside the back glass curve.. with the built on covers it would give you a big trunk. but for me this body has to one of the least desirable one they produced,painted the robins egg blue makes it doubly so.
Kurt Arends
PCS Elected Director 2021-2024
'56 and older, all A.C. was rear A.C.
Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022
PCS Member
In GM anyway many others had it up front. Even Packard in 1939 was in the back. Little known fact the first AC car/vehicle in the USA was a 1939 Henney Packard Hearse. On it I am told AC unit was in the center.
This was the original auction that Kerry was referring to. More pictures of this set-up there.